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"Nothing Dies More Quickly Than A New Idea In A Closed Mind."

I kinda liked both movies, but you're right..you have to watch it more than once to actually get what's going on.

and all of you complaining about "how could tyler have been driving if he was just a figment of ed's imagination..." same kinda thing with tyler holding the gun in ed's mouth.... use your fucking imagination here...most of the shots we see are through ed's eyes, not through the eyes of an observer...and as for him getting out of the drivers seat...maybe that wa a clue to tell us "hey wait...ed was actually driving" i mean really...

I know you're all gonna kill me, but put down the corkscrew and hear me out. I read the book before I saw the movie (and some jackass spoiled the secret before THAT). And I mean, the movie was good, but the book worked better. Plus I never did get to see the movie on the big screen, which I guess detracted from it.

By the way, in the scene with Fight Club members trying to start fights with strangers, anybody know the name of that song that's playing?

As much as i loved the matrix, i'm gonna have to say Fight Club was better.
Matrix was a great analogy, and used that litle htought everybody has in the back of their minds, except the concept was completely thought through, and had occasional idealistic tendencies. And the end had that typical american hapy crap ending.
Fight Club was genious, i could find no argument with it. the philosophy is though through. I was realy surprised, it was almost everything i was ranting about, demonstarted well. in the end fight club said "fuck it, u dont need it", while the matrix just looked at the shiny leather pants and said "oooooohh".

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Trippy sunshine children do the forbiden evil dance. Wouldn't you?

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raise your hand if you like orange soda.

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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

Fight Club has more relation and can be identified with by the average American, albeit that Tyler Durden seemed to be leaning (if not fallen directly into the category of) communist/socialist. "We reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions." Destroying credit records, a franchise coffee house, corporate art, and the way he treated and preached to members of "Project Mayhem."
Kinda funny, actually. The Matrix has no intellectual implications besides the fact that most bosses are fucking assholes ("The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson...")

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Naw git offa mah Properdy!™

Kazaan, it's all about Kazaan.

I wanna go back to the blue room.

cr0bar? Aren't you going to drop a line on YOUR opinion here?

[This message has been edited by Sulaco (edited July 14, 2000).]