3. Fight Club (1999)
Im going to paraphrase a brilliant critique about the film: So you have a bunch of guys getting together to beat the crap out of one another and eventually blow up some corporate buildings. How about you have a group of guys who get together and figure out how to be better fathers, or a stronger presence in their communities? Just a thought.
Fight Club is just another first world problems movie. It is a middle finger to the world flick that tries to get at why we shouldn't care, but ultimately makes me just not care about the film. The narrator is an educated, gainfully employed everyman who hates his white collar job and cant sleep in his cushy IKEA decorated apartment. Give me a break. Then he meets people with real problems (cancer survivors, etc.) and instead of snapping out of his narcissistic haze, he creates a smokin hot second personality to do the dirty work that his regular milquetoast self couldn't. The real irony of
Fight Club, I think, is that most of the people who like it dont get that the film is ultimately saying Durdens philosophy (and the actual fight clubs) are bad things. No one is any better for having been a part of the club, and frankly no one is any better for having watched the film.