How about a Social Network/Last Airbender double-feature?

You know I don't know how much there is to say about The Dollars Trilogy, but those would be some great movies for DIF to do.

also Primer.

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So, a good movie and a bad movie! I like Brick, but Winter's Bone was repetitive and dull. But both of them are great DiF movies.

If they did The Last Airbender, I would love to hear them talk about why the long takes work in movies like Children of Men and fail completely in a movie like Airbender. Also, slow motion is the worst thing you could do to an action sequence. Every frame of that movie looks good on it's own. It's when you put them all together that you have a problem. And the writing is awful.

I vote Zodiac / Collateral for a neo-noir discussion. Zodiac has the traditional noir stuff going on. Moody lighting, gritty realistic tone, detective story, etc. Collateral is, in my opinion, a noir film that tries to break as many of the typical noir rules as possible while still remaining noir. It still has a mystery element to it, it still has a guy who unwittingly gets involved in solving some kind of crime or series of murders and it's obviously dark, gritty and realistic.

EDIT - replace Zodiac with LA Confidential.

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What is it with Trey and Fincher? I think he's one of the best directors working today.

I'm so stoked for his adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. You could say I was tres stoked.

Last edited by Squiggly_P (2011-07-31 03:36:23)

On what? JEALOUSY? Ha! No, seriously, I agree.

Fincher seems very competent but always going for something that doesn't quite resonate with me.

And LA Confidential was terrific but just a bit too arch to be great. It was like the late-90s swing dancers who went a little too far playing dress-up.

Collateral is a classic case of a psychological thriller that falls apart in the third act because the writer was trying too hard to tie everything up with a bow.

Finally, someone who agrees with me about that movie! Everyone I talk to about it seems to hate it, which baffles me.

He also made Benjamin Button, which I like a lot.

Not al of Fincher's movies hit with me, but when they do, it hits hard.  I actually really like Zodiac, and I think its a better film than people give it credit for.  I can't wait for GWTDT, only because I think it cant be any worse than the sweedish versions.  I love the book, and already FIncher's trailer makes me think he got it more than his european counterparts.

Im on record as saying Brick was one of my favorite movies of the 2000's, and Teague fuckign HATES it for reasons I've never fully understood.   In my mind, that's prime DiF material.  Haven't seen Winter's Bone, but I've been meaning to check it out.

I liked The Brave One too. I like Jodie Foster. She's everything Hollywood isn't

I think it's just about time for an Iron Man 2 commentary. Maybe pair that with Last Airbender.