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Funnily enough, I watched the first episode of House Of Cards yesterday, which Fincher directed, and it has that same diffused lighting which is so typical for Fincher.

The show is all about politics though (so Jason, delete my post, if you must).

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:lol:

Yeah, there is something terribly disingenuous about David Fincher and his cinema in general.

Karol

Since DRAGON TATTOO i would consider the words "mildly sucking" and "more or less to pass on" .

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Benjamin Buttons comes to mind. I dropped the Curious case part because there is nothing curious. It's an abysmal film. Poorly directed, poorly acted, and damnit he should be horse whipped for making a film about a man aging backwards so uninteresting.

Anybody watch Fury?

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Yea, Benjamin Button is my least favorite Fincher film for sure.

I think I'd rank them

Fight Club

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Seven

The Game

The Social Network

Zodiac

Panic Room

Gone Girl

Benjamin Button

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It's been so long since I've seen that I can't really rank it; Besides, I don't really consider it a Fincher film

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He was more of a hired gun on that one. For all the other films, he worked with the screenwriters, oversaw all the preproduction including casting, set design, etc. For Alien 3, a lot of that was already locked in way before he was hired. And he didn't even have final cut, right?

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He was more of a hired gun on that one. For all the other films, he worked with the screenwriters, oversaw all the preproduction including casting, set design, etc. For Alien 3, a lot of that was already locked in way before he was hired. And he didn't even have final cut, right?

The film was taken away from him!

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So who has authorship of the film? Who made it?

I don't really know enough about the film's production to answer your questions. It's not a film I've seen or thought about often. In fact I've only seen it twice, once in the theater and once when the first DVD with the extended cut came out.

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Whiplash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvOksqh1Td0

Boy, I loved this. An aggressive, sometimes downright oppressive rendering of the creative process and search for "greatness" that leaves you wondering: is all this really worth it? More thriller than drama. It will surely get a few eye-rolls from those who have actually performed in conservatory bands, especially for its extremely physical and bordering on ridiculous portrayal of a musician's life (there were times when I had to chuckle and go "Really?"), but taken for what it is -- heightened melodrama -- I had a fantastic time. Just a mightily engaging suspense piece with JK Simmons finally getting to really sink his teeth into a major role. He doesn't disappoint. The writer/director Damien Chazelle is one to watch, great musicality in his filmmaking (especially the ending!)

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I wonder what was his level of involvement in working Elliot Goldenthal? There needs to be a book about this behind-the-scenes turmoil!

Goldenthal worked closely with Fincher over an unusually long period of time. And he apparently enjoyed that period. He had a lot of freedom and director kept encouraging him to experiment.

Karol

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'71 - gripping survival thriller in which a young British soldier deployed to a Troubles-stricken Belfast in the early Seventies gets cut off from his comrades in the west of the city, and attempts to somehow make his way back to the safety of his barracks across 'enemy terrority'.

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The Edge of Tomorrow. Basically Groundhog Day as a science fiction action piece. And, as such . . . very effective. A lot of fun, actually, which may be the movie's best attribute. Given the scope and weight of the subject matter, this could easily have become an overburdened war film; but the makers—understanding that, even in sci-fi terms, the premise is a bit of a stretch—bless the proceedings a firm tongue-in-cheek approach. The result is a battle epic that appreciates its irony as much as its iron, which doesn't happen a lot these days. Tom Cruise is settling into a good place in his career, getting away from the younger, chaotic nature of his earlier action films and engaging in more thoughtful and intentional roles (as the recent Jack Reacher demonstrated even more effectively).

This certainly isn't destined to become a classic of any sort, and I give you fair warning that anything more than a cursory inspection of the deeper details of the premise and plot will reveal some big holes. But as an entertaining summer popcorn flick, this one scored with me.

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I think it's even better than you give it credit. I was surprised by the humor and I admit I like it much more than Groundhog Day. I'm not a huge Murray fan. He plays smart ass well, over and over. I love how Cruise is smart enough to recognize he's looping without taking much time to figure it out. I actually think it's a brave point to make his character have a cowardice moment. Though he is not a real coward.

I watched X-Men Days...It's a love letter to the fans. I hope Singer does direct Apocalypse and I hope Hardy takes the role.

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Cowardice moment? The definitely trait of his character in the first act of the film is that he's a coward! He only comes into his own later in the film.

And Singer is confirmed as directing X-Men 6.

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I think it's even better than you give it credit. I was surprised by the humor and I admit I like it much more than Groundhog Day. I'm not a huge Murray fan. He plays smart ass well, over and over. I love how Cruise is smart enough to recognize he's looping without taking much time to figure it out. I actually think it's a brave point to make his character have a cowardice moment. Though he is not a real coward.

I also loved how the filmmakers regarded their audience as smart enough to follow multiple loops without feeling like they had to show us every one. When Cruise walks into a scene and knows far more than he did just a moment earlier (from our view), we know we're not seeing the next loop—there have been any number since then. The director (who did this, anyway?) gives us the premise and then strides forward confidently, knowing we'll be able to keep up. His technique saves us from too much exposition and technobabble—I felt the movie had exactly the right amount—and keeps the action, and the story, moving along at a brisk pace.

Don't get me wrong. I'm giving it full credit. In different hands, this film could've been a ridiculous disaster. Instead, it's the best sci-fi action movie I've seen this year.

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Ah! Pretty good action director, then. Bourne was a very well-done film as well (though nothing at all like the novel).

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OK, I just typed Swingers on Google Images. You don't want to do that while at work, trust me.

Holy shit! I don't know if I want to do that at home.

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"Hey, what's happenin' down there?"

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Cowardice moment? The definitely trait of his character in the first act of the film is that he's a coward! He only comes into his own later in the film.And Singer is confirmed as directly X-Men 6.

It was a cowardice moment. He is shown to not be a coward. He's not a trained soldier so his reaction is not unfathomable.

I know Singer is confirmed. Spielberg was confirmed for Robopacalypse too.

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I like love The Bourne Identity. Very atmospheric and balanced movie, and thank god, it's not all action. However, Mr And Mrs Smith and Jumper were quite meh: all action and nothing interesting. So far, Edge Of Tomorrow (that title!) doesn't appeal to me at all.

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Edge of Tomorrow is nothing like M&MS, and I never saw Jumper. I'd say Doug Liman has pretty good range, all his films are fairly different.

Edge of Tomorrow is a lot of fun!

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Edge of Tomorrow is nothing like M&MS, and I never saw Jumper. I'd say Doug Liman has pretty good range, all his films are fairly different.

Edge of Tomorrow is a lot of fun!

Guardians Of The Galaxy 'not-taking-it-all-that-seriously' fun? Or just non-stop action fun?

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It's not nonstop action, it's a few major action set pieces surrounded by plot stuff. It's kind of similar to GOTG's type of fun I guess but not really.

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Yeah, it's the kind of film that could feel like really cliche in its high concept gimmickry. But because it never really treats itself seriously and neither does Tom Cruise in a quite atypical tole for him (for the most part), the film is nothing but light and unpretentious entertainment. And gorgeous Emily Blunt is a plus as well. It's a fun popcorn flick, absolutely nothing to analyse and take apart.

I've seen it by mistake. The film me and my mates was sold out. But we didn't regret it.

And, Alex, it's basically both. And neither.

Karol

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