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I saw Fight Club before Seven and so I absolutely dreaded watching Seven. But, I was completely enthralled with Seven (you can look up the discussion of that movie to see my comments about it there).

So, then I ask myself, how can the same director make such a great movie (Seven) and such an awful movie (Fight Club). It's been several months since I watched Fight Club, but I doubt I'll watch it again, I so disliked it. I wasn't watching it with a critical eye, like I usually do for movies discussed in this forum, so I'll have a tough time providing "good" reasons why I didn't like it, but I'll try.

First, the entire story line was obnoxious. I believe the mind is powerful and can do amazing things, but this dissociative identity disorder that they tried to create with this character is so bizarre and out of the ordinary I had an impossible time believing the ending. Instead, of a "wow, that was cool" reaction (that my sister and wife had), I had a "wow, that was stupid and contrived" reaction. It just left a sick feeling in my gut becuase it was so unreal for a movie that was trying so hard to be taken seriously.

. . . . . . . okay, well, now that I think about it that's all I can remember. Maybe, I will watch this movie again (emphasis on maybe). I so loved Seven it would be interesting to just try to look for similar directorial moves in Fight Club and try to see why things do/don't work in Fight Club that did in Seven. We'll see how much time I have on my hands this week.