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Like it was for many males of my generation, Fight Club was a formative film of my youth. It was brutal, hip, mean and fun — everything that a young teenager aspires to be!

Unlike many other males of my generation, I understood it was satirical and sarcastic, and that fight clubs were indeed not cool to start up in loving tribute of the film.

However, revisiting the film brings back warm memories of one of my first ventures into innovative, stylized filmmaking, and it’s surely one of David Fincher’s best works.

To date, it’s also the only completely successful film adaptation of a Chuck Palanuik novel.

Now, the beautifully gritty film will finally be arriving on Bluray on November 23rd, 2009. From the official press release for the disc:

“Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned. Clever, savagely witty and dark, Fight Club: 10^th Anniversary Edition, arrives on Blu-ray on 23^rd November from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  Acclaimed filmmaker and Academy Award^Ò-nominee David Fincher (Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) spent hours analyzing every shot in his cult classic, making painstaking alterations to almost every frame for this ultimate high-definition release.

Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Choke), Fight Club is a pitch-black comedy that follows a ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton; The Incredible Hulk) seeking an escape from his mundane existence and white-collar job in American society.  Finding solace only in feigning terminal illness and attending support groups, he meets the feisty chain-smoking vixen Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter; Terminator: Salvation; Harry Potter films) who immediately gets under his skin with her unconventional outlook on life.  Upon returning from a business trip, he stumbles upon a more intriguing character, the subversive soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt; Mr. and Mrs. Smith).  The two quickly become friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate hypocrisy and find release in an eccentric, shocking new form of therapy – Fight Club.  A brutal, bare-knuckle underground secret society run by the premise that men are only able to find freedom when they are willing to risk death, the club escalates to a whole other level, where the boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral full of twists and turns towards oblivion and ironically, self-discovery.

The Fight Club: 10^th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray is packed full of punches with all-new bonus materials including two interactive featurettes – “A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club” which allows users to remix four key scenes themselves with the help of Oscar^Ò-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce; and “Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index,” giving viewers the ability to access any part of the disc’s extensive bonus material via interactive tools.

The Blu-ray also features behind-the-scenes with Fincher, Pitt and Norton as they accept the Guy Movie Hall of Fame honor for Fight Club at SPIKE TV’S 2009 GUYS CHOICE Awards, commentary by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, “Welcome To Fight Club” featurette, seven deleted scenes, a music video, photo gallery and much more.”

The Bluray will include a whole slew of special features, some new, some pulled from previous DVD releases of the film:

New A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club

o Welcome To Fight Club

o Angel Faces Beating

o The Crash

o Tyler’s Goodbye

· New Flogging Fight Club

· New Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index, Commentary Log, Topic Search

· New Guys Choice Award

· New Work: Production, Visual Effects, On Location

· New Edward Norton Interview

· Commentary by David Fincher

· Commentary by David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter

· Commentary by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls

· Commentary by Alex McDowell, Jeff Cronenweth, Michael Kaplan and Kevin Haug

· Seven Deleted Scenes and Alternate Scenes

· Theatrical Teaser, Theatrical Trailer, The Eight Rules of Fight Club

· 12 TV Spots

· Public Service Announcements

· Music Video

· Five Internet Spots

· Promotional Gallery

· Art Gallery

I’m excited to revisit this bloody masterpiece in high definition. How about you?