The Game
For some reason, David Fincher always gets incredibly uninteresting women in his movies. (I have only watched Seven and Fight Club so far though.) If Helen Bonham Carter wasn’t so sexually unattractive to me, I’d be sure I would have found her line “There are things about you that I like. You’re smart, you’re funny, you’re… spectacular in bed… But you’re intolerable!” very intriguing. Gwyneth Paltrow was still the best of them – and she had some “stupid woman in love” role. Some movie critic was right when he said that David Fincher’s world is predominantly male. What a sad thing that I didn’t notice it myself.
The fact that their names are a little bit similar (Milkmaster always forgets if it was “Finch” or “Fincher”), I always feel like associating Fincher’s movies with Lynch’s. Lynch, however, always features women as key figures – and even makes them protagonists in Mulholland Drive, for example. On top of that, his women are all very sexy. At the same time, Fincher’s movies are never confusing and the end turns out to be clear while Lynch, well, you know what I mean.
What I loved about this movie was the portrait of the main character (most definitely Michael Douglas’ achievement). Actually, his character feels a little bit like Ebenezer Scrooge O.o
What I disliked about this movie is that it actually wasn’t as suspenseful as the other Fincher movies. On top of that, it lacked the meaningfulness of Fight Club as well as the psychological intensity of Seven.
The end, however, was very good. This end was not soiled by Brad Pitt’s bad acting, but was into the hands of some actors who played their role well in the crucial scenes.
All in all, it’s sad, but basically this movie did not succeed in making me forget the unlucky events of this day. It’s sad on the one hand because I don’t feel better and and on the other hand because I think I can’t really give a serious, objective opinion about the movie – which I believe is actually a very good one.
PS. I like Armin Müller-Stahl. I know somebody who says he’s an arrogant idiot, but oh I like his acting.