mojorizen7
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Whats your favorite David Fincher film?
I went with Se7en,closely followed by The Game.
I went with Se7en,closely followed by The Game.
Your favorite David Fincher film
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After Se7en and Fight Club, I thought this guy was going to be one of my favorites. But then I saw Panic Room. Ugh.
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It will be very hard for anything to beat se7en on this list. At least IMO.
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DemsMyBoys
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Zodiac.
It's got one of my favorite shots of all time: Toschi standing in the middle of the street while they're investigating the cabbie's murder. He turns around to look back towards the camera. Beautifully lit. Beautifully filmed. It's poetry.
It's got one of my favorite shots of all time: Toschi standing in the middle of the street while they're investigating the cabbie's murder. He turns around to look back towards the camera. Beautifully lit. Beautifully filmed. It's poetry.
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I was vote seven for Se7en! 
Just watched that again a few hours ago. The closing scene is epic - PERFECT acting. It might be my favorite scene of all. Damn!
Just watched that again a few hours ago. The closing scene is epic - PERFECT acting. It might be my favorite scene of all. Damn!
I voted for the Game. To me the most underrated of all his films. Loved it. I just loved the concept of everybody being in on it and not knowing who to trust. I loved another TV series with a similar concept called Nowhere man staring Bruce Greenwood.
Just thought this movie was brilliant. I loved Seven, Social Network and Fight Club but this one has always been a favorite of mine.
Just thought this movie was brilliant. I loved Seven, Social Network and Fight Club but this one has always been a favorite of mine.
Chaplin
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The Game is a great movie until the contrived and terrible ending.
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mojorizen7
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I almost chose The Game over Se7en. Why do you think the ending is terrible Chap? I think it just rides out the crazy paranoid story to a natural finish of ridiculous proportions.
I love the last scene....with Mike Douglas and the girl. Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" fading into the credits as he tries to get the girl...i think The Game is a wild ride from beginning to end. Loved it.
I'd like to see more films like The Game. Weird,creative and fun.
Chaplin
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After all the great stuff that had happened before, he gets on the roof and then jumps. But he doesn't just jump randomly, he jumps at the exact spot he needed to in order to hit the blow-up bag on the street. THE EXACT SPOT! Maybe it's nitpicking, but I remember when I first saw the movie having a major reaction to that and it's hurt my opinion of the movie ever since. I thought it was contrived and overly convenient and hurt the film immensely.
I thought the same exact thing when I saw it. I still think i was a fantastic movie.
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Alien 3, but more because it launched his career. I still remember the head-scratching move when they followed Scott and Cameron with an unproven music video director. Little did I know that this music video director was the next big thing.
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While Se7en is one of my all time favorite thrillers, The Game was so brilliantly done and vastly underrated I had to vote for it. Excellent movie.
Wow I havent seen one of these movies..
Wait, I think I saw Panic Room.. Wasnt Jody Foster in it?
Wait, I think I saw Panic Room.. Wasnt Jody Foster in it?
Yes, yes she was.
Really? I thought Aliens 3 was horrifically bad.
Chaplin
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I ask myself two questions:
Was it a bad monster movie? No.
Was it a bad ALIEN movie? Absolutely.
wasnt the whole concept that this company would study him and know him so well that they could predict his every move? I didnt see the airbag suicide as a take away but more as an impressive statement about the companies ability to predict......would love to have those guys managing my portfolio,lol.
That is also a reasonable conclusion. Regardless still thought the movie was brilliant.
Chaplin
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How is that reasonable? That is so contrived as to sound more like a ridiculous excuse. Predicting what side of a building he's going to jump off from? That's like knowing which hand I'm going to use to operate a drinking fountain.
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That's the way I took it as well ....... if you got to that point in the movie and were sold into the part where they had him shoot his own brother (complete with pop gun and special effects) ... knowing that he wouldn't believe the waitress/CRS lady and knowing that he would be facing that door at that moment - then I don't think it's that big of a stretch that they had his every identity and action mapped out before he even thought of it
they knew the issues with his father and jumping, the age he did it and how impactful that was to his life - that's how they introduced the game, with the clown dressed and positioned just like his dad
if they were able to map out the route and detail he would take to get back from a foreign country while broke as well as how he would react to all of their other prompts I don't buy it as a stretch that they would know which direction he would walk after realizing he just killed his brother and was now broke & alone
to me it's just the exclamation point to the movie - we know you down to your every step and completely played you
they knew the issues with his father and jumping, the age he did it and how impactful that was to his life - that's how they introduced the game, with the clown dressed and positioned just like his dad
if they were able to map out the route and detail he would take to get back from a foreign country while broke as well as how he would react to all of their other prompts I don't buy it as a stretch that they would know which direction he would walk after realizing he just killed his brother and was now broke & alone
to me it's just the exclamation point to the movie - we know you down to your every step and completely played you
Chaplin
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Except the "predictions" from before weren't as mundane as knowing where exactly he would jump off the roof. Again, people are trying to reason out a huge plot hole. Nthere is nothing from the movie that has them predicting something as mundane whether he'd go left or right.
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dude... if you're gonna quibble with that, you've got to smash the entire movie. The entire "Game" was predicated on knowing exactly how he would react with precision so that every move lead him to the very end. if you loved everything up until the moment he jumps off the roof, you've already bought in to the conceit that their psychological tests knew that each move would push him exactly to the next move, right? so, why get mad when they correctly predicted how it would end when he's literally fallen in step with everything else along the way?
