The best year in my history of films would have to be 1999.

Look at the list:

The Matrix

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut,

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,

Three Kings

American Beauty

but the best of this list of bests was Fight Club.

No movie spoke to me on so many levels as that movie.

You either get it or you don't.

Now a lot of people hate it. And it got the Entertainment Chief of Fox, Bill Mechanic fired.

But for me and others it was the defining movie of our generation.

And as time has passed some peoples opinion about the film has changed as well. Entertainment Weekly, which had originally given the film a negative grade of D, later ranked the DVD #1 on its list of "The Top 50 DVDs You Need To Own."

The movie, which was a flop at the box office, actually has made a profit because of DVD sales.

But none of that matters.

What matters it that it told a generation that it was "not it's fucking khakis…"

Here's a rare trailer…

Share this: Twitter

Facebook

Like this: Like Loading... Related