Tier 1

• Se7en (1995)
• Zodiac (2007)
• The Social Network (2010)

Tier 2

• Fight Club (1999)
• Gone Girl (2014)

Tier 3

• The Game (1997)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• Panic Room (2002)
• The Killer (2023)

Tier 4

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Tier 5

• Alien³ (1992)

Haven't Seen

• Mank (2020)

Have only seen Tiers 1-3 all

Rank those bad boys

Ranking from what I’ve seen

Se7en
Social Network
Fight Club
Gone Girl
Zodiac
The Game

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the last 3

Maturing is realizing fight club and se7en is not Davis fincher best work with that being said I would do
Social Network
Zodiac
Se7en
Fight club
Gone girl
The game
The curious case of Benjamin button
Panic room
Girl with a dragon tattoo
Mank
Alien3

The trailer for the killer looks f***ing awesome

1. Zodiac (10/10. A top 15 film ever made as far as I'm concerned)

2. The Social Network (9/10. One of the all time great screenplays mixed with prime Fincher direction)

3. Se7en (9/10. Peak 90s noir aesthetic in a way no one else has ever been able to come close to)

4. Gone Girl (9/10. IMO the best direction of Fincher's career. Took pretty shoddy and bland material and through pure elite craftsmanship and visual language added a whole thematic layer that turns it into one of the great murder mystery films of our time)

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (8/10. I'll always love this movie just for the prime Fincher vibes and aesthetics even if movie does meander)

6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (8/10. Very underrated imo. It does feel a bit too Forrest Gump at times but gotta respect Fincher for making this material as engaging as it is)

7. The Killer (7.5/10. I'll be honest, this is way better than I expected. Kind of minor narratively but I just miss Fincher's thriller aesthetic and it is masterfully on display here. There is definitely a shade of disposability around the whole thing but it's also just a really fun and at times insightful work)

8. Fight Club (7/10. Gotta give respect where it's due that even though this fell into a lot of the problems I have with other seriously edge works of its time that it is iconic as s*** and more memorable than many of its copycats)

9. The Game (5/10. Not much to say on this one. Kind of just decent and a good Douglas performance)

10. Panic Room (4/10. Nice opening shot aside, this is bland as s***)

11. Alien 3 (4/10. The worldbuilding and the concept for the first hour or so was really cool. Everything after is dogshit though.)

12. Mank (1/10. Get this trash outta here and f*** Netflix)

If Fincher doesn’t claim Alien 3 then I don’t count it either

That being said, he’s probably my favorite director so I couldn’t rank his films… except for Mank. I’d place it last.

Zodiac

Se7en
Facebook
The game
Panic Room

The rest

I can see that for Fight Club. It's kind of stuck in the 90s. Still a great movie but a bit dated

Se7en tho is a genre staple for neo-noir and legit made several incredible careers from Pitt to Freeman to Fincher. Kevin Spacey's finest and most fitting role as well. Incredible world building. Perfectly shot. Challenged the studio system at the time.

of the ones I've seen:

• Zodiac
• Social Network
• Dragon Tattoo
• Gone Girl
• Se7en
• Fight Club
• Wank

I still gotta watch se7en...

The Social Network
Fight Club
Zodiac

Gone Girl

Dragon Tattoo
Panic Room
...

Mank

I remember totally resisting the twist in Fight Club when I first saw it, but then I realized how influential it was, and how its imitators would forever live in its shadow
It's why I couldn't get into Mr Robot tbh

I still think Brad Pitt beating himself up and falling down the stairs looks ridiculous, but I go with it

Mank was utterly terrible..But he made it for his father, so it’s kind of understandable

Super high hopes for The Killer

Social network my fav ever probably

better than jason reitman making those new ghostbusters for his dad i bet

I don't understand how you can like Gone Girl the movie and not appreciate Gone Girl the book
I actually felt like something was lost because you can't do the diary framing device the same way in the different medium

The Social Network
Zodiac

Rest mid

I found the diary framing element of the book very cheesy and trashy and I think that was ultimately my issue with the novel where it felt very reliant on being this trashy fast food twisty s***fueled murder mystery. Yes, the themes of gender roles, media exploitation, etc. are still there in the book but it feels a lot more heavy handed as a whole.

What makes Fincher's version so elite is in the visual language. How even just simple shots like the one of showing Amy's diary and the multiple pens around it before anything is revealed says so much already or even just how incredible a visual sequence the whole s***scene between Amy and Desi is. But I think ultimately Fincher focuses on the themes of the novel a lot more than just being a straightforward murder mystery which the novel often felt reliant on itself being through its narrative tactics. Everything about Fincher's version just seems so much more visually ingrained around the dark humor and ridiculousness of its plot, its contempt for its main characters (in a much more subtle way than the book), and finally just how much can really be derived out of its fascinating shot composition

My impression was that the movie was just as trashy
Especially everything involving Neil Patrick Harris
I find it more fun in the book
Also, smart, but I could see how you could find it heavy handed
The movie's version of Amy felt a bit cold, like they were playing up the femme fatale thing too much
I gotta watch it again tho
I was slightly underwhelmed cause this is one of the best teasers I've ever seen

Fincher has the most perfect trailers
Ben Affleck casting was such an inspired choice tho, I'll say that

1. Zodiac
2. Everything else

The Game is the best.

I think the book doesn't want to act like its material is trashy when it 100% is and that is why I found it derivative.

Fincher knows the material is trashy and he doesn't shy away from it (literally casting Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris in very self aware roles that allow them to point how the insanity of the story) and I think that is what makes it work so well. It allows Fincher to make fun of how stupid the story really is while putting that as the focus of the films themes of media sensationalism, gender roles and I think seeing those themes highlighted in a film works so well because of how these characters are literally acting on screen to play the roles that will help them achieve what they want. Hell, Fincher does the exact same thing with his direction and storytelling techniques to make it clear to the audience what he is choosing to show at the time he does it because of how he wants the characters to be perceived.

ok, I hear you, I've been meaning to give it a rewatch

se7en
social network
gone girl
fight club
zodiac

Flight club
Social network
Girl with the dragon tattoo
Gone girl
Seven
Zodiac