movingtarget said:
I thought she was good in Girl Interrupted and a few other movies but she may turn out to be a better director than an actress. Her directing efforts have been pretty good. The Bone Collector of course wasn't in the class of the other two movies. Pretty mediocre, a B movie with an A list cast and budget. Of the three I think Seven was the best and possibly David Fincher's best movie as well. I thought Fincher's, Fight Club was overrated but it was good in parts.
Funny you should mention Fincher, I thought about watching Zodiac again (which I thought was okay enough), but seeing as I had already seen in it a couple of times I passed on it. And I did see Fight Club a long time ago, but that's about all I remember about that movie. :Neutral:
Having passed on Zodiac I watched The Departed again last night instead (saw it a long time ago)... clearly Scorsese had too much of a budget to play with because he just didn't seem to know when to say when. The rest of the star actors I didn't mind too much, but if he had just passed on Jack Nicholson, I tired of Nicholson a long time ago. His character was just so cartoonish and over-the-top, apparently Nicholson himself had some input about the scenes he was in, and it showed.
Aside from that Marty had me for the first couple of hours (except for the aforementioned Nicholson), but then he lost me with the last part. That bloodbath at the end was just so silly and unnecessary, way to ruin a halfway feasible situation.
PS - I'm always amazed when I read viewers' reviews where they complain about violence and foul language, well, you just watched a movie about cops and the mob - what I kind of language did you expect? (I truly believe they do talk like that irl, something to do with having to prove their manhood to their colleagues and whatnot.)