I never thought I would say this, but my wife just watched Fight Club with me. With the baby and my hectic work schedule this week it took us 4 days, but she made it through. To be honest, I never thought she would make it to the end. Fight Club is such a guy's movie and I thought she wouldn't relate. But after 7 years of me talking about the movie, I guess she was ready to see what all the fuss was about.

I haven't got a definite thumbs up or down from her, but she definitely seemed to enjoy bits of the movie. Mostly the bits before Project Mayhem starts. I know I met my mate for life because she laughed out loud at the one scene that always gets me laughing. It is the part of the movie where the homework assignment is to pick a fight with someone and lose. So what gets me every time is the one guy who is spraying a water hose pretending to clean a sidewalk, sprays down a priest as he passes by. The priest is at first very calm and reserved, but then you just see him progress to the point where he takes a whack at the guy when he sprays water on the bible. That part in the movie is so funny for me because it is not the disrespect that is being shown to religion, it is the utterly human moment that is released even in someone so pious. I didn't catch this until I'd seen the movie a couple times, but in the next scene you see the priest in the basement during a Fight Club meeting railing on a guy.

This wasn't my first viewing of Fight Club this year, but each time I see it I get something different out of it. It was kind of fun to experience it with my wife when I had the misconception that she would totally hate it.