Fight Club

Cast View all

	Edward Norton	Narrator
	Brad Pitt	Tyler Durden
	Meat Loaf	Robert Paulsen
	Zach Grenier	Richard Chesler (Regional Manager)
	Richmond Arquette	Intern at Hospital
	David Andrews	Thomas at Remaining Men Together
	George Maguire	Group Leader - Remaining Men Together
	Eugenie Bondurant	Weeping Woman - Onward and Upward
	Christina Cabot	Leader - Partners in Positivity
	Helena Bonham Carter	Marla Singer
	Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston	Speaker - Free and Clear
	Rachel Singer	Chloe
	Christie Cronenweth	Airline Check-In Attendant
	Tim De Zarn	Federated Motor Co. Inspector Bird
	Ezra Buzzington	Federated Motor Co. Inspector Dent
	Dierdre Downing-Jackson	Business Woman on Plane
	Bob Stephenson	Airport Security Officer
	Charlie Dell	Doorman at Pearson Towers
	Rob Lanza	Man in Suit
	David Lee Smith	Walter
	Holt McCallany	The Mechanic
	Joel Bissonnette	Food Court Maitre D'
	Eion Bailey	Ricky
	Evan Mirand	'Steph'
	Robby Robinson	Next Month's Opponent

Crew View all

Director	David Fincher
Writer	Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls
Producer	Ross Grayson Bell, Cean Chaffin, John S. Dorsey, Art Linson, Arnon Milchan
Musician	Dust Brothers, John King, Michael Simpson
Photography	Jeff Cronenweth

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Story Synopsis:
In the darkly comic drama “Fight Club,” based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton plays a young man fed up with the meaninglessness of his life and the world around him. His lack of fulfullment from all that he buys and his isolation from others lead him to crash support groups for people with terminal illnesses just so he can have someone to talk to. That is until he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt), a soap salesman who is more into the raw experiences of life. The two become friends, and move into a rundown house with no upscale ammenities. One night, the two get into a friendly bare-fisted brawl and the charge they both feel from the experience makes them continue the fights as a weekly practice. The Saturday night fight ritual begins to draw others, and soon the two friends have created a set of rules to manage all the guys who want to join the Fight Club. But bonding through violence can hold disasterous consequences, and when fellow support-group-crasher Marla Singer (Bonham Carter) gets involved with Tyler, the freedom-through-fighting mood begins to shift.

DVD Picture:
The highly stylized 2.40:1 picture is anamorphically enhanced, and nicely presents the intentionally bland and desaturated vision of the filmmakers. The mostly dark picture allows slight visual information in the undefined black backgrounds. Lighting and different film stocks played a major role in filming, as heard on the fourth commentary track. Available light was preferred to keep the film’s drab, menacing appearance. With stylization in mind, the picture is nicely rendered, with sharp and finely detailed images in some scenes, and others that are muddy and undefined. Colors are always undersaturated, but support the look of the film throughout. The picture is often underexposed, and provides soft backlighting to the dark picture. Occasionally, the picture appears somewhat "digital" with minor pixelization, but artifacts generally do not distract for an intriguing visual experience in all accounts.

Soundtrack:
The Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel soundtrack is an interesting, creative sonic experience and a standout in terms of dynamics and dimension. The fidelity overall is noteworthy, and the generally aggressive nature of this soundtrack is loud but should not be overpowering. The soundfield is consistently spacious throughout and the surrounds add to the dimensional perceptivity with occasional aggressive envelopment and left-right separation. The audio is also Dolby Digital Surround EX™-encoded. The back surround kicks in noticeably, though primarily for steered effects and to heighten the sense of space. Edward Norton’s narrative has an excessively chesty presence. The dialogue is often placed too far forward, and also has a close-miked sonic character which compromises intelligibility. The music, provided courtesy of The Dust Brothers, is aggressively incorporated into the 5.1-channel soundfield, energizing the listening space. Bass is impressively deep and rumbling with aggressive .1 LFE engagement, and is used to interesting effect throughout. It is also engaged prodigiously with the music. Extension of low frequencies is low enough that you can feel the subsonic cycles! The impact of the crunches and hits during the fights is convincing enough to make you cringe. This is an impressive soundtrack production that will surely convey the unnerving visceral momentum of this intriguingly violent film.



This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Reference Quality
Collector Edition
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality

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