call me a moron.

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2000)

perhaps i am -- by fanoogle's standards. though i wouldn't call "fight club" trash, it came pretty close.
simply put, this film is a waste of time. apparently the gen-x'rs appreciated it, or at least some of them. perhaps one needs to truly understand multiple body piercings to appreciate this film. not that there's anything wrong with multiple body piercings -- it's still a free country.
but i suspect that like this film, such behavior expresses a certain hopelessness that is probably necessary to truly appreciate "fight club." my generation was pretty counter culture, too. but whereas i thought we were trying to make the world a better place in which to live, many of the kids today seem to simply be rejecting life itself.
they will undoubtedly enjoy this pointless film.
which is to say that anyone with a simple appreciation of good filmmaking need not bother with this one.
i found it moronic, pointless, and mindnumbingly LONGGGG.
i've read all the reviews of this film at this site to date, and i'm quite surprised no one has mentioned how long it was.
it was excruciatingly long. 139 minutes seemed like forever, especially the 2nd half.
all three main characters turned in good performances, though pitt's wasn't nearly as compelling as his early grayce in "kalifornia" in an almost identical role (a bit more sophisticated here, but just as depraved nonetheless).
it's just that the story was so bad. i wonder what these three stars really think of this film. perhaps they took the project because they thought they were making a truly meaningful movie.
they were wrong.
if this film had a message, it could have made it just as convincingly in 45 minutes and saved us the agony.
i generally don't give a number rating, but if i were to do so here i couldn't give this more than 3 out of 10. and that would only be for the acting. put 3 mediocre actors in this film and it wouldn't score a 1.
essentially a waste of time waiting (and hoping) for something meaningful to happen.
it never does.
if you still have a brain and haven't completely given up on life in america, or someplace else in the world for that matter, do yourself a favor and skip this one.
or rent it and watch it just to see for yourself. it's still a free country.
but if you want to see truly good films AND good performances by pitt and norton in somewhat similar roles, rent "kalifornia" and "american history x" instead.