Fight Club
Just as painfully late 90s as American Beauty is. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing — time capsules are valuable — just makes it a film that’s more anthropologically fascinating than it is absorbing to watch in 2023. 269
It’s not really the film’s fault that so much media has been inspired by this, and therefore a lot of it feels incredibly overdone. There isn’t really a ton that I get out of the film itself now (even though I loved it when I first watched it as a teenager, of course). It’s more just interesting to think about as a cultural object. 426