What kind of person likes this movie? Why did you like it?

I think the film resonates with generation X, Y probably milennials too who are sort of disillusioned with a materialist, consumer society.

To be honest, these days the film even has more of an impact considering all the recent terror atrocities and extremism rising up all over the world.

Some people actually look up to Tyler Durden though. I thought the concept was cool when the film came out. As I matured I saw the film more as it is meant to be, a critique and exposition of both of consumer society and extremism.

But that is the brilliance of the film, it makes you root for something you're not meant to root for. I still consider this film the masterpiece of the 90s.

I love this movie, but I see it in a very different light from most people. I feel like a lot of people (the majority of them being male) take this movie seriously and legitimately look up to Tyler as a role model to be followed. Which is genuinely terrifying to think about.

I feel like this movie wasn't meant to be taken seriously, though. I see it as a parody of masculinity that pokes fun at the toxic ways some men express their frustration with modern society and their feelings of parental abandonment, not feeling special, frustration with consumerism/mass culture, etc. You could probably make an argument against my interpretation of the film, but I think the book was certainly intended to be a parody, especially after having read some of the author's other work, which includes similar themes.

I'm a woman born in the 70s, not sure what my generation title is (LOL) but I love this movie for a specific reason. I was recovering from surgery for cancer when I first saw this and there were many scene that spoke to me, made me look at myself, and got me out of a depressing circle I was in at the time. The one line "it's only when we've lost everything that we're free to do anything" was awake up call. Just my opinion.

I feel like I watch it to keep myself from going crazy. The movie is so insane and gets more and more wacko as it goes on that it actually keeps me from becoming disillusioned by this filthy world. A movie about insanity gives me my sanity, if that makes sense.

I sometimes feel like a nihilist. A wanna-be anarchist. I definitely have been spending a lot time pondering just how empty of a void we live in. I don't believe that existence has any inherent value in of itself, but we can create or add whatever value to it we want. Make something of this life, I keep telling myself. That's what I get from Fight Club. Accept and know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. And there's no coming back. Nothing else after this. No afterlife. All we have is now. Do something with it. Do what you want. Believe what you will, I just choose to not subscribe to a God that I have no proof exists.

I like it because it's clever; it does an excellent job of telling the origin story of a villain and making everyone think it's a hero's journey.

To be clear: Were Tyler Durden/the Narrator a main character in any story except his own, he'd be a villain. He's a cult leader and a domestic terrorist and also batshyte crazy. He's built up a cult of personality among his nameless followers ("In project Mayhem, we have no names") that's so strong they follow his every command without question. He wants to destroy society, which is the goal of most anarchist villains in most movies. (Consider the Joker from Dark Knight).

However, we're not watching this from the perspective of an outsider horrified at Durden's actions, seeing his impassioned speeches and wanton destruction for the insanity that it is. We're watching from inside Durden's head, and villains are always heroes in their own mind. Thus he is a savior, an enlightened leader, a rebel with a noble cause of freeing people from the trappings of society. He alone knows the Truth, and is attempting to lead his followers into a brave new world. He just has to destroy the old world first.

Isn't that the gist of what most evil cult leaders have planned in movies like this? Of course it is. But is sounds so much more reasonable and enticing when you're part of the cult.

In fact is sounds so enticing that at the end, when even the Narrator realizes Durden is a villain and does his best to stop him, a large chunk of the audience still refuse to acknowledge him as anything other than a misguided hero.

It was a clever way to tell the story, and I was impressed.

When there's no more room on the internet, the dumb will walk the earth.

What kind of person likes this movie?

I like it because it's anti-bourgeois. Someone I know thought that the message of the film was that people should do dangerous things and take risks. I think the message is that if people don't find socially acceptable, constructive ways of making their lives authentic, then their unconscious is liable to take over and use socially unacceptable, destructive ways to find authenticity.