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Storyline
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970s case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmiths book, the movies focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. |
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The Director
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007), Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his 2010 film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for best director.
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Reviews of the Past: Zodiac's Unsolved Mysteries
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From December 21, 2008:
The next four non-AFI Netflix queue entries take a puzzling leap into thrillers (hey, I don't remember how I filled up my queue, I just did it). The first two are David Fincher thrillers. Of Fincher's catalog, I've only seen a few films, and I'm not sure I've seen enough of them to the point that I can definitively call myself a Fincher fan, though he has got some definite potential. I also don't feel qualified, based on what I have seen, to discuss any movie that might be called his "masterpiece" (or whether he has one still in the making). I've seen Alien 3, which I didn't really like (and neither did he, so I don't count it against him). I've seen Se7en and loved it, and want to own it, and I think I saw part of Fight Club, but I can only say I think I saw it because I might have been, er, um, under the influence at the time and can't really say one way or another. It was recommended by some friends who also recommended I try certain beverages. What can I say? I don't remember much of it or if I even liked it. Fight Club is on my queue somewhere, though, and I'll see it soon (again) enough, but until that time, Zodiac constituted the contents of my weekly red envelope because with all of the pre-release hype, I quickly became interested in the subject of it, even though it was heavily compared to Se7en. I think such a comparison was unfair, since the only common thread is a serial killer with a penchant for disturbing clues and especially since Se7en is a fictional story, while Zodiac is something of a docudrama, recreating actual historical events…but I digress.
When Zodiac was released, it dredged up all of the back-story in ...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 2nd of March 2010
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I live in California, OK, I already know the whole story... and this movie is way too long besides