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Fight Club!
2003-12-04, 3:53 PM #1
Yea, it sucks!
I just finished the book and it was horrible! I'm also not planning on seeing the movie, because if the book sucked the movie will suck more...especially because it has Brad Pitt in it.
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2003-12-04, 3:55 PM #2
/me sticks his tongue out and plugs his ears

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2003-12-04, 3:56 PM #3
one of the following must be what is happening

1. you are just trying to start a flamewar

2. this is actually your opinion and you must be smacked

3. this thread is all in my head and doesn't exist

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2003-12-04, 3:57 PM #4
He's only posting it here because we banned him from #tacc.

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2003-12-04, 4:00 PM #5
Then allow me to laugh at the pitiful troll.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Okay, there, I'm done.

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2003-12-04, 4:05 PM #6
No Super, I really did just finish reading the book, I hated it.
I'm seeing if anyone is with me, and apparently no one is.
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2003-12-04, 4:06 PM #7
as it should be... surely, because as we all know, Fightclub was TEh sEKSoRz

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2003-12-04, 4:09 PM #8
Try seeing the movie. The movie was superb.

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2003-12-04, 4:30 PM #9
The movie was great, and the book was great in a different way. It was very light on description, as though the story were being narrated.

Obviously, you must now die for your crimes of taste.
2003-12-04, 4:32 PM #10
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
because if the book sucked the movie will suck more</font>


The Hollywood relationship between books and movies is less consistent than a random number generator. Denouncing one because of the other is like saying the NBA sucks because the Clippers are a **** team.

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2003-12-04, 4:34 PM #11
If it sucked so bad, why did you keep reading it?

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2003-12-04, 4:38 PM #12
Try Survivor. Much better than Fight Club, in my opinion.

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2003-12-04, 4:41 PM #13
The TV show?

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2003-12-04, 5:21 PM #14
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The movie was great, and the book was great in a different way. It was very light on description, as though the story were being narrated.
Obviously, you must now die for your crimes of taste
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Indeed. The book was much darker and not as outright comedic as the film, but they're both great.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The TV show?</font>


He means the other book by Chuck Palahniuk (which is pretty similar to Fight Club in many ways, though I've heard most of his work is samey). But watching the TV show would make a good punishment for his lack of taste. Remember opinions that differ from mine are WRONG and must be STAMPED OUT...
2003-12-04, 5:25 PM #15
Avenger: Since everyone loves the story so much, I wanted to make sure it didn't get better at the end. It didn't. Almost all my friends like this book too, but no one can explain why!
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2003-12-04, 5:38 PM #16
You sad, strange little man.

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2003-12-04, 6:09 PM #17
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
Avenger: Since everyone loves the story so much, I wanted to make sure it didn't get better at the end. It didn't. Almost all my friends like this book too, but no one can explain why!</font>


I have some Hardy Boys books you can borrow.

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2003-12-04, 6:45 PM #18
So nobody's going to explain why they like it? So far, I haven't gotten an answer from anybody, which is a bit disappointing.
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2003-12-04, 7:45 PM #19
Didn't Chuck aid in writing the script for the movie? Or something around there?

Anyway, I remember him saying or reading somewhere that he was very pleased with how the movie went.

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2003-12-04, 10:00 PM #20
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
So nobody's going to explain why they like it? So far, I haven't gotten an answer from anybody, which is a bit disappointing.</font>


...you've already made up your mind, and it's also obvious that you're looking for an argument. The only person who can decide why it's good is you.

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2003-12-04, 10:07 PM #21
He just doesn't like it because everybody likes it. He wants attention.
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2003-12-05, 5:37 AM #22
The only real difference I noticed between the movie and book is that, in the book, Jack was a bit more accepting of things like Project Mayhem.

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2003-12-05, 5:46 AM #23
You missed that the ending was completely different and changes the tone of the story completely? :P

Haggis is just overly defensive of his "Brad Pitt in the red jacket" fetish. It's depressing, really.
2003-12-05, 7:02 AM #24
Fight Club the movie was rather good; it was hilarious in parts. I've never read the book; I wouldn't go out and buy it, but I would read it if someone gave it to me for X-mas or something...

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2003-12-05, 7:56 AM #25
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
So nobody's going to explain why they like it? So far, I haven't gotten an answer from anybody, which is a bit disappointing.</font>


Ironic that you have yet to explain why you didn't like it yourself. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

I havent read the book, but I love the movie because I love any moves with huge twists at the end that you didnt see coming, or that you knew something was coming but you werent sure what. Plus it was just as entertaining watching the movie the second time and even third times, picking up on everything that you had missed before.

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2003-12-05, 7:56 AM #26
Fight Club is one of my favorite movies.
As for why, I'm not sure. something about the violence, cinamatography(sp?), and the story just rubs me the right way.

I havent read the book so I can't give any comparison.

I have the DVD and in the comentary by Chuck Palahniuk, he did say that he like the movie more than his book.

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2003-12-05, 2:16 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by djwguitarman:
Fight Club is one of my favorite movies.
As for why, I'm not sure. something about the violence, cinamatography(sp?), and the story just rubs me the right way.

I havent read the book so I can't give any comparison.

I have the DVD and in the comentary by Chuck Palahniuk, he did say that he like the movie more than his book.

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2003-12-05, 2:25 PM #28
The book sucks because it doesn't have a Pixies song at the end. It probably would have been okay anyway, but the movie just outclassed it so much right there.

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2003-12-05, 2:42 PM #29
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Haggis is just overly defensive of his "Brad Pitt in the red jacket" fetish. It's depressing, really</font>


Hey...shut up...

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The only real difference I noticed between the movie and book is that, in the book, Jack was a bit more accepting of things like Project Mayhem.</font>


Project Mayhem is much more detailed in the book, as is the injuries sustained to the narrator (the book's much more graphic...hole in the cheek anyone?). Tyler's also much more willing to do anything in the book (the fact that the line "Tyler's whole murder-suicide thing" is changed to "Tyler's whole control-demolition thing" in the film is pretty telling). Plus there's the whole thing with the narrator's boss (Father-figure/murder). Oh and as Matt said, the difference in the endings totally changes the tone.

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2003-12-05, 2:53 PM #30
Chuck Palanhiuk is great. I shall sodomize you to death for saying otherwise.

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2003-12-05, 4:04 PM #31
I don't *dislike* Survivor, I think it's a good book, but not a "great" one like Fight Club.
2003-12-05, 4:29 PM #32
Actually, Chuck is only a decent author with a few ideas and a tubful of luck. I just wanted to mention death by sodomy.

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2003-12-05, 5:00 PM #33
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Ironic that you have yet to explain why you didn't like it yourself.</font>

Well, the main reason I didn't like it is because the writing was horrible and choppy and the dialogue seemed half-assed. The story was merely ok, not anything to rave about.
No, I'm not trying to be different and no I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm just curious as to what people see in this book.
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2003-12-05, 7:43 PM #34
You can't get hung up on the writing when asking why people like books, because the actual style doesn't matter - it's the ideas that count. Fight Club would have just been a mediocre book that never sold well if some producer/screenwriter/whoever hadn't decided that it was a great idea.

It's the same case with Phil Dick novels. He was kind of a lousy writer, but it doesn't really matter.

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2003-12-05, 8:25 PM #35
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tracer:
It's the same case with Phil Dick novels. He was kind of a lousy writer, but it doesn't really matter.

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Blasphemy!

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