Fight Club

First off I have to say that I have never seen Fight Club before this class. For some reason I never really wanted to see this movie. I think it was mostly because I was never really a fan of Brad Pitt (other than the “Ocean’s” movies, but that was mostly because George Clooney and Matt Damon were in them), so I would usually shy away from any movie that had him in it. I know not a good way to really judge a movie but that’s what I did. It actually wasn’t until I talked to my really good friend (who loves this movie) that I started getting interested in it. He would describe to what the movie was like and just keep repeating, “You really need to see it.” When I found out that we were going to watch it in class, I was a little excited. After seeing the movie, I can officially say that I really really like it. Also, for someone who hasn’t read the book either, I thought that the movie was very well written. You were able to really get into the characters and the stories behind them. There wasn’t really a character in that movie that didn’t have some kind of key role in the movie. After talking in class about how people didn’t want to play this movie after the 9/11 attacks, it makes sense to me because of just that overall threat to peoples’ lives and to America. But when you really think about it, most “thriller/crime/action” movies have that sense of threat to someone or to some place. But I do understand that it is hard to see anything bad happening (even if it’s fictional or not) because you don’t want to really see someone get hurt.