Fincher.

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2000)

After watching 'Fight Club' my mind was made up that David Fincher is definately one of the best directors around, but I can only use that term lightly, as I've only seen this and Se7en, Alien 3 doesn't count as i was too young when I saw it, he also did an Aerosmith video and anything concerning them scores in my book. Anyway, I watched this film in a cinema at an empty matinee, but I really wished I had watched it with friends because it's one of those films that deserves to be talked about afterwards, many people will be intrigued(?) by the ideas in he film, I wasn't as I already had that way of thinking, but this film will open many people's minds. I can't put all the kudos on Fincher, because as with every film it's the writer that makes it, and I read the excellent script (spec and shooting) by Jim Uhls. (it's based on a book by C.Palanuik) and it's good to see that the film hasn't changed a great deal from the paper.
The start of the film is a really, really good credit sequence, the soundtrack is excellent, and it got me really pumped up, and i expected more adrenaline moments like this later, but they never came, and that's my personal fault with that 1st sequence. Anyway had I read that the film is very good 1st half, but got stupid 2nd, so I just sat there expecting to take things with a pinch of salt, but I never felt dissapointed, and I never got bored like I thought I would. This film kept me interested the whole time, which is unusual for me in films without a point A to B storyline, like the 'will he get the treasure type' story. What I like about the directing, and this is what I like about Fincher and his style - he's Fresh, he isn't a Follow-the-Leader type, he does things in slightly different way, the credits going the opposite way in Se7en sum him all up for me. Fight Club also stays visually interesing throughout, and the imagery has stayed in my head since I watched it months ago. I'm just dissapointed it didn't get any major award nominations, It's really a film that deserves the praise, American Beauty got nominated with it's dark and sexual representation of American Suburbia, which is something the Acadamy stays away from, so why couldn't Fight Club have one, I personally found that Fight Club had a more positive message than AB (PS I don't hate A.Beauty) Fight Club's the kind of film i'd take an under-17 to watch, as it has something to say, and could teach some people a thing or two.

I know a lot of people who thought that Fight Club was a film just about fighting, I knew before watching it wasn't and I hope that's not what it'll be remembered for, and it should be a film that is remembered. Fincher has 2 modern-day clasics under his belt, and that takes some doing.