finally fought fincher
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last night, i watched "fight club" all the way through for the first time. the best music in the whole thing came in the 9th minute. wasn't able to discern the name of the piece from the closing credits, but i didn't try that hard. very churchy. the dust brothers did a wonderful job with the trip-hop score.
started it at 8:53 pm, but finished at 11:24, thanks to some interruptions (including a stretch from 9:30 to 9:35). in the 32nd minute, we reached the first part i distinctly remembered from the single time i saw some of the film in a theater, and that segment ended at about 1h25m in. that trip was with patrick g.k. oh-so long ago. crazy.
my favorite things about the film: the bus driver's nose, the exploding apple computers.
it's hard for me to pinpoint exactly where the film falls apart, but it kind of hits right around when tyler leaves for the last time before getting his head shaved. when reality starts to sink in for ed norton's character. i guess that's only too much like real life.
we never ever see tyler consume nourishment. only cigarettes and beer, and even those are hard to come by in an extended shot. the cinematography was excellent. the cg wasn't over-the-top, but out of place to a certain extent. it was bothersome, especially in the gun suicide scene.
i still hate jared leto, and this did nothing to change that inclination. i could really relate to ed norton's character in a bunch of other ways, mostly his growing detachment from mainstream society, self-abuse, and lack of inhibitions. i guess brad pitt was an excellent mouthpiece for a lot of what the script had him say, even if it was counterproductive exactly because it was brad pitt espousing it. whatever makes it stick/popular, right/wrong?
end 1:17 am
last night, i watched "fight club" all the way through for the first time. the best music in the whole thing came in the 9th minute. wasn't able to discern the name of the piece from the closing credits, but i didn't try that hard. very churchy. the dust brothers did a wonderful job with the trip-hop score.
started it at 8:53 pm, but finished at 11:24, thanks to some interruptions (including a stretch from 9:30 to 9:35). in the 32nd minute, we reached the first part i distinctly remembered from the single time i saw some of the film in a theater, and that segment ended at about 1h25m in. that trip was with patrick g.k. oh-so long ago. crazy.
my favorite things about the film: the bus driver's nose, the exploding apple computers.
it's hard for me to pinpoint exactly where the film falls apart, but it kind of hits right around when tyler leaves for the last time before getting his head shaved. when reality starts to sink in for ed norton's character. i guess that's only too much like real life.
we never ever see tyler consume nourishment. only cigarettes and beer, and even those are hard to come by in an extended shot. the cinematography was excellent. the cg wasn't over-the-top, but out of place to a certain extent. it was bothersome, especially in the gun suicide scene.
i still hate jared leto, and this did nothing to change that inclination. i could really relate to ed norton's character in a bunch of other ways, mostly his growing detachment from mainstream society, self-abuse, and lack of inhibitions. i guess brad pitt was an excellent mouthpiece for a lot of what the script had him say, even if it was counterproductive exactly because it was brad pitt espousing it. whatever makes it stick/popular, right/wrong?
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