Favorite David Fincher films

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Favorite David Fincher films

Fincher is hands down my favorite director of all time. I'd like to read your guys' rankings of his films.

I'll start...

1. Se7en 10/10
2. Fight Club 10/10
3. Zodiac 10/10
4. The Social Network 10/10
5. Alien 3 8.5/10
6. Panic Room 8/10
7. The Game 8/10
8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 7.5/10
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 7/10

Really the only film of his I didn't love was Benjamin Button but it was still well made, acted and directed. I just couldn't get into like others did.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

1. Se7en -

2. Fight Club -

3. Panic Room -

4. Zodiac -

5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - seen only once but wasn't focused on the movie, so I don't dare to rate it.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Benjamin Button, Zodiac and Fight Club. Least favorite is Social Network.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Se7en

Fight Club

The Social Network

Zodiac

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Fight Club:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:

Se7en:

Zodiac:

The Social Network:

Panic Room:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

My top three of his are Panic Room, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Se7en

Panic Room

Zodiac

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Social Network

The Game

Fight Club

Alien 3

I know Rodent loves Alien 3 so I want to rewatch it.

Fight Club

(almost 5)
Social Network

Zodiac

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Se7en

(need to rewatch)
Benjamin Button

Panic Room

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Favourite? Alien 3. Se7en comes in a close second.

My least favourite is The Social Network.

In terms of actual rating?
Se7en is by far his best.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is definitely his weakest film followed closely by Panic Room.

Fight Club:

-
Se7en:

(+)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

Zodiac:

-
The Game:

++ (it was GREAT the first time I watched it, because of its twisty premise, but it loses a lot of its effect after multiple viewings)

I've only seen 5 of his films so far, but it's very clear that he's one of the most solid directors working today.

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Ranked.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

+
Se7en

Fight Club

The Curios Case of Benjiman Button

The Social Network

Glad to see that Zodiac is getting some love on here. I always thought that movie didn't get the appreciation that it deserved.

Originally Posted by Gangland (Post 922126)

Glad to see that Zodiac is getting some love on here. I always thought that movie didn't get the appreciation that it deserved.

I honestly think that it was extremely boring considering the concept and the cast that they had to work with.

Fight Club

Social Network

Zodiac

Se7en

Benjamin Button

Panic Room

I actually quite like Panic Room. And Ive not got round to seeing Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yet.

Originally Posted by The Rodent (Post 921125)

Favourite? Alien 3.

I'll take Fincher's atmospheric ALIEN 3 over Cameron's sledgehammer of a sequel any day, and apart from GORILLAS IN THE MIST, I'd say Weaver was never better. As far as Fincher goes, ZODIAC is a creepy and compelling watch also.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Se7en but none of his movies are stellar imo

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

1. Fight Club
2. The Social Network
3. Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
4. Panic Room
5. The Game

Will Frey

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

I really liked The Social Network and felt like it was his strongest, but I'm not the biggest fan of him in general. He's really admirable as a technician, and Fincher's films always feel really well put-together and polished, but I don't get much of an emotional connection to any of his films. So, attractive but a little sterile.

1. The Social Network
2. Fight Club
3. The Game
4. Benjamin Button
5. Zodiac
6. Seven

If you include the two episodes of House of Cards that he directed, which were really good, I would put them at #2.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Se7en 10/10
Fight Club 8/10
The Social network 8/10
The Game 7/10
Zodiac 6/10

and the Netflix show House of Cards is really,really good as well. I'd give the first season a solid 8.3/10.

I'm a big fan of all of his I've watched. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button would probably have to be my favorite though, it was one of the big 2008 releases that really got me into film, I just fell in love with it instantly. Fincher's one of the first directors I started to pay close attention to. :)

I've still only watching around half of his films so far, though. I need to get on that.

Se7en
Zodiac
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

I don't like 7even. End of this movie was too simple for me. But good movie was for sure FightClub. Benjamin Button was really good in my opinion too.

Re: Favorite David Fincher films

Zodiac is my favourite of his so far, also enjoyed Se7en and Social Network, Curious case was ok but nothing more, Fight Club I didn't get I may give it another chance sometime, not seen any others.

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As subjectively unbiased as I can be....

1. Seven (10/10)
One of the bests serial killer movies, mood was excellent, Fincher really knows how to transport the viewer into a real life environment that is accessible but still full of despair.

2. Fight Club (10/10)
If even only looking at film adaptions from books, this is hands down one of the bests translations to screen. Regarding the source material, I wouldn't have even know where to start had I of been given the task of making this for the big screen. As a psychological thriller it succeeded on all levels, and as an allegorical platform for the emotional, sexual and masculine forced submission of the everyday working man it was executed splendidly.

3. Zodiac (9/10)
One of the main reasons why I utterly respect David Fincher as a director is simply because of what he was able to do with this movie. Robert Downey is excellent in this movie, I really liked Jake Gyllenhal even though I am not a fan (sorry Sexy Celebrity), but acting and mood aside, Its just the sheer fact that Fincher was able to make a movie about a killer, based on real life events, as to which you the viewer knowingly goes into the movie recognizing there is no real life outcome, but still was completely engaged and on the edge of your seat (atleast for me anyways). The scene where Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards are questioning John Carrol Lynch/Arthur Leigh Allen at his work about the killings, made my mouth drop and give me one of those "WTF" moments, great movie.

4. The Girl with Dragon Tattoo (8/10)
I know David didn't create the character or the story, but to be able to bring such a different protagonist to screen was wonderful, again a great book adaptation, and I really hope they make the second and third. Having read the book, I was very eager to see this and I wasn't disappointed. To put together such a intricate story with so many different subplots and backtracking was not a easy task. Typically, when I see a movie "more rich" with flashbacks, I sometimes wonder about the storytelling direction(as I see this as a cop out), but not here. Great atmosphere, excellent acting, and again the movie leaves you wanting more from Fincher, I've seen the foreign one's which are great in their own respect, but when this ends you want Fincher to finish the trilogy so you can see what his take on the remaining ones are.

5. Alien 3 (7.5/10)
As a stand alone Fincher movie, this deserves more than what I scored it in my opinion but I will explain my rationale for where I placed it. Since were are scoring the directorial efforts of David Fincher, Im taking into account every element of the movie and the role of the director that I can, or atleast that I know about. So after taking this into account I asked myself, "If I were to introduce someone to David Fincher, who had never seen his movies before, and my goal were to make/keep him interested in each movie and try and make the argument that he is a great director, then in which order would I show his movies to someone who had never seen them before." So in my opinion, this movie displays all the elements of a David Fincher movie, but since it is in fact a "Alien" movie, you are subconsciously predisposed to expect certain moods and themes from the movie based on the genre and the trilogy. Directors like actors come into their own after awhile, and sometimes without even knowing who directed the movie you say to yourself, "I bet so-and-so directed this," or "this looks like a so-and-so type of movie," to me those are signatures. And Alien 3 definitely has a Fincher signature, its just that the titles I ranked higher than this one, have more of a Fincher signature then this one.

6. The Game (7/10)
Again, great movie, great mood, the movie really had me guessing, had me engaged, fun to watch, I've seen it multiple times. For me, and this isn't a bad thing, it was very mainstream in regards to artistic direction for Fincher. Great movie, good twists, and even though the movie was all over the place as far as guess work,etc, for me the narrative was told in a very linear way.

7. Curious Case of BB (6.5/10)
Visually this movie was stunning, almost every scene looks like a damn painting. The story is what killed it for me....but worth the watch just for cinematography alone.

8. Panic Room (6/10)
Fun movie to watch, but in the context of Fincher, since he has done so much better, I would say this is a standard thriller(in context).

9. The Social Network (5/10)
What I loved about this movie was that fact that it really helped to "sexualize," Fincher's technology fetish which in my opinion is what helped to make Lisbeth and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so great. So when I look at Fincher's body of work I see Social Network as a stepping stone to Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, atleast in the evolution of his own interpretation and sexualization of technology. Personally, I can't stand facebook, I can't stand Mark Zuckerberg,sp?, etc,etc. So when the movie was released I can't say that I was dying to see it, but I did because it's Fincher. But I try and be unbiased, as I say to myself, well I probably wouldn't like the real zodiac killer, but I still appreciated that movie. My only thing, and the rhetorical(somewhat) question I kept asking myself is, did the story of facebook really need to be portrayed in a David Fincher retrospect?

Big fan of FIGHT CLUB, PANIC ROOM, ZODIAC, and THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON.