DVD Movie Rating for: Fight Club

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Fight Club

You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.

DVD Production Details of: Fight Club

Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt

Director: David Fincher

Format: Closed-captioned, THX

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video

DVD Release Date: June 6, 2000
DVD Features:
Commentary by director David Fincher

Commentary by actor Brad Pitt

Commentary by Composers

Commentary by Helena Bonham Carter

Commentary by Edward Norton

Production notes

Theatrical trailer(s)

Five Deleted Scenes and Outtakes

Still Galleries: Set Design Stills, Costume Stills, Original sketches, Oil paintings, Storyboards, Publicity stills, Lobby cards & Production Stills

17 behind-the-scenes vignettes

Making-Of Fight Club

THX Optimode

Widescreen anamorphic format

Number of discs: 2

DVD Easter Eggs

Easter Egg: Hidden credits, merchandising and more!

Access The Egg:
Disc1 - On the main menu select 'Special' and then press the 'Up' arrow key and you will highlight a Smiley face. If you press 'Enter' now, you will get to see two credit screens.

Disc 2 - From the main menu go to the 'Advertising' section. If you press the 'Down' arrow key on your remote control three times, another green Smiley face will appear right underneath the 'Promotional Gallery' entry. Now, press 'Enter' and you will be taken to a section where you can scroll through a catalog of the official 'Fight Club' merchandise, which includes soap bars, t-shirts, bags and other promo items, all of them accompanied by amusing anecdotes.

Cast of the movie: Fight Club

• Edward Norton .... Narrator
• Brad Pitt.... Tyler Durden
• Helena Bonham Carter.... Marla Singer
• Meat Loaf.... Robert 'Bob' Paulson (as Meat Loaf Aday)
• Zach Grenier .... Richard Chesler
• Richmond Arquette .... Intern
• David Andrews .... Thomas
• George Maguire .... Group Leader
• Eugenie Bondurant .... Weeping Woman
• Christina Cabot .... Group Leader
• Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston .... Speaker
• Rachel Singer .... Chloe
• Christie Cronenweth .... Airline Attendant
• Tim De Zarn .... Inspector Bird
• Ezra Buzzington .... Inspector Dent

Photo Gallery of the movie: Fight Club

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Reviews of the movie: Fight Club

All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.

Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in.

Probably the best movie of the decade
After watching this movie I was totally filled with enthusiasm. Fight Club is definitly Fincher's best movie even better than se7en. It's not only the story but the optics which fascinated me. When I had seen it for the second time I could see this movie with the knowledge of the conclusion which is really fascinating as you'll see Fight Club in a totally different perspective. Also great about Fight Club is its soundtrack performed by the Dust Brothers and especially the song 'Where is my mind' by the Pixies which really fit to the end of the movie. Unfortunately Fight Club didn't have much success in Germany but anyway the movie got best reviews of the German press. I also have to mention the brilliance of Ed Norton and Brad Pitt who plays best in roles in which he performs the villain. But it's quiet amazing what Edward Norton is able to do - he is just overwhelming. For that role he has to get the oscar.