David Fincher Retrospective: Quick Thoughts On Gone Girl (2014)

Gone Girl

2014

Director: David Fincher

Starring:  Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon, Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, Missi Pyle, Casey Wilson, Emily Ratajkowski, Lola Kirke

Rated: R

You two are the most fucked up people I've ever met, and I deal with fucked up people for a living.

                  ~Tanner Bolt

Fincher's Flicks: Ranking The Films Of David Fincher

David Fincher has been one of Hollywood's most distinguished and best directors for over the last 20 years.  He's one of the best filmmakers to come from the 90s.  When you see just a hint of a scene from a movie, the guy has a distinct enough touch and flavor that you just KNOW its from one of his movies.  I've really been a big fan and love a large portion of his catalog.  Starting with Seven, the guy was kicking down doors and changing filmmaking with a loud voice.  His work is indeed inspiring other directors, studio and up and coming filmmakers.  A David Fincher film is always one you're setting time aside to see regardless of initial expectation.  You trust the guy at the helm will do something worthwhile.  

David Fincher Retrospective: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

2011

Director: David Fincher

Starring:  Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Steven Berkoff, Goran Visnjic and Joel Kinnman as background Millennium employee.

Rated:  R

I'm not a recluse.  I don't close my door to anybody.  They just don't visit.

                  ~Henrik Vanger

David Fincher Retrospective: The Social Network (2010)

The Social Network

2009

Director:  David Fincher
Writer:  Aaron Sorkin

Starring:  Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justine Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Rooney Mara, Max Minghella

Rated:  PG-13

You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this.  If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

                           ~Mark Zuckerberg

David Fincher Retrospective: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

2008

Director:  David Fincher

Starring:  Brade Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P Henson, Julia Ormand, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton, Jared Harris, Elle Fanning

Rated:  PG-13

Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots

                   ~Forrest Gump

David Fincher Retrospective: Zodiac (2007)

Zodiac

2007

Director: David Fincher

Starring:  Sigh...here we go, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, June Diane Raphael, Brian Cox, Ione Skye, John Carroll Lynch, John Terry, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Zach Grenier, Elias Koteas, Adam Goldberg, James LeGros, Clea DuVall, Paul Schulze

Rated: R

Methinks our friend's a tad bit fuckered in the head.

                ~Paul Avery

David Fincher Retrospective: Panic Room (2002)

Panic Room

2002

Director:  David Fincher

Starring:  Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam

Rated:  R

Shut it.  Lock it.  And get the fuck away from it.

                     ~Raoul

David Fincher Retrospective: Fight Club (1999)

Fight Club

1999

Director:  David Fincher

Starring:  Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier

Rated:  R

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

                        ~Tyler Durden

David Fincher Retrospective: The Game (1997)

The Game

1997

Director:  David Fincher

Starring:  Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Anna Katarina

Rated: R

You're right, impossible.  You're having a conversation with your television.

               ~Daniel Schorr

David Fincher Retrospective: Seven (1995)

Seven

1995

Director: David Fincher

Starring:  Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwenyth Paltrow, R Lee Ermey, Richard Roundtree,

Rated:  R

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."  I agree with the second part.

                     ~Detective William Sommerset

David Fincher Retrospective: Alien 3 (1992)

Alien 3: The Assembly Cut

1992

Director: David Fincher

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Lance Henriksen

Rated:  Not Rated

You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.

                      ~Ripley

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2007

2007 was a weak year altogether for me, but produced plenty of films I really liked and some I loved.  I thought the Oscar race absolutely shafted a certain film that will be on my list, but oh well.  You win some you lose some.  Just because they handed out "official" awards doesn't mean a film is erased from existence and no longer available.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 1999

If you didn't have the word "The" in your title you were by default the winner of the 1999 Academy Awards.  This was an interesting year where my list is probably the most "pop friendly" of any of them so far.  At least to me.  This year is also notable as it contained what I consider the worst film I've ever plopped down money to see in a theater.  I'm speaking of Wing Commander.  A film my friends and I went to ONLY to see the trailer for The Phantom Menace.  See, back in the day you HAD to go to the theater to see the new trailers.  They weren't online weeks before they finally showed up on the silver screen.  They even turned the house lights back on after the trailer so people could leave if they wanted to.  We should have left.  After the movie, we all realized we wanted to ask the others if they wanted to leave, but were afraid someone might have been enjoying themselves.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 1992

We now begin the second stretch of 10 years of my life in film.  Hope everybody took a little break, cracked their knuckles and is back at it.  1992 was a really solid year.  It produced one of my all time favorite comedies and some underrated or unappreciated turns.  This is also the year Al Pacino finally won a damn Oscar.  We almost had the 2nd Oscar winner in a row make the final cut, but alas The Unforgiven was the last thing cut to make it that wretched 6 i'm keeping to.  But, its how the game is played, so here we go.  Onto 1992.