i have to say, for nearly three hours, this movie was quite the treat. with just a little more compression it could have been genius. there were a couple surprisingly funny bits, too, which i liked. the entire scene at the home of the fellow who ran the movie house was perfect...and yay for chloe sevigny.
Just saw it yesterday...loved it!
I liked how all the characters aged except for Jake Gyllenhaal ... he looked pretty much the same age all through the movie... but he did a good job
there was one part towards the end where Jake Gyllenhaal's character goes into that Hardware Store to look at Arthur Leigh... and the screen said "1983" but the calender behind Arthur Leigh said "Feb. 1980"...
Wonderful movie. From a more mainstream point of view it was his best. Fight Club is one of those more...underrated movies. Not a lot of people have seen it. This is pretty big in terms of marketability. So, it'll reach a wider audience. And it can please a MUCH bigger audience than Fight Club or Se7en could.
Personally, I loved it. I wasn't expecting what I saw but what I saw was excellent.
Originally posted by Andrew McLeod
Wonderful movie. From a more mainstream point of view it was his best. Fight Club is one of those more...underrated movies. Not a lot of people have seen it. This is pretty big in terms of marketability. So, it'll reach a wider audience. And it can please a MUCH bigger audience than Fight Club or Se7en could.Personally, I loved it. I wasn't expecting what I saw but what I saw was excellent.
Not so sure about that.
At my school, nearly EVERY male teenager has seen Fight Club and liked it quite a bit. And I doubt every guy at my school is a movie-enthusiast.
Plus, most people ARE into movies. I don't know that many random people who don't enjoy movies quite a bit.
I see what you're saying, that this is a forum that specializes in movie discussion, but at the same time, movies are so damn popular that nearly everyone likes them and knows at least a decent amount about them.
I really liked Zodiac, but at the same time was kind of disappointed by it. I pretty much only had two problems with it.
First, they are really bad at hiding the killer.
Spoiler:
When he is sort of in the shadows you could tell he was a large balding man. Yet, he was pretty much the only man who fit either of those descriptions so when the cops met him, I was instantly like, "its him" before he even said anything.
Second, I did not like the ending. I know they were trying to stick to the case files, but it would have been better off had they fictionalized the ending some. Instead, they want to keep the actual details which made it real choppy.
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Example, after Gyllenhaal figured it out, it jumps ahead about 5 years and shows him eye to eye with the killer at the store. Then it jumps another ten years in the very next scene and shows the guy finger the killer in the photo. As I said, very choppy.
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
At my school, nearly EVERY male teenager has seen Fight Club and liked it quite a bit.
Originally posted by manorastroman
C'MON, GUY! fight club is an incredibly obsessive,propulsive piece of filmmaking. it's not fincher's fault that palahniuk believes in amateur dadaism, though it is his fault for picking the script.
Originally posted by SoloWhile I think it's good, it doesn't deserve it's reputation.
Personally, I prefer that not many people like it.... or even get it, for that matter. I think it's a movie that was designed for a certain demographic and within that demographic a person with a specific state of mind. If you don't get it, then it's just not for you. No harm, no foul.
Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
Personally, I prefer that not many people like it.... or even get it, for that matter. I think it's a movie that was designed for a certain demographic and within that demographic a person with a specific state of mind. If you don't get it, then it's just not for you. No harm, no foul.
"get it"? it's not exactly dostoevsky's "notes from underground", if you catch my drift.
I read the book and did a bunch of research on the Zodiac Killer. This movie was to the "T" very well done. The only thing that was crappy about the experience for me was the movie theater in my hometown is very uncomfortable and I was going on 32 hours without sleep and trying to push yourself to watch a movie almost three hours long was hard especially when you knew the time line.
The only disappointing thing for me was I never spotted the penis in the movie my friends did but I didn't something that I am going to have to see next time.
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Just saw it last night - could actually be the best film of the year, so far. Brilliant picture quality too; HD is looking better with every film that comes out.
Fincher can relate to this story, because he grew up near the bay area right when this rampage was starting, and parents worried about putting their kids on schoolbuses after Zodiac's threat.