Comments on: FIGHT CLUB _ book vs. movie http://klockworkkugler.com/2009/09/09/fight-club-_-book-vs-movie/ Fri, 25 May 2012 14:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GB http://klockworkkugler.com/2009/09/09/fight-club-_-book-vs-movie/#comment-527 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:41:59 +0000 http://klockworkkugler.com/?p=74#comment-527 like button?

]]> By: RANT_beyond Fight Club « Klockwork Kugler: This is my blog. This is what I do. http://klockworkkugler.com/2009/09/09/fight-club-_-book-vs-movie/#comment-42 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:21:54 +0000 http://klockworkkugler.com/?p=74#comment-42 [...] isn’t quite the follow up to Fight Club_book vs. movie that I promised a few weeks ago.  Instead of reading Chuck Palahnuik’s Choke and then [...]

]]> By: Hack Riven http://klockworkkugler.com/2009/09/09/fight-club-_-book-vs-movie/#comment-12 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:04:55 +0000 http://klockworkkugler.com/?p=74#comment-12 the film is such a perfect puzzle. every time i see it, i wish it could be for the first time again. the book, however, was something of a let down because of the film’s perpetual momentum. i would agree that the film spoiled the book for me. “the mechanic” chapter kind of threw a speed bump into the story as far as i am concerned. it’s been a long time since i read that book, so it’s hard to for me to go into detail. if i remember correctly, the book felt kind of hollow and awkward compared to the film. it was darker (dare i say, compared to a Fincher film) and the characters were colder. they didn’t have the presence the film had, which may have been Palahniuk’s attempt to make each one seem that much more of a common blue collar drone part of a larger picture with no direction that most of us would judge as a social outcast.

choke: movie vs book. they each choose to concentrate on different aspects. Palahniuk’s choices are more interesting and delve a little deeper …the movie barely even touches on the stone collecting and ends very strangely to me. it feels unfinished.

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