It also seems to mean less and less to me with each passing year.
Don’t get me wrong.
That’s something you completely age out of.
Fight Club is still a great movie.
It’s just not quite as great to me.
It’s such a sign of the times that Edward Norton shares top billing with Brad Pitt.
Don’t get me wrong.
But he’s the perfect counterbalance to Pitt in Fight Club.
Helena Bonham Carter never feels like she quite belongs in this movie.
She’s a very good actress but it just didn’t feel like she belonged in this world.
It may sound crazy but Courtney Love might have been a better fit.
I’m probably nitpicking this movie too much.
This is a movie with a lot to say and it struck a nerve with Gen X guys.
We were more sarcastic than our parents but also not as relevant culturally.
The movie calls Generation X the “middle child of history” which is pretty fair.
I think the movie still works today for young guys.
That anger and feeling of being disillusioned is hardly a Gen X issue.
The main reason this movie works is the director David Fincher.
To even have this movie make sense is a massive accomplishment.
I have real doubts that Fight Club could be made today for a few reasons.
The content is too controversial and the satire is too subtle.
The same voices who didn’t get the movie in 1998 are louder today.
The other thing is where would this movie be released?
Studios don’t make mid-budget movies anymore.
It’s tent pole blockbuster or nothing.
Maybe this appears on Netflix or some other streaming service?
You even felt that in the moment.
It was always a movie of it’s time.
I just had no idea then that the movie itself couldn’t be made today.
It’s too original, too dark and not profitable enough.
But isn’t that what Tyler Durden was warning us all about?
Saving Private Ryan
25.
Dumb & Dumber
27.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
31.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
