The Grindhouse version actually feels longer. By adding 25 minutes, Tarantino actually makes the film much more engaging. I saw the longer version before the sorter one, and the difference is huge.

You didn't get what I said.

I didn't say it lost for recognition on the time. I never said that. I said that Fincher didn't have the great auteur reputation to win at the time.

I don't even get the sense Fincher wants another Zodiac. None of his choice seemed aimed at expanding upon his work there. He has made some excellent stuff and another truly great film since then, but I have the impression making that film was exhausting in several levels for him. Which is too bad, because that Torso…

I remembered I also appreciated the claustrophobic vibe the film had. Even when it was out of that room. Very tight shots, but I wonder how much that's credit of the DoP rather than the director, because some of the angle choices scream 'FIRST FILM!', but are generally saved by the uncomfortable nature of the…

There was hardly much negative baggage associated with Fincher before Fight Club. And you're being reductive to assume people didn't like him because of some bias. If anything, I think it's the opposite: those people that changed their minds about him are just more willing to overlook what they didn't like in his…

He was never considered downright terrible. I feel you are taking this to an extreme, which tends to be the reaction when someone throws the word "revisionism". He was just not someone the critics cared about much, beyond minor, polite praise for his more successful films and trashing on Fight Club (which was really,…

Seven and Fight Club were never big among critics. Seven had a lot of positive response at the time, but in a "competent" or "entertaining" sort of way, not as a great film. Some people wrote it off as a Silence of The Lambs bandwagon film. Some people thought it dabbled too much in gratuitive imagery, or that it was…

Seeing you talk about this movie is making me consider I might not like it. I don't know, at the time I remember liking the performances and how it ended.
I remember I felt really cheated also by the fact that it seemed to be all constructed around the that one tracking shot of throwing the baby in the trash. It just…

I actually don't get all the rapture around There Will be Blood. It was PTA's best up to that point, but I'd easily put it third among those. Weird how a transitional film like that got masterpiece status. If anything, to me it was merely the moment that said that PTA was about to get really interesting.

There was never any way Fincher would win though. A bunch of snobs (most of them european) awarding the director of Fight Club and Seven? HA!

I never got much of the love for this film. It's pretty good, but I remember feeling disappointed that I thought it would be an instant classic and that it could shed some interesting light on the topic of abortion. But I found the way it handled the subject a bit too underdeveloped and the focus on the best friend…

Where is it?

Isn't there another show, about a girl and a cat from one of the writers? It looked interesting, but I forgot the name.

I think this is more of an introduction list, so leaving Thank You out makes sense. But I agree it's one of their absolute best.

Oh god, Ricardio is so awesome and batshit crazy. It's an absolutely must for fans of the Ice King (which I am, but I kinda love every character).

I know people will disagree with me, but I feel like: I Remember You = Simon & Marcy > Jurassic Bark.

OH MY GLOB YOU GUYS, DRAMA BOMB!

Finally an article on the best TV show of the past two years that isn't named Breaking Bad or Louie. Seriously, Adventure Time is one of the most creative and daring shows right now, but doesn't get the critic esteem it deserves to.

Who cares, we'll probably be dead and mankind will have moved to some kind of hybrid of everything that came before that we would hate because we would be too old to like it, had we lived long enough to see it.