David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club may be a cult classic beloved film now, but 20 years ago audiences didn’t really care for it. In fact, the movie bombed at the box office and it was booed by audiences at early screenings! The world obviously just wasn’t ready for a movie like Fight Club at the time!

Fight Club first premiered in September of 1999 at the Venice Film Festival and Brad Pitt and Edward Norton look back on the experience and talk about it with The Ringer, Brad Pitt recalls the reaction to that screening, saying:

“It gets to one of Helena’s scandalous lines—‘I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school!’—and literally the guy running the festival got up and left. Edward and I were still the only ones laughing. You could hear two idiots up in the balcony cackling through the whole thing.