David Fincher's polarizing film -- adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's book of the same name -- starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham-Carter came out 25 years ago. And its critique of consumer capitalism and its corresponding anarchic solutions, the unapologetic hypermasculinity (however satirized it may be) and that WTF ending remain as relevant as ever.

Though a lot of people didn't quite grasp the point at first. Or they did and didn't like it one bit.

Fight Club has been called everything from a masterpiece to socially irresponsible to "an inadmissible assault on personal decency -- and on society itself."

That last one made it onto the DVD box.

Coming along before social media turned all of us into amateur bare-knuckle word boxers, Fight Club posited that beating the crap out of each other was perhaps the only unadulterated way for men to literally sweat out the stresses shoved upon them by so-called polite society. The only way to connect -- to feel anything at all -- amid the mind-numbing demands of an increasingly superficial modern world full of stuff that's steadily taking ownership of them was to own each other in the makeshift ring.