Fight Club REVIEW

Bob joins Fight Club.

Gabe wanted to watch it. I said sure. A review of Fight Club (1999) dir. David Fincher. As always, spoilers.

That twist sure was something. It kinda blew my mind, but made me feel stupid for not seeing it coming. The main character doesn't have a name, and so many other clues made a ton of sense immediately.

I think it's really interesting how MC's dissociation works. Like, he runs through the gas station to grab the worker and goes around it at the same time to meet himself out back. Or he's sitting on the floor meditating, while he's distracted by himself doing what he does upstairs with Marla Singer. He can't be in two places at once, of course. As Kiara would say, that's crazy work.

This soundtrack goes hard. At many points in the movie, I had to point out how amazing the score is half a dozen times while watching. I love the Jungle / DnB type stuff they have going on, somewhere between Massive Attack and Cavestar. (I'm not too familiar with DnB as a genre, so I can't be more specific. But it's like the ending to "Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)" but 12 times more precise. I'd listen to this type of stuff in the car.

Do you think Robert Paulsen is named after Rob Paulsen? Also MC talks about green doors 10 minutes into the movie.

8/10 makes me wanna marry my girlfriend that I don't have

Review: Timbaland - Shock Value

Shock Value as an album hits both the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Some songs on the album are great and some are poor; It’s a mix. It starts off with some good cuts. Songs like Oh Timbaland, while not lyrically great, have very lush instrumentals. One of Timbaland’s defining qualities is the ability to make a unique sound for each song while still sounding consistent. When this album is good, it does just that. Some of the best beats on this album, like Give It To Me, Kill Yourself, and Time all sound very clean and often are earworms of mine. Often these tracks are good enough to listen to without the vocals, especially Kill Yourself. On the other hand, there are some songs that just sound bad with no excuses. Bounce is the worst song on the album with a poor dirty instrumental and laughable lyrics. Some songs have a mix of good and bad. Songs like Release and One And Only start off with a promising opening, but then they go sour in one way or another. With the case of Release, it’s the repetitiveness, and with One And Only, it’s Fall Out Boy’s hook. The instrumental for Miscommunication sounds good for maybe 2 seconds, and Scream just sounds like a weaker version of what Fire by Kids See Ghosts was trying to do. But I can’t help but praise the effort put into many of these beats. There is a good amount of material on here that I would consider good. It’s just a shame the quality is so inconsistent.