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Fight Club - 2-disc Special Edition [1999]

Fight Club - 2-disc Special Edition [1999]
Directed by David Fincher

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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #15952 in DVD
  • Released on: 2003-04-28
  • Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
  • Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Special Edition
  • Original language: English
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Running time: 134 minutes

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
All films require a certain suspension of disbelief, Fight Club 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. Spiralling 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 is transformed into a nationwide fascist group.

The depiction of violence in Fight Club is unflinching, but director David Fincher's film is captivating and beautifully shot, with camerawork and effects that are almost as startling as the script. The movie is packed with provocative ideas and images--from the satirical look at the emptiness of modern consumerism to quasi-Nietzschean concepts of "beyond good and evil"--that will leave the viewer with much food for thought to take away. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has a great sense of humour too. Even if it leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort this is a movie that you'll have to see again and again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com

Special Features
Disc 1:

  • Audio commentary featuring David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter

Disc 2:

  • Music video
  • Deleted/Alternate scenes
  • Behind the scenes with multiple angles
  • Cast and crew biographies
  • Ed Norton interview
  • Trailers and TV spots

    DVD Technical Information:

  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40 Wide Screen/16:9 Wide Screen
  • Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, English for the Hearing Impaired
  • Disc Format: DVD-9
  • Region Code: 2
  • Running Time: 134 minutes

    Synopsis
    FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or 'tourist', the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity.