Last night, mischief and mayhem ensued when midnight screenings of Fight Club were held in Los Angeles and New York! The theaters were boarded up and free coffee and donuts were served in the back like a support group, and everyone received a “hello my name is” sticker!
Remember, Screenhead is holding a giveaway for the Fight Club 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray disc now!
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This is just too good not to post for you Fight Club fans and space monkeys! On November 17, 2009 – the same day Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition is coming to Blu-ray — experience Fight Club with fellow space monkeys for the first time in theaters in a decade!
There will be two FREE midnight screenings of the film, one in New York, and one in Los Angeles. These are onetime events, so make sure to sign up to get the password and see Fight Club on the big screen.
There is nothing wrong with a free movie, so here are the links space monkeys!
To RSVP to the New York screening, click here: www.projectmayhemny.com, and to RSVP for the Los Angeles screening click here: www.projectmayhemla.com!
Check out Screenhead’s Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition giveaway! Enter to win the Blu-ray edition!
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FIGHT CLUB 10thAnniversary Edition Blu-ray disc will be available on November 17, 2009. The Ed Norton and Brad Pitt movie is packed full of punches with all-new bonus materials including two interactive featurettes – “A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club” which allows usersto remix four key scenes themselves with the help of Oscar-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce; and “Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index,” giving viewers the ability to access any part of the disc’s extensive bonus material via interactive tools.
Fight Club is based on the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk (Choke). A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional in an unidentified, semi-stylized city, seeks an escape from his ordinary life with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world denies them.
Fight Clubwas directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
To win a copy of Fight Club 10thAnniversary Edition Blu-ray disc, post your name and Screenhead will pick the winner Wednesday, December 2, 2009.
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You may have never heard of Channing Tatum, but you’ll be fairly surprised by his big excursion into the big screen with the release of Fighting.
Channing will be playing Shawn MacArthur, as a young street hustler from the wilds of…Birmingham, Alabama. Um, okay…anyway, he’s moved to New York, where he’s hawking ersatz Harry Potter books and occasionally discount umbrellas. Anyway, while selling his ersatz Harry Potter books, he gets in rolling three-way fistfight that draws the notice of former brawler turned agent / hustler Harvey Boarden. Harvey sees an opportunity in Shawn, and sets him up with a series of illegal underground bare-knuckle brawls, and Shawn steadily advances up through the ranks. Eventually, he gets set up with the fight of his life as a face from his past surfaces—can he stand up and face his own past or will he get knocked out by the strife?
For those of you making comparisons to Fight Club, you’re not alone. I got about fifteen minutes into this thing when I wound up saying that this was all just a huge Fight Club knockoff that had been heavily dumbed-down and stripped of all its pedagogery. Yeah, there aren’t any rants here about sleepless nights and IKEA and materialism—just guys beating the crap out of each other and the occasional appearance of hot chicks.
Yes, this is very much a guy movie. Chances are you could probably talk your girlfriend into seeing it by virtue of mentioning Channing Tatum, but aside from that, total guy movie.
Now, if you go in expecting very, very little, then chances are good that you won’t be disappointed with this movie. If you expect, say, a rousing brawl or maybe a little romance or an empty-headed good time, then you’re definitely going to get what you’re after. But if you want strong, well-developed characters or important, valuable life lessons, then forget it—this little fluff muffin of a movie is never going to supply any of that. This sucker’s about as worthwhile and consequential as a ball of pocket lint.
This isn’t to say it’s a bad movie—it does what it sets out to do, in that it entertains you with tons of fistfights and such, and there’s a little bit of growth and character development. It’s never going to be mistaken for high art, but it’s not really unpleasant to watch, either. The storyline’s thin as skin on gravy, but everything that should be there is. I’m not going to suggest you run out to the theatre and catch this—you can definitely wait for video even if you really LOVE a movie with plenty of fistfights—but if you go against my suggestion and see it anyway, you’ll have a pretty fair time as long as you go in with eyes wide open about just what it is you’re walking into.
In fact, words like “pedestrian”, “average” and “mediocre” were invented just for this kind of potboiler action / romance / drama. There’s not much to this one, but what’s there isn’t necessarily bad. It’ll be worth a look if you get a cheap matinee or wait for video.
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The trades are reporting that Fight Club art director Chris Gorak is directing and penning the screenplay for SIS, a gritty cop drama, for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Standing for "Special Investigations Section," an unit of the police force built to combat some of the most brutal criminals, SIS will center on characters in the SIS unit of the LAPD.
Casting is current underway. Earlier drafts of the script were written by Kurt Sutter (The Shield) and Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man).
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Fight Club was a hard movie for me to sit and watch while Ed Norton beat himself up. The characterization both Brad Pitt and Norton was phenomenal.
Now, Choke, based on a book by the same author of “Fight Club,” seems to me a similar movie where I am going to have a hard time taking in the whole story of this guy who is basically immoral.
Just like Ed Norton’s character, I had a hard time being empathetic. But Norton’s craft gave me a reason to watch the Fight Club.
Angelica Houston stars in Choke, which may prove a redeeming quality for me to watch the film. I love watching Houston work on film, a true artist.
All in all, Choke is a guy movie, just like Fight Club is a guy movie. The themes don’t interest me.
I can understand why some one would want to see Choke. If you take a look at the trailer the acting is very real and smooth. The story line is very easy to understand and follow, and the characters are funny, but do I want to spend close to two hours with them. That’s a tough one to answer.
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