Preachy movie that shouldn't be taken seriously.

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2000)

This is one of those movies that about a quarter of the way through, you realize its essence. Preachy. Fight Club sucks you in after 10 minutes and wants to teach you a lesson about how alienated we've become from our true, 'pure selves'. This movie makes me sad to be a part of this generation, but not for the reasons that the writer of Fight Club proposes. People who educate themselves, get a job, find themselves somebody they love, and provide for their families are not bad people. Becoming an American is not to become less human. It's the same upper-white-class-guilt-ridden-drivel: We are slaves to society, we only live for material things....isn't this getting old? Talk to some people in developing nations around the world. Talk to some people who survived WWII. Is our way of life really so bad? This movie will have you thinking so. That is, if you buy into the pseudo-intellectual 'meaning' behind it. All I could think about while watching this movie was how some people would buy into the ludicrous mores of this movie and start their own 'Fight Club'. The flip side to this argument? If the movie made me react this strongly, I guess they did their job!