History Awesome / FightClub

** Finding [=CMoA=] in the modern world seems to be the premise of the movie.

** Along the same lines, Spinner Magazine's named the final scene of ''Fight Club'', with Music/ThePixies' "Where is My Mind?" playing as the buildings fall, as the [[http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/14/best-closing-songs/ single best closing song in any movie]].

* On a meta level, the cinematography is enough to make any film geek swoon.

** [[spoiler: And then, upon getting to the end of the film and realizing that it was the Narrator himself who did this... FridgeHorror aside, it's still pretty impressive that such a passive-aggressive wimp took control of the situation so definitively.]]

* The book tended to use recurring ArcWords quite a bit (similarly to the movie, but to a much greater degree). One of these is a bit about mixing explosives, and how some people like to use paraffin, but the narrator doesn't, because it never works for him. Cue TheReveal, and then the Narrator, Marla, and several other minor characters standing atop a building that is rigged to explode... [[spoiler: "Tyler, you mixed the nitro with paraffin, didn't you."]]

* The narrator escaping the police depot and finally standing up to Tyler, followed by the CurbStompBattle in the parking lot. And, as icing on the cake, this is when Tyler [[spoiler:drops all pretense of being a real person, and makes gleeful use of his immunity to bullets and OffscreenTeleportation.]]

* The book tended to use recurring ArcWords quite a bit (similarly to the movie, but to a much greater degree). One of these is a bit about mixing explosives, and how some people like to use paraffin, but the narrator doesn't, because it never works for him. Cue TheReveal, and then the Narrator, Marla, and several other minor characters standing atop a building that is rigged to explode... "[[spoiler: "Tyler, you mixed the nitro with paraffin, didn't you."]]

** Along the same lines, Spinner Magazine's named the final scene of ''Fight Club'', with the Pixies' "Where is My Mind" playing as the buildings fall, as the [[http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/14/best-closing-songs/ single best closing song in any movie]].

* The book tended to use recurring ArcWords quite a bit (similarly to the movie, but to a much greater degree). One of these is a bit about mixing explosives, and how some people like to use paraffin, but the narrator doesn't, because it never works for him. Cue TheReveal, and then the Narrator, Marla, and several other minor characters standing atop a building that is rigged to explode... "[[spoiler: Tyler, you mixed the vitro with paraffin, didn't you.]]"

** [[spoiler: And then, upon getting to the end of the film and realizing that it was the Narrator himself who did this... FridgeHorror aside, it's still pretty impressive that such a passive-agressive wimp took control of the situation so definitively.]]

* The narrator escaping the police depot and finally standing up to Tyler, followed by the CurbStompBattle in the parking lot. And, as icing on the cake, this is when Tyler [[spoiler:stops pretending he's a real person, and makes gleeful use of his immunity to bullets and OffscreenTeleportation.]]

* "We have just lost cabin pressure.

* The last five minutes of the film.

** One of the ''very'' rare moments where a WoundedGazelleGambit could be considered cool.

* Tyler Durden himself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome
** You mileage will ''definitely'' vary on that one. See Misaimed Fandom.

** Along the same lines, Spinner Magazine just named the final scene, with the Pixies' "Where is My Mind", as the [[http://www.spinner.com/2011/06/14/best-closing-songs/ single best closing song in any movie]].

** You mileage will ''definitely'' vary on that one. See Misaimed Fandom.

* Tyler Durden himself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome