Seriously, that is one of the weirdest theories I've ever heard, Der Langhaarige

That sort of shit drives me up the freakin' wall, and it's why I rarely pay any attention to the reviews on this site. The movie news--all well and good. The reviews--worthless (excepting Vern and most of McWeeny's).

If the movie is "totally different" from MEMORIES OF MURDER and also be "very similar." Everything that follows from that sentence is gibberish.

Rant over.

Zodiac ain't no genius, that's for sure. Clever, yes. But, deluded into mistaking his own cleverness for superiority.

I have a t-shirt with the Zodiac on it (in the hood with the pistol) and on the back it has the transcription of his "I like killing people" cryptogram. I'm wearing it to the theater. Hey, he asked people of SF back in the day to wear "nice little" Zodiac buttons.

I imagine I will enjoy this greatly.

You're raving, sir. People are either fucked up weirdos who want to kill people, or they're not. A film isn't going to magically turn one kind of person into the other.

of course everyone is biased, that's obvious. Harry went through that streak last summer where he absolutely loved every film he reviewed, and there were some real stinkers in there (idlewild). He's nowhere near the worst though, Empire has that prize. I remember them publishing a second review of attack of the clones justifying the overinflated rating they gave it- and the justification was that they had to give it 5 stars as The phantom menace got 4.

having said that I'm biased as hell and will be shelling out for this as Fincher is a genius. Even Alien 3- You heard me, FUCK NEWT- good riddance, (not as good as Alien or Aliens, but better than Alien Resurrection and AvP)

I really expected to open this and read five paragraphs about how you ate raw meat and drank bloody marys while doing the Zodiac dance, but you got right to it. Nice job.

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And, Mori/Drew, don't start defending Harry in response to this post. I'm just stating that there was a time when some egregious behavior was noticed by many and it engendered a lot of Anti-Harry sentiment. The hyperbolic vitriol spewed by Ron Wells only exacerbated it. Note that Film Threat no longer has his "expose" articles archived.

As for Zodiac, I loved it, and I'll enjoy it even more when I watch it again on dvd. There is SO MUCH information in the movie that its almost impossible to catch everything the first time. Yet, its a sign of Fincher's genius that even missing a good amount of the information doesn't prohibit you from keeping up with the "plot"...it just ensures that the film will get better with each subsequent viewing. And I can't wait for that!

One aspect of this film that I don't think has been adequately conveyed by any review I've read is the enormous CAST of this movie. You can't go 10 minutes in this film without another GREAT actor showing up.

"Look, its Philip Baker Hall!"

"Look! Its Clea Duvall!"

"Look! Its the guy from MadTV and Little Miss Sunshine!"

Boy, have I missed David Fincher. Along with PTA, Fincher is one of the MIA directors whose absence for the past few years has REALLY bummed me out. Its so great to have him back, and in top form.

This is Fincher's All The President's Men (with dashes of JFK and the GOOD elements of Summer of Sam thrown in for good measure), and in my opinion it works almost as well as that film.

This isn't Fight Club...it doesn't scream out for attention. Zodiac is a true "sleeper", a film that got lost in the shuffle bewteen Wild Hogs and 300. But this film will have life on dvd, and when people get the chance to unravel this complex mystery at their own pace, this film will take its place next to Fincher's finest work.

One last thing...the period detail in thes film is worth the price of admission. There's something so magical about seeing the 70's recreated in this way. You can almost smell the cigarette smoke in the movie theater lobbies and restaurants, a ghostly reminder of a forgotten time in which a forgotten killer stalked his prey. This film is, for me, about the 1970's every bit as much as it is about a serial killer...about the kind of society in which a fascination with this kind of individual could flourish. In stark contrast to our modern age, in which news reports of the BTK killer make us only want to change the channel in aggravation (there's a President lying to us daily, after all), this film astutely showcases the manner in which the inherent limitations of communication (in both mass media and person-to-person interactions) simultaneously stimulates public interest while curtailing efficient police work. Its a MUCH deeper film than even the brilliant trailer leads one to believe.

See it!!