It's worth remembering that David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club" was a commercial bomb upon its initial release. It made about $101 million at the global box office, but that wasn't enough to cover its $65 million budget and other expenses. It wasn't until Fincher's movie was released on home media that it found a larger following. "Fight Club" has since been closely studied at film schools and is now regarded as a provocative and important essay on the modern state of masculinity, as presented via a hyper-stylized MTV-esque montage. The movie's famous Tyler Durden character (Brad Pitt) is himself a satire of men's presumed desires, requiring violence and class revolution in order to feel anything (and hoping for the day the world ends and men can become hunter-gatherers in a post-apoc

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