 Does the author feel Fight Club is an original concept?
Fight Club careers from one resonant satirical idea to the next without quite deciding whether its characters are full of crap or are Gen X prophets. When Jack's apartment mysteriously explodes--along with his carefully chosen IKEA furniture--he moves into Tyler's squalid warehouse and helps to found a new religion: Fight Club, in which young males gather after hours in the basement of a nightclub to pound one another (and be pounded) to a bloody pulp. Fincher and his screenwriter, Jim Uhls, seem to think they've broken new ground in Fight Club , that their metaphor for our discontents hits harder than anyone else's.
 No, it feels like a mixture of Johnny Rotten, Jake La Motta, and Jesus.
 Yes, the film points to new possibilities in storytelling.  No, but voice-over narration is back in style.  No, it feels like a mixture of Johnny Rotten, Jake La Motta, and Jesus.  No, it feels like corporate-subsidized art.