― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:16 (8 years ago) Permalink
Fincher slated to direct adaptation of Charles Burns' "The Black Hole". I am excited.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
wowwww
― s1ocki, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://io9.com/359193/david-fincher-catches-mutant-std-from-charles-burns
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
book is awesome, Fincher perfectly suited to the material. Gaiman's involvement = uhhhh, but still...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was so drunk on this thread
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah, does gaiman get these screenplay gigs by default now because he's worked in comics and film? it's not like any of the movies he's been involved with have been big successes.
― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fincher's slated to/actually directing ratio not very encouraging.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
(i guess beowulf made $$$, didn't see it)
― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Wait, what:
We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
morgan freeman, right?
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
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^^^
'rendezvous' has been "slated" since honeys was wearin sassoon.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
i still remember his idea of a three-hour black-and-white adaptation of 'the black dahlia', which in retrospect makes me depressed.
― omar little, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
probably woulda been better than DePalma's lolz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 21:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
gaiman kinda sucks.
i love that rendezvous w rama (awesome book) is morgan freeman's dream project
― s1ocki, Thursday, 21 February 2008 21:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
When I saw this headline on Empireonline, my initial thought was that he was remaking Disney's The Black Hole, which would've been something.
I've not read Black Hole, but the other Burns stuff I've read suggests the two would be a great marriage.
― chap, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
lolz I thought it was about the Disney movie at first too
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
(BH is easily Burns' best work btw)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
I wonder how this will compare to Liquid Television's DogBoy hahah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7ISg8_GcQ
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
"If you've ever suffered from clinical depression, you know the experience is impossible to convey to someone who hasn't also gone through it. It doesn't make sense. It's like trying to describe why you love somebody. How do you explain a lack of feeling, or interest, or pleasure, that is both numbing and excruciatingly painful? How do you account for a disconnection with the past and any conception of a future? It's not "living in the moment" -- it's being stuck in a moment from which you can't imagine any escape -- not just the feeling that this asphyxiating near-deadness will go on forever, but that you can't imagine ever having felt any other way (even though, logically, you know that is not possible). You can remember feeling pleasure -- no, make that "having felt pleasure" -- but you have no memory of what it actually felt like. One of the (many) reasons I probably connect so strongly with David Fincher's "Fight Club" (1999) is that, by capturing clinical depression more accurately than any other movie I've ever seen (though Laurent Cantet's "Time Out" and Eric Steel's "The Bridge" delve mighty deep into that abyss), it helped shake me out of the grips of a depression that was sucking me down at the time. I was the only person in the theater convulsed with laughter from beginning to end, because it was liberating, exhilarating, to see the truth of my own inner experience reflected back at me in its funhouse mirror...."
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2008/07/fight_club_i_am_jacks_manicdep.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 14:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Haha I just read that this morning, Morbius. I've got Emerson's RSS in Google Reader.
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
alien 3 made him hated by everyone in the world. except me, actually. i didn't mind it. i liked the sound of it. in fact i went back to the theatre and taped the movie with my tape recorder and then played it for weeks on my walkman when i walked to my midnight shift at the supermarket in new milford, connecticut.
!!!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tip to clinically depressed people: don't play Alien 3 on your walkman.
For the record, I think it's an underrated film too.
― chap, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
Alien 3 was my fav Fincher film until Zodiac came out.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Zodiac pushes him into classic status (prob one of my favorite movies of the decade) and Fight Club is tremendous too...other than that I actively dislike the rest of these movies!
― ryan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I see there's a new trade pb of essays on FC ... one dealing with the gay subtext (sic) called "The Club That Dare Not Speak Its Name."
http://www.amazon.com/You-Talk-About-Fight-Club/dp/1933771526
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
i still haven't seen zodiac; fight club is some bullshit. i like the madonna video for express yourself.
i had this
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
Zodiac puts Fight Club to shame
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
(which is not hard, since FC is so goddamn silly)
we know your views on this, I think
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
that should make it harder, it's easier to shame something serious
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
I really can't think of 5 film comedies better than Fight Club in the last 10 years.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
crazy talk
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apatow's two movies are both funnier lolz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
FC>Zodiac>Seven>Alien3>The Game>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Panic Room
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
funnier does not = better tho
the game is great
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am always confused by the Fight Club backlash
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
too many people think its great
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
so contrarianism then. thats kind of what i thought.
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
its nihilism is boring and self-congratulatory and the basic premise is a bunch of nonsensical macho fantasy bullshit
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
the basic premise is a bunch of nonsensical macho fantasy bullshit
O RLY???
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is going to get into a source material problem again i think. not that i agree w/your summary, but you can hardly blame fincher for that. xpost
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
hey he made the movie
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
similar to what i said about tdk & all adaptations: who gives a shit about the source, & why is that in any way relevant to the discussione??
its basic premise IS a bunch of nonsensical macho fantasy bullshit, like, literally - i dont get how thats a valid criticism
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
Shakes, have you read the Palahniuk? It's more a tap-in to depressive/sadomasochistic issues than "macho bullshit."
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
who gives a shit about the source, & why is that in any way relevant to the discussion
Because, except for a little wobbling before the climax, it's a fairly faithful adaptation (tho a tad more romantic-comedy) and reading it might help people who are seeing things in the film that ain't there.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
FC being about nihilism doesn't make it nihilist.
― ryan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
guy seems like a terrible writer from the flip-through I gave it. granted that was years ago.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
most of his other books are much worse
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
never saw panic room, somehow i always lumped it in with that run of BRING ME BACK MY DAUGHTER movies
- even tho obv. her daughter is right there because they are locked in the PANIC ROOM
― j., Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
Panic Room is a tight little thriller, probably the most compact thing Fincher has ever done. Gets about its business quickly, doesn't fart around, good performances, ends when it needs to. And if you don't like Jared Leto, you'll love it.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Interesting that his go-to DP is the son of Blade Runner's DP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cronenweth
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree with this except it's still maybe 15-20 minutes too long. but it's not "self-serious" as described above, the bad guys deliver some laughs and beyond that it's just a good contained thriller.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:17 (8 months ago) Permalink