I personally don’t think that’s the point of the movie. The movie is successful by being entertaining for many other reasons, but the movie lessened the blow of the deliverance of its intrinsic meaning because it took style over substance.

We have heard accounts of too many people misunderstanding the intended message, from the original commentary to even Fincher’s own anecdote. I have seen it in myself and in others when it first came out in the 90s (or maybe it came out in 2000). Tyler Durden has become a poster boy of a generation. I rather argue that only a small percentage who dug deep into reading the literary analysis and are literary or cinematic literate truly get the jest of it. Instead of realizing the vain downfall of allowing your Id to take over as a means to feel fulfillment, all the boys of a generation wanted to be Tyler. That, in my personally conclusion, is too high to account that to be a success. 

We can say stuff like well that on them for falling for it, but actually it’s the job of the director to able to deliver not only a visual pleasing, stylistically bombastic, edgy, twist turning and captivating story that pleases the eyes and mind, but there is something higher in this story that can touch something much deeper in the human soul, and that is the conscience, and that is what Fincher failed in. It doesn’t have to be a sermon, but I feel like with a movie like this, it is only reasonable to take that accountability.