I got distracted by all the social commentary and failed to notice that Meat Loaf is playing Robert "Bob" Paulson.
The notion that Tyler’s fascist army would assemble to help destroy both corporate hegemony and the working class’s collective debt is a pipe dream in the 2020s when bootlickers jump at any opportunity to defend billionaires online and anything that might benefit the poor or immigrants is swiftly dismissed as Marxist.
— Derek Smith (Spectrum Culture)
Palahniuk would bring work-in-progress chapters to writing classes and workshops around Portland, holding one successful early reading at a lesbian bookstore. "They wanted to know 'Is there a women's version of this?' he says. "They just assumed Fight Clubs existed in he world and wanted to participate."
— Brian Raftery (Best Movie Year Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen)
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.