this could have been awesome...

Rating: 7/10 (15 September 2005)

I auditioned for this movie, a small speaking part. I read the original script and was BLOWN OUT OF MY CHAIR. I had barely read anything - be it script, novel, what have you, that was so captivating. The original ending - was an EVERY-HAIR-ON-YOUR-BODY-JUST-STOOD-UP type moment. Michael Douglas's character is plummeting to his (probable) death in a falling elevator, while nervously reminding himself "it's a game. . .it's a game!". Brilliant. European. Art even. And then a bunch of 15 year old kids who don't know their back side from a free soda were hanging out at the UA Galaxy on Hollywood and Orange and decided to scratch out the testing cards with "LAME!". And the studio took out its gigantic pair of scissors and turned what COULD HAVE BEEN in my opinion, one of those movies that people talk about 20 years later into a half-decent TV movie. He could have just made TOUCH OF EVIL or REBECCA. Fincher could have taken a stand and had some stones. But he is a sellout! He makes movies cause he wants the Hollywood establishment to love him not because he is an artist expressing his vision. Just two of the idiotic things he has said: (paraphrasing) "I don't make low budget movies cause i can only imagine expensive movies". TRANSLATION: I don't have the talent to not rely on expensive gimmicks, set pieces and the like to create entertainment. Can you imagine Miles Davis saying I don't play music unless I got a 18-piece backing band and a 24-bit 48 track state of the art digital studio. Idiotic Quote 2: "The reason people are sick of today's movies is cause they've seen so many movies." TRANSLATION: I excuse my own failing to reach brilliance by blaming it on an oversaturated market. Now I'm not just saying this because he didn't cast me. I wasn't right for the role. But since Fight Club is like everyone on IMDb's favorite movie, this criticism needs to be heard! He did a good job with Seven though. . .