Fight Club (1999) | Canadians First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Commentary

[@tennseven999]

Another detail with that car they crash: when they crawl out of it, Edward Norton gets out of the driver's side even though he was the passenger. Some post editing team mentioned it to Fincher because they thought it was a continuity error and Fincher was like, "don't worry about it."

[@tennseven999]

@@justmeeagainn Saw it in an interview or something somewhere, and I have a very good memory.

[@tzuyd]

They must have thought Fincher was just lazy :p

[@yotuel9064]

@@justmeeagainn Just check any comment section of reaction, reviews or practically any content about any movie. You always have people commenting and correcting known facts about the movies.

[@jrus690]

At the end I thought the whole movie was a continuity error, since even when carrying the bags of fat he clearly needed a second person. I still wonder what all these men were doing at the Fight Club, there did not seem to much point., it was not making any of them any happier.

[@Ronaldo1774]

@@jrus690 It has nothing to do with the actual physical fight... It's just an allegory of the real fighting in your mind trying to realize who you are and what's your porpuse on life. The "fight" club gave them a purpose in a generation defined by the economical standards that the TV and the media portrait as the real and unique life based on the capitalism rampage.

[@flibber123]

The first time I saw this movie, when Norton's character hits himself in his boss's office and says "For some reason I thought of my first fight with Tyler" I completely let that go without even wondering why he thought that. Afterwards I realized Fincher had the audacity to drop such an obvious hint to the audience because he knew many of us would be so engrossed in what was going on that it would slip right past us without raising questions. The theft of the bags of fat is amazing. It makes me cringe more than the graphic violence.

[@flibber123]

@@ThreadBomb I haven't read the novel. It doesn't matter though because the movie has a script, a director, and an editor. Basically, we wouldn't see that scene unless the filmmakers decided it needed to be in the movie. Choices like this have to be made all the time and the writer of the novel isn't the one making the choices unless that writer also has control over the movie. To my knowledge, Palahniuk didn't have control over this movie.

[@allyin15]

He beats himself up in front of the manager of a hotel that “Tyler” apparently works at, instead of his office job boss, but yes, that line is in the book too.

[@SugerFreeJazz]

It one of the reasons the movie is better then the book. The passive medium means you don't have as much time to stop and think about it until it's over.

[@cristonsloan]

My favourite give-away line is when Jack is going down an escalator and Brad Pitt passes him coming up on the other side (prior to them "meeting") and the narration is something along the lines of... "If you wake up in a different place, in a different time, can you wake up as someone else?" Such an obvious hint, yet completely innocent on your first viewing.

[@worsel555]

@@ThreadBomb In the novel it was a slightly more involved affair. The chapter starts off with Tyler and the Narrator kicked out of the house by Marla because she found a box of chocolates that had a note saying "Sagging, send help." Then the explanation followed as to why they were on the street for the night. Marla's mother was rich and would get liposuction in order to stay thin, and Marla also had a slight taste for plastic surgery of sorts by getting collagen injections in her lips. Every now and then, in order to help her daughter out, she would send her some of her liposuction fat to have injected. Tyler and the Narrator found out and started manipulating her by sending her boxes of chocolates every couple of months with the note saying her lips were sagging and to send "help", aka, "Send me your liposuction fat so I can fix my face." The soap was being made from the liposuction fat of Marla's rich mother, being sold right back to the very same rich people who would buy the bars for like $40 each if I remember right. Keep that in mind next Valentines Day if you get a box of chocolates from a loved one.

[@sharkdentures3247]

Absolute FAVORITE line of dialogue in the movie "You're insane!" "NO. YOU'RE insane." I absolutely LOVE that line. It makes me chuckle everytime Tyler turns an insult into a statement of FACT.

[@winstonmarlowe5254]

You know you have problems when your alter ego is calling you a nutjob.

[@denace2society591]

That's probably one of my favorite lines, too!

[@RashadSaleh92]

It’s not an insult, you don’t understand

[@Nevyn515]

I’m not insane, my imaginary friend who is my alter-ego is insane.

[@kellymaher3355]

@@RashadSaleh92 I DO NOT WANT TO WATCH CHILDRENS MINDS SNAP IN HALF AS A RESULT OF SEXUAL INTERFERENCE BY A STRANGER. AND I SUGGEST THAT IF YOU DO, THEN IT DESERVES TO HAPPEN TO YOUR DAUGHTER...OR WORSE. AND ALL THE WHILE IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE.

[@magnuswidqvist4457]

The ending with The Pixies "Where is my Mind" is Effing BRILLIANT!

[@Travelinmatt1976]

I had forgotten about that song and when I saw this in the theater so many memories just came flooding back all at once.

[@orko714]

Yep.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

Why?

[@MrUndersolo]

I was really shocked when I heard it. I was a fan for years and no one around me had even heard of them. And then, after this came out, everyone asked me about them.

[@patriciajin6206]

@@eatsmylifeYT Good question.

[@stt5v2002]

I went to this movie with very low expectations, and they did not spoil the film in the promotional materials. Back then Brad Pitt was well regarded but not necessarily considered a top tier actor. While watching the film, I realized I was watching a masterpiece rather than a simple action film. Truly a great experience.

[@barbarusbloodshed6347]

I was so annoyed by that! But I also understood why they did it. The annoying thing was that I didn't go watch it in the cinema because the trailer made me believe it was just some dumb action movie about a few guys fighting each other. Saw it a year after the cinematic release and it immediately became my favourite movie. Still is, sharing first place with "There Will Be Blood".

[@ieyke]

This movie instantly forever cements Brad Pitt as a truly incredible actor. There are moments in this movie where he's knocking it into the stratosphere. Like when he's terrorizing Lou, screaming "YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN LOU! YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN!" while cackling like an unhinged maniac. And his conversations/arguments with Jack after Jack realizes the truth... Charming, intimidating, angry, jokey, preachy, enlightening, unhinged, wacky, chill....Pitt covers a LOT of ground in this movie.

[@happyapple4269]

Fincher is fantastic.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

@@ieyke have you watched "Meet Joe Black"? That is where I saw his acting chops for the first time.

[@extantsanity]

@@ieyke Yeah, he plays crazy very well. He was great in 12 Monkeys, too. And you're right, those are a lot of very apt adjectives for his character in this movie!

[@dlweiss]

I love the way this story criticizes BOTH souless capitalist societies AND souless authoritarian/fascist societies in equal measure. It agrees that consumerism and corporate culture is toxic, but also shows the ways that "revolutionary" movements can become twisted into something equally harmful and toxic.

[@johnirving5949]

Somewhat prophetic *gestures at everything*

[@bigdaddy741098]

I think one can't exist without the other

[@praxton]

Fascism and authoritarianism and communism are not interchangeable. Heck, there are authoritarian capitalist societies.

[@firstsurname7099]

@@praxton Yeah some people need to read books, innit

[@Garryck-1]

Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of State and Capitalism. Which is why Communism is NOT fascism. Thus, fascism is RIGHT-WING authoritarianism, and not left-wing.

[@TheThecommenter]

"You met me at a very strange time in my life." BOOM - Buildings crashing, Pixies wailing, holding hands. This movie is too brilliant to put into words.

[@merchillio]

Seeing you guys theorize based on nothing but the poster is always a delight

[@Gnomaana]

First few videos of their I watched the theorizing annoyed me to no end. Now it's what I look forward to. :)

[@ieyke]

I love every time a Fight Club reaction gets posted, because hearing their assumptions is a magnificent treat, and so is watching their brains melt at the end of the movie. 😂

[@alessaschafer]

First rule of Fight Club is: Wash yourself!

[@RoccondilRinon]

I mean, they were wrong on the specifics, but they were entirely correct about it being both very dark and very homoerotic. Also “what’s in the soap”… Jesus Christ.

[@jennymckinnon9528]

"Bath-house Club"

[@richieclean]

Great job on the edit George, the fact that you chose to add in your own "subliminal" flashes is a really great touch 😁

[@assholable]

YUP!!!!

[@paulcurran4786]

Yeah, the image of Richard Nixon popping up when the spliced in image of the penis right at the end of the film was a touch of class 👏

[@Zireael83]

:D

[@parker469a]

The Trickiest of Dicks.

[@kellymaher3355]

Didn't the girls' tears and grief upset you? Didn't you know she was going to have that image haunt her and distort her thoughts and growth over the coming years? INTRODUCING CHILDTEN TO SEXUAL CONTENT IS ONE OF THE WORST CRIMES WE FKN HAVE!!! WHAT THE FK IS WRONG WOTH YOU THAT WATCHING THAT GRIL START TO CRY AS HER IMMATURE VAGINA REACTED INVOLUNTARILY TO THE COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE - SHOWIMG HER THAT IMAGE IS CHILD FKN ABUSE YOU THICK CUNNTT. GOD AMERICANS ARE STUPID. ALTHOUGH....MAYBE ITS CREEPING NORTH THESE DAYS AND BEING BILIGUAL IS NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE THE CANNUKS FROM THE YANK WANK. Greetings from sensible Australia. Get some decent perception mate...combine it with a well conceived value system....and then find the balls to criticise material that the majority applaud.

[@petesime]

1999 was a great year for film. American Psycho, American Beauty, The Matrix, Austin Powers, The Green Mile, The Mummy, Office Space, Boondock Saints, Magnolia, Three Kings, The Iron Giant, Being John Malkovich, October Sky… You guys could spend a solid three months on your channel covering consistently good movies from that year.

[@Harv72b]

They had to get all those great films released before Y2K killed us all. 😁

[@user-xi1nm4ir7y]

The Iron Giant low-key holds up better than all those other movies

[@jgood005]

@@Harv72b Y2K was serious. I remember as a kid watching the ball drop at the end of 1999 and fully expecting the power to go out or something when the countdown hit 0. Everyone was surprised when nothing happened except for a couple dumb ATMs displaying the year as "19100"

[@Harv72b]

@@jgood005 I was in my late 20s. You're overstating it a lot when you say "everyone was surprised". Personally, I was gravely disappointed with the lack of zombies (pun fully intended).

[@kklordkk5]

Great year

[@tudorjennings2343]

The conversations in the house between Narrator and Marla are so sublime. You only appreciate the subtlety of the exchanges, and Marla's reactions from her point of view of what's going on, during rewatches.

[@anonymes2884]

Pitt and Norton are (rightly) lauded for this movie but Helena Bonham Carter is utterly sublime.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

No.

[@truevulgarian]

"This is my house. What are you doing in my house?"

[@gordonhaire9206]

A hint I missed when I first watched was when he was punching himself in his boss's office, he said :"It reminded me of my first fight with Tyler."

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

That’s always the part where I think the reactor will ‘get it.’

[@janeldavis905]

The first time I watched this movie, I joined in late while other people were already watching it, and this was the first scene I saw. It ruined the movie for me because it was obvious that the Narrator and Tyler were the same person. I've always been a little bummed that I didn't get the proper experience with this one. I love a good twist!

[@radicaladz]

Fun fact: the actual shooting script featured rewrites by Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote Seven and Sleepy Hollow. Sadly, because of Writer's Guild reasons, they couldn't give him a screenwriting credit, so the three cops who the Protagonist meets in the third act are called Detectives Andrew, Kevin and Walker in the credits.

[@radicaladz]

@@mobilemechanics6565 ech, let em do their own research. It's hardly a trade secret.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

What's so fun about that?

[@radicaladz]

@@eatsmylifeYT recognising talent is always fun.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

@@radicaladz But it wasn't you who recognized it. You just read that somewhere.

[@habitsrabbit]

@@eatsmylifeYT "What's so fun about that" Well you see, a "Fun fact" is a tidbit of _interesting_ or _entertaining_ trivia. And learning that they beat the writers guild and gave him the credit he deserved through character names _is_ a fun fact.. And why are you being so literal? "But it wasn't you who recognized it. You read that somewhere" Yeah no shit dude lol he never said he didn't. He meant exactly what he said. 'Recognizing talent is always fun.' And he's right, it is fun. Every time I watch this movie and see those detectives, I'll now recognize the talent of Andrew Kevin Walker because now I know the story of how they couldn't really give him credit for his rewrites, so they did it anyway, in a special way.

[@fluentinsilence]

Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the book that this movie is adapted from, said the scene with the store clerk on his knees inspired a lot of readers and viewers to go back to school and finish their degrees.

[@riffgroove]

Did you ever watch this movie with Pahlaniuk's commentary? He finally says where he got the idea for the book from.

[@fluentinsilence]

@@riffgroove I did. If I recall, he says he went camping, got into a fight with other people there, showed up to work with a bruised face and no one at work would acknowledge or ask about it. "So, how was your weekend?"

[@riffgroove]

@@fluentinsilence Lol... that's the one.

[@kinggoat2735]

Few noticeable things after a few watches: On the bus when Brad and Ed are talking about "...is that what a real man is suppose to look like?" A commuter bumps into Ed, says nothing and bumps into Brad and says "excuse me" acknowledging only one of them. Brad's fight against Lou in the basement; at one point Brad holds his hand up to Ed to keep his personality from breaking thru. After the car accident; Ed is seen exiting the drivers side of the car since it was flipped over. And one last thing; At the beginning, with a gun in Ed's mouth, Brad says "Is there anything you want to say?" Ed responds with "I can't think anything at the moment." At the end with the same scene setup, Brad says "Is there anything you want to say?" Ed responds with "I STILL can't think of anything." *this is where you turn the volume way up and hear Brad say* "Awe. Flashback humor."

[@eatsmylifeYT]

"Awe" means something else.

[@docdamnij]

Jack:"What are you doing here?" Marla: "Fuck you" Gets a double meaning at 2nd viewing.

[@stevethepirate2875]

Did you catch the fact that the commuter that bumped him is the next guy Tyler is fighting? The one he lands all the punches into the crotch too.

[@joenobody5631]

The flashback humor gets a chuckle out of me every time.

[@JustAMagicDuck]

“You just want to see Brad Pitt shirtless…” GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

[@0okamino]

Get one shirtless Brad Pitt, and they'll throw in a shirtless Ed Norton and Jared Leto as a bonus!

[@IlNyaPasdOrchestre]

WE GET TO GO HOME! \o/

[@83442handle]

This is a great interview with Brad Pitt from 1998 when he was filming it and he calls it "The Fight Club" and the description he gives is "Its about two guys who start an amateur boxing league for underprivileged youth, and the woman who comes between them" 🤣 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp7di4eBgteKbbs

[@NikkiKNuvo]

omg, Brad was a naughty boy 😂😂

[@radicaladz]

I actually worked at a multiplex in the mid-00s, at a time when they still ran all their movies on celluloid film rather than digitally. Rather than two projectors, it was one massive projector per screen, and the movie was taped together into one HUGE reel of film - a single reel of standard 35mm film is about 20 minutes of screentime, so multiple that by 6 and you have a 2 hour movie, which at 24fps is 10,800 ft of film and 172,800 frames - that could be broken down into 11 reels of 1000 feet or 27 smaller ones of 400 feet. That completed reel was spooled onto a platter about 4-6 feet wide, then through the projector and out onto another platter; if you wanted to run the same movie through two screens at once, you'd run it out of one projector, along a guiderail bolted to the wall, through the second projector and then onto the end platter. The two-projector system is definitely a product of an earlier era, back when being a projectionist had more job security and skill associated with it; digital projection hadn't taken a hold of the market like it has now, not til Avatar came along - from there, the job of projectionist was basically made redundant for any cinema that didn't value the process of preserving and presenting celluloid. As to whether you'd hear the sound of the spliced footage, most modern celluloid film is printed with both the projected image AND sound on it - it would take the form of a thin band of translucent electromagnetic tape that runs in sync alongside the frame on one of the outer margins, which would usually be read by a laser like in a CD player or something similar to the magnetic head on a tapedeck; it'd be like if you took an audio cassette and VHS tape* and lined them up side by side as they run through the gate of the projector. So that split-second moan is not just for our benefit - it's actually feasible you'd hear a tiny snippet of sound as well as getting the subliminal frame. ;) *I mean, videotape is the same principle as audio tape so that metaphor doesn't totally stand up to scrutiny, but I think you all get the idea.

[@davidmills8726]

I first saw this movie at movie night of a college campus film club. Their copy was still on multiple reels that they had to switch between. It added a bit of surreal meta to it, like had the film club been splicing any frames into their copy?

[@radicaladz]

@@davidmills8726 - that, sir, is indeed an extra level of meta.

[@ge2719]

the lack of dedication to projection got even worse after the switch to digital because even though digital made it easier for a cinema to show films, they still need people who know what they are doing with the projectors. but since old school projectionists got essentially eliminated, there was no one who really cared, just employees to sell tickets and overpriced sweets. so when a new cinema opened up near where i live i went there a few months after it opened and noticed the chromatic aberration wasn't calibrated properly, the image was blurry and whenever there was a pure white section you could see the fact the colours were out of alignment because you'd have the three sperate colours around the edges of the white. It wasnt exactly small either, with a 4k projector if youre stood a few feet from the screen you can count the pixels and it was about half a dozen pixels out of alignment. I mentioned it to one of the staff after the movies, a few months later i came back to watch another movie, it was a big multiplex so it was a different screen, same problem. So i went around and looked in all the screens (security was none existent, once you get past the ticket inspector.) Every screen had the same problem, so i wrote an email to the ceo of the company... next time i went they were all fixed. Yet i hadn't even gotten a reply from the guy. For months every movie the cinema was showing was blurry, and i didn't even so much as get a thanks. At least they fixed it and people arent paying to see a blurry movie, thats a positive i guess.

[@radicaladz]

@@ge2719 Critic Mark Kermode is a staunch defender of celluloid projection as a cinematic medium. If this is a topic you're at all curious about, his book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex talks a lot about the pro/con of both analog and digital, as well as the state of the industry in general. Other good resources include the documentary The Last Projectionist, which is focused a lot on The Electric in my hometown of Birmingham, the oldest running cinema in the country, and Side by Side which is presented by Keanu Reeves and gets a decent cross-section of opinions from filmmakers like Fincher, Scorcese, Soderbergh and Nolan.

[@radicaladz]

@@ge2719 - this is exactly the point - it's creating nu-tech problems that old-tech already had a fix for. That's not to say digital is inherently bad, but without that dedication to the craft, you're going to wind up with an inferior experience and standards falling regrettably across the board.

[@eZTarg8mk2]

its worth a second watch, you'll spot so many clues and moments of him living the parallell lives...like doing situps while tyler is banging marla etc. and yeah, the flashes at the beginning are him seeing tyler as he gets more frustrated. The film wasn't banned, but it did stir up a ton of controversy...folk worried it would inspire copycats etc

[@extantsanity]

Also, it was really unsettling for people who couldn't handle it. Rosie O'Donnell hated it and said she couldn't sleep for several days. She spoiled the plot twist live on the air on her show to discourage people from watching it, hahah.

[@wrob08]

Marla, Tyler, and the Narrator never all being in the same room at the same time.

[@eZTarg8mk2]

@@extantsanity sounds like her

[@jrus690]

I guess the question is what are people getting out of the film. What exactly was the controversy. When I finished it I was left with the Usual Suspects problem, nothing had actually happened.

[@allyin15]

It all happened, it’s just that there was only one guy running everything instead of two.

[@nth_to_see_here]

There are plenty of clever little clues. One of my favorites: In the beginning, in the phone booth, Tyler calls Edward Norton back...but there is a small sign on the payphone "no incoming calls".

[@TheVFXbyArt]

12:25. The scene where he shows the guy his teeth was an outtake. The director asked Norton to show his teeth to check if there was enough fake blood. They kept it and spliced it in!

[@williamsheff2806]

Bob was played by Meatloaf. The famous singer/musician. He was also in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and others.

[@MiguelStinson88]

yeah, but he wants to be seen as an talented actor now. That's why it was hard for him to play his role in Tenacious Ds "The pick of destiny". He was chosen by Jack Black almost exclusively for his status as rock legend and to sing epicly in that movie.

[@IlNyaPasdOrchestre]

oof, went to wikipedia with some respect and interest and left with disappointment, climatosceptic, covid-sceptic, and in the end he died from it.. Kind of sad.

[@DanABA]

Marla's character drops constant hints after they sleep together, it's pretty amazing how obvious she is about it looking back.

[@xristosmiaoulis447]

I absolutely pissed myself laughing at the hidden "flock of seagulls" image. well played lol

[@wickedymike]

I'd seen a lot of "Dick in name, dick in nature" images, and then there was that one insert and had no idea what it was! Cheers for showing me some people appreciated that!

[@gurevk4673]

You questioned at the end if this movie got pulled at any point. It was actually delayed because after they filmed it but before release the Columbine shooting happens and the studio got spooked. During this delay all the shit at Woodstock 99 kicked off as well so this movie touched on a lot of things that were a bit close to the bone on release. Rosie O'Donnell famously spoiled the twist on her show to spite it, I'm glad you guys were able to make it into this movie without knowing about it. This movie stands the test of time, people reference this movie all the time and don't even realise it (like when you heard the rules, fun to watch the penny dropping).

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

The ninth rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Brad and Ed starting a mud wrestling tournament in prison.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

No. Don't try to be funny because you're not.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

@@eatsmylifeYT Neither are you. Also, no one hired you to be the comedy police. Fuck off.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

@@chimpinaneckbrace Triggered, aren't we?

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

@@eatsmylifeYT Cliché troll, aren’t you? Grow up. You’re sad.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

@@chimpinaneckbrace Yep. Definitely triggered.

[@elischultes6587]

I loved the “what’s in the soap?” Line from George.

[@Hapsard]

The guy, Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the book has 'interesting' ideas ... One book has a main character who keeps intentionally getting bitten by rabid/poisonous animals and eventually starts a nationwide movement convincing people to do the same ... Wild stuff.

[@kellysmith4978]

hahaha i do like Rant. Fight Club might be his most "normal" book :) That or Haunted

[@Jaspertine]

Hell Yeah, I love Rant. One of my favourite reads of all time.

[@wickedymike]

Read a bunch of his books, unfortunately with the Rant story he predicted the future of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers really accurately... :(

[@Fuzzbar491]

Love Rant. One of my favourite books ever

[@edittheworld-ct5yu]

​@@kellysmith4978So Guts is normal. Chuck's books are nothing like you read on the back.

[@janeldavis905]

Love the single-frame inserts! 😄 I once read an interview where Chuck Palahniuk told the story of almost getting beat up in a bar. A huge guy was dragging him out the back to beat the shit out of him, and as the guy dragged Chuck across the floor he said, "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club..." And Chuck goes, "Hey! I wrote that!" He explained to the guy that the movie was based off a book... a book that *he* wrote! The guy ended up buying him a drink instead beating the shit out of him. Always thought that was an interesting story! Thanks for sharing your reactions with us!

[@TheNativeEngine]

The fuck was Chuck's life?

[@kroneexe]

@@TheNativeEngine He obviously had a lot of experience with this to write a story like that. You cant write such a good book by being a basement dweller.

[@kellymaher3355]

I DO NOT WANT TO WATCH CHILDRENS MINDS SNAP IN HALF AS A RESULT OF SEXUAL INTERFERENCE BY A STRANGER. AND I SUGGEST THAT IF YOU DO, THEN IT DESERVES TO HAPPEN TO YOUR DAUGHTER...OR WORSE. AND ALL THE WHILE IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE.

[@kellymaher3355]

You spastic bitch Your daughters deserve to be interfered with so you can learn empathy and social responsibility

[@ramudon2428]

​@@kellymaher3355Are you suggesting that if Person X is a bad person, from your ethical framework, their children deserve punishment?

[@SmellyBones]

The first rule of Soap Club is you wash your left Pitt. The second rule of Soap Club is you wash your right Pitt. The thirty-fourth rule is Nixon's first name. The Nth rule is that a human's temporomandibular joints can articulate well enough to talk, even if one of them is fractured to a fine powder. The third rule is I really like you guys.

[@BlunderMunchkin]

The hints start flying right from the beginning. In the first minute of dialog we get "I know this because Tyler knows this," and they just keep on coming.

[@hermunkulus]

The thumbnails you guys with Simone never get old. Very clever.

[@raphaelperry8159]

The fact that it's her own hand almost seems to be blatantly giving away the plot twist in the very thumbnail.

[@extantsanity]

Definitely worth a re-watch! My favorite scene is Marla talking to Edward Norton's character ("Narrator"), where the conversation is about why a "weak" person is attracted to a "strong" person. On first watch, you can map each person talking, from their perspective, about the other two people. On the rewatch, you realize Marla wasn't talking about the Tyler-and-Edward relationship, because Tyler doesn't exist! But it still works when you think of who she's thinking of at the time, and why Tyler is suddenly sensitive enough to cut the conversation off. So many other movies fall apart, plot-wise, as soon as the identity twist is revealed. This one actually holds up!

[@talljohnsparky]

I am today years old, I just realized that the first few rules for “Fight Club” also would apply to spoilers about the movie at the time it was released! 🤯

[@scottstevens7639]

This is definitely a movie that requires multiple views. There’s just so much to unpack. However I think Simone just wants to rewatch it just to catch all the subliminal porn inserts. Also, your initial predictions are way too entertaining - sometimes y’all are so hilariously off base…

[@echoesofmalachor3700]

This was/is one of the small number of movies each decade that absolutely nail a sliver of the culture at the time.

[@zmarko]

To answer Simone's question about splicing a frame into another film, yes audio would also come over on that frame (assuming there was audio in that point of the film). However, the audio and video wouldn't play at the same time. The lens that the film passes in front of to shine the film to the screen is at a different location than the audio pickup/reading device (at least on film, not sure about signal theaters these days).

[@Monsposse]

Unless they were using DTS audio, which was on a separate medium (I think CD-ROM).

[@kellysmith4978]

@@Monsposse I am not sure if the film prints or projectors are different for those DTS films but i am pretty sure I saw the line of audio track on the film cell.

[@Enrique-Garcia]

Not only would the audio play at a different frame than the picture (I think pic and audio are 2-3 frames off?), it wouldn't be in sync either, because of the reason you said (if pic is 2 frames ahead of audio, that means the audio next to the frame was for a frame 2 frames ago, or vice versa, I forget which is first lol).

[@christopherbowers7236]

i guess we can assume that tyler spliced both aspects of it (however the sound side works) so that it DID play in sync

[@woeshaling6421]

i worked as a projectionist with a victoria 35mm projector. audio would be printed on the film to the left. the film would pass the gate (where the frame is projected from) and about 12 frames after, it would pass the audio reader. so audio would be printed offset accordingly. 24 fps (frames per second) is standard, so a single frame would have its audio delayed by 0.5 seconds. hardly noticable if you're not listening for it.

[@andrewgrant6516]

You should totally do a SECOND TIME WATCHING video. This film really deserves it.

[@Yggdrasil42]

You've GOT to watch True Romance. An early Brad Pitt role but written by Tarantino and with an all-star cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Samuel Jackson, etc. It's insane! Pleeeeeaase

[@xandermerrick]

My favorite movie of all time. RIP Tony Scott

[@jasonremy1627]

That means you're part... Eggplant...

[@Insolent8]

My favorite rewatch giveaway is when he calls Tyler on the payphone after his apartment explodes, he doesn't answer. Tyler immediately calls back and as it zooms in on the phone there's a sticker that says no incoming calls allowed.

[@BasilOnatopp]

I think the most obvious (at least in retrospect) clue in the film is when he's beating the shit out of himself in his boss's office. As "the narrator," he says something like, "In this moment, I'm reminded of my first fight with Tyler in that parking lot." He's reminded of it because he was kicking his own ass then, too.

[@GlassDog]

"What's in the soap?" made me belly laugh, that was good thank you lol

[@fatkart7641]

"Anarchy Organization" is not an oxymoron. The word anarchy litterally means "no hierarchy/monarchy", meaning everyone has the same rights within community. There can be rules, but there can't be rulers.

[@fatalmystic]

Thanks for pointing it out! It is crazy to me, how the propaganda of the elite was able to craft this misconception, and 150 years later it is unquestioned common "knowledge" in almost everybodies head.

[@chrisbutterfield8743]

fun fact, all the buildings that blew up were Fox buildings, including the one from LA that was Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.

[@SoSoKayla]

That is a gem of a shirt, George. I love it.

[@Smokie_666]

23:32 This moment is so "in your face" realization that most don't pick up on it the first time through. Just like the payphone that Tyler calls back on that says in small print "No incoming calls allowed" and the dream sequence with Marla, it all makes sense after the ending. Such an amazing movie! 26:13 They aren't aiming for the "T" word as much as revolution. A lot of the lead up story follows the basic premise on how a revolution, in theory, should be organized and work.

[@MikeTaffet]

My favorite little detail is that the car flips upside down after they drive off the road, and Tyler and Narrator very clearly get out of the opposite sides of the car from where they were just sitting.

[@Smokie_666]

@@MikeTaffet I didn't catch that until you mentioned it!

[@SerbAtheist]

Also, Marla being hurt when 'the narrator' asks 'What the hell are you doing here? This is my house' or yells 'Tyler is not here' at her.

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@MikeTaffet another cool one is when they’re doing the “homework” and smashing the cars. Narrator: “Bob told me there’s one [a Fight Club] up in Newscastle!” Tyler: “Oh yeah, I heard about that one, did you start it?” The Narrator: “No, I thought you did?”

[@TheLaughingMan]

This movie definitely deserves a second watch to get the full experience to see all those little things that you overlooked without knowing it. Like when he's fighting himself in his boss' office (23:30) it pauses and he says: "For some reason i thought of my first fight with tyler"

[@Chuck_EL]

and his roomate's reaction when he asks "why are you here" she looked puzzled and stormed off..and then they call back to that when she says "you love me then you hate me, whats with you?"

[@8bitgdhaxz]

It’s cool how you guys were coming up with what you thought the movie would be about before you watched it! 😂 The idea about Edward Norton and Brad Pitt as prison guards starting a fight club among prisoners sounded like a real plot for a movie

[@holomatrix]

41:03 - "I wanna watch it again and see if it was obvious". Welcome to Fight Club. 🤣👏 Well done guys, now you get it. 👍

[@SerbAtheist]

This movie very much changed my life. I made a point of rewatching it as the first movie as the last movie of the previous millenium. The entire movie when watched as an allegory is essentially a blueprint for growing up and navigating the tumultuous adolescence years.

[@TomVCunningham]

The 90s were a different time for movies. No major studio would touch this material or if they did, give it this kind of budget today. I miss those times.

[@ashleyx3822]

This generations version of Fight Club is probably Joker. Similar vibe.

[@Shine28]

@@ashleyx3822 not at all

[@scotthewitt258]

BTW, Fincher made sure the "formulae" for the dangerous materials are incorrect. At least one ingredient is always wrong. For instance, orange juice and dish detergent does NOT make Napalm. All you get is nasty tasting orange juice that won't clean the dishes.

[@dracoargentum9783]

I just noticed: when the blonde kid is getting seriously f-ed up, in the shouting crowd was the Father that got water sprayed on. I guess that is their story that everyone touched by Fight Club eventually gets sucked in.

[@tankeater]

36:25 to "ignore him" isn't the first rule of project mayhem, it's quite the opposite. Tyler Durden "does NOT ask questions". Easy explanation, he tells you what to do, not ask what to do...

[@scanau1]

🤣 When the bag of fat busted open, your reactions were epic! Thanks for the reaction! You guys are awesome! 👍

[@gregstephens]

“I need a second to process this movie.” Yeah, that’s pretty much the proper response.

[@TomH2681]

Gotta say: I just LOVE the thumbnails.

[@extantsanity]

35:42 "Whoa, *WHOA!* ... _Okay_ ... You are now _firing a gun_ ... at your *_imaginary friend_* ... . ... *NEAR 400 GALLONS OF NITRO GLYCERIN!!* Such a great line read! Brad Pitt plays crazy so well, haha. You can see him in 12 Monkeys also.

[@jacket5456]

1 Week into Cinebinge: "Hey guy's, welcome to Cinebinge React!" 1 Month into Cinebinge: "Hey guy's, welcome to Cinnabon..." 6 Months into Cinebinge: "Hey guy's, welcome to Bananarama..." 1 Year into Cinebinge: "Hey, I'm Cinnamon, this is Binge" 5 Years into Cinebinge: "Cinema flavored Cinnamon Roll"

[@CineBingeReact]

hahah do I have your permission to use one of those?

[@Defensive_Wounds]

40:30 I would say that here in Australia 1 week before 911 happened, an episode of the X Files spin off tv show called The Lone Gunmen had an episode air where terrorists hijack a 747 and try to fly it into the twin towers... initially, I found that a fkn weak AF episode, but 1 week later I was like WTF!!! Also, here in Oz when the first tower was hit, there was a documentary on SBS tv about the WTC and the towers!!! 5 minutes after that documentary ended, the live stream on ALL tv channels started with live footage of the 1st tower on fire - I saw on live tv the second tower get hit. I was also recording this on VHS at the time too. Still got that tape! lol Anyway, to get to the point of this comment, I do not remember any issues with Fight Club being shown on TV or on planes, there were many films, tv show episodes, band names etc with things edited for a while (or forever when it comes to Lilo & Stitch) where they removed things that seem too similar to 911. All I mainly remember, was the next day, everyone out in public was so quiet and sombre to one another, even here in Australia!! It was so surreal... But 1 week later Blockbuster was making a KILLING with rentals! As every tv network was playing live and repeated footage of 911 nonstop 24/7, everyone was getting tired of it so went for rentals!!!

[@jimmymcfly9822]

After my first watch, I always loved the car wreck scene. The two guys in the back seat nervously look at each other while watching Tyler argue with himself.

[@maximilianschmid9890]

34:57 "Vellcam tov tha mohel-oovnd varld, Simein."

[@davidmills8726]

This is why I love your reactions. You go into these so unspoiled it's like reliving it again. I can usually spot the twist ahead of time but like you this one floored me. BTW, regardless of 9/11, I can't see any network channel showing this movie. They'd have to edit it so much graphic violence, nudity, and language that there'd be nothing left.

[@CEngelbrecht]

*"I need a second to process this movie!"* the man says. I haven't processed it yet twenty years later.

[@davidjordan7190]

Watching this through the second time is like watching a totally different movie because the weird interations make a lot more sense when you know whats going on

[@footofjuniper8212]

I read recently that in China, the film cuts before the buildings explode, and a title card comes up explaining that the police caught Tyler and foiled the plan.

[@ImLewisPatrick]

I'm sure everyone has said already.. but the hitting in the ear thing was actually an accident that Edward Norton did, and brad pitt just rolled with it.

[@falloutfan2502]

I remember the Sunday after 9/11, the Simpsons aired a rerun episode in which they parodied Fox by having "When Buildings Fall Down" as a segment. I'll never forget the shock of seeing that, and Lisa sheepishly saying, "Maybe people got hurt." Surreal.

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

Poor timing…

[@axebeard6085]

I struggle with bipolar depression, dissociation, and non-bizarre delusions. Take away the "changeover", and Fight Club is EXACTLY what is feels like to be me. With non-bizarre delusions/dissociation, its not so much a "changeover" as it is your brain throws you into the back of the short but and drives you through the nicer parts of crazytown. You're aware of what's going on, you just can't do anything about it.

[@pray4x]

In the scene where he is watching TV while trying to sleep (at the beginning of the movie) Tyler is one if the hotel workers in the ad ;D one of many small details. Y'all have to watch fight club at least 3 or 4 times to find most of those details

[@adnap]

“Is it a Fight Club in prison ?” -Simone “Ooooh That’s dark.” 🙈 Me: Go darker… -George “What’s in the soap ?” Me: You don’t wanna know…

[@chaospoet]

His name is Robert Paulson! RIP Meatloaf! As for the ending there's some debate about it. Some say what you see is what happened. Others (I tend to be on this side) say when he shot himself he didn't die instantly but it took maybe a minute and what you are seeing is in his head and imagining his happy ending: Tyler gone, his loyal men admiring him instead of Tyler (from his point of view), and Marla genuinely caring about him and not fighting with him. The buildings exploding is his mind shutting down.

[@luishenriquealmeidacastro8510]

I loved your easter eggs in the video editing!!! But yes, there are several hints throughout the movie... In the phone booth at the beginning there is a little sign that says something like "this phone does not receive calls" and not only that, but also in this scene Edward Norton has his mouth covered during the entire call kkkkkkkkk

[@gregc6107]

yep, just confirmed it says "No incoming calls allowed"AMAZING FILM

[@Chuck_EL]

@@justmeeagainn another hint was when he was beating himself up to his boss even with his "i felt i was fighting tyler" you saw a bit of tyler come out as he was threatening his boss

[@vixenwinters6375]

lol who is the cigarette burn at 15:54??? I can't pause it at the correct split second

[@denace2society591]

Marla's interactions with "Jack" (which at the time the internet was referring to Norton's character) during her and Tyler's love affair is sort of a give away. Also, as someone else points out, Tyler pulls him out of the drivers side.

[@LordBaldur]

Something I picked up on my second viewing. When Tyler burns the narrator's hand and shows him his scar, the scar since the lye reacted with the saliva from the kiss, it shows a pattern that indicates that he kissed his own hand.

[@allanjk81]

I remember going to watch this at the cinema on release and being absolutely blown away. There really was nothing else like it at the time. So so good.

[@Jumpman67]

As far as I can remember this movie was never pulled from anything. 9/11 was more about planes being hijacked than blowing up a building using explosives. The first spider-man movie however had the ending completely changed.

[@0okamino]

Yeah, and this would be more like the previous terrorist attack on the WTC in 1993.

[@BoothTheGrey]

This movie is so crazy good... and... has the most romantic ending ever :-D

[@docdamnij]

One of my top favorite movies. Quotes like "I am Jack's complete deficit of surprise" have since become part of my everyday language. Just 5 days ago, when a friend asked about a celebrity name he couldn't remember I immediatly blurted out: "his name is Robert Paulson, his name is Robert Paulson".

[@jasonredpill7473]

"We're a Generation of Men raised by Women" - Tyler Durden

[@P3rm4frost]

I recommend "Trainspotting". Its in the same vein of it. And "Requiem for a dream".

[@michellepeters7066]

GREAT thumbnail! ♥️😁

[@mattgarrett2583]

"For some reason I was reminded of my first fight with tyler" - Said when Jack throws himself through a glass table fighting himself. The hints are there, but they only stand out after the first viewing

[@mikefetterman6782]

Over the past 20 years, Fight Club was a common place movie found on many channels in the US. I don't recall anyone making a huge stink about anything, but perhaps around 2002 it may have taken a slight hiatus, but still, it was literally everywhere all the time.

[@TheSmashbrowns]

Love that during the scene explaining that insomnia makes you crazy and distorts reality, George sees a glitchy, distorted shot and says 'oH Is iT a gHoST MOviE'. Just went completely over his head.

[@Red-Eyed_Goose]

If you’re ever having a hard time in life, just remember one thing: Slide!

[@IsmaelSilva7]

4:28 yes it does, you stop focusing on yourself and you gain perspective. What you direct your focus to, grows. So if you direct it at healing others, you reduce your own pain.

[@miroslavholly985]

Another awesome reaction! Love the chemistry between you two! 🙂

[@anthonymiele4320]

Fun semi-related fact: In the spin-off series for the X-Files called The Lone Gunmen (it focuses on Mulder's trio of friends) the plot for the pilot is the group literally preventing a plane from crashing into the World Trade Center and it aired about 6 months before 9/11.

[@lethaldose2000]

Fun Fact: During the filming of the first fight in the movie. Ed Norton actually hits Brad Pitt in the ear. So his reaction is to the real stings and pain of being hit in his ear instead of a phantom punch that would normally happen in the scene. Hilarious.

[@MiguelStinson88]

I kinda like the space between your sentences, kind stranger :)

[@jm329]

What’s the source for that?

[@lethaldose2000]

@@MiguelStinson88 it does make longer comments easier to read. Some people don't like it or understand it. But I think it works

[@scotthewitt258]

Simone: That was kind of rude, but why is she upset? Me: Patience.....

[@totomomo18]

Great movie. You should also watch The Game 1997 with Michael Douglas from the same director which is a once in a lifetime movie you can not recreate the first time you see it.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Agreed. Awesome film

[@EhrineAshbark]

Totally agree

[@volta5550]

The Game is so underrated

[@matthewganong1730]

Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novel, went camping one time and got into a fight with some tough guys at the next campsite. When he showed up to work on Monday with a black eye nobody asked him about it; that’s where the idea for this story came from.

[@lethaldose2000]

I can't wait to see Simone's face when ed Norton moves into Tyler's house. I know it will disgust her like nothing she's seen before. Her throwing upon camera will be PRICELESS.

[@minhuang8848]

19:40 I still can't get over how similar the music sounds to the SC I Zerg briefing room soundtrack.

[@idhunepijl2398]

Classic movie! One of my favorites. Once you know the plot it has a lot less impact but the first time is amazing.

[@marcbrisebois4301]

his boss's knuckles would show no signs of bruising

[@Jaspertine]

Some fun Fight Club Trivia: - There's an extra chapter in the novel that got cut from the movie where Tyler ends up in a mental hospital, but he think's he's dead and in heaven. His conversations with his therapist are described as though he's talking to god. - The book is written in first person with extremely loose, casual prose, meaning various details are kept hidden until the narrator gets around to revealing them. The movie had to rely heavily on misdirection to achieve the same goal. - Tyler is absolutely a cult leader, in both the book and movie. To get this point across, the movie depicts him as charming and charismatic, as cult leaders tend to be... which led many fans and detractors alike to mistakenly believe that the movie endorses Tyler's messed up worldview. - The movie was highly controversial for that reason, with pundits decrying that it would incite copycat violence. - Between the controversy, and people disappointed that it wasn't a "Bloodsport" style action movie, the theatrical release was considered a failure, and it wasn't until home video and rentals that it started to see positive word of mouth and a critical re-evaluation. - This movie is the origin point of the term "special snowflake" being used as an insult. - The author of the book, Chuck Palahniuk came out as gay in the early 2000s. At which time, people began reinterpreting the story as either a metaphor for his journey of self-realization, and more recently as him purging himself of toxic masculinity. The latter being a concept that was not widely known or discussed in the late 90s.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

I'm sure you didn't come up with this. It's obvious you just copied this from somewhere.

[@Jaspertine]

@@eatsmylifeYT Well I did read the book... but yeah, all this info was a single google search away. It's not like I personally interviewed the people involved.

[@sab6261]

This was the 1st time I noticed he said beating himself up in his boss's office reminded him of his 1st fight with Tyler.