Episode 253 - We Talk About Fight Club
This week we watch your Dad’s favorite movie. Bac…
The Magnificently Huge Podcast
February 13, 20231h 0m
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Show Notes
This week we watch your Dad’s favorite movie. Back before the Internet let us talk to our favorite introverts, conspiracy theorists and secessionists, men watched movies about men doing manly things with other men in a man’s world… but Fight Club was a splash of cold water that said, “Wake up - you’re living a lie.” This week we dig into why this film still works, why it was ahead of its time in some of the worst ways, and some of the odder theories behind what this film really means.
0:00 - Intros
7:45 - The Wandering Earth 2
14:20 - Neil Hamburger stand up comedy
17:20 - Snowball Express (1972)
22:15 - Legend of Vox Machina
29:30 - Fight Club (1999)