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Post by Fitter Happier on Aug 12, 2021 9:32:39 GMT -5
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
Thank you. I had been contemplating making this exact same post. I love Fincher, but as many great films as he has, I feel like only The Social Network and Zodiac can really stand next to most of Kubrick's work. I guess for some it just comes down to personal preference, or maybe they just hadn't seen many of Kubrick's films.
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
the prompt just ask who is our favorite, and on any given night I'd much rather watch a Fincher movie than any Kubrick
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
the prompt just ask who is our favorite, and on any given night I'd much rather watch a Fincher movie than any Kubrick
That's fair. I was just surprised by it. I went with Wes Anderson (and Sofia Coppola earlier) for the same reason. I'm just a Kubrick stan and thought I'd get some dialogue going on this one. The next round is going to be tough...
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
the prompt just ask who is our favorite, and on any given night I'd much rather watch a Fincher movie than any Kubrick
This is true for me as well.
Seven was really effective to the point where I decided that there wasn't a point in watching it again. It can't possibly have the same imapact.
Post by thebluebus on Aug 12, 2021 10:35:11 GMT -5
Steven Spielberg Ridley Scott
Paul Thomas Anderson Coen Brothers
Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino Christopher Nolan
Went back and forth on Kubrick/Fincher. Could have went either way. Benjamin Button is one of my favs. Add Seven and Fight Club and thats a formidable 3 against Clockwork, Shining, and FMJ, at least for me. But Kubrick just has so many others.
Can somebody give me the rationale for voting Fincher over Kubrick? A lot of these matchups are close for me and could have gone either way, but that wasn't the one I was expecting. I like Fight Club and Seven. The Social Network, Gone Girl, Benjamin Button, Zodiac are all fine. Mank was a bit overrated, in my opinion. I know a lot of this is subjective, but I'm having a hard time seeing any of his films going pound for pound with A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, etc. Recency bias? Or am I missing something great here?
I will vote for Kubrick over any director ever, without so much as a second thought… the only one who comes close is Scorsese, and even Scorsese would admit that Kubrick ran circles around him.
Kubrick is the GOAT, I would have voted for him over Fincher if I hadn't missed it, but Fincher is one of the best living directors. I think Gone Girl is also an elite movie, in addition to the ones mentioned. Fight Club gets a bad rap because people misinterpret it. It's one of the very few movies that adapts a novel and actually stands up to what's on the page.
I really like this video in showing how Fincher's version of the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, an afterthought in his filmography for most people, uses visual storytelling so effectively:
They are like my top 4 of American filmmakers and I hate having to choose between them.
Watched Gangs of New York and Kill Bill Vol. 1 this weekend. Both kind of showed their early 00s age. I don't think either could be made today, at least not as how they were then.
Last weekend I rewatched Inherent Vice and sure it is an incoherent mess, but such is reading Pynchon, and that's what makes it so damn fun.
There's really not a bad PTA movie. They're all great.
The first time I saw it in the theater I was like "hmm. I guess this is what a great movie is now," because I had so much faith in PTA. And now it's one of my favorites. I've watched it a bunch of times on HBO at this point. Never read the book but I was actually considering trying to make a screenplay out of Crying of Lot 49 in college.
Looking back at the original bracket, the 'North' was pretty stacked. Probably could have evened it out a bit more.
Yeah, Kubrick and Scorsese might've ended up as the final two with different placement, and Fincher probably would've lasted longer. Everyone's got to go at some point, but it felt like some of the brackets were uneven.