Comment on Corporate and other Current Nothingness

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 1999)

Is it violent? Yep, and I could have done without that part. And I can very well see why in these Columbine days, why they held off on releasing the movie. However, they get in touch with their inner selves with fisticuffs, not machine guns. The points could have been just as well 'hammered home' without all the blood and gore.
However, "the Fight Club" is also funny and BEST of all, it has some great comments on the huge debasement of life that is the corporate existence as we know it. "Work at a job you hate to make money to buy stuff you don't need," was aptly said, as are many of the other great lines in this movie.
Brad Pitt is sex itself in this one, showing off those great biceps and giving us all those wonderfully sardonic glances, along with his throwaway lines. There's a great hook in here, which I won't spoil for you. The woman is also funny and dark. Was I cheering when the buildings holding all our credit card records went down? You bet? "Destroy all the records and we start from Ground Zero".
but, just as the telephone was invented concurrently cause the time was right, so the satire in these two movies. It was not accidental that the movement to 'free' the American man turns into the same kind of Army brain-washing and debasement that the military produces. Robot-like, the guys become just another version of the corporate drone. Like many revolutions, this one turns ALMOST full circle.
But just one logic check here: Can you actually shoot yourself in the mouth, walk around, talk to people and still stand up? But why should I question this when these "let stuff happen" devotees carefully buckle themselves up as they speed down the Interstate with no one touching the wheel. Funny!!!!