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View Poll Results: Favorite Fincher Film
Alien 3 1 1.20%
Seven 28 33.73%
The Game 5 6.02%
Fight Club 28 33.73%
Panic Room 3 3.61%
Zodiac 18 21.69%
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Old 06-14-2007, 06:35 PM
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Haven't seen Zodiac yet, but of the ones I have, Se7en gets my vote.
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Damn it I can't decide between Se7en and Fight Club. Haven't seen Zodiac.
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Seven. By far.

Haven't seen Zodiac though.
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Fight Club.

It's awesome the way they fight each other, and random people.
I love movies about fighting.*


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Oppps... I accidently picked The Game...

Se7en by a long shot.
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Se7en. Zodiac is a close second.
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Easily Fight Club...

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1. The Game ****
2. Zodiac ****
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Fight Club

Zodiac

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Alien 3 are my favorites of his.
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All of Fincher's work is uniformly good (save for the studio-butchered Alien3.... and that one still has the chilling Fincher-esque ending). I would give Seven the nod, though, with The Game and Panic Room a close second and third.
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Se7en followed very closely by Fight Club
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Fight Club is in a league of its own. His other films don't come close to touching it in terms of thematic richness, visual and musical creativity, or incredibly impressive narrative structure and depth. It's an iconic film that will continue to be a defining film for a generation.

Seven is an extremely good film. The Game is so much fun that it doesn't matter that it's completely implausible. Panic Room has some good, tense stuff but becomes a joke by the end, and Zodiac is a pointless, meandering bore that is well shot but tonally screwed up badly.

I hope to get around to Alien 3 someday once I've given the original Alien another shot to make an impression on me and then, after that, seen Aliens.
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For me it's Zodiac, Se7en, then Fight Club. Haven't seen the rest.
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Zodiac is the only film where he has had something to say about cinema. He lost the trendy bear-soaked bleach bypass and annoying editing that plauges his other films, and actually did something compelling with his camera to establish a seminal visual style. Fight Club is a psuedo-intellectual guy flick, not much there. Seven isn't bad, but its pretty run of the mill conventional thriller story telling. The rest is trash.
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His only truly fantastic work is Zodiac, so that one gets my vote.
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Fight Club and Se7en are masterpieces, FC gets my vote

Zodiac is damn close and one of the best films of the year

The Game and Panic Room are entertaining as popcorn fluff

Haven't seen Alien3
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Alien 3 - ***1/2
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Zodiac. It's his masterpiece.
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I love all of his work, but Se7en is olne of the best films I've ever seen.
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'Panic Room' was the best that I saw. It stayed tense right to the end.

'Seven' copped out in the third act. I hate otherwise well-made movies like this that sell out in the end for cheap effect.

Fincher obviously didn't see the first two 'Aliens,' which made his version an alien unto itself- it had nothing comparable to the eerie intensity of the first one or the balls-out action of the second, plus nobody to root for except Ripley. It just lay there like a space lox, waiting for a sequel to come along and rescue it.
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Has to he Seven for me. I like Fight Club a lot, but it has lost something on repeat viewings - on offence Seven is never guilty of. Zodiac was very good indeed, though not at the level of the aformentioned films. And I even like Alien 3 - well, more than Alien Resurrection anyway...
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Fight Club is a psuedo-intellectual guy flick, not much there.
That's like saying Nietzsche wrote pseudo-intellectual guy books and there was not much there. Some may hold that position, but I strongly disagree.
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That's like saying Nietzsche wrote pseudo-intellectual guy books and there was not much there. Some may hold that position, but I strongly disagree.
I've long been planning and soon will go through with an extensive explanation of the many ways that Fight Club successfully represents and engages with numerous aspects of Nietzsche's thought by the way. Just last night I was working a lot of it out in my mind. I'm just hesitant to start it because it will require a thread of epic proportions, I'm not yet ready to commit the time to.

But soon. I already have numerous parallel texts from the film and Nietzsche's writings to put side by side and explicate in terms of each other.
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For me I'd say Fight Club and Se7en are pretty close.

Slightly below that is Zodiac.

Slightly below that is The Game.

Below that is Alien 3, which still has a lot of good things about it despite it's flaws... including it's brilliant direction.

And then way below any of them is Panic Room, which was a decent movie, but also completely generic and disposable, and so far below what Fincher is capable of that it equates to nothing more than a phone-in.
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'Se7en' followed closely by 'Fight Club'.
Then 'The Game' followed closely by 'Zodiac'.
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