NOT A REMAKE - Fight Club: Members Only (2006) Discussion

[–] hobbestyguy 19 years ago

Okay. I just stumbled across this page, obviously, looking for the other Fight Club. I hope you know that the Ed Norton/Brad Pitt "Fight Club" does not contain "actors bashing people with baseball bats every other moment", and if you have seen the movie, then you completely missed it's point. So I would advise that next time you indirectly insult a movie to have watched it and established an informed opinion beforehand.

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[–] jakeyrob 19 years ago

The only time i even remember seeing a baseball bat is for about 5 seconds while they used them to set of car alarms.

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[–] gonna_be_a_director_someday 19 years ago

Amen!

Jana Gana Mana

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[–] fishfishglassfish 19 years ago

wow! that's just... so mean! jebus.

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[–] shaft121 19 years ago

Apparently, it IS a remake....but they dance in a Bollywood/Capoiera style instead of fighting!

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[–] Pudi-1 19 years ago

Hobbestyguy, the original movie uses some baseball bats for a scene......so.........RIPOFFFFF!

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[–] hemantkhan 18 years ago

And when u think they were dancing u weren't wearing ur number 10 glasses so u couldn't see. U blind watch both movies, they are not same at all. Both movies are very good at their own stories.

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[–] slash502e 17 years ago

plz dont even try to compare it to fight club, thx

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[–] markjohnson880 19 years ago

are you saying that indian people are too stupid to understand fight club??? because if you are that means that you are one seriously ignorant person whos probably never even been to india and assumes that its a huge craphole (which happens to be what most americans do because they are so obsessed with their own superiority) ive never been to india, but i can tell you its not all dirty, poor, and stupid like you think it is beleive it or not there are intelligent people in india just like anywhere else so dont bad mouth someone elses country if you dont know what youre talking about (like i said ive never been to india but i know what im talking about because im from mexico and the same thing happens to us)

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[–] DP_IL 19 years ago

I don't remember the original poster saying anywhere that Indian people are too stupid to understand Fight Club. If anything, he was commenting that the director of the Bollywood remake is too stupid to understand Fight Club if he thought it was just about bashing people's heads in.

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[–] Lucifer_nib_666 19 years ago

Stop the India Bashing You Incompetant Douchebags.

Indians are to stupid to understand Fight Club are they???Thats rich coming from Americans <I assume most of you are American>, who everyone knows cant even place nations on the map. Dont believe me??? Watch This:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10605.htm

And you were dissing Indians

I Give You An Invitation To Shut Up.

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[–] monkeymoo1129 18 years ago

i just watched the thing that lucifer_nib_666 posted and it made me laugh and also made me kind of sad/scared because the place that people kept putting the little markers on meaning for them to be Iran and Korea was Australia... since i live in Australia i sure hope none of those people vote.

did they go to school, or read a book or look at a tv at any time in their life??? :S

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[–] thegladiator2550 18 years ago

They're just dumb and like to call themselves americans, I'd rather call myself a citizen of the world than be bunched in with a bunch of idiots who can't tell you anything about the world's geography, sure I can't tell you where most of the Stans are, but I can give you the general area.

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[–] argonaut_in_training 18 years ago

that was actually a comedy sketch on an australian show called CNNNN, so i don't know how reliable that is, though i have seen it before and it does seem like those peoples comments and little knowledge of geography is quite genuine, so i don't know, maybe the americans in that clip are genuinely that stupid.

but i'm on the original posters side, not about the baseball bat thing but that aside from the names of the movies and the actual idea of a place that's a fight club, i believe there's not much further similarity between the two.

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[–] cohbec 18 years ago

wow, you're a moron. nobody claimed indians were stupid. you sure do over-react, though.

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[–] elicoolz 18 years ago

Hey dude, I am not bashing Indians at all. But you did spell to wrong, in it's context you should have spelt it too. So next time that you want to sound intelligent, you should learn how to spell.

R.I.P. Arrested Development.

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[–] Samus Aran 17 years ago

Wheee !

In that context, it should have been "it shouldn't have had an apostrophe", past tense.

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[–] Samus Aran 17 years ago

I wasn't replying to the content of your comment, just the grammar. Read the part in red and compare it to your sentence. Nothing to do with "its" or "it's", it was about tenses with "have an" and "have had an".

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[–] vanlear87 17 years ago

Both "it's" and "its" are acceptable.

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[–] mannamvamsi002 18 years ago

Oh yea sure lets go find a bunch of idiots on the street and use them as a representations of how smart americans are.

If you really do think every american is as stupid as those people hand picked for the video then it is you who in fact is stupid.

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[–] benjamin_anderson 18 years ago

I can't believe you pulled the race card that quickly!
Seriously, because he says that if you think Fight Club is a senseless Baseball-bat-fight violent-no-mood-nor-reason movie then you don't understand, it makes him a racist?
That is just plain ignorant.

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[–] rossrjensen 17 years ago

I have been to India and yes a lot of it is incredibly dirty and poor. That's not to say that it doesn't also have incredibly beautiful things and even some of the incredibly dirty things have a sort of charm sometimes...but why are you telling everyone else they are stupid because they everyone assumes it's a craphole when you don't know whether it is or not because you have never been there. It seems reasonable to me that people can make assumptions that it sucks just as easily as you make assumptions that it is an amazing place. Having been there, I can say that it is both.

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[–] crimson_regrets 18 years ago

Anyone who read the first two sentences of Plot Summary for this movie would know that it isn't a remake of David Fincher's Fight Club. What idiots.

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[–] hammer_pants 19 years ago

shut yer cake hole

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[–] m_pezzaniti 19 years ago

dude, they cant remake the original, not only cause it'd be a sin, but cause the subject matter is far more complex for indian viewers, Indian viewers crave vanity and product placements, and commercially pop movies...if they make a movie that completely destroys that culture, no one would see it.

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wow! that has got to be the most self ritgious ignorant thing iver ever seen
maybe you should watch amercian history x or find a way to balance your hormones but i mean your probbly one of those people who think the bibble is like equivlent to a history book or think every thing in it is true and belive that every thing on the news is true..... wow iam shocked that you could post that..... if it was sarcasam i am sorry but if it wasant. i just lost all hope in man kind

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[–] georgeh22 19 years ago

Alright, I'm Indian and I'll tell you: if this has anything to do with Fight Club the book or movie, it's going to suck. They will not copy it well, and even if they do it word-for-word, it will still suck, mostly because (as brickunderground pointed out), Indian audiences are not at that level yet. FC is a very complex story, and yes, it is basically a concept. K3G was a hit in India. Come on guys--this is the level of intelligence that Indian people want to watch on screen, and I'm saying this as an Indian. This movie will never be able to capture the emotion or complexity of Fight Club and really, it doesn't need to because people in India couldn't relate to it anyway--part of the conflict in FC is very particular to middle-class Americans, not hard-working Indians in <i>India</i>. Good lord. As if there aren't enough stories in the world that you have to go copying Fight Club of all things.

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[–] autumnpari 19 years ago

Oy, stop angsting. Indian people have a right to bash their own kind, and let me tell you, only an Indian person would be that frustrated about Indians. It's very true.
I hope India never has to see the day when they can actually relate to the story in Fight Club. I didn't like the movie but it still is deeply rooted in American problems and the American psyche. If you honestly think Indian audiences will come out of the theater understanding this, then you should think again. Only the really arty people in Mumbai will "pretend" to understand the concept in Fight Club and say what a "mahvelous" movie it was.
That said, I don't really think that this movie will be anything like the book or original Fight Club movie. Indians can't capture that drama on film and plus, India is hard pressed to come up with an actor of Brad Pitt's capability let alone Edward Norton. So please, everyone, drink some chai or a coke and don't stress because it's BOLLYWOOD not the future of world cinema.

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[–] jared743 18 years ago

racism pisses me off

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[–] jared743 18 years ago

ok
that sounds like i meant it against the users comments on Indian culture. It was not.

I was meaning the whole "Indians can bash Indians" type mentality. Things like this and "affirmitive action" in the USA make me angry. I, a Candaian with roots in Europe, Asia, and First Nations, had the same opinion on Indan film as the prior post. But I dont think that I would be able to say such a thing due to Political Correctness. Maybe if I had just a bit more Japanese than my great grandmother, it would be fine, but my mainly European ancestors kinda kill it. I know this is a bit of a rant, but it just needed to say it.

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[–] Threeiz 18 years ago

I just read all this *beep* and here are the facts, Fight Club is too complex for at least 65% of the world's population, it did very bad at the box office and it is a cult hit not do to just Americans but to many cultures picking up on it. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a dark comedy, it is one of the funniest books I have ever read, Fight Club, the Fincher film is a dark comedy/action movie it is very funny, if you fail to find comedy in Fight Club you fall into the majority. Fight Club is an amazing film not some action movie with people hitting each other with bats, that is a truly ignorant statement. Having said that, I have seen a trailer for Fight Club Bollywood style, and if the director didn't watch Fight Club, then his entire crew and cast must have and then they must have taken over production, because the lines and scenes in the trailer are practically carbon copies, now I believe the director has seen Fight Club, he has copied a lot of it, and from his ignorant statement I can only assume he totally missed the point, therefore get ready for a really bad remake of a great film. THIS IS A REMAKE, OR A COMPLETE RIPOFF, ONE IS ACCEPTABLE BUT STUPID THE OTHER IS JUST PLAIN SLEAZY. I am American and I did not once say any race was stupid just that the entire population of this planet is a more likely to not understand Fight Club, than the other way around, of the estimated 65% I am sure 75-80% of American's don't get it or are to lazy to try and watch something that isn't starring Will Farrell or the other actors who are so bad that the act out every part as the exact same person, themselves. The trailer for Bollywood FC made me want to see it to see how the actors differ, the director's statements however have made me think twice.

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[–] dot_underscore_dot 18 years ago

The whole baseball bat thing isn't a reference to David Fincher's fight club. It refers to the fact that people saw a trailer of this Indian Fight Club containing baseball bats and started assuming that the entire film contains unecessary ultra-violence.

I don't think this film is related in any way to David Fincher's Fight Club (though I am a bit peeved that they used the name...whatever).

I don't think this film will be great and I'm an Indian who enjoys watching Bollywood films every so often.

Nvm eh, let's see how it turns out. Frankly I know very little about this film. As long as Vikram Chopra doesn't try to make it a skewed remake of Fight Club (I would be outraged, being a fan of both the book and the film) in the same vein as Kaante (which was a TERRIBLE Bollywood remake of Reservoir Dogs...Damn that Sanjay Gupta, he's part of the reason no-one takes bollywood seriously these days).

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[–] forsakenchild 19 years ago

If it's an action comedy, then how come it lists the original Chuck Palahniuk book Fight Club as the literary source? I've read the book, and it is not an action comedy.

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[–] gothicsoldier 19 years ago

Well, I'd call the Fincher version an action comedy. Sure. Why not?

I once saw a forklift pick up a box of forks. It was way too literal for me.
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[–] SirDawg82 19 years ago

Yes, the book _is_ a dark comedy. If you want to call it an "action comedy", you could, (although I reserve the term for movies like Rush Hour, personally).

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[–] johnsonwhf 19 years ago

Now that's *beep* up, *beep* Indians/Bollywood people(I am assuming here, as the name sounds Indian, but if I'm wrong my point still stands about general ignorancy of some people) having no idea what they are talking about.

FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB - YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB but I'll say this anyway Fight Club doesn't have actors bashing people with baseball bats every other moment. So *beep* off please!

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[–] jambawala 18 years ago

If you think you were oh so funny back there and we're all rolling on the floor laughing our heads off at your witty anecdote, guess again.

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[–] karns123 19 years ago

It would be an insult to THE Fight Club if this was going to be a remake. There is no way the Indian population would appreciate such a quality story. If it doesnt have romance or a family theme...it is not a successful hindi movie.

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[–] magnaclash 19 years ago

hahahahahahahaha, word up man

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[–] thecultofopeth 19 years ago

Yeah, I've seen this movie a ridiculous amount of times and I only remember seeing a baseball bat once...maybe twice. I saw a few golf clubs too, but I'm pretty sure they used their hands when they were fighting, aside from their Project: Mayhem activities. If whoever is going make a remake or use the same title, they may want to think things through a little better...to me this doesn't sound like a remake...it sounds like a joke.

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[–] s_kinsky 19 years ago

You are lame.

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[–] veracious_lies 18 years ago

Posters on IMDb can be so incredibly ignorant, grrr.

Let's review facts.

1) It is NOT a Fight Club remake.

2) It doesn't name Palahniuk's book as a source anymore.

3) The people making it have stated it's not based on the Hollywood film Fight Club.

4) Yes, he's wrong that Fight Club has people bashing people with baseball bats. Thus proving he hasn't SEEN the film and further proving that

5) This film is NOT a remake of the David Fincher film Fight Club starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. Neither is it likely to be based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel as it's labelled "an action comedy".

The question whether Indians understand Fight Club is irrelevant. Fight Club is about American people, living in a Western society with different rules and norms and customs than the people in India.

And seriously, if no one in India knows what The Matrix is, what the hell does it matter? It doesn't mean they're stupid. India has Indian cinema. Go ask your average American Hollywood moviegoer who stars in Sholay and I doubt they'll know the answer.

I'll agree that Fight Club is a stupid name for a film, action comedy or not, but can we shut up about this re-make issue now?

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[–] veracious_lies 18 years ago

I'm from Finland myself and I understood it too. But that's probably because we're both living in a Western society and know about it.

India is a newly industrialized country and yeah, Indians *can* understand Fight Club but I'm just saying, if they don't, it doesn't make them stupid.

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[–] punky_fish27 18 years ago

yeah i get ya. indians ain't stupid.

i heard that the indian FC was about two rival gangs or something. that the title was just the same and teh plots of the US and the Indian were quite different.

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[–] Hydrokenesis 18 years ago

""dude, they cant remake the original, not only cause it'd be a sin, but cause the subject matter is far more complex for indian viewers, Indian viewers crave vanity and product placements, and commercially pop movies...if they make a movie that completely destroys that culture, no one would see it""

youre an arrogant ass, and by the way who the hell cares if this is a remake.

america remakes so many japan horror movies its not even funny, so who cares.

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[–] mistahell 18 years ago

Personally I think that the 'original' film adaption of Fight Club is next to perfect already, however I don't think this new adaption is going to change anything for the majority of fans.
For one, its in Hindi and thats probably enough to put 90% of Western audiences off.
I doubt it will be released in any meaningful way in America and if it wasn't for such comprehensive sites such as this, most people wouldn't have even heard of this development.
Fight Club fans shouldn't feel threatened by this version at all.
Besides, much of the pleasure I get from watching Fincher's version of Fight Club comes not just from the story but also from the music, amazing camera work and overall lush cinematography. I am yet to see a film that scores so high on so many levels.

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[–] jaynsilentbob79-1 18 years ago

by - veracious_lies on Wed Nov 2 2005 05:05:31

"And seriously, if no one in India knows what The Matrix is, what the hell does it matter? It doesn't mean they're stupid. India has Indian cinema. Go ask your average American Hollywood moviegoer who stars in Sholay and I doubt they'll know the answer. "

Umm...I'll take Big B for the win Alex. But yeah, I know what you mean. I'm a white American living in Texas (yep the state that GW came from) and I've seen more Bollywood movies than all the other American (with the exception of indian-americans) combined. It's funny how ignorant Amerians come here and whine and complain about a movie they will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER see. So my suggestion for the otehr Americans comming here and pissing on everyone who wants to have an actual conversation about the film is to leave. Don't post, because you don't have the right to complain about this film.

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[–] dr-andreas 17 years ago

Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachan and...Whatsherface, the really cute actress who drives the horsecart (she was also in Veer-zaara) And I'm American and I didn't check IMDB for spelling.
But I have to admit I didn't know any of this before july.
Sholay rocks! yay big B!

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[–] whowhatwherewhenwhy 18 years ago

Holy Christ you people are ignorant.

How can you seriously generalize a nation of what, a billion people, and say that none of them would understand Fight Club? Just because the average Bollywood movie is garbage doesn't mean it represents the tastes of the entire nation. Americans watch *beep* like "When Animals Attack: The Penguin Edition", "Girls Gone Wild: Chicks + Tits", "COPS: Maiming Minorities", "Survivor: Who Wants To Seduce a Married Millionaire Edition", etc., etc., etc. Maybe the _average_ Indian audience isn't interested in more cerebral fare, but you can't generalize an entire nation like that and be taken seriously.

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