God, I love this movie, I just watched it again. I just got it on Thursday, after seeing it probably 10 or 12 times before buying it. I still get goosebumps when I watch the end and the buildings are blowing up. It's got a weird, destructively beautiful quality that I don't really know how to explain.

Fuck, that movie rules.

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i agree...good stuff...

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i was just gonna make a thread about yoru favorite movies that you ahevn't watched in over 6 months....its beena while since Ive seen this.


but I remember when I bought it way back years ago...I watched it everyday at least once during the whole month of november....

classic.

Better than the book too.

Rarely see that.

JaY

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Originally posted by JayD Better than the book too. Rarely see that. JaY

Personally, I really did like the book, but the movie and the book are drastically different in how they're presented. I don't even compare them. The visuals in the movie are phenomenal, but they leave out a few key parts. Such as the very end of the book, where we find out the narrator was actually the alternate personality. Or at least that's what I got from the part where he went to heaven.

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brad pitt and edward norton are such great actors...that's why the movie turned out so damn well...they fit and played their roles perfectly...

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Originally posted by Floorfiller brad pitt and edward norton are such great actors...that's why the movie turned out so damn well...they fit and played their roles perfectly...

+1

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Originally posted by Pariah Cleric Personally, I really did like the book, but the movie and the book are drastically different in how they're presented. I don't even compare them. The visuals in the movie are phenomenal, but they leave out a few key parts. Such as the very end of the book, where we find out the narrator was actually the alternate personality. Or at least that's what I got from the part where he went to heaven.

I think that they're comparable.. They are both the same source, so when you out weigh the good / bad of both, the script carrys alot more of the good than the book.

When comparing a book to a film it's usually by script, at least for me.. Visuals and etc. were good, but it wouldn't have been good without a good adaptation..

JaY

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Originally posted by JayD I think that they're comparable.. They are both the same source, so when you out weigh the good / bad of both, the script carrys alot more of the good than the book. When comparing a book to a film it's usually by script, at least for me.. Visuals and etc. were good, but it wouldn't have been good without a good adaptation.. JaY

But there's so much more in a film. It's like comparing a song to it's sheet music or it's written lyrics.

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Originally posted by Pariah Cleric But there's so much more in a film. It's like comparing a song to it's sheet music or it's written lyrics.

its usually the opposite. If you ahve ever read american psycho and watched the movie....not even close.

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Originally posted by JayD Better than the book too. Rarely see that. JaY

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Agreed.

The ending in the book was ok, but it gave a totally different emotion than the one the book gave. In the book, He is put into a mental institution which, like police stations, maitainence staff, and bus drivers, has been infiltrated by Project Mayhem. The men keep encouraging him and the doctors keep coming, while the author (Chuck Palahniuk, a good author) tries to create some death/heaven symbols.

What if you were a split-personality, creating alternate realities for yourself and you started a revolution; by the time you realized what was happening, you were locked in a mental institute, unable to do anything but idly watch and know you'll be protected?