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Originally Posted by Gilda
Hmm. I never quite understood the Fight Club or Usual Suspects cults. I like both movies, but they only work for me as two shot twist ending movies. Once for the twist, and once to pick out the clues once you know the twist. I think in Fight Club in particular you have to be able to connect to the main idea of the fight club philosophy on some level, not embrace or advocate it, but connect to it somehow, and I just can't. Good movies, both, but they don't work for me beyond that.
The attraction of The Big Lebowski will forever remain a mystery to me. Didn't laugh once, found the characters all unappealing without being amusing.
I "get" a lot of guy movies, like The Godfather, but I think I'm lacking some essential quality needed to fully appreciate these.
Gilda
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"Two shot twist ending" - That's a good way to describe those movies.
You're absolutely right about being able to connect to the main idea. I think that goes for a lot of media. People need to be able to relate to begin to enjoy it. For me,
Fight Club describes my perspective well. This exchange of dialogue has always struck me.
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So I graduate, I called him a long distance and asked: "Dad, now what?", he says "Get a job".
JACK
Same here.
TYLER
When I turned twenty five, my yearly call again "Dad, now what?", he says "I don't know, get married!"
JACK
I can't get married, I'm a thirty-year-old boy!
TYLER
We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.
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The Big Lebowski is an interesting movie. People either love it or hate it.
I resolve to get a copy of Casablanca and watch it and make an assessment.