Are there any Total Film readers who find there David Fincher love soo annoying?

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Paulina Paulino

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What the ****?

He was in the top 10 greatest directors - beating Tarantino.:eek:

I mean, he's made 2 great films in his time, neither of which compare to Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction.

They mention him all the time, but he did make the bloody Game and Panic Room - they suck!
 
Ooooookkkaaaaaayyyy...

I think you have to put this in context.

Firstly, I think it's a little harsh to say that 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club' aren't on a par with Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, and secondly, you could levy the exact same argument against Total Film's obsession with Tarantino over the years.

I'm now, technically, an ex-Total Film reader (Issues 1 - 136). I'm sad to say that I no longer buy the magazine as its overall content is rapidly going downhill; some of those reviews had become positively awful in recent months! I'm probably no-longer part of their demographic - ah well...
 
Are we talking about these films purely from the point of view of directing, or writing also? Fight Club was written by Chuck Palahniuk (novel) & Jim Uhls (screenplay); Seven was written by Andrew Kevin Walker; The Game was written by John D. Brancato & Michael Ferris; Panic Room was written by David Koepp. Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction were both written by Tarantino (with Roger Avary on Pulp Fuction). So it's a difficult comparison.

P.S. I just noticed that Fincher is directing Rendezvous with Rama. That'll be interesting.

Who were the others in the top 10?
 
Seemed pretty fair for most of it:

1) Alfred Hitchcock - deserving I think, although not a big fan

2) Martin Scorsese

3) Steven Spielberg

4) Howard Hawks - not sure I agree with that one at all

5) Francis Ford Coppola

6) Orson Welles

7) Ingmar Bergman

8) Stanley Kubrick - should be 3rd or 4th

9) Peter Jackson

10) DAVID FINCHER:eek:
 
Rightly so!

Fincher is the best director working today in my eyes were as Tarantino just writes complete fanboy wank these days. I still like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown, they are quality films but as i've got older the Tarantino novelty has well and truly worn off, it has for me anyway. I'm afraid witty dialog (which fell completely flat on it's face in Death Proof) and good music isn't enough to make a film good.

It's just my humble opinion but Tarantino can only dream of making films as good as Fincher.

It's not all bad though, Tarantino impresses me time and time again with the soundtracks to his movies.
 
No more of an oddity than Jackson being in there though. Even as a Fincher fan it's still far too early to include him in a top ten list of greatest Directors ever.

Kurosawa, Polanski, Scott are all missing as well and I would think they warrant a top ten place far more than either Jackson or Fincher, as would Cronenberg & Lynch as you mentioned.
 
It does seem a very Hollywood top ten. All the usual suspects from international cinema such as Herzog, Truffaut, Renoir, Godard etc etc aren't there either. The real oddity to me though is Spielberg. Yeah, he makes big-budget commerical movies, but does that make him a greater director than John Ford, who also is strangely not there?
 
Two films, one of which was a bit of a classic admitedly and another that hardly added much to the war genre ain't much to acclaim as a body of work. The thing with most of the other directors is there's something distinctive about a Hitchcock or a Welles or a Coppolla or a Ford to the extent that even their failures are interesting, if you're keen enough of course. With Spielberg's popcorn films it's very much take it or leave it. Nobody's going to get too worried either way over a 1941 or a Hook as there'll be a crowd-pleaser along later in the year.
 
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