10 Years of Fight Club.

I saw it just after moving to Carbondale, IL for grad school, and I remember preaching for weeks and weeks afterwards what a great film it was, forcing my friends to go with me, etc etc.

What's funny is, even after seeing it, I was never really interested in reading the book till after it was on DVD. (Fight Club and Seven were the very first DVDs i ever bought as well.) And even when I was interested in reading it, it was like another 6 months before I found the book in a store to get.

Aside: I was way more shocked to find out Chuck wasn't some kind of Eskimo with that kind of last name then I was to find out he was gay. And I do mean like WAY more shocked. I remember thinking "He's not even from Alaska! WTF!!"

I didn't see it in theaters and I do remember when my mother rented it, I was pretty young and I didn't understand it, so I didn't give it mind until years later when I actually read Chuck Palahniuks works. Kids in my class (all boys) would rave about how amazing it was, just because they got to beat the shit out of each other for fun. I later on realized the idiocy of others love for the movie just based on that fact.

i went with a girlfriend. it had just come out and the theater was packed. we went because i loved i adored norton's movies and she loved pitt's abs. and i loved 12 monkeys and se7en. a quarter of the way through, i thought it was pretty thin and dumb. halfway through, she was sickened at the over the top of it and i was fascinated at the brilliance shown in the movie. when it was over, i called it incredible. she kind of rolled her eyes at that. we stopped dating shortly after that. i had no idea it was a fucking book. had i known that then, i'd have picked it up that weekend instead of waiting a year. it was from the dvd, when i finally got it, that i learned there was a book out there--and it wasnt a novelization!!

yeah, it was a little bit dark, but that movie was badass.

i'm thinking about punch you. growling. hold her, nate!

playing, of course
welcome to the cult and how old are you. (i guess i could check your profile, but i'd rather ask

There's a movie?

i remember i originally thought it was gonna be something like 'bloodsport' or one of those goofy fight movies. then my friend who i used to work at blockbuster video with told me it was an awesome movie. i trusted his opinion but i never got around to seeing it in the theatres even though i saw it on the marquee all the time because the movie theatre was the place to hang out back then.

so finally one day my friend's mom ordered it on pay-per-view because 'oh, brad pitt'. i sat down to watch it with her and i was stoned and instantly engrossed. she left after bob with the bitch tits showed up but i was hooked. i must have watched it like 10 times after that. i was one of those 'fight club' kids. then i got online and found this place and then i read 'survivor' and the rest is history.

i remember at this one party they started asking trivia questions about 'fight club' and i became the center of attention because i new the answer to every single question and this one dude's sister was falling asleep next to me on the couch and she threw her blanket half onto me so i took the hint and i felt her up for probably an hour while her big brother asked me fight club questions.

it was quite awesome.

hahaha, um. damn.

i never said a word to her during the entire party and i never saw her again after that. i always wonder about her.

I don't remember how I came across it, I just loved norton from american history x. The first time I watched it I was not exactly passive too it but since I was not expecting something that it was not some things flew by me. I watched it like 30 more times before I picked up the book but I still read choke first. I rest the rest of his work in about two months then came across the cult.

der. i'll send you the movie if you need :-

Ha! That reminds me of when The Crow was coming out and I was all geeked for it and when I asked my friends if they wanted to go see it they were all like "Sure, I love kung fu movies."

so. were you the crow for halloween that year? be honest.

I'd love to have, but i'm too fat to pull it off. That's why I usually go as a blues brother or something. The one friend i saw it with DID end up dressing as the crow though.
I thought I still had a picture of the two of us on here somewhere, I'll see if i can dredge it up.

I saw it on video in Holland but I was going through an incredibly bad spell and didnt appreciate it at all. When I got back to Ireland I gave it another hot since everyone was telling me how great it was. I did and starightaway went out searching for Chucks books. At that time I think Choke was the latest release and probably my favourite.

I watched the beginning on DVD, but kept on getting interrupted.
I really wanted to finish watching it.
So I played determined for a little while one night, and put it on.
I thought it was awesome,
even though I read the book beforehand.

Bought it on DVD. Watched until the stealing fat scene, went to bed. Finshed it the next night, thought it was alright. Watched it again a week later, loved it, put it on my myspace movie list. Rest is history.

I was Eleven. It was on HBO late at night. The first night I EVER stayed up past 1 am. It came on at about 2 or something. I sat on the couch at my father's house, ate blackberry ice cream, and was mesmerized. I thought the combination had CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER.

I can't remember how old i was when i saw it. Maybe fourteen? I think i may have been in high school, though this is a few years after the film came out. Caught it on DVD at a friend's house. Thought it was badass, but mostly thought that it had a perfect twist with him being Tyler. Bought it a year or two later and have seen it around ten times, i think. It really is one of my favorite movies and, a lot of times, i think it's better than the book. Though, too, that could just be because i saw it before i read it.

I walked to the video store and rented it.

My friends tempted me over with the promise of enlightenment accompanied by pot. I'd say the combination left a lasting mark on me, clear top ten movie in my book. Of course I hadn't read the book before I saw the movie, so it left me with that 'what the fuck just happened' feeling at the end. Still trying to recapture that...

I saw it in the theater and immediately told everyone I know that they had to go see it as well.

I'm sure I'm not unique in having this be my introduction to Chuck Palahniuk's work and I've been hooked ever since.

Not sure if it is because I saw the movie before I read the book but this remains one of the few movie adaptations that I think is at least as good as the book it was based on. There are certainly plenty of differences but the movie did such a good job of capturing the overall spirit of the book that I'm either willing to overlook them or admit that they were necessary to make the story work in a different medium.

I saw the movie for the first time in college, in a Film class. I had wanted to see the movie in the theater, but never did. Luckily, this professor got a copy prior to the release of the VHS/DVD.

I remember being absolutely blown away by the movie. I went right out and bought the book.

It so captured the alienation of my generation - that seperation from what it is to be a man - It's never left me.

That's why it's my favorite movie of all time.

My sister's colorguard (kind of like a dance team) was doing a show with music from Fight Club. So we rented the movie, not knowing anything of what it was about, and from that moment on I was hooked on Chuck. I read Fight Club first and since then I've read ever single book of his.

I saw Fight Club for the first time on November 11, 1999. This also happened to be my first blind date with the woman I now happen to be married to. So Fight Club will probably be part of the story I tell to my grandkids when they ask me how I met their grandma.

I was pretty sure the massive gallon of pepsi I had consumed ended up causing me to have to go to the bathroom at the exact moment it was revealed who Tyler Durden really was... thus confusing the hell out of me for the remainder of the movie. This resulted in me having to go back and watch it again. Eventually It came out on DVD and I can't count how many times I watched it. I ended up reading the book and then was hooked on Chucks books.

The movie also go me into the Pixies (closing credit music).

I remember seeing commercials for it when it was in theaters and, only half paying attention, thinking how depressing and sad it was that our society was in a state where it would actually appear to be profitable to release a movie that was just a bunch of guys beating each other up. Yeah, those are my high-school-freshman judgmental views.

I didn't actually see "Fight Club" until my freshman year of college. Most the sections in the marching band had a version of section bonding time -- tuba bonding, baritone bonding, clarinet bonding, et cetera. My section was no different. Ross, our section coordinator, announced at a rehearsal, "Sax Bonding will be Friday in Jon's room in Resco at 8. Sax Bonding will be watching 'Fight Club.' Sax Bonding may or may not turn into Sex Bondage." I still didn't know hardly anyone all that well and thought that sax bonding was sounding like something I was probably going to hate, but I figured I'd suck it up and suffer for the sake of sectional unity. Or something.

I ended up loving the movie but didn't really register that it was based on a book until listening to one of the audio commentaries on the DVD. Got it from the library, loved it, and ended up getting my own copy from a friend for Exmas before I had the chance to buy my own.

Moral of the story: Stupid judgmental high school freshmen.
(Okay, it's not really a moral. It's more like a sign that in some ways I haven't matured at all. All apologies.)

I saw Fight Club somewhere in my stoner years, so I can't remember what I had for breakfast that day. I know I didn't go to the theater (which is always the case and the #1 reason I am putting a fucking theater in my house). After watching the movie, I realized there could be no greater woman than Marla, even saying her name was empowering.

It was many moons later that I realized it was adapted from a book and I bought it for my husband for our 3rd anniversary. I loved the book and the fact that it followed so well with the movie. I was a little disheartened surprised by how human Marla was portrayed, but also relieved. Not even Helena Bonham Carter could have worn that prom dress forever.

Which leads me to a question for the movie makers: Why, oh why, do you insist on changing the bloody endings?? I loved the ending of the FC book, as well as the ending of Choke. Why stay so true to the story line only to choose the safe road at the end?

ps - Tyler and Marla in the final scene with the buildings falling and the PiXies playing is poetry - fucking Robert Frost with a nuclear bomb. Halleluja!

Im going to reread Fight Club and watchthe movie aswell later in the month.

10 years....where the fuck does time go?

I remember being in the theatre and seeing a trailer for Fight Club and thinking it looked stupid. What a stupid title too? My brother and his friends saw it in theatres (they were in high school) and thought it was cool but thats pretty much it. When it came out on DVD my dad got it for my brother. One day in 8th grade around the same time, I stayed home and decided to watch it out of boredom. When it ended I felt like someone hit me with a hammer in the face. It was so great. But I didn't understand why. What made this movie so attractive? I watched it again. A few days later I watched it with all the commentaries and found out it was a book. Went to Barnes and Noble and bought the book. That was 9 years ago.....wow. I know it sounds stupid. I know its cliché. I know its annoying. But FC really did change me, it opened my eyes. It got me reading books. Chuck opened a world to me. What sucks is that I went on a reading rampage, reading all his books. I was too young to understand a lot of it, but just like the movie I knew there was something there. SOmething there that hit home. So I re-read them all.

I've got a pretty interesting take on how I first saw Fight Club.

I was a writer for the entertainment section of my college newspaper, and I went to a screening of the movie and was completely blown away. I wrote this glowing review about how this was going to redefine the way people looked at mainstream cinema, it pushed the boundaries, etc.

But here's the problem: I hadn't seen the whole film. In the version screened for the press that night, just as the detectives are about to slice up Norton, it was made to look like the film bubbled up and melted away. No credits, nothing.

I was like, "Holy shit! What a way to end the film!" thinking that it was all just left to interpretation. Only weeks later, when it was out of the first run theaters, did a fellow writer bring up the film by saying, "I loved how they incorporated The Pixies at the end." And I'm like, "Huh?"

At this point, it was playing in our student theater for $2 a showing, where it stayed for the rest of the semester, and I got to see it a few more times on the big screen - and the full version. I always wondered if something really happened to the film that night, or if the local PR company wanted to make it weird for the critics. It didn't make sense either way.

Now, ten years later, wow, I am getting ready to see it again tonight on the big screen after Chuck's Boston signing. Can't wait!

My older cousin showed it to me when I was 10.
Child abuse?