I wasn't a big Alien3 fan. I should give it another shot; I've only seen it the once. I really hated the ending.

It does have it's problems. It's definitely one of those movies that had too many people (read "studio executives") trying to make it at the same time, and it suffered through multiple director changes.

Fincher is a man with many, many issues and devils, and I kind of enjoy how he tries to work them out onscreen.

Really? I just like his visual style. And I've liked every one of his movies quite a bit. I know nothing of the man's issues and/or devils.

Other than Se7en (which has a fantastic last 20 minutes, pity about the hour and a half preceding it), I am a Fincher fan. (Fight Club being one of my desert island movies, after all.)

But I can't hear his name without thinking of the Editing Room's Panic Room script parody, especially this line:

DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER
Think I can fit the camera through
the handle of this coffee pot? Think
I can? Huh? Huh?
(he does it)
FUCK YEAH I CAN! WHOO!

Other than Se7en (which has a fantastic last 20 minutes, pity about the hour and a half preceding it)

I haven't seen it in a long time. I ought to. It does get major points for using a remix of "Closer" for the opening credits.

(Fight Club being one of my desert island movies, after all.)

I own the DVD. I've seen it at least four times now, probably. I need to listen to all the commentaries on that disc. I wish I had the two-disc version, though.

But I can't hear his name without thinking of the Editing Room's Panic Room script parody, especially this line:

Hee hee hee. On the money. Panic Room was all right, a decent thriller. Not exceptional.

The Game is one hell of a mindfuck. Loved it.

ETA: Appropriate post number.

The Game is one hell of a mindfuck. Loved it.

Ohhhhh, I'd forgotten he did that one. I may have to amend my "Fincher fan" status to "think he's an interesting enough director that I'll see his films in theatres in spite of how much I hated The Game."

There are at least twelve points in that movie where it should have ended. None of them occur at the end of the film.

Jessica, you hated Donnie Darko, too. Probably something else I liked. I take your hate with a grain of salt. ;-}

And because it's always fun to make fun of people on the IMDb boards, here's someone's opinion on Alien: Resurrection :

Some scenes with no realism:

-The scene under water, they are under water for about 5 min. after 200 years tecnology has changed but humans haven`t evolved to be more like fish.

With Jessica, despised The Game. In fact, Panic Room is the Fincher I remember most fondly.

I actually liked Se7en, myself, but I haven't seen the Game yet. I liked Panic Room.

I take your hate with a grain of salt.

What you must remember is that you are a wrongheaded crackpot about such things, and I am not. I am always right.

The first time I saw Se7en, I walked in late and only saw the last 20 minutes (in which we get not only supercrazycalm Kevin Spacey, but also Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box). And I thought it was fucking brilliant.

Then I saw the whole thing, and I realized how completely mundane the movie is. (And since it doesn't realize it's mundane, it's doubly pretentious.) Very disappointing.

I have a thing for "American Justice" on A&E. Last week, they had a case where a woman was kidnapped and turned into a sex slave for 7 years. One of the things her captors did to her was retrofit their waterbed to hold a drawer in the base that this woman had to stay in when she wasn't performing sex acts or doing the dishes. She called it "the box."

"What's in the box? What's in the box?" became the saying of the evening again.