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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.
Gilda
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Hey Gilda
I agree with you the The Usual Suspects is a "two shot twist ending movie"... I don't agree with you in including Fight Club in that group. This could be because I saw the twist ending coming but I found it to be an amazing critique of counter culture. It just works for me on many levels... the twist is sort of besides the point.
As for Lebowski... I think Big Ben has managed to define the undefinable.