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I guess you went for "missed the point entirely." :-)

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In Reply to: Really? So what part of the film do you argue we posted by tinear on April 30, 2006 at 15:55:47:

You're comparing apples and oranges here.
Nothing in that movie was being presented as realistic... especially not the fighting.
Now I'm not advocating their praise of the movie but here are a couple of quotes (from reviewers who understood the movie) that might help...
"A wickedly funny assault on the soul-destroying nature of 20th-century consumerism"
"Fight Club is a heady, brutal, raucously funny riot that sucks you into its right-brain fantasy."

But if you wan't to hold onto your idea that anyone would hold it up as a realistic view of bare knuckled fighting then rock on.
"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot

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Those fight scenes belong in a cartoon. It's not meant to be one - tinear 06:13:08 05/01/06 (1)
so it fails. If the crucial element rings false the rest collapses.
- Re: Those fight scenes belong in a cartoon. It's not meant to be one - Jeff Starrs 03:46:49 05/02/06 (0)
  Hi,
  You'll probably need to read the book in order to understand the film better, in that case.
  I think sjb understands without having read the book, but it may help, globally, IMHO.

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