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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Derek, for fuck’s sake put them away!!
LMFAO!![/quote]
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Emergency parachute?[/quote]
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Derek, for fuck’s sake put them away!!
LMFAO!![/quote]
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Emergency parachute?[/quote]
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What the hell did you use to ‘search’ for these little nuggets?
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Derek, for fuck’s sake put them away!!
LMFAO!![/quote]
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Emergency parachute?[/quote]
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What the hell did you use as a keyword to ‘search’ for these little nuggets?
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Lets just say I have a sick family.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Derek, for fuck’s sake put them away!!
LMFAO!![/quote]
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Emergency parachute?[/quote]
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What the hell did you use to ‘search’ for these little nuggets?
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Derek, for fuck’s sake put them away!!
LMFAO!![/quote]
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Emergency parachute?[/quote]
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What the hell did you use to ‘search’ for these little nuggets?
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MakeXLoseHisAppetite.com
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[quote]Terrax wrote:
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
my thoughts are “Shut up don’t post ever again.”
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You can take your own advice and GTFO.[/quote]
I’ve got three words for you, first one is “suck,” second one is “my dick.”
^ dunno if that is from a movie or a book, but right now it makes you look…read it again.
Lol wtf? Did u not watch the movie to the end? Did u not figure it out?
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
Thoughts?[/quote]
I think you completely missed the point of the story.
Hey, I have an idea, why didn’t they make the movie focus on guys discovering their love of swimming in Olympic-sized swimming pools? Or hey, why didn’t it focus on a rural, male-dominated pub where people got piss drunk every night? Or why didn’t it focus on guys discovering their mutual love of skeet shooting? Badminton? Chess?
It seems you are focusing too much on the ‘fight club’ aspect of the film.
The movie really wasn’t about fighting.
And every other fictional film that has focused around the inherent drama of lifting weights, and tried to build a story around it, has sucked painfully (kindly do a search keywords: movie Flex).
The movie really wasn’t about anything.
It’s just a hack writer’s Ode to white middle class suberbanite histrionics.
Just FYI, The rock and mark Walberg are making a movie about bodybuilding. its most probably going to be funny as hell.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
Thoughts?[/quote]
I think you completely missed the point of the story.[/quote]
No dude I understand the story. I’ve had many a drunken discussion over it with friends. I just think that the messages could be communicated equally well if the club had been weightlifting focused, and thought it would be interesting to bring up here considering this is a bodybuilding website.
I don’t think issues of anti-consumerism and self actualization have to be approached purely through pugilism. I honestly thought it would be an interesting discussion but apparently I’m in the minority.
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
Thoughts?[/quote]
I think you completely missed the point of the story.[/quote]
No dude I understand the story. I’ve had many a drunken discussion over it with friends. I just think that the messages could be communicated equally well if the club had been weightlifting focused, and thought it would be interesting to bring up here considering this is a bodybuilding website.
I don’t think issues of anti-consumerism and self actualization have to be approached purely through pugilism. I honestly thought it would be an interesting discussion but apparently I’m in the minority.[/quote]
If it’s any consolation, Terrax agrees with you.
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
Thoughts?[/quote]
I think you completely missed the point of the story.[/quote]
No dude I understand the story. I’ve had many a drunken discussion over it with friends. I just think that the messages could be communicated equally well if the club had been weightlifting focused, and thought it would be interesting to bring up here considering this is a bodybuilding website.
I don’t think issues of anti-consumerism and self actualization have to be approached purely through pugilism. I honestly thought it would be an interesting discussion but apparently I’m in the minority.[/quote]
OK, I’m going to say it again…you didn’t understand the story. The book/movie was not about fighting. For that matter, the book wasn’t about anti-consumerism and self-actualization. It carried those themes, but the story was easily as much a critique of the mentalities found in anti-consumerism and self-actualization movements as it was even vaguely ‘about’ those topics.
If Tyler Durden were the actual protagonist of the story, as Tyler tries to make himself, then the story could have ended on those themes, with the message you think the movie was trying to describe.
Tyler wasn’t the protagonist. If anything, he plays the role of protagonist, then ally-opponent-guru, then in many ways he reveals himself as an antagonist. Defeating and destroying Tyler* is a major part of how the movie really ‘happens.’
A movie where a bunch of guys pile into a gym to satisfy themselves and purge their modern-day angst would be an after-school special at best, gay porn at worst.
- – AND integrating Tyler, but if I start going down that road, this thread will end up sounding like some cheesy masters thesis summary.
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]chochky1 wrote:
Thoughts?[/quote]
I think you completely missed the point of the story.[/quote]
No dude I understand the story. I’ve had many a drunken discussion over it with friends. I just think that the messages could be communicated equally well if the club had been weightlifting focused, and thought it would be interesting to bring up here considering this is a bodybuilding website.
I don’t think issues of anti-consumerism and self actualization have to be approached purely through pugilism. I honestly thought it would be an interesting discussion but apparently I’m in the minority.[/quote]
Fighting with fists is one of the most basic instincts of man.
Lifting progressively heavier weights to induce hypertrophy… not so much.
While I’m sure your drunken discussions with your frat buddies were exhilarating, why don’t you try talking to… oh, I don’t know, maybe some sort of professor of literature, or perhaps an author or writer or philosopher, about that.
Yes, you missed the point of the story entirely.
Sorry.
[quote]LHT wrote:
OK, I’m going to say it again…you didn’t understand the story. The book/movie was not about fighting. For that matter, the book wasn’t about anti-consumerism and self-actualization. It carried those themes, but the story was easily as much a critique of the mentalities found in anti-consumerism and self-actualization movements as it was even vaguely ‘about’ those topics.
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Bingo.
Just as it quotes Nietzsche, it’s making fun of his philosophies and the ubermensch ideal at the same time. That’s why it’s a work of art.
Ah college kids… gotta love’em.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
That’s why it’s a work of art.
Ah college kids… gotta love’em. [/quote]
Fight Club? A work of art?
Middle class low cultural capital white men… gotta love’em.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
That’s why it’s a work of art.
Ah college kids… gotta love’em. [/quote]
Fight Club? A work of art?
Middle class low cultural capital white men… gotta love’em.[/quote]
Listen you pretentious fuckstick, it’s far from my favorite novel of all time. But it was a work of art in it’s own right and was very beautiful in its simplicity. It got a bad rap because of the dumb people who liked the movie for the fight scenes.
So… you can fuck off.
wanttobelean: damn, I hope I can be that good of a hack. How many books you had published? Oh, maybe youre misunderstood.