David Fincher -- c/d?

The Game was good for its slickness too.

The others are trash.

I like Fincher well enough. he's not as visually interesting as he is often made out to be but incredibly slick (in a good sense). I enjoyed The Game and Panic Room much more than I did Fight Club or Seven, which were good in parts.

you get to see this in 2 Fincher movies, right? I hope it happens in his next one too.

Fincher slated to direct adaptation of Charles Burns' "The Black Hole". I am excited.

wowwww

http://io9.com/359193/david-fincher-catches-mutant-std-from-charles-burns

book is awesome, Fincher perfectly suited to the material. Gaiman's involvement = uhhhh, but still...

i was so drunk on this thread

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.

Fincher's slated to/actually directing ratio not very encouraging.

(i guess beowulf made $$$, didn't see it)

Wait, what:

We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing.

morgan freeman, right?

Fincher's slated to/actually directing ratio not very encouraging.

-- Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^

'rendezvous' has been "slated" since honeys was wearin sassoon.

i still remember his idea of a three-hour black-and-white adaptation of 'the black dahlia', which in retrospect makes me depressed.

probably woulda been better than DePalma's lolz

gaiman kinda sucks.

i love that rendezvous w rama (awesome book) is morgan freeman's dream project

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.

lolz I thought it was about the Disney movie at first too

(BH is easily Burns' best work btw)

I wonder how this will compare to Liquid Television's DogBoy hahah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7ISg8_GcQ

"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

Haha I just read that this morning, Morbius. I've got Emerson's RSS in Google Reader.

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.

!!!

Tip to clinically depressed people: don't play Alien 3 on your walkman.

For the record, I think it's an underrated film too.

Alien 3 was my fav Fincher film until Zodiac came out.

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!

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

i still haven't seen zodiac; fight club is some bullshit. i like the madonna video for express yourself.

i had this

Not having to read Gillian Flynn’s sentences makes the film an immediate improvement

lol essentially yes

the only thing I'd want excised is the Scott McNairy character/scene

also, v good Fincher commentary track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIJXB1jfB2o

Maybe the novel (I've only read Sharp Objects) offered interior monologues or a narrator who made Pike's character less...transparent? She practically twirled a mustche. idk this played like a movie whose developments were obvious and took a long time time getting to the denouement.

idk maybe knowing the twist inoculated me against noticing any mustache-twirling, pike seemed to nail the "presents a cool surface beneath which roil the thoughts of a high-key sociopath" 2 me

the book alternates the two main characters as (unreliable) narrators iirc

That's helpful. Maybe Fincher, trying to compensate, emphasized Pike's villainy as a way of reflecting the explicitness of the text.

well this was a crock of absolute shit

Be crueler.

Wouldn't go that far but this was too unfocused. Script needed a lot of work. I like pretty much everything Fincher's done but couldn't get into this one

Gary Oldman's vocal tics started to grate on me too

the performance grated for me. my main issue was that I was constantly thinking "why am I watching this?" throughout the film, which is always a bad sign. I am favourably inclined towards fincher, and the film looks fine, but I think the script just sinks this thing.

Bill Nye as Upton Sinclair was a nice surprise. Would watch that biopic.

also i was watching with headphones and i maybe i'm crazy but it sounded like the dialogue had an effect on it to make it sound like you're watching a movie in a theater - a very slight echo/reverb

I noticed this too! It was fairly disorienting thru my terrible tv speakers.

_also i was watching with headphones and i maybe i'm crazy but it sounded like the dialogue had an effect on it to make it sound like you're watching a movie in a theater - a very slight echo/reverb_


I noticed this too! It was fairly disorienting thru my terrible tv speakers.

well this was a crock of absolute shit

Was that not fairly obvious for most people?

I would imagine so. Mostly just reminded me how much better it would've been at a theater.

my main issue was that I was constantly thinking "why am I watching this?" throughout the film

yeah, I kinda enjoyed it while watching but have thought of it 0 times since

very confused at the casting of 62-year-old gary oldman to play someone who was in their 30s and early 40s during the majority of the story, especially when you also have to make him look like shit.

beyond that, what everyone else said--it's a bad script.

have you seen photos of the real mank

he looked like he was 80 when he was 30
oldman was a good choice!

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5faeed169475b2442b5d2950/master/pass/Brody-Mank1a.jpg

if anything oldman looks too young lol

i feel like if this movie were internally consistent mank would have written his hitpiece script about louis b mayer

a bad pun ignored develops into a long, slurring ad hom attack, digging up stuff from the past. Mank is an ilxor.