good movie, book is better

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2002)

While I used to consider this movie to be my #1 pick, that has shifted to magnolia. The movie is still good, and I like it just as much as before. However after reading the book, it just seems flat. Life is a series of comparisons, and while comparing this movie to other movies it's #1, but comparing this movie to other messages that I find through media, it's not, simply because the book's message is way better, with a lot more depth. Fight club was #1 in my book due to its original meaning but now that I found this meaning expanded upon in another medium, fight club has shrunk. There is just a lot more to it. A lot. I don't think the characters, especially Marla, are well developed. Upon seeing the movie for the first time I had a feeling like Marla was supposed to be a big part of it, but she wasn't. From the start he even says "all this is because of marla" or something like that. But in fact, it wasn't really expanded upon at all. There were a lot of other things too, the whole #69 thing was rather pointless. And just little things throughout. I'd still give it a 10/10 for sure, I would just recommend reading the book over watching the movie (but doing both works too).