Breaking The First Rule - Let's Talk About Fight Club

In everyone's life there are a couple of life changing experiences brought on through media. I've had a couple of my own, through music - my first hearing of Tubular Bells, television - as I lay in a hospital bed and experienced Band of Brothers, literature - Chronicles of Narnia, and film.

Film is where this post comes in. There are movies which have gripped us, thrilled us and ripped us to emotional shreds over the years. Personally it's been movies such as Ned Kelly, Instinct and The Matrix.
None have affected me quite so much as Fight Club though. It's cynical, it's gritty, it's smart and it's bloody entertaining.

Our unnamed 'hero' (psychotically played by Edward Norton) has reached the bottom of the pile, an insomniac, he starts attending support groups to release his emotions and find some peace. All this is interrupted by the intrusion on Marla Singer; a live-fast-die-young harlot played by who else other than Helena Bonham Carter. Our hero's life is completely thrown into chaos by the explosion of his apartment, upon which he decides to move in with a sociopath soap merchant he met by chance on a plane journey. This man is Tyler Durden. This man is anarchy incarnate. This man is portrayed by Brad Pitt in a role which should have gotten him an Oscar. Tyler teaches a new way of life to our man and soon all hell breaks lose after they form an underground club in which they beat the living hell out of each other and plenty of willing participants in testosterone fueled battles of primal fury. But this is not a movie about a fight club, it is so much more.

This is a movie about abandoning the system, starting your own, and screwing the rules to do what you see fit to form your Utopia. It is incredibly smart too, you simply will not see the twist coming until it's too late, by then it's a whole new movie. It will provoke a deep passion in you, it will stir you, it will thrill you, it will challenge you, it will educate you, it will entertain you. Fight Club has it all. And trust me, without it, you can't really be sure whether you have anything yourself.

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

 It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Over and out.

In Blackest Night...

The official Green Lantern trailer has been released, and there's not much it does really... The villains have been known for a good while now, and there's no major spoilers for anyone who doesn't know their Green Lantern mythos (BTW if you don't, you should read up)

I expect great things from this movie, Warner Bros. finally brought  the darker image of Batman to the public eye, I'm hoping they can bring Green Lantern to a new level, but first, some analysis...

The CGI looks a bit gammy, but they'll clean it up a bit before cinematic release (much like the first Spiderman), remember, this is going to be a 3D flick as well so it's gonna look a whole lot different from behind those glasses.
The scenes on Oa (this is why you should have read up) truly look epic, one thing this movie needs to accomplish is a sense of scale, this is an intergalactic setting, and it needs to feel like it. The images of various Lanterns rising up really is awe inspiring...
On to the suit. Specifically the mask. It just doesn't quite look right, somethings very...wrong... about it, as if its been painted on, again though this could get cleaned up by release time so we'll have to see. The suit itself looks great, with the green vein effect adding a new spark to the classic design.
We've yet to see Ryan Reynolds in a serious role (apart from a certain appearance as Deadpool which will not be spoken of here), it'll be interesting to see how he performs, but I look forward to the lightheartedness he'll bring to the role, and of course, he is one of us...

But then again, never ever trust a trailer... Remember the trailer for Jonah Hex? That actually looked decent, then the movie came out... I trust Warner Brothers to do a good job on this though, they know themselves they have to produce a viable franchise, as their guaranteed Harry Potter blockbusters end next year, and the Dark Knight Saga ends 2012. I can see a lot more DC movies getting made, Superman is being cast and hopefully there'll be a Flash movie soon, leading into a unifying Justice League epic to end all epics... Hopefully...

On a finishing note, its it just me or do they use the same smoke effect (but green), as The Dark Knight for the backgrounds? Shoddy WB... shoddy...

Over and out.