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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fight Club

Sorry, but that movie is fucked up. Awesome, but fucked up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, the most fucked up part of the movie is all the young men watching who think Tyler is a hero and a role model.

Great movie. A little fucked up. Wanting to be Tyler Durden is more fucked up than the movie.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's up there with Starship Troopers for "movies you didn't realize were meant to be negative commentary when you were a teenager".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The movie might have been a satirical commentary against militarism but the book it's based off of is arguably not. I loved that book as a kid but it definitely glorifies militarism and not really in a tongue in cheek way. There are literal scenes discussing civics and the necessity of war interspersed throughout the book.