― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 18 September 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Saturday, 18 September 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
you get to see this in 2 Fincher movies, right? I hope it happens in his next one too.
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Fincher slated to direct adaptation of Charles Burns' "The Black Hole". I am excited.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
wowwww
― s1ocki, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/359193/david-fincher-catches-mutant-std-from-charles-burns
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
book is awesome, Fincher perfectly suited to the material. Gaiman's involvement = uhhhh, but still...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i was so drunk on this thread
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Fincher's slated to/actually directing ratio not very encouraging.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
(i guess beowulf made $$$, didn't see it)
― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
morgan freeman, right?
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^^^
'rendezvous' has been "slated" since honeys was wearin sassoon.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 21 February 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
probably woulda been better than DePalma's lolz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
gaiman kinda sucks.
i love that rendezvous w rama (awesome book) is morgan freeman's dream project
― s1ocki, Thursday, 21 February 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz I thought it was about the Disney movie at first too
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
(BH is easily Burns' best work btw)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Alien 3 was my fav Fincher film until Zodiac came out.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Zodiac puts Fight Club to shame
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
(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 (fifteen years ago) link
that should make it harder, it's easier to shame something serious
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
the book alternates the two main characters as (unreliable) narrators iirc
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
That's helpful. Maybe Fincher, trying to compensate, emphasized Pike's villainy as a way of reflecting the explicitness of the text.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
well this was a crock of absolute shit
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Be crueler.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
Gary Oldman's vocal tics started to grate on me too
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
Bill Nye as Upton Sinclair was a nice surprise. Would watch that biopic.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
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.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
_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.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
my main issue was that I was constantly thinking "why am I watching this?" throughout the film
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 April 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
yeah, I kinda enjoyed it while watching but have thought of it 0 times since
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Monday, 5 April 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
have you seen photos of the real mankhe looked like he was 80 when he was 30oldman was a good choice!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 May 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5faeed169475b2442b5d2950/master/pass/Brody-Mank1a.jpg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 May 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 May 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
a bad pun ignored develops into a long, slurring ad hom attack, digging up stuff from the past. Mank is an ilxor.
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link