What’s Aged the Best?
The twist; the DVD; the shirtless Pitt image; 'His name is Robert Paulson'; the narration; Fincher's timing and nameless city; Marla's glass-slipper line; the rules of Fight Club; the Pixies ending
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- The twist ages best because rewatching means hunting for clues, such as identical suitcases; someone online counted 27 hints.
- The DVD ages best: the 99-2000 era of double discs, director commentary and deleted scenes.
- The famous shirtless-Pitt fight image is the one picture always associated with the movie.
- 'His name is Robert Paulson' was dropped into old football-pick columns after two theater viewings, and is proposed as a crowd chant at free throws.
- The support-group material is too long and could be 30 seconds, though its aphoristic narration is the first clue the narrator and Tyler are the same.
- Despite a dislike of narrators, the narration could not work better here.
- Fincher's timing, catching the moment again with The Social Network, and the nameless always-raining, empty Fincher City are praised; he should have directed Escape from New York.
- Marla's line that the condom is the glass slipper of our generation is a favorite.
- The eight rules of Fight Club are read, with jokes about adding two more to reach ten.
- The Pixies ending was undersold in aged best; it was a thrill in the theater and a perfect song choice, though it also gives away the movie.