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cant believe this came out in 99..

what is something to die for ? do yoy need to read previous books to know wtf is going on

In my all time top ten, bloody good film.

His name was Robert Paulson

Will be buying number 8 without a doubt. In the middle of number 3 at the moment.

Placebo's cover of Where is my Mind was one of those instances of the perfect track for the perfect film.

Sorry, I won't be purchasing "Something to Die For." I'll be starting with book 1 - "Redemption", thank you very much.

His name is Robert Paulson

1999 was a good year for this type of movie.. fight club american beauty matrix office space (did i miss anything?)

drinker, you bodacious savant of film, let us know why you also recommend uncut gems

Life is not a narrative.

Idk I just watched it for the first time... not really sold. Am I missing something lol?

This movie was anti-consumerism, not anti-capitalism. It was a critic about the x generation being left with a really shitty deal. The great generation fought bloody wars on all fronts and won, put a man on the moon. Then what did the Baby Boomers do? Send men and women into low orbit up to the point of never even going back to the Moon again. It’s like low expectations became the new normal, after so much hype. They started overprotecting the young while putting them in more harm in divided households where father figures are absent and women raise men to be some twisted idea of “men”. And the debt crisis getting stronger little by little.

Honorable mention. "you only speak in vowels with a gun down your throat"

Great movie and a perfect example of modern time.

I remember seeing The Legend of Zorro in 2005, in which comes a scene where the hero is baffled. Zorro sees the contents of a wagon his adversary controls contains nothing but... “EL SABON?!?” I remember smugly thinking; anyone who’s seen Fight Club knows the twist already...

great rewatch movie !

When I rewatched the movie for the 3rd time, I noticed that in the movie, you could see Tyler durden flash in the background for like millisecond. Symbolising that 'no name' was imagining Tyler Durden. There is an example to this in this video. 8:50

Uh...spoilers!

The drinker duped by this one. Fight Club is a shit metaphor for coming out as gay.

I fuckin love this movie

This is one of those films that everyone thinks is super cool,when they're an edgy teenage wanker,but you grow up to realise it's actually really quite cringey in it's OTT nihilism. It's like the movie equivalent of the 15 year old that dresses like goth,to announce to the world how depressed they are (because they're a bit too young to get a tattoo).

I bought this movie in 2006 from the Walmart $5 bin. i watched it that night, then rewatched all 5 commentary tracks, then proceeded to watch it every night for three months. We are God's unwanted children.

One of my best movies of all time.

I finally can watch this video after finishing it today. In my top 5 instantly

(3 months later.) *"I am Jack's un-notified subscriber."*

Heh , if it was only the Social media and garbage entertainment shows.....All you have to do is look at real life. People still work jobs that they hate and buy shit they don't need. Corporate and social cultures, depression, existentialism, materialism .....all the things and more, that are explored in the movie still exist today. Definitely one of my favorite movies.

Will check out your book drinker. Thanks for the reviews.

I loved it.

I’ll buy it(the book I mean) plus again great review 👊🏻

BEST MOVIE

This movie came out when I was 5. After 5 years of retail work. I fu d this movie F===ing amazing. Still relatable 20 years on!

I really enjoy your channel. I went to the link and it has all your books. do you recommend starting with Redemption?

Great analysis

Man, I do not know how this film didn't do better at the box office. Everyone I knew saw it at least twice at the theater.

This is one of the best movies in all of the cinematic world. Well written, acted, edited, smart, creative and on and on. It is timeless.

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I always assumed when I was a kid and saw this movie the first time that the penguin in the main characters vision seems to refer to him as Sly

saw it 6 times when it came out...took 5 people and was fun to see each person and there face at the end ;) "you saw it you know you saw it...you just tell your self you didn't" HEy woUld You like the Soup ;)

Brilliant soundtrack too!

Dude! I've been waiting for a new sweet book to read. If they're anything as witty and driven as your videos...I'll definitely be reading this

id buy your books if they were in audio form. Regular books are a thing of the past. imo

The Pixies “Where Is My Mind” at the end just ties the whole movie together in a nice fucking bow.

Seems a lot of people mistake corporatism for capitalism these days.

Every so often this becomes my favorite movie again

So a man has to come into contact with and incorporate his shadow in order to become a fully integrated human being? Whoever would have thought of that?

I remember watching this film and seeing apparitions of Brad Pitt placed throughout the film. Just random scenes where he was standing in the background. Kinda like a subliminal message. His imaginary friend. Amazing

This is one of my all time favourite movies, the themes of thinking for yourself paired with the tight, well thought out story combines into a truly compelling thrill ride that not only hits the usual violent notes also leaves you with so much to think about after, truly a masterpiece especially compared to most of the modern crap, presenting you with a situation and allowing you to consider for yourself what's truly right or wrong, if there is such a thing. You buy into Tyler's ideology until it reaches a point where the line is crossed, then have to look inwards and see yourself. I hope it never gets remade as it couldn't ever be improved, taking every step carefully despite the immature appearing subject and coming away with a mature and human story

Just watched news reports of ANTIFA continuing riots in Seattle and Portland - are they in the early stages of their twist on PROJECT MAYHEM? Funniest, scariest news as of Jan 25, 2021 the rioters the evening of Joe Biden inauguration had signs sayinf F*CK JOE BIDEN - as they rioted and smashed windows, trashed a Starbucks. ANTIFA wants to destroy THE SYSTEM. How will Dimentia Joe handle this if it spreads to DC?

Thankfully there was never a FIGHT CLUB 2 to ruin this gem of a film. Ive often wondered if there is some mad computer expert planning to plant a computer virus wiping out all data on the internet on a 5 year time delay - server farms, all connected devices and any attempts to reload backups would fail due to contaminated backups. Civilization would literally collapse! Everything is going paperless - all your money GONE except what youd have in cash! And that would just be a taste of the digital apocalypse that would unfold. It would make the Covid nightmare seem like a Sunday afternoon at Disney Land circa 2019.

“Peak of their careers” my boy Edward Norton hasn’t even begun to peak my dude and I’m just drunk enough to fight about it

Jeez you really play it safe

Another great take down the cabal movie

I really love your channel.

This movie is awesome, and they also beat the shit out of Jared Leto which makes it even better! 😀

Keep up the great work!

i have a story about this movie. i went to see it with a group of friends. it was for one of their birthdays. she turned 18 that day and her mom and dad finally allowed her to see an r rated movie. i found out that day the it was the first time she had seen a mans penis. even if it was for a quick second. she felt very uncomfortable about it. not only that, all of the violence and sex and swearing messed with her had for the whole day. she had been sheltered so much that she did not have the tools needed to deal with what she was seeing. up until that point she was only allowed to watch g rated movies. she always told me that her religion forbade it. Hindu must say something about sheltering children from the world i guess. she told me that one day her mom and dad turned off richie rich because it depicted too much greed. she wsas15. anyway, she was never the same after that. i haven't spoken to her in 15 years. her mom and dad still run the local corner store though.

Ever notice how when he calls Tyler from the pay phone, and Tyler calls him back, that as if zooms into the phone, you can clearly see the “No Incoming Calls” sticker that most pay phones in the US have, as incoming calls are blocked.

Tyler Durdan was right. "Fuck Martha Stewart! She's polishing the brass on the Titanic! It's all going down!" If GenY and Z think the boomers were nuts, they're ill prepared for a GenX uprising.

For anyone who doesn't know, the burning ignition switches were a Ford problem... IIRC, the burnt car he inspects is a Lincoln Town Car.

My bender started after watching this in 1999

I just watched this and I wanna go to the gym and punch a bag.

im to stupid to read....audio book please!

Praising Fight Club as the society criticism that it is and at the same time promoting his own book - a trick that only The Drinker can pull off without seeming phony.

Tyler Durden: I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables - slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war... Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

I think that you would like the Fast and Furious franchise.

This is definitely one of my all time favorite movies

I can’t seem to watch the video, is anyone else having this problem?

I love this movie. It’s one of two movies in my life where I laughed so hard that rest of the movie audience wanted to throw me out of the theater. But while I agree with most of what you say about how fuckin great it is, I think you miss an important point. Tyler Durdens criticism of the shallow materialism of our society is spot on, no doubt about it. But his answer is shite. I think the movie is equally clear on that. He’s no hero, nothing to aspire to, he’s just another trap, another addiction, another meaningless empty cul-de-sac to walk down. And - you won’t want to hear this, but it’s still true- he’s a pretty good deconstruction of toxic masculinity. Just goes to show you, even liberal feminist postmodernism is tolerable if you bake it into a really fuckin good movie.

Personally, the only thing I took away from this film was the paradigm change of the same system. Nothing, but the removal of the current establishment for another that has the same goal, the means just changes. For that, I’m not a fan of this film

DRINKER, what were you thinking? You broke the first rule, lol.

his name was Robert Paulson

This film changed films for me. I've always enjoyed films but prior to this my film taste was questionable all action, violence and no storyline needed. This is my favourite film of all time if I could forget a film just so I could get blown away by it again this is it.

What's in the box?!

Hi Drinker, can you review Memento. It is another creative explosion movie and the only movie I know of that starts at the end and ends at the beginning.

It's nice when a movie you've seen from video essayists is on the list of a scottish alcoholic critic. Even if you haven't even watched it.

i just loved being told to "Go away now".

r.i.p Bob Paulson 😔

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of the comments on this video are quoting Tyler Durden as if anything he said was actually worthwhile. His philosophy is meant to be bullshit, hypocritical and toxic masculinity. He attracts misguided losers to his cult because they can't think for themselves. It's not allegorical of left wing politics, but can apply to any extremist world-view, including channels like this. It also doesn't surprise me that this ITputr completely missed the meaning of the story, and kept alluding to the whole thing being a metaphor for "SJW"s and it ESPECIALLY doesn't surprise me that he ended the video implying that maybe Tyler Durden was right all along. Word to the wise, the quicker you stop watching people like this on ITput, the better. They're toxic, insecure people just like the characters in Fight Club, and SJW's aren't ruining your life.

29k likes 299 not likes... are you the 1%?

ohhh the Drinker takes on Tom Clancy!!! alright i'll get my hands on a copy for sure. all the best bud have a great 2021

I love your videos I love your perspective I watch your ITput channel constantly and you’re the only person who makes me laugh out loud and you’re making me drink scotch all over again thanks for keeping me laughing and Trunk

By looking at the insanity of the current times, it isnt far fetched to imagine a feminist Fightclub directed by some woke wannabe coming out in the future which for obvious reasons will bomb

Fucking top 10 movie hands down! Don't know how many times I've watched it. The book is awesome too!

Jaykee the Wolf: you know, luis. I honestly thought limpwrists would "man up" beat each other and understand a violent world. You know take some kind of inspiration from some of this movie's premises.. Luis: wishful thinking. why work out, fight or work for anything when you can just declare yourself gender neutral and the world is swung open for you?? Jaykee the Wolf: sad. 20 years after this movie was made, someone should start another fight club..

If you love this movie and haven't read the book, READ IT. It is on another level than the incredible movie rendition of it.

Movies are not like this anymore. Everything is a superhero or it’s a social justice movie

Cool fact - the director told Norton to hit Pitt in the ear to get a decent reaction 👍😂

This is my 2nd favorite film of 1999, only the fact that the greatest science fiction film ever made came out that same year The Matrix. Both films are in my top 10 of all time.

first time watched it i hated it I never understand what was so good about it the second time I watched it after two years it becomes my favourite movie

This movie is so genius is almost criminal. It truly timeless and makes even more sense now than 20 years ago.

So you write books .Like Chuck Palahniuk ?

ye good movie ;)

Love this movie. I first watched it when it came out on video at the recommendation of my brother. He had never steered me wrong but i spent so much of the movie thinking that he must have gotten the rec wrong. I'm not a fan of all the violence...but my brother came through and hasn't let me down yet. I got to the end of Fight Club and immediately rewound and watched it again. 20 years later it's still one of the best movies I've ever seen. Brilliant review!

This movie changed my life.

Oh my god, yes. The anti-capitalism thing never made sense to me. The movie is about what happens to men when you stop letting them be men.

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Brilliant all round.

Awesome movie. Solid, Zen Buddhist philosophy with a kind of Samurai outlook.