That reminds me, Chabrol's The Story of Women is a great abortion film like a superior Vera Drake.

I did not like Cloud Atlas at all.

You really can't get over that, can you?

I disagree with @avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus . I haven't read the book, but the movie is perfectly coherent with a great script and great direction. The major problem is how badly miscast Hanks, Willis, and Freeman are in their roles.

I just mean I haven't seen him even in a support role in a long time. Obviously I'm watching the wrong movies.

That's worse than the arrested for reenacting Happiness charge that I feared.

Maybe down the line. Right now though I think the studios have him on a tight leash and like you said it seems like the emotion of Zodiac and Ben Button (which sounds weirdly personal to him based on interviews) made it so that he couldn't tackle heavy material. As great as The Social Network is I feel like Fincher…

I'm sure that can be told by watching his other stuff, but that would take effort I don't want to expend. Even on that though I found the deathly claustrophobia of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu to be more affecting. I suffocated in the ambulances of that movie.

I'm pretty sure that;s the one he's referring to unless someone besides Olivia Hussey fits that description.

Yeah, but knowing Altman half the dialogue was probably improvised and the script thrown out after the first week.

Yeah, in those trailers he stands out so strongly as a face you'll never see in a movie again. Its affective in a way similar to those old Italian flicks.

It's weird how forgotten this one seems to be considering it does everything right and features a lot of well known actors at the top of their game (for Newman there is only the top). What ever happened to Dylan Baker?

He's a bit of a cunt in Bonfire of the Vanities though I think his niceness is a defect for the film.

As much as I've never been a fan of most of his film choices (The 'Burbs and Road to Perdition kick ass though) he is just far to likable for me to ever dismiss him.

Is the Germi available anywhere or will I have to go about watching it by less than legal means?

I don't know, his BMW short is pretty bad too.

It's a great film still. It might even be my favorite film by Payne. It's never gratuitous and even as it picks sides it makes fun of everyone so thoroughly as to work every which way. It also makes me wish that Payne would adapt John Irving.

What I loved about the mustache twirling abortionist is that against what the film seems to be aiming at his paranoia and some of his creepiness seemed valid since he didn't want to go to jail.

I so agree with this. As a film on abortion its good in a cliff notes sort of way and as a film on the time period it gets the shitty luck down if not the horror, but as a movie it does not really rise to the occasion.

Yeah, unfortunately for it as I doubt Fincher will ever be given the freedom and time to top it Zodiac stands as the film that legitimized him for eternal rather than giving him that instant gratification.