Fincher is great, but Wright just has way too many bangers for me to put Fincher ahead.
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Yeah I havenāt seen most of those. Scott Pilgrim was really good/great, Baby Driver was decent.
You havenāt seen the Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Worldās End?)
No. At Worldās End I hadnāt heard of. The other two are on the watchlist.
Move em up, imo. Shaun is a brilliant horror satire, and Hot Fuzz is my current favorite movie.
Shaun of the Dead has been on a bit of a hold for me simply because I still havenāt been able to see 1978 Dawn of the Dead and I assumed that meant it would be spoofing things I hadnāt seen. And Dawn of the Dead seems to still be in rights hell where I canāt see it even if I shelled out money to rent it. Itās available nowhere, including my library that has nearly everything. Frustrating shit; I realize itās supposed to be a must-see.
Anyway, Iāll get to these things.
The only problem with Fincher is taking the bag from Netflix and doing just stuff for them the last 6 years.
In a clip shared by Raiders of the Lost Podcast, Nolan told Dune director Denis Villeneuve: āFor me, I donāt think it says too much to say that if Dune: Part One was Star Wars, this to me is very much The Empire Strikes Back, which is my favorite of the Star Wars films. I just think itās an incredibly exciting expansion of all of the things you introduce in the first one.ā
Since then the comparisons to the eighties classic have just kept coming in - our own reviewer Kevin Harley in the Total Film review of Dune: Part Two described the film as āa sequel that ranks alongside The Dark Knight and The Empire Strikes Backā.
I feel a mix of real anticipation for Dune 2 alongside a pre-annoyance that the world is going to come together and nestle it in alongside The Dark Knight in the IMDb rankings as two of the top five films ever created.
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I dunno about that. Dune Part One isnāt in the IMDB top 250.
Seeing shit like this was putting it in my head:
Admittedly, I should have gone to see the number of votes propping it up before actually fearing weād have a Dark Knight fiasco.
So yeah, that sample size is nothing and youāre probably right. I do expect based on the hype that it will be, at minimum, really good, and hopefully great.
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What if it really is that good though?
What if itās really one of the best five films ever created? Iām in favor of that. Iām also in favor of myself winning the lottery. (I regret my choices in creating this very hypothetical scenario. I no longer believe itās going to Dark Knight the top of the IMDb rankings.)
Cheers if either happens 
Villeneuve might be my favorite current director, i havenāt seen his early french films but heās batting 1.000 from Prisoners on.
Scorsese comes to mind for me too. Iāve enjoyed most Fincher but I havenāt seen some of the post 2000 stuff.
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I think Fincherās apex mountain will ultimately prove to be Gone Girl in 2014. He was coming off a rush of hits and then delivered a series-long aesthetic on all levels for House of Cards. But since then Iāve had no taste for Mank or Killer.
Dune (2021)
āThereās a shot that Iām really fond of. We see his (Paulās) first footsteps in the desert. Time becomes still, and I tried to create it as if it was like the first footstep of the man on the moon. Itās the idea that a character will suddenly immerse himself in a new dimension, stepping into the unknown and feeling the compression of time in that moment where you just follow one footstep after the other. The camera is just above the sand, and then you see him kneeling in the sand and grabbing up a scoop of sand in his hand.Thereās something so honest about feet and hands in the way itās absolutely pure. I love shots of hands for that. Itās like thereās something there. You cannot lie. Itās like a direct relationship with reality. The action and reality conveyed by the hands I love.ā
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If dune 2 is as good as the reviews, Villeneuve is in the running for greatest run of films ever. Has he made one bad movie?
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Villeneuve hasnāt really missed, but Iām not near as enamored with his stuff as others seemingly are. Unless Dune 2 gets there, I donāt think heās really approached elite film status in any of his works. I see a bunch of stuff ranging from decent to good, ranging up toward really good with Sicario and Prisoners. Arrival was fine. Original Dune was fine.
I donāt think this run is anywhere on the level of, e.g., Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And I wasnāt much of a fan of Hateful Eight.
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