Bret Easton Ellis pitää monologin elokuvasta

Educated Americans tend to confuse morality and art, and morality for them tends to mean social consciousness which usually equals bad art.

Can’t sleep. Rarely change my mind about movies. The last time: Fincher’s ”Zodiac” which I disliked when I first saw it. Now: a masterpiece.

Zodiac: a meditation on the nature of truth and how it loses us. 3 hours of people trying to find the truth and don’t. The human condition.

Zodiac: the only two people who find the truth are in an airport and they’re not even in the movie and then it all slams shut. Devastating.

Zodiac: not even Hitchcock was this perverse or discursive. The crimes are over in the first third and then the futile search begins. Great.

Zodiac: an existential masterpiece that’s not about the crimes but about the search for meaning and the ultimate futility of that. Life…

Zodiac: I disliked it the first time because it was being sold as something it wasn’t. As a fan of Fincher that first viewing was um weird.

Zodiac: this kind of Empire film will never be made again in post-Empire on such a lavish scale even though it’s a very post-Empire movie.

Polanski’s Carnage which I just saw at an AFI screening isn’t really much of a movie (it’s a play) but it’s a masterclass in craftsmanship.

”I really don’t care about the story in a film. I think more about the painting…” Robert Altman. (1971 on ”McCabe & Mrs. Miller”)…

Fincher movie I probably dislike the most is ”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” but those scenes of a baby dying are hauntingly perverse.

The Social Network was just a job. A weekend read where Fincher said ”I’ll do it” and it doesn’t have the passion of a Fight Club or Zodiac.

But then: remember Fincher slaved over Benjamin Button for six years so let’s not kneel down to the cool cred that he got with other films.

I think Seven had a not great script and that Fincher’s artistry elevated it to something that wasn’t really deserved. I was pretty unmoved.

The trailers for ”Dragon Tattoo” are better than the totality of most movies.

The Social Network losing out to The King’s Speech was an example of sheer perfect empty craft pushing against clear-eyed emotionalism…

I loved Aliens 3…

The Game is a trick movie. Its humanist ending destroyed the menace and fear that preceded it. ”I Love My Brother” film that kinda sucked…

The Social Network was a lie: MZ creates Facebook because he was rejected by a bitchy girl? Arron Sorkin turns it into a courtroom drama.

So: MZ is lost at the end of The Social Network while The Beatles ”Baby You’re A Rich Man” plays while he has girlfriend from years ago…

THAT’S the truth? That’s the truth the move lays forth???

”Moneyball” didn’t bother me in the way ”The Social Network” bothered me despite the liberties taken.

The Empire side of The Social Network is FOR the Winklevoss twins: they represent nature, being OUTSIDE (the extended boat race sequence).

The Social Network was a 50 million dollar movie. The Kings Speech was 12 million. The budgets needed to be switched. That’s why KS won.