David Fincher
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Topic: David Fincher
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: David Fincher
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 10:53
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The perfectionist. Along with Aronofsky I think he is the best "young" director out there. I won´t vote as I´ve yet to see Benjamin Button (counting the days for it´s release), but from the ones I have seen I go with Fight club
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 11:01
| Seven. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 11:39
| Some of them are great films, of which I'll pick Alien 3 because I know it's widely disliked, undeservedly. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 12:00
So true ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Swan Song wrote:Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 12:08
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Fincher is easily one of the most talented modern directors. Fight Club, Seven and Zodiac are all pure gold, imo. I've yet to see Benjamin Button (seems extremely interesting), but for now, my vote goes to Fight Club. ------------- 
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 12:25
My pick. And yeah, I've just looked at the reviews on IMDB  Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, why do people hate this movie so much? It's grim and it's gory, what more could one ask for from an Alien movie? |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 17:00
No, it's a bad movie. It's just not Fincher's fault. Right now, I'd rank his stuff as follows: 1. Se7en 2. Zodiac Director's Cut 3./4. Fight Club/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (can't decide yet) 5. The Game The rest of his stuff isn't that great. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 21:56
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Seven gets my vote, and then Fight Club. I loved the Game the first time I saw it. Then later on second viewing it seemed a bit dated. Alien 3 wasn't bad, but i guess Fincher wants nothing to do with it. Didn't like Panic Room that much and have yet to see Zodiac and don't have too much interest in Forest Gump 2.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 23:04
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Fight Club and Seven are awesome movies, but i have some good memories with The Game, i love that movie, that is my pick then ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 12:23
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Only saw 3 of these movies. Fight Club being my favorite. Alien 3 was not the worst of the Alien movies, but did place right where the name says it should. The worst is of course the one with Bill Paxton freaking out and screaming, "Game over man, game over!" , ugh! I have to go against the grain though on Seven. I found it to be completely predictable, despite attempts at being obtuse. Probably the worst acting job by Brad Pitt, who I usually think is a quality actor. I was PO'd after watching that thing. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 13:32
I don´t think he acts badly all the way thru the movie, just at the end "What´s in the booox?...Oh nooo... my wifes head, damn... oh, noo... what a shame" jejeje ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:15
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The Game. I loved it all the way through and was surprised at the twist.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 28 2009 at 07:16
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Yesterday I saw The curious case of Benjamin Button. It´s easy to see why some dislike it yet I can´t say I´, one of them. Loved it! Excellent movie, visually stunning, great acting, probably the best and most sober CGI effects I´ve ever seen and with a great story, sad and beautiful. My only complain goes to Eric Roth, who uses some ideas already explored in Forrest Gump (the hummingbird is just the same as the feather in FG, but here it feels out of place). Slow but never boring, this marks a new level of maturity for Fincher, which was already evident with Zodiac. I don´t know if it´w his best movie yet, I think that title still goes to Fight Club, but it is right up there and most certainly the best movie to come out since There will be blood and No country for old men.
If you like unusual love stories, such as The Fountain, Mulholland drive and True Romance, you might like this one very much. ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: January 28 2009 at 07:28
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Fight Club for me.... love all of them though... Fight Club is one of my fave movies and the reason, along with American History X, Edward Norton is my fave actor... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 28 2009 at 11:29
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went with Seven
Fight Club is good but its also about an hour too long -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 29 2009 at 04:01
Has nobody seen Benjamin Button yet? Am I the only one? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 29 2009 at 22:06
I'd actually change this, because I've been going through his stuff again over the past few weeks. I'd put Zodiac in first, The Game 4th, and Ben Button 5th. Button benefited so much from Fincher's detached direction but ultimately it just feels like Fitzgerald meets Gump. And Gump is a terrible, terrible film. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 29 2009 at 22:55
 ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: January 30 2009 at 02:28
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Fight Club and Se7en are unbeatable, I vote for 7.
Alien 3 and the Game are good too.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 30 2009 at 04:44
Without a doubt it´s Eric Roth´s cliches, which he already used in Forrest Gump, the down part of the movie. The humminbird, the easy tear-jerking scenes... luckily mr Fincher knew how to turn some of those things down a bit. In fact I find it funny how somebody like Roth (who is way too emotional and sentimental) worked with Fincher (who is seen as a cold, purely technical director) but if this movie had been made by, lets say Zemekis or Spielberg, then it would have suffered a LOT...
PS: I don´t agree whit what "they" say about Fincher  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 30 2009 at 07:35
I agree wholeheartedly (though I wish people would stop giving Spielberg crap for making happy movies). As a matter of fact I really liked Ben Button and I think FIncher crafted a moving visual elegy to Fitzgerald's Jazz Age, and there are some particularly moving scenes here and there. But those damn hospital scenes. God, that's a half hour of my life I'll never get back. Redundant, useless, and often insulting (Katrina? Really?), it just killed the momentum for me, especially on a second vewing. I was willing to overlook it when I frist saw it, but when I went again to get a definitive opinion on the film those scenes took so much away.. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 30 2009 at 15:32
Agreed, also about Spielberg. I do like him, I just think he would have taken the movie to another ground which (in my opinion at least) would have been a bit too much. And yes, the hospital scences, although I didn´t hate them... somehow I think something better could have been possible, but ok, whatever... my Fincher top right now is...
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