The first rule of book club is you do not wait for the movie.

Now I have to start a book club, just so I can use this. Thanks, Indie Rock Pete.

This segues nicely into chatting about Fight Club, which I finally got to see the ending to the other night. Let me just say, all the people who voted to watch it on the bus are pricks. Watching it again, I noticed so much stuff I missed just because of a small screen and wonky volume. Also, the timing was awful and, looking back on the movie as a whole, we stopped at the worst possible time: after the twist and just as Jack is realizing what he has been doing and how extensive his creepy net is.

Speaking of that creepy net, people can't be that easy to suck in, can they? But they can, and that's really the scariest part of the movie. All the violence is pretty awesome, actually, except when Edward Norton's beating himself up in the parking garage. Awkward!

On the shallowest level of cathartic violence, I'm all for the idea of Fight Club, since gym memberships can be pretty expensive, and just using your body against someone else feels good. On the (pseudo?-)intellectual levels, I disagree almost entirely. Sure, commercialism is not so good, but you're no less of a man if you know what a duvet is or aren't particularly fond of being a hunter-gatherer. Commercialism's not the fault of a feminist society, it's the fault of greedy folk exploiting people who will buy shit.

Will I watch again? Hell yes! Brad Pitt sans much clothing, tormenting Edward Norton...hot hot hot. Hot hot hot hot hot.

And did you know Meat Loaf was an actor? I did not. I was pleasantly surprised. Jared Leto? Also an actor! Wow! The Rock? Actually not in Fight Club, but has a seriously convincing body double.