Come anticipate David Fincher's "Zodiac"

my top 5 finers are all zodiac

finchers

ffs

(I haven’t seen Benjamin Button, Gone Girl, Mank, or Dragon Tattoo.)

mank is great, i really vibed with it & i think it was unfairly panned

i hated gone girl at the time but for petty reasons, i need to watch again

Decided to scroll up and see my initial reaction to this movie go from basically “this was ok I guess” to “alright so I have seen this 5 times now.”

my other fave thing:
DAVID SHIRE SCORE, so beautiful

and the blanchard-ian trumpet just gorgeous

i know its not blanchard but similar tone

https://www.marcjacobs.com/default/heaven/shop/view-all/

I really want the signed Frank photo

lol wrong gillenhall movie. seriously, ban me.

but yes “how does one…” is one of my favorite lines

his “that” emphasized with the perfect amount of distaste

Blank Check ep reminded me of "once...in high school" which is indeed hilarious and perfect.

hilar

gone girl
zodiac
panic room

is my preferred fincher

i also adore alien 3 but this is harder to convince ppl of for obvious reasons

Cannot get enough of this film, the tone, the vibe, the composition, the blocking, the ridiculously self-effacing effects, the way it disappears into vapour.

really love the preponderance of pretty nighttime city shots

peek-a-boo
you
are doomed

Mindhunter S1
Zodiac
Se7en

That facet of rewatchability about Zodiac is weird to me. Something about the colours and the textures make it hover in my memory, backlit in brown. All that with the knowledge that the Lake Berryessa scene is right there waiting.

The CGI of the shots that try to blend modern and period-correct SF (esp the night shots) hasn't aged well imho

Gone Girl
Zodiac
Se7en

The Director’s Cut had like two short scenes added iirc? And that little blank-screen-radio-montage sequence.

watched Gone Girl for the first time recently, didn't hate it.

The Social Network
Panic Room
Zodiac

Not seen Mank, looking forward to The Killer next week.

Good Girl was the definition of "meh" when I saw it, though I'm hard-pressed to remember a thing about it other than Tyler Perry playing his part with extreme finesse.

*Gone

Rewatching now in my sole acknowledgment of the holiday

Somehow I hadn’t noticed before that Tom Verica has a small role in this

"Jim Dunbar"--I shouldn't, but I'm having a hard time remembering who that is. One of the local police?

He appears as half of the duo having the TV conversation with the killer.

Ah, with Brian Cox/Melvin Belli.

irl anchor of San Francisco KGOTV
real ones know, clemenza

Let us know what you thought, Raymond.

Creepier and more corrosive than I remember. That “Hurdy Gurdy” song keeps coming up in my memory.

Donovan can be used to such amazingly creepy effect in movies: throw in Goodfellas and To Die For.

JG’s performance more unnerving than I remembered, and of course I kept thinking of his role in “Nightcrawler”.

He looks so haunted and broken towards the end. "I need...to know. I need to look him in the eye."

"Hurdy Gurdy Man" (and pop music in general) in Zodiac:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pb3AAT8HQA

The usual mistakes--I describe the beginning as the San Francisco night sky, forgetting the first murder takes place in Vallejo.

(There's a part 1 to that, Donovan in various other films, that I will post later after I've had a chance to listen to it myself.)

I thought this film would have a lingering effect on me when I moved to SF last summer. Instead it's just creeped me out about Vallejo.

― Cosmo Vitelli

belated but lol when i drove thru Vallejo a few years back i kept flashing back to that opening scene w/the wide shot of the city at night, fireworks popping off everywhere.

Exactly the shot I misidentify. Also, I had intended to talk about the supporting cast--I almost put it up there with Godfather II for all the small supporting roles beyond the three principals--and typically forgot.

i've met two people who were in this film in very, very small but specifically memorable roles, one of whom i was kinda pals with through a place she worked, and the other because we were both helping install a mutual friend's front window.

If you don't mind me asking, which characters?

for the former, she came upon Ione Skye on the side of the road after her encounter with the possible Zodiac, and the latter was more memorably the older Mike Mageau

(the former was credited as "woman" so maybe the role isn't that memorable)

Older Mike Mageau is great. Last three lines of the film are his: "It's at least an eight. Only other time I saw this face was on July 4, 1969. I'm very sure that's the man who shot me." The actor's name is Jimmi Simpson, and he was weirdly memorable in a couple of seasons of House of Cards as Gavin Orsay, a hacker being manipulated by the FBI.

Ahem that's MCPOYLE

Pretty prominent role in Westworld too, I like seeing him in stuff

Love him, but he'll never top It's Always Sunny. He really chews up the scenery in those appearances.

Used to be married to Melanie Lynskey too, but she's with Jason Ritter now.

honestly never saw him in anything else! glad to report he was just a remarkably nice guy.

emmy material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HURhtyHgE

also find it humrous that young Mageau was the nerdy kid from One Tree Hill