10 Most Bizarre DVD Easter Eggs

5. Fight Club

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Perhaps the one worthwhile aftereffect of David Fincher's Fight Club, a film so widely misread by frat boys its barely worth defending, is the potential for amusing **hattery it left on the table.

Until the second act, Tyler Durden's misdeeds were fairly innocuous and almost punk rock-approved, like splicing split-second hardcore pornography into children's films. Once it starts to take itself too seriously, leading to a generation of wannabe alpha males, it stops being fun.

This, of course, is really no fault of Fincher's, or even the film, but the overall reception to its anarchic worldview is a little more than disheartening.

Fincher clearly knew how to have fun with the material, and he certainly embraced Durden's more harmless side when assembling the 10th Anniversary DVD.

Rather than take you to a regular menu, Fincher fakes you out, letting you think they'd misprinted a label and you'd accidentally purchased a copy of the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. But even before Barrymore's image appears, if you read the FBI anti-piracy warning, Tyler Durden has already infected your DVD with an anti-capitalist screed.

In an especially classy move, Fincher reached out to Barrymore personally, requesting permission to use her visage.

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Kenny Hedges is carbon-based. So I suppose a simple top 5 in no order will do: Halloween, Crimes and Misdemeanors, L.A. Confidential, Billy Liar, Blow Out He has his own website - thefilmreal.com - and is always looking for new writers with differing views to broaden the discussion.