PTA vs Fincher

Started by meatball, October 18, 2003, 05:35:36 PM

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meatball

I just briefly read about how PTA thought Fight Club was "irresponsible." Does anybody have any links or information on this?

Sleuth

I think he was quoted as saying it made fun of cancer
I like to hug dogs

Alethia

i agree with him.  i really hate that movie.

Cecil

i dont get how it makes fun of cancer. it makes fun of support groups.

Sleuth

I disagree with him, I think he's just being a bit of a pussy
I like to hug dogs

cine

Maybe its just a scapegoat for him because he thought it was shit.

Spike

That's quite funny because "Fight Club" is one of my 3 favourite films and PTA is one of my 3 favourite directors.
But I don't understand in which way "Fight Club" made fun of cancer.
"We're gonna celebrate St. Suck-My-Big-Fat-Fucking-Sausage'a!!!"

cine

I didn't like Fight Club.. and generally I support PTA on what he says.. but I don't know how Fight Club makes fun of cancer either.

thedog

coming from the same guy who made a movie about a porn industry family in the seventies and early eighties and ended it right before aids became a big deal. besides, PTA said he only sat through the first half hour of fight club anyway, so he probably only saw the support group stuff. I got a feeling that PTA is a bit of a snob.

cine

If we didn't know he was PTA and he was just an average joe walking out and saying it just made fun of cancer, imagine how many people here would call him a stupid asshole...

Cecil

well its because it kinda makes fun of people who are dying, showing them as pathetic. so, having just lost his father and everything...

mutinyco

Oh, totally. Magnolia was PTA's way of dealing with cancer, in a rather personal way. So when he saw the first part of Fight Club portraying sick people without a great deal of pity, he started spouting off. He was really out there -- saying stuff like: "Fuck David Fincher!" Stuff like that. It was rather humorous I thought. But he was really snobbish about Magnolia -- remember the look on his face at the Oscars when he lost the screenplay award to Alan Ball? Everybody knew Ball was going to win. But the look on PTA's face was one of outrage.
"I believe in this, and it's been tested by research: he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

-St. Joe

dnthmn

i was under the impression that after seeing the entire film , he said he was wrong and apologized to fincher. just what i heard

mutinyco

I didn't hear that. I suppose that's rational though.
"I believe in this, and it's been tested by research: he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

-St. Joe

Cecil

i know he apologized but i didnt know he had watched the movie in its entirety