Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind*
Oct 17, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
Even as I break the first rule of Fight Club ("You do not talk about Fight Club"), join me for a deep dive into the brilliant 1999 movie adaptation of Chuck Pahlanuik's dark, "dystopian satire."
So we recently had a movie anniversary, a 27-year movie anniversary of a film which was very polarizing upon release, was a both critical and box office significant disappointment.
A lot of the major critics just didn't get it, just didn't like it, or dare I say, completely misread this movie.
But it is now generally acknowledged as not just one of the better films of its year or its decade, which I have argued is the single greatest decade Hollywood ever had, but it is generally thought to be one of the greatest movies ever made.
I believe it made Empire Magazine's most recent list of the 100 best films of all time.
It takes into account all of the masters from around the world like Mizoguchi, Ozu, Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini, Hitchcock, Kubrick.
The movie, of course, is David Fincher's really terrific adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's also very controversial novel, Fight Club, which opened, I believe, October 14th or 15th in the United States wide because it had premiered earlier at Film Festival overseas.
And that's where you may have seen a story of Brad Pitt talking about when he saw the film with Edward Norton and David Fincher and Laura Ziskin and other people involved in the production.
He said he turned to Edward Norton and said, this is probably the best movie I'm ever going to be in.
And I have also said in a more humorous vein, when Brad Pitt retires from the movie business, when he starts getting nothing but lifetime achievement awards, he's going to be remembered most as Tyler Durden, the character that he plays in Fight Club.
So we recently had a movie anniversary, a 27-year movie anniversary of a film which was very polarizing upon release, was a both critical and box office significant disappointment.
A lot of the major critics just didn't get it, just didn't like it, or dare I say, completely misread this movie.
But it is now generally acknowledged as not just one of the better films of its year or its decade, which I have argued is the single greatest decade Hollywood ever had, but it is generally thought to be one of the greatest movies ever made.
I believe it made Empire Magazine's most recent list of the 100 best films of all time.
It takes into account all of the masters from around the world like Mizoguchi, Ozu, Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini, Hitchcock, Kubrick.
The movie, of course, is David Fincher's really terrific adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's also very controversial novel, Fight Club, which opened, I believe, October 14th or 15th in the United States wide because it had premiered earlier at Film Festival overseas.
And that's where you may have seen a story of Brad Pitt talking about when he saw the film with Edward Norton and David Fincher and Laura Ziskin and other people involved in the production.
He said he turned to Edward Norton and said, this is probably the best movie I'm ever going to be in.
And I have also said in a more humorous vein, when Brad Pitt retires from the movie business, when he starts getting nothing but lifetime achievement awards, he's going to be remembered most as Tyler Durden, the character that he plays in Fight Club.
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