Howd You Come By Fight Club?

The previews looked good, and I'd either seen everything else, or everything else looked stupid.

I remember seeing the trailer and thinking that it looked like shit. I'd have to say, that was one of the most misleading trailers ever. Needless to say, I passed on seeing it.

Not a year later I transfer to a different school where my teacher, Dr. Kinch, is teaching Fight Club in one of the Lit classes that I signed up for. That and Survivor. So I read the books, watch the movie, and the rest is history. I was hooked.

i read [i]choke[/i] first. i was working at the bookstore at the time, and the cover intrigued me. then i read IM, survivor, lullaby, and saved FC for last. then i watched the movie. they all blew my mind, but choke is prob. still my favorite.

I saw the movie in theaters and loved it. Then found out it was a book when the bookstores have that little table of books that end up being movies.

What's weird is, I loved the movie and the book, but never thought to look at the author and see what else he had written.

Then a year or so later, a friend recommends Invisible Monsters. Read it, love it. I go to the bookstore to find his other books and find out it's the same guy who wrote Fight Club.

I had a film buff friend (One of those guys who knows the name, status, and stars of every film currently in development in the USA) tell me about Fight Club, which was coming out in about 3 months. I of course hadn't a clue what it was, and he told me to go out and get the book that night, which I was... just so bored that I did, and I read it, and finished it at 4am that morning.

I loved it, and how, and of course saw the movie when it opened.
Didn't end up reading anything else by Chuck until like... 7 months later...

The previews looked cool and two of my friends saw it on opening night and said it was awesome so I saw it the next day. It stands as my favorite film ever.

I thought the trailers looked shit as well.
But the head boy at my high school started a "fight club"
and soon enough there were kids showing up with black eyes and split lips, so I thought I'd check it out.

that's funny cingram. At my school the boys on the boardinghouse did the same. It dissintegrated pretty quick when one got pretty hurt though-Oh well, the bastard deserved it..

I saw it in the video shop and read the back and felt intriugued. I felt a bit of a loser then, because although I've been renting movies for as long as I can remember, it was around then that I only rented movies when I had a friend over. So I watched it on my own- and really liked it. I can remember, after the weekend (I watched it on a Sunday in 2000 sometime), I read the book. It wasn't until the end of 2001 I picked up another of his books- Invisible Monsters.

I wanted to see it on opening night but it was rated 18 here so I couldn't. After that I kept hearing about it but never got around to seeing it, by the time I did I already knew the ending. This teacher I have strongly recommended it but I still never got around to seeing it. Then i saw Survivor and Choke in a bookstore and bought those because I didn't like the book I was reading, then I bought Lullaby. A few months afterwards my friend found Fight Club in the cheap movies bin at Zellers and lent it to me, I wasn't tremendously surprised by the movie since I knew Fincher and Palahniuk but damned if I didn't enjoy it. When I finally read the book I was surprised by how much more gruesome it was but I really liked that about it.

I find it silly how they sell that movie for so cheap in HMV. I mean, I hate the way all these music/video company franchises sell goods for such extortionate prices (fuck, here's fight club talking through me),but how can it only be sold for 3.99 when some insanely shite movie like Bring it on/Land before time part 100 etc etc is being sold for three times the price?!?

Yes, damn them for selling good movies for cheap and forcing the stupid to pay more...

Frankly, I think if Fight Club was really expensive alot of people would just steal it as opposed to say Bring it on.

Haha it would be hilarious being caught for stealing either of those movies.It'd be like doing some sort of spacemonkey homework assignment.Working both ways-getting rid of shite movies for free? and not give franchises a penny

I wish I'd just bought the dvd for Fight Club. The extras are just so lovely. I.E. The Fincher,Pitt,(cough)NORTON (cough),Carter commentary-it's hilarious.

Yeah, the Fight Club at our school broke up pretty quickly as well.
It was really only fight club in name though. Basically only 2 people a week would fight. The head boy would blind fold them, drive them to a "secret" location (the old airport) and then the two kids would fight it out. They broke the first rule of fight club on a pretty regular basis in their hunt for fresh members.

The closest thing to project mayhem in my home town was when a kid stole every single pro-yo (Yo-yo) from every shop in town.

Or when a kid brought a drink bottle full of petrol and set a door in the toilets on fire.

I've done the toilet thing when I was like 12

we useta sorta have fight clubs. it was mad eby all kids who havnt seen fight club (the hip-hoppers), they called it thunderdome

Speaking of funny things to steal.... on our seventh form camp (last year of high school) a girl stole M-People and Ace of Base CDs from the place we were staying at.

When she was "apprehended" she lost alot of friends and all credibility for her sheer lack of taste.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Alex [/i]
[B]I've done the toilet thing when I was like 12 [/B][/QUOTE]

Did you have to sit a Psychiatric assessment before you were allowed back to school?

A Couple of my friends who were involved said it was as funny as hell.

The questions were like

Dr - "So....do you like fire?"
Ollie - "No, Not really"
Dr - "Does Fire excite you?"
Ollie - "No, not really"
Dr - "What do you think of when I say Fire!"
Ollie - "Umm?"
Dr - "Alright! Your fine!"

I did it at home, I suppose I could have done it at school and then when the inevitable "Would you set fire to the toilets at home?" question comes around I could just say yes and I have.

I don't remember seeing the previews for Fight Club, but my parents saw it first and they told me to watch it, they thought it suited my humor and my sense to list useful but useless facts. Finally I saw it, and since then it's been my favorite movie,ever..Some people think Dirty Dancing is the best movie,hence my best friend,but I thought that was a crock of shit lol Nothing Compares to the raw and real feeling that Fight Club brings to the table.

It always amuses me when I think of Chuck doing research for his books. Especially Survivor.

man, when I first saw the trailers for Fight Club I thought it was a guy movie. You know, just a bunch of fighting and shit. And my english teacher at the time getting bragging like "yeah, I've met the author of Fight Club a few times, he's a really cool guy." and of course, I was ignorant.

I didn't even see it until a few years later, and it fucking knocked me down. And I became so bitter at my old english teacher. Bitch.

How'd she meet him?

I saw the movie because a friend of mine who edits scripts for a living said I should check it out as a very interesting and complex story that gets better on repeat viewings.

A while later, aftering becoming a fan of the movie, I saw the book at the book store and bought it. From there I moved on to his other books.

So, I suppose, I'm the second-rate fan. The kind who got into it through the movie.

yah, me too.

you know, there was a chat room discussion about this. how did you first get into chuck. yup.

knox, were you in 4-H?

My sister's boyfriend saw it at college and loved it. And when he came home he took my sister to see it. She loved it and told me all about it. I was a dumb ass then and ignored her. But by the time it was coming out to DVD she had convinced me and I had seen Gladiator(my first step into the world of loving film) so I had my7 sister borrow her boyfriends copy. He wasnt acting fast enough so I got a VHS copy form the library and watched it. Then watched it again and a few times more when he finally got the DVD to me. I had also discovered IMDB by then. I looked up the film and saw it was based ona book...

I was young and (this was before I became a film and book fanatic and before I saw the movie and book world the way I do now) thought the trailer looked ultra cool, with all the fighting and stuff.

I wasn't allowed to see it, and saw it was based on a book, and had a book report for school (I was in sixth grade) coming up, so I went with my mom to the library and picked it up.

I loved it and I can honestly say it changed my life (not in the "project mayhem" sense but in the "movie and books" sense).

When I saw the movie for the first time, I didn't like it very much, loved the book better. Then when I saw it again maybe a year or so ago, I was like, "What the FUCK was I thinking not liking this?" I bought it immediately. Oh yeah, and I read all his other books but Invisible Monsters immediately. I read it recently and thought it as good, but the worst of the Chuck books, with Choke being my favorite.

The best part was presenting a book report on each (except for IM and Lullaby) for my middle school teachers oh man it was great...

The best part was that one time during "parent teacher conferences," (or whatever they were called) one of my teachers said to my parents, "Are you aware of what you're son has been reading?" And they were like, "Yeah.....we are....."

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SnowWhite [/i]
[B]How'd she meet him? [/B][/QUOTE]

I don't know. I never really paid attention in english class. meh.

My cousin came home one vacation and told me about this absolutely fantastic book that all of he and his stoner friends were into, Fight Club. The movie was just about to come out, and so my brother and I rented it. Then just this last year one of my friends and I bought every single one of Chuck's books between the two of us, and read them all over the fall.

i saw the trailers, and thought this was something that i had to see. so my friends and i got our parents to drive us to the theater the day it came out because we were still too young to drive. and sat in the theater in amazement at the film.

Ah.. I saw it on opening night because of the buzz. I enjoyed it but soon forgot about it..

Then about 3 weeks later I realized it was a book. I bought it along with IM and Survivor. then bought the SE DVD. It was stolen and then I bought it again before it went out of print..