Fight Club

"I am Jack's Blu-ray." A satire of consumerism, machismo, cultural asphyxiation and anarchy, "Fight Club" may well be the defining cultural fantasy of the '90s. Now David Fincher's schizophrenic portrait of an insomniac white-collar drone (Edward Norton) and a veritable guerrilla underground of sensation-starved anarchists debuts on Blu-ray. The format is made for Fincher's kind of dense imagery and technically complex visual manipulation; you can freeze frame those subliminal images and slow down those "flutter-cut' sequences with even greater clarity than DVD. New to this edition are "A Hit in the Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club," an introduction to the art of sound design with a rudimentary interactive sound board that stymied me (you need a bonus-view enabled player to access this feature), plus a surreal trip to the Spike TV Guy Film Hall of Fame Awards (with Mel Gibson arriving on a horse and under a Viking helmet to hand out the award) and a keyword search index that's more funny than useful. That's in addition to the supplements carried over from DVD, including four audio commentaries (Fincher's solo track is the most articulate and insightful of the bunch, plus there's a cast track that plays like a reunion party, a writers' track and a technical track), 17 thumbnail featurettes on key scenes and special effects (all with optional commentary), seven cut and/or alternate scenes and galleries of art, stills and promotional material.