"Zodiac" raves & databases
David Fincher's Zodiac (Paramount, 3.2) got two rave reviews today -- from Variety's Todd McCarthy and the Holly- wood Reporter's Michael Rechtshaffen -- and it opens a week from Friday, and yet the brainiacs at Metacritic don't even have it in their database.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 23, 2007 at 1:29 PM
comment #1
tholl-yung
says ...
"...with a reported $85 million budget, Zodiac is the first major Hollywood feature with this..." new, all digital, tapeless workflow. From now on, it's DPX files, DFR's, D.Mag's, X-SAN's, F-Dock's, LTO's, LUT's, MYSOL's, PIX's and BWF-XML's. If you want to get into filmmaking, go to computer school. What this, Dirty Harry was loosely based on Zodiac murders with a Hollywood ending, have to do with anything?
Posted by tholl-yung
at February 23, 2007 2:02 PM
comment #2
Joshua Mooney
says ...
What me worry? How old Cary Grant? What you mean? What so wrong with happy dirty ending?
Posted by Joshua Mooney
at February 23, 2007 2:12 PM
comment #3
thatmovieguy
says ...
Somehow, I'd never heard about the DIRTY HARRY connection, although they make it clear in ZODIAC with a scene in which San Francisco cops screen the film. It will be interesting to see how audiences react to ZODIAC since it's a mystery that puts the viewer in the same frustrating position of the cops and reporters working on the extremely complicated case, which was full of dead-ends and red herrings. At the screening I attended, I could sense some viewers getting a bit perturbed when a clear villain didn't emerge by a certain point, although everyone stayed in their seats and they certainly reacted to the shocks and the jokes. Several of the scenes depicting the murders were as nerve-jangling as SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. And the soundtrack is superbly creepy: I've never been a big fan of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" to begin with, but I definitely don't want to hear it again anytime soon after the way Fincher uses it in ZODIAC.
Posted by thatmovieguy
at February 23, 2007 2:30 PM
comment #4
Melquiades
says ...
I believe MetaCritic adds films only after they open.
Posted by Melquiades
at February 23, 2007 2:32 PM
comment #5
jackkerouac
says ...
Does anyone else notice how the bridge railings peeking out of the fog in the banner ads for Zodiac resemble the outline of a woman's breasts? Maybe I've just got my mind in a weird place...
Posted by jackkerouac
at February 23, 2007 4:05 PM
comment #6
John Y
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Metacritic adds film the week of their release. You'll see "Zodiac" probably added on Tues next week.
Posted by John Y
at February 23, 2007 5:59 PM
comment #7
tholl-yung
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Seriously Jack, now that I'm naked and look down and see my headlights, your observation's correct and explains why the railings are a little crosseyed, none of which I would put past a guy who co-founded Pariah Films to make commercials.
Posted by tholl-yung
at February 24, 2007 7:48 AM