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If you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re talking about Fight Club, the seminal ‘90s film starring Pitt as a soap salesman who teams up with the unnamed Narrator to create an underground, bare-knuckle fighting ring to escape their mundane lives. The movie, directed by David Fincher, started streaming on Peacock on March 1st and is definitely worth a watch, even if you’ve seen it too many times to count. The film originally premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, where, after it was loudly booed by audience members and critics, Pitt remained steadfast that it was great, even telling his co-star Edward Norton, “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in,” per The Ringer.
Brad Pitt’s Fight Club Is a Modern Masterpiece
Pitt wasn’t far off in his perception of the film. In fact, you could even say that he drastically underestimated the movie. Decades later, Fight Club remains one of the most influential films in the history of cinema and one of the highest-rated movies ever. The movie’s near-perfect 96% audience rating based on over 250,000 user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes makes it Pitt’s third-highest-rated movie ever, and its 4.3/5 rating on Letterboxd makes it his third-highest on the platform. On top of all of that, the movie holds an 8.8 IMDb score and holds the No. 13 spot on the IMDb Top 250 list. And it really is that good.
