Movies Fight Club vs. The Matrix - Which is the better film?

[method115]

Never understood the love for fight club. It’s not a bad movie though. Matrix on the other hand is great.

 

[stalehotdog]

I love both movies. But I have to pick the Matrix. It’s damn near perfect.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Bingo. It's a shame Fight Club is even being compared to a movie where a guy comes back to life because he gets a kiss.

 

[gspieler]

Saw them both on opening night, didnt see what the big deal was with either one of them

Well, I suppose they can be enjoyed on multiple levels. And many claim they have insightful existential takes on modern society. Fun films to analyze, though neither have a really high rewatchability, IMO.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Both legendary films that were released in 1999. Virtually the same IMDB ratings.

Fight Club - (plot summary):

Posing as a pitiful sufferer during fruitless late-night sessions in highly addictive support groups for terminal illnesses, an unhappy insomniac struggles to find meaning in his mundane and dysfunctional existence.

Then, a fateful encounter with the anarchist philosopher and travelling soap salesman, Tyler Durden, changes his life, as--for the first time in a long while--the bored white-collar worker reconnects with his inner self.

Much to his surprise, the formerly depressed loner finds himself deriving pleasure out of pain through bare-knuckle brawls in the Fight Club: an underground society of men who yearn to free themselves from the fetters of a cruel modern life.

Now, he is ready to wage war. Are violence and freedom the two sides of the same coin?


The Matrix - (plot summary):

Hooked into the Matrix without even knowing it, an elaborate, omnipresent computer system designed to manipulate free will, reclusive hacker Thomas Anderson, aka Neo, is about to have an eye-opening revelation.

And haunted by burning, unspoken questions, Neo crosses paths with leather-clad cyber-rebel Trinity and inspirational leader Morpheus, who claim to hold the answers to the reality of his imprisoned existence.

Little by little, as Neo tumbles down the rabbit hole, the shocking truth about an artificial dreamland unfolds, catching the attention of the Agents: sentient programs guarding all the doors.

But with people so hopelessly dependent on the system, what will it take to unplug and escape the Matrix?

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Tough one. Both GOATs imo. Can' choose.

 

[Iroh]

Great match up @MXZT !

Gotta go with The Matrix. I think the message in it runs a little deeper.

 

[sandokan83]

The first Matrix is huge. Fight club is hilarious though.

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Great match up @MXZT !

Gotta go with The Matrix. I think the message in it runs a little deeper.

Thank you.

 

[Mangar]

Hot take: I think Fight Club is overrated

So Matrix by far