Why does Tyler say "60 seconds till CRI"?

Question

In Fight Club, the character of Tyler is a product of Narrator’s personality disorder. With support from Project Mayhem members, Tyler brought Narrator's friend Marla to the abandoned building against her will. In the same abandoned building, with her hands tied to a chair, Narrator begs Tyler to stop Project Mayhem, but Tyler refuses.

Tyler: What do you want? Your shitjob back? Fu.king condo world, watching sitcoms? Fu*k you! I won't do it.

Narrator: This can't be happening.

Tyler: It's already done, so shut up! 60 seconds till CRI.

What's the meaning of "CRI"?

Exactly 2 hr 12 min is the timestamp.

Answer 1

From much later comments it appears Netflix were guessing. A movie of this age would not have been subtitled originally, so someone has been tasked with doing it after the fact.

Let's call it a 'misheard lyric' or mondegreen like they do with pop songs that people guess & blog the words to, without actual reference to the published lyrics.

From a more reliable script & checked against the movie audio…

"60 seconds. Can you see alright?"

Link to a more reliable script - I still don't know whether this is direct from source or not, but it matches what is actually said in that scene & is spelled correctly ;)

BTW, the misheard lyric is actually what is in the subs file of the dodgy downloaded mkv version I got hold of to check against;) Not all subs in dodgy downloads are straight from the studio. Often they're generated by people guessing at what was said.

Scene on YouTube at

but no subs. You can compare the audio, though.

Answer 2

Cranial Rectal Inversion

Or, to have one's head up one's bottom.

On Urban Dictionary cira 2003

On Pintrest

On LinkedIn cira 2015

Most often I see this term deplyed as a politically or ideologically motivated attack which is in-keeping with Tyler's motivations but I will not post more links as I don't want to drive traffic to trolls, but a quick web search will reveal all.

Tyler is expressing that his plan is going akin to sticking "the system's" head up it's own backside.

It's a throwaway line, and to be honest I think it has been deployed incorrectly, but the line is absolutely 60 seconds till CRI and this is what CRI is.

(I'll add this though, it's a surprisingly bad bit of sound design in an otherwise amazingly constructed film. The clunk of the wheelybox perfectly obscures the line. I'll verify next time I'm at the (my) cinema, but I suspect if you watch this on a mutli channel set-up with only the centre channel switched on it will clear up the dialogue nicely)