10 Video Game Tie-Ins That Missed The Point Of The Movie

3. Fight Club

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Fight Club, like Scarface, is another poster you'll find on dorm room/weed dealer walls. And it's a film often long misunderstood before its videogame counterpart. Uber-men tend to embrace Edward Norton's bored office drone character's rebellion against IKEA furniture and corporate culture and Brad Pitt's anti-establishment, adrenaline junkie terrorist.

The truth is that uber-men's brains tend to shut down after the "twist", not realizing the film is truly about rejecting those impulses.

The game? Embrace the hell out of it. A standard Street Fighter 2/Tekken clone, Fight Club is all about beating up the guy you're facing, most likely inspired by the scene in which Norton wails on Jared Leto (something, let's face it, we all want to do). There's even a hardcore mode, which shows X-Ray views of the bones being broken during bouts.

But it's not all bad, really. After all, you can unlock Fred Durst and watch him take a beating.

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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.