Good Movie but way overrated

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2006)

Overall Fight Club is a good movie and is certainly worth watching but I'm not buying into all the "best film ever" bullcrap. Hearing that is really annoying to me in fact and part of the reason why I'm writing this right now. Let me start off by saying, I get the film. I'm sick of hearing people tell me that I don't get the movie. That really annoys me. The movie is what it is and I'm pretty sure most of the retards that spend all their time of Fight Club message boards saying "I am Jack's (insert retarded something or other here)" are looking too much into the film. Fincher is pretty good as the film's director, but the direction gets annoying to me after a while because I just keep feeling that he's pretty sure he's a bad@ss which isn't true. Se7en's good, definitely better than Fight Club and mostly it's because of how Fincher keeps his style at a minimum whereas in Fight Club he goes crazy, this too annoys me. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are good in their roles, Norton has been better though (Primal Fear) and Brad Pitt is not the person I want to learn a life lesson from but he's alright and he makes me laugh every now and then so he's OK. I do however have certain problems what this movie is trying to preach which people then take seriously and follow, mostly that it's anti-corporations and stuff but the film itself has countless actual logo's for major corporations within it. You think that Fincher was just being clever by putting those in the film? I don't, he's a sell out just like the people they're fighting against in the film. Also, while they're on the bus looking at the underwear ad and Brad Pitt says, "Self-improvement is masturbation." I almost cracked up, he couldn't say anything more absurd considering how he himself looks. Anyway, these are just a few of my gripes but whatever. It's a pretty good movie just don't buy into all these morons and their view of Fincher as Jesus' Second Coming and Fight Club as perfect, that's just dumb and it annoys me.