David Fincher -- c/d?

The mike D'Angelo take in the onion inspired me to watch it again recently. It falls apart under the weight of its concept, but it has a lot going for it.

Fincher is one of those technical geniuses,.like Kubrick and Anderson, who sometimes seems to make whole films for the sake of r&d. Like panic room.

Panic Room > The Game

Panic room is beyond solid. Grown up home alone ftw. Dwight yoakam is totally evil.

The mike D'Angelo take in the onion inspired me to watch it again recently. It falls apart under the weight of its concept, but it has a lot going for it.

for real. Zodiac's still the best thing he did but this one has a lot to recommend it, and it doesn't really have the self-seriousness that makes Panic Room (and Seven for that matter) such slogs

Josh, which Anderson do you mean?

Paul Thomas. I like all his movies, but sometimes it feels like he's working something out to get to the next something. "Punch Drunk Love" perhaps being the most glaring case in point.

people on here were always really hard on panic room for some reason. i enjoy it a lot

Zodiac's still the best thing he did

correct answer

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

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.

Interesting that his go-to DP is the son of Blade Runner's DP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cronenweth

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, 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.

Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea remake dead

With two major blockbuster flops in two years (“John Carter,” “The Lone Ranger”), the conventional wisdom follows that Disney is probably not green-lighting any major, untested would-be franchises anytime soon (even the the trio behind “The Pirates of The Caribbean” films, Bruckheimer, Depp and Verbinski proved nothing’s a sure thing). And so eyes immediately turned to David Fincher’s ambitious $200 million-plus, 3D tentpole adaptation of “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.” Given the recent announcement that Fincher would be directing the thriller “Gone Girl” with Ben Affleck this fall, we assumed the Jules Verne project had been scrapped, for the simple reason that Disney is not going to bankroll a potentially risky project.

However, after doing some digging, sources close to the project and the Fincher camp tell us “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” has been dead, at least from the Fincher side of things, for months. That report in April about the film receiving its funding down under was apparently a desperate bid by the Aussie government to entice the filmmakers and producers into continuing with this project that would bring millions of dollars in jobs to their movie industry. But as “Gone Girl” suggests, Fincher has moved on and had done so months ago. Not that he didn’t try to make 'Leagues' happen

Girl Gone cast...Affleck, Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, and the blonde model from the Blurred Lines video:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/fullcredits/cast

Quite a ways out, but creating an HBO series:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/13/5408012/hbo-lands-david-fincher-and-gillian-flynns-utopia-series

cool. been wondering why this hasn't run in the US anywhere yet.

i love this skot story at the top of the thread

um, 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. then i contemplated suicide. seven was gross and rainy, but okay for a laff.

partly cuz i read the last sentence as a sinatraesque summary of being seven and imagined skot as a jaded 7-year-old slaving at the new milford supermarket listening to alien 3

You know, I did not like "Gone Girl" the book a whole lot, but the trailer for Fincher's film looks tonally totally wrong. The book I found silly. The movie likes like his usual gloom, which is weird:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/gonegirl/

http://media.aintitcool.com/media/uploads/2014/horrorella/Gone%20Girl_large.jpg

Very long interview.

I've written for Playboy and know the editorial MO, to a degree, but that was a crap interview. The only interesting thing was broaching the notion of a subversive "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

We were doing Osama bin Nemo

that would have been cool

this caught my eye in the NYT Gone Girl review:

her characters share the same hard-knock fate: Nick, some kind of magazine writer, lost his New York job, as did Amy, who wrote quizzes for women’s magazines. (Was that a job? A. Yes, B. No, C. I doubt it.)

lol. why is it modern screenwriters seem to have absolutely no concept of what people actually do to earn money? This is especially true in comedies when people are always the owner of a cupcake shop or a record label talent scout or a magazine editor or something else that next to nobody actually makes a living at.

my suspicion is that the goal is not to remind anyone in the audience of their realistic, soul-crushing jobs

(tho Fight Club did, and that sank at the box office)

Dude, it was fucking cool. It was smart and crazy entertaining, with the Nautilus crew fighting every kind of gigantic Ray Harryhausen thing. But it also had this riptide to it. We were doing Osama bin Nemo, a Middle Eastern prince from a wealthy family who has decided that white imperialism is evil and should be resisted.

this isn't some 'subversive' fincher spin on the material, this is pretty much who verne's nemo is. (except he's from india, not the middle east.)

fincher came across in that interview as very fond of himself, not that this should be surprising or really that objectionable i guess

"why is it modern screenwriters seem to have absolutely no concept of what people actually do to earn money?"

To be fair, I believe the character in the novel is basically living off a trust fund so I don't think she did actually really work (and the screenwriter and novelist are same person).

lol. why is it modern screenwriters seem to have absolutely no concept of what people actually do to earn money? This is especially true in comedies when people are always the owner of a cupcake shop or a record label talent scout or a magazine editor or something else that next to nobody actually makes a living at.

they pick jobs that are appropriate to the symbolic order in which the stories they are telling conventionally live

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GONE GIRL is a sequel to TO THE WONDER

"My brother got me this gift certificate to this company and ah, I got the key out of the mouth of this wooden clown"

I love it when movies make fun of themselves!

well this is great

http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/david-fincher/

is the name "every frame a painting" ironic? b/c that's what stupid people say when they see a pretty movie.

i guess i liked that video ok, but i hate all the discussion of what is "cinematic" and what isn't, as if anyone knows what that means or as if that matters. "talking isn't cinematic." who says? why not?

As a Gertrud fan, I agree. But still, "cinematic" is like "jazz." You just know.

yeah but as someone who teaches film aesthetics as well as film theory it's one of those words that i try to get students to watch out for (much like them saying something is "boring").

and yeah i was thinking of "gertrud" too. but in general i think the tacit allusion to medium specificity is a bad look.

that said, when people say something is or isn't "cinematic" most of the time they just mean "interesting to look at."

"Interesting" is even harder to define than "cinematic"

i don't doubt it!

If you ain't read, he's doing a 'loose' adap of Strangers on a Train (just like the first one!) with Ben Affleck as an awards-season-addled movie star (no, I'm not kidding). Gillian Flynn writing, no word on the Bruno catalyst character being cast.

TIL Robert Towne is still with us

‘Chinatown’ Prequel Series in Development at Netflix From David Fincher, Robert Towne https://t.co/gQZ7xQXYCG

— Variety (@Variety) November 19, 2019

incidentally I'm finally watching the assembly cut of Alien 3 and it absolutely rules

He had nothing to do with that, right? (After the fact, that is). I saw it once back when, and I also remember enjoying it.

who the hell do you get to play Jake Gittes

Christian Slater

(j/k I have no interest in watching Christian Slater in anything)

thought about making that joke but he's too old now, obviously

avon barksdale

Jonah Hill

omg just noticed the real kicker at the bottom of that article cuz lol why would anyone want to watch this

The streamer is currently prepping the drama series “Ratched” starring Sarah Paulson from executive producer Ryan Murphy. The series will explore the backstory of the infamous Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”