Movies Tarantino vs Fincher

[GoodBadHBK]

I saw in the other thread about Fincher directing Tarantino's script and someone made the claim Fincher is a better director than Tarantino and people actually liked that post. What the H!



Tarantino
1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill
5. Death Proof
6. Inglorious Basterds
7. Django Unchained
8. The Hateful 8
9. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood




Fincher
1. Alien III
2. Se7en
3. The Game
4. Fight Club
5. Zodiac
6. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
7. The Social Network
8. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
9. Gone Girl
10. Panic Room
11. Mank
12. The Killer

Tarantino has made 9 films
Fincher has made 12 films

Even with Fincher making 3 more films I would still take Tarantino over him. I think Pulp Fiction & Kill Bill alone is better than everything Fincher has done. I think Finchers best work is 7, Fight Club & Gone Girl and I have 0 desire to rewatch any of them.

 

[HHJ]

Tarantino is obviously gonna win even though Fincher has done some great stuff.

 

[Osculater]

I can't choose so I won't vote

 

[Daverisimo]

As directors, it's close. I might even give the nod to Fincher.

As filmmakers, Tarantino easily.

 

[Adamant]

What does @Bullitt68 think?

 

[JangoMike]

Take away Tarantinos gimmicks & hes got nothing. Hes a caricature of himself at this point. Hes like Dan Brown, after about 3 of his works, the gimmick & novelty is played out.

 

[HHJ]

Take away Tarantinos gimmicks & hes got nothing. Hes a caricature of himself at this point. Hes like Dan Brown, after about 3 of his works, the gimmick & novelty is played out.

Lol Imagine people believing this horse shit

 

[Bullitt68]

What does @Bullitt68 think?

Is this a real question? Anyone who thinks that Fincher is better than Tarantino at anything is out of their mind. Well, okay, Fincher is better at making every movie look urine-stained yellow. But come on. Tarantino is one of the GOATs. Fincher's greatest accomplishments have been not fucking up the great scripts for The Social Network and Gone Girl. Tarantino literally changed media, he was an enormous cultural phenomenon unto himself, and Death Proof is the only film of his over three decades that isn't an 8/10 or higher. Not even a contest.

 

[Highway99]

Well, okay, Fincher is better at making every movie look urine-stained yellow.

You mean like this?

 

[Bullitt68]

You mean like this?

I show this scene from The Social Network in one of my classes every time...

...and every time it ends I get back into the lecture with the quip "Ah, the classic Fincher urine-stained yellow" and it always gets a laugh...because everyone knows it, his aesthetic is fucking piss. Kubrick has his slow zooms and rich compositions, Scorsese loves slow motion and the color red, Tarkovsky has his long takes and nature imagery, Kurosawa has his dynamic moving frames, Welles has his deep focus and forced perspective, Almodóvar has his wild pop art aesthetic and very vibrant colors, Wes Anderson has his symmetry and his colorful production design, Burton has his Gothic imagery...and ol' Fincher decided to call dibs on uriney yellow for his signature aesthetic.

 

[HHJ]

Related story:

Michael Biehn has never been shy about voicing his anger over how Alien 3 handled the fate of his beloved Aliens character, Corporal Dwayne Hicks — and decades later, the frustration still lingers.

On his podcast Just Foolin' About, Biehn recalled the moment he discovered that a Hicks dummy, complete with a burst-open chest, had been spotted on the Alien 3 set at Pinewood Studios.

He was blindsided. No one had informed him that the character he'd poured his heart into — alongside director James Cameron — was slated to be gruesomely and unceremoniously killed off at the very start of the sequel.

His response was visceral: “Really? That’s what they did with Hicks?” He viewed it not just as a disrespectful end to a fan-favorite character, but as an insult to the work and emotional investment he and Cameron had put into Aliens.

Biehn’s outrage escalated when Fox tried to buy his permission with a $100,000 payout to use his likeness in the film — a deal he flatly refused.

"I don't give a sh*t about the movie, one way or the other, but there's no way I'm going to [agree to this]," he said. "They started saying, 'Well, we'll pay you $100,000.' And I was like, 'No, I don't need your money.' There was no way Hicks was going to go out like that, in my mind... There's no way that that character ends up with the f***ing last image of him is laying on the ground, with some f***ing thing coming out of his chest all burst open. I said f*** that."

The back-and-forth became so heated that it culminated in a profanity-laced phone call between Biehn and then-first-time feature director David Fincher.

"I don't remember the conversation very much, except for saying, 'Well, f*** you, and f*** this f***ing movie. There was a lot of F-bombs in that conversation. Of course, I didn't know he was going to go on to become David Fincher, I was just pissed at what they had done. I can feel myself getting angry now about what they had done to Hicks. It still kind of resonates, what they thought they could do with Hicks, let alone the little girl."

 

[Aegon Spengler]

In terms of cultural impact, Fight Club adding “snowflakes” to the American lexicon might have had more of an influence…

But QT’s films are all better than Finchers single best except for Death Proof. I’d give Fight Club a win over Death Proof.

 

[Bullitt68]

In terms of cultural impact, Fight Club adding “snowflakes” to the American lexicon might have had more of an influence…

Huh? For starters, Fincher didn't write Fight Club, so he didn't add/introduce/invent anything. Besides which, Chuck Palahniuk didn't come up with "snowflake" as it's used today either. Whatever you're attributing to Fight Club, I think you missed the mark.

 

[Bullitt68]

Related story:

Michael Biehn has never been shy about voicing his anger over how Alien 3 handled the fate of his beloved Aliens character, Corporal Dwayne Hicks — and decades later, the frustration still lingers.

On his podcast Just Foolin' About, Biehn recalled the moment he discovered that a Hicks dummy, complete with a burst-open chest, had been spotted on the Alien 3 set at Pinewood Studios.

He was blindsided. No one had informed him that the character he'd poured his heart into — alongside director James Cameron — was slated to be gruesomely and unceremoniously killed off at the very start of the sequel.

His response was visceral: “Really? That’s what they did with Hicks?” He viewed it not just as a disrespectful end to a fan-favorite character, but as an insult to the work and emotional investment he and Cameron had put into Aliens.

Biehn’s outrage escalated when Fox tried to buy his permission with a $100,000 payout to use his likeness in the film — a deal he flatly refused.

"I don't give a sh*t about the movie, one way or the other, but there's no way I'm going to [agree to this]," he said. "They started saying, 'Well, we'll pay you $100,000.' And I was like, 'No, I don't need your money.' There was no way Hicks was going to go out like that, in my mind... There's no way that that character ends up with the f***ing last image of him is laying on the ground, with some f***ing thing coming out of his chest all burst open. I said f*** that."

The back-and-forth became so heated that it culminated in a profanity-laced phone call between Biehn and then-first-time feature director David Fincher.

"I don't remember the conversation very much, except for saying, 'Well, f*** you, and f*** this f***ing movie. There was a lot of F-bombs in that conversation. Of course, I didn't know he was going to go on to become David Fincher, I was just pissed at what they had done. I can feel myself getting angry now about what they had done to Hicks. It still kind of resonates, what they thought they could do with Hicks, let alone the little girl."

One of the worst sequels in any franchise ever. It only adds insult to injury that it's a sequel to one of the greatest sequels in any franchise ever. Cameron did the sequel thing so right, then Fincher did it so wrong.

 

[HHJ]

One of the worst sequels in any franchise ever. It only adds insult to injury that it's a sequel to one of the greatest sequels in any franchise ever. Cameron did the sequel thing so right, then Fincher did it so wrong.

There were serious missteps indeed, but I still like Alien 3 more than Resurrection, Prometheus and Covenant. ( I have not seen Romulus yet but may watch it tonight )

I found the last part of the movie when it is chasing them through the maze, great entertainment.

 

[TCE]

Is this a serious question? The fuck?

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Is this a serious question? The fuck?

It is when I see someone post Fincher is a better director than Tarantino and I see theres others who agree. To me it's not even close.

 

[HHJ]

It is when I see someone post Fincher is a better director than Tarantino and I see theres others who agree. To me it's not even close.

Instead of making a poll, just destroy those people with weaponized threads and posts.

 

[fingercuffs]

Yeah I'm buggered either way, adore so many movies from both.

 

[fingercuffs]

The Social Network won God Reznor an Oscar but Hollywood won God Brad an Oscar. On the fence.