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Failsafe
United States1298 Posts
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
On August 13 2009 14:50 Ichigo1234551 wrote: Requiem for a Dream - After the movie Im just like wtf just happened. lol Fight club - really good movie, also I was like wtf after the climax Memotos - im also like wtf after the movie. and like holy mofo The fountain - im also like damn that is a fucking good movie... i wish i watched this when i was high. Do you mean Memento? | ||
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Etherone
United States1898 Posts
On August 13 2009 14:33 travis wrote: facing the truth is heroic exactly, you will only achieve that to which you truly aspire, once you realize life is not a fairytale. @ op, for some reason i believe IRC had something to do with this, please deny or confirm. is the fountain the movie with the immortal frog? if so that movie was very very good. | ||
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Straylight
Canada706 Posts
It's strange that you look to movies for inspiration whereas most would find it in the connections they make with living and breathing people. And that, ironically, is precisely what Fight Club is about. The modern day, middle class, young American male with no real direction and looking for something more than the shit in his Ikea catalog. He's searching for connections with others. Maybe the way he goes about it is destructive - but that's the problem so many young male North Americans have today and I think it's something worth exploring. | ||
Atrioc
United States1866 Posts
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GrayArea
United States872 Posts
On August 13 2009 14:53 Failsafe wrote: I think Fight Club has a lot to offer, but apparently it's not for you at the moment. Because you seem very ill at ease with the movie I'll venture that one problem you might have encountered in Fight Club is that your system of values and thus what you find inspiring has not been thoroughly challenged It's possible, but I guess I won't know until they have been? lol On August 13 2009 14:57 Etherone wrote: @ op, for some reason i believe IRC had something to do with this, please deny or confirm. I don't go on IRC, so deny. On August 13 2009 14:58 Straylight wrote: Why can't you just enjoy a movie whether it is inspiring or not? It's just a movie and can be thought provoking regardless of how good it makes you feel. It's strange that you look to movies for inspiration whereas most would find it in the connections they make with living and breathing people. And that, ironically, is precisely what Fight Club is about. The modern day, middle class, young American male with no real direction and looking for something more than the shit in his Ikea catalog. He's searching for connections with others. Maybe the way he goes about it is destructive - but that's the problem so many young male North Americans have today and I think it's something worth exploring. I don't only look to movies for inspiration, its how I live my life in general. Hence why I said: On August 13 2009 14:19 GrayArea wrote: The way I appreciate things in life is whether they can inspire me, or make me be something better.... And your second paragraph doesn't describe/apply to me. I never said that I don't make connections with breathing people. I never said that I don't have direction in life or that I live a cookie cutter, conforming life. Rather conversely, a previous blog I wrote describes how I despise conformity. | ||
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blue_arrow
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Straylight
Canada706 Posts
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + The mechanic says, “If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? ... How Tyler saw it was that getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God’s hate is better than His indifference. If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God’s attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved. “Burn the Louvre,” the mechanic says, “and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.” Movie was great, Book was greater  + Show Spoiler + Palahniuk himself gives a much simpler assertion about the theme of the novel, stating "all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people." And I disagree and think that the ending was ideal, and the whole movie woulda been pretty pointless if in the end he stopped Tyler and Project Mayhem... | ||
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lwstupidus
United States74 Posts
On August 13 2009 14:19 GrayArea wrote: I feel like my soul has become tainted after watching this movie. Like I've lost some part of my humanity or something. There was a point in the movie where I just paused it, looked down, and said to myself, "GrayArea, this is the first and last time I am ever going to watch this kind of movie." The way I appreciate things in life is whether they can inspire me, or make me be something better. I want to come out of a movie saying, "I want to be a hero, I want to inspire the world around me, I want to save the world." I know that this may not be possible, but the movie should make me believe it anyway. Why? Because I feel that if you set your bars high enough in life, even if you don't reach your goal you are still pretty high up. This movie made me feel the opposite. I didn't find one piece of value in that movie personally. Nothing to inspire me to become something better, or do something great, or believe in something true, or any type of positive feeling. It's like I've become more numb to the truth that people are not going to (or don't have the capability) to become a hero in life. (It's stated in the movie along the lines that people have false notions of becoming big/successful people in life.) I won't discredit the fact that the movie is portrayed well, or that anything inherent with regards to the way the movie is structured is bad. The plot and whatnot is solid. But with regards to its fundamental significance in terms of moral value, or its "inspire" factor, this movie more than fails. In the end, it all depends on what you want to get out of a movie. I don't watch many movies because I only try and see the best movies, the one's that I know can inspire me. For others, they may want to see some good acting, or fighting/violence/action, etc. With regards to my standards though, this movie failed hard. This is the dumbest post I have ever read on this website. And I actually feel sorry for you that you need to be "inspired" to enjoy a movie and what makes it even more ridiculous is that you even acknowledge people have different reasons for watching movies. I can't even comprehend how someone can think like this and then make a post about it for attention. Movies are art, not religion | ||
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passby20
United States47 Posts
The book is a fictional account of Tyler's (i.e. the author's) struggle to realize his true identity as a repressed homosexual. The author wrote it for himself more than anyone. If you don't like the movie, don't watch it, but all the movie did was put in 2 hours of film what would take most people a week to read. I'm not sure I exactly agree with the director's portrayal of the book characters and I definitely think you miss a lot of the really overt homosexual overtones (though Brad Pitt does a pretty good job of that, not sure it was intentional) that are expressed in the book. If you need to be inspired, watch Disney. When you turn 18, watch this again and you might feel differently. And Requiem for a Dream. That shit was fucking depressing. | ||
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
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GrayArea
United States872 Posts
On August 13 2009 15:22 lwstupidus wrote: This is the dumbest post I have ever read on this website. And I actually feel sorry for you that you need to be "inspired" to enjoy a movie and what makes it even more ridiculous is that you even acknowledge people have different reasons for watching movies. I can't even comprehend how someone can think like this and then make a post about it for attention. Movies are art, not religion Not everyone can be a genius like you  | ||
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caldo149
United States469 Posts
On August 13 2009 15:22 lwstupidus wrote: QFT.... Movies are art, not religion Movies are art, and art doesn't have to be inspirational. It can be whatever the artist wants, and whatever you see in it. If it made you feel anything at all then the art has done its job and has not "failed hard." GrayArea,you should look at the bright side, through the reaction it provoked in you, this movie reinforced your ideas of what's inspirational and what isn't. On August 13 2009 14:19 GrayArea wrote: I feel like my soul has become tainted after watching this movie. Like I've lost some part of my humanity or something. P.S. stop being so dramatic. =P | ||
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Osmoses
Sweden5302 Posts
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Elite00fm
United States548 Posts
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drug_vict1m
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stroggos
New Zealand1543 Posts
movies should be watched purely for entertainment, but if your looking for inspiration and morals i could recommend these movies: The lion king, snow white and the seven dwarfs, Cinderella, touching the void. All are good movies and i think you'll enjoy them if you havn't seen them already. | ||
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WeSt
Portugal918 Posts
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VioleTAK
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