Fight Club is mediocre, at best

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2002)

I can't comprehend why people think this movie deserves to be critically acclaimed.
David Fincher's masturbatory use of unnecessary, high-tech, cheesy CG/camera effects and poor, way-too-blue lighting rule out cinematography as a virtue.
The characters are one-dimensional and inordinately cynical; I think he was trying to make the characters hip, but they come off as ridiculous caricatures, amalgamated from various disillusioned 15-year-olds' journals. As a result, said misfit teenagers (I am a teenager by the way), or immature adults that act like such teenagers, are the only people that have any possibility of identifying with these characters.
The dialogue is painfully cheesy and contrived, the Dust Brothers' electronica soundtrack comes off as an out-of-place post-modern marketing scheme, and the story is absolutely absurd.
Nothing is special about the movie. The movie does not "challenge the minds of movie-goers." It erases them. Yes, it's entertaining, but for the love of God, stop drooling over this movie. I can't figure out why anyone likes it; the only reason I can think of is the inherent homoeroticism. If you're into that sort of thing.