• Maxxus@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    Was it the movie they misunderstood, or did the movie misrepresent the book. I haven’t watch or read either in years but I feel like it’s similar to how Starship Troopers, misrepresents the book.

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      21 days ago

      Starship troopers movie is a lampoon that goes way over the top. Unfortunately so do most Hollywood blockbusters so it kinda missed the mark

      Fight club was a deconstruction of toxic masculinity as an outcome of capitalism and the fact that a generation of men are being lead about like pigs by the nose, their lives manipulated and stripped of purpose and meaning. Fuckbros took it to mean “me big man fight shit”

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        21 days ago

        Going off my age’ed memory here but I don’t remember Tyler being described quite so fashionable in the book. Yes the movie is an attempt to lampoon toxic masculinity, but compared to other castings nobody else had the I want to be Brad Pitt star power. I think it overpowers that you’re not supposed to agree with Tyler. It’s like how people will subconsciously mimic those they admire.