Fight Club [Blu-ray] [1999]

Product Information

However this decision seems to have been revisited by the time of the video transfer and they reframed to show the shoes. The 2008 transfer, however, makes the framing identical, which make have been Fincher cleaning-up or it may have been someone else making a random decision during telecine.

While Pitt has a pretty reputation, after his turns in Seven and Twelve Monkeys, he seems to have a very good handle on less than glamorous roles. Fight club was photographed by Jeff Cronenweth, a then hot and upcoming Cinematographer who until that point hadn’t shot a major feature, but did have the advantage of being Blade Runner cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth’s son. A long time ago I acquired a terrible quality workprint copy of Fight Club which helps show why the framing is different.One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity. The cast of this film is very large, but the film revolves around two main characters, which are played by Ed Norton Brad Pitt. This is a great inclusion, and really shows the level of detail to be found within the house and the movie as well. Two public service announcements are found here as well, one with each of the main characters, funny stuff indeed. For those who have been living under a rock for the past decade, the story of 'Fight Club' goes a little something… like this: Edward Norton plays a nameless office drone (keep in mind that 1999 was also the year that the office drone fought back - 'American Beauty,' 'Office Space') who works for an insurance company.

Selected night scenes from the film were 5% flashed at the laboratory, which boosts contrast and enhances detail in the darker parts of the frame. The two meet and discuss things, and right before they part ways, Tyler encourages our narrator to move in with him, but on one condition.com the elusive 2008 disc is almost certainly the 1999 transfer (based on framing), but I haven’t been able to source a copy. Pitt and Norton deliver knockout performances in this stunningly original, darkly comic film from David Fincher, based on the controversial book by Chuck Palahniuk. The scenes covered are the main titles, the sequence where the apartment becomes a 3-D catalog, the ice cave sequences, the apartment explosion, the place crash, the unique sex scene, the car wreck scene, the gun shot sequence, and the high rise collapse. These scenes include an encounter with Chloe after a support group meeting, an alternate take of the fight with Angel Face, a voice over difference during the board meeting, deleted bookends to the fight with the boss, an alternate take on Tyler’s good-bye, an alternate take on the Fight Club paper found in the copier, and of course, the infamous “I want to have you abortion” line.

Norton (American History X, Primal Fear) is incredible here, with such a restrained performance, yet one filled with power and emotion. Sadly, most of the extras on this disc are simply carried over from the admittedly high-water-mark-setting 2000 DVD. And as far as this edition of the film, it deserves a place in every collector’s collection, standing as the finest treatment yet for a film.Considering the lackluster FIGHT CLUB offerings in metal packaging in the UK this feels like a breathe of fresh air . Extras: Language(s): English, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Screen ratio 1:Other, Screen ratio 2:1.