Man... I wanna see FIGHT CLUB... This is a flick that I do believe everyone I've talked to is buzzing about. Be it Johnny Wad at the Record Convention... or Quint swagging his deck... or Tom Joad whilst forking over the filth at work... Sigh... Soon enough it will arrive. Soon. It's good to hear the film managed to get through MPAA, but then again.. the MPAA is more about tangible things... number of thrusts in bed, degrees of physical violence, a series of strange rules and regulations... BUT... take a film with ideas 10 times more pervasive... well... they'll let it slip through (thank god)...

Harry,

I have never wrote before due to lack of anything useful to say. This may have already been covered on the site somewhere, but hopefully it's a new bit of info.

Edward Norton came to Yale University last night (10/3) with a preview of Fight Club. The movie is more than great. But, point is, it's got an R rating. At the Q & A I asked Norton about whether there had been any real trouble getting that rating, and whether there had been any major artistic sacrifices. He said, in effect, that there were really only 2 points of issue the MPAA had. One was that they didn't want the fim to become a sort of "arsonist's handbook," what with all the discussion of creating home made explosives and whatnot. The second was that there were "A few nips and tucks" made in the scene where Edward Norton's character beats up the Angelface character (played by Jared Leto.)

The movie impresses: The blood and gore are handled in an incredibly real fashion, making it much more disturbing to witness than in most other movies. And content-wise it challenges. There are issues brought forth which are very subversive, and I can see why the MPAA might have trouble with the film, since essentially the charismatic lead character rallies forces around himself in order to (do something that you'll have to see the film to find out about).

That's all. Hope it is useful.

--Dr. Punch