he went from directing stunning music
videos to turning the origin story of a
social network into a pulsating drama
when did you come to eduardo with the
idea for Facebook it was called the
Facebook thing welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten
David Fincher movies before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’ve ranked David Fincher’s
films in order of their lasting cult
status and critical acclaim since there
are only 10 films to consider there will
be no honorable mentions that said each
title is greater than the last so sit
back and enjoy 10 alien 3 piece of
clothes so just go like this
coming into a franchise as iconic as the
alien series is tough doing so for year
Derek told debut is nigh on impossible
yes and unfortunately this project was a
mess from the get-go with various
screenwriters and directors signing on
and dropping out before he got the
project we tolerate anybody
even the Intolerable to make matters
worse
Fincher said that studio interference
prevented him from making the movie he
set out to make it’s a long sad story
more than a little melodramatic try me
though critics panned it the sci-fi
horror made over 100 million dollars
internationally and received an Oscar
nod for Best Visual Effects his
directorial work may have gotten off to
a rocky start but this flick helped
Fincher start his career as an auteur
filmmaker number nine panic room open
the door please
my roof definitely starring Jodie Foster
and a very young Kristen Stewart this
thriller was inspired by news coverage
about real panic rooms a mother and
daughter are completely cut off from the
outside world
when burglars invade their home their
phone lines are cut and they’re forced
inside their safe room
Tommy do not know the sense that the
pair is truly trapped is further
reinforced through the use of computer
effects that make it appear as though
the camera is moving through the rooms
[Music]
panic room may have received mixed
reviews but it was a commercial success
overseas and one in which Fincher
brilliantly tackles feminism video
surveillance and more tality number 8
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button my
name is Benjamin Benjamin Button
inspired by F scott Fitzgerald’s short
story this fantasy drama marked an
unexpected shift for Fincher into a
decidedly more romantic type of film
Benjamin Button is born with wrinkles
and the ailments of a very very old man
he grows up in a nursing home where he
meets Daisy the granddaughter of one of
the homes residents I never forgot her
blue eyes the to come of age on their
respective paths and are only able to
come together at the midpoint of their
lives when they both resemble the same
age meaning in the middle it’s one of
cinema’s most touching love stories and
it marks Fincher’s third collaboration
with Brad Pitt as well as his first
Oscar nomination for directing number
seven The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo I
want you to help me catch a killer of
women
when this Swedish book series came out
everyone you knew was reading it you
liked her very much she’s one of the
best investigators I have as you saw
from her report but I’m concerned you
won’t like her the dark title itself had
the power to draw people in not to
mention the occasionally debated
circumstances of the death of the author
whose books were published posthumously
I guess that must have alarmed you
turning out more than a mom you it just
sounds like the stuff Fincher’s dreams
are made of rape torture fire animals
religion by missing you know the names
[Music]
they’re all biblical starring Rooney
Mara with a no eyebrows and raven-haired
punk look the film is another example of
Fincher’s love for women with strong
morals and kick-ass intelligence if you
fail this video will spread across the
internet like a virus
it is also arguably his most stylish li
executed work earning Mara an Oscar
nomination for Best Actress are you
reading you’re nuts
encrypted face number six the game need
to fill out these forms often hailed by
critics as one of Fincher’s all-time
best this mind thriller might make you a
little paranoid are you gonna spend the
rest of the evening crying at that
clown’s mouth a banker receives a
strange gift for his birthday he’s
enrolled in a game that involves his
everyday life in bizarre ways the game
is that what this is all about and
that’s when he finds himself the victim
of a series of elaborate pranks an
excellent dark thriller this mystery
flick highlighted Fincher’s penchant for
mind games a theme he later explored in
movies like Fight Club and gone girl –
perhaps even greater effect I want to
meet the wizard number 5 gone girl cool
girl what’s that you say marriage is too
boring to be the topic of a high paced
mystery thriller well think again my
wife disappeared three days ago when his
wife disappears bar owner Nick Dunne
finds the spotlight turned on him I
didn’t kill my wife
the media examines his every move as he
tries desperately to appear concerned
about his missing partner I did not kill
my wife I am NOT a murderer did he kill
her that’s the question that’s on
everyone’s minds
Fincher once again deals with a complex
female protagonist and successfully
tackles the dark side of humans in this
movie
and of my own husband
this heart racing thriller is also a
fascinating examination on how the media
portrays crises turning every story into
tabloid material number four zodiac Isis
Paul Avery from the San Francisco
Chronicle and looking for someone to
shed some light on the letter e received
as if seven weren’t enough Fincher felt
he had to make another movie about a
serial killer Hey bullying been a year
and a half he and I are not based on the
real-life story of the notorious Zodiac
killer the plot of this mystery thriller
follows a San Francisco cartoonist who
becomes obsessed with tracking down the
murderer do you remember the zodiac in
addition to the killer cast which
includes Jake Gyllenhaal a pre Iron Man
Robert Downey jr. and Mark Ruffalo the
fact that this case still hasn’t been
solved to this day adds to the movies
lasting appeal more often than not each
cycle since 69 corresponds with an
attack with one of the letters for an
unsolved homicide number three seven we
wrote about the seven deadly sins it’s
okay if you’re a Fincher fan who still
hasn’t seen this cult classic but you
should get on that ASAP well this is
strictly to satisfy my curiosity Brad
Pitt and Morgan Freeman play homicide
detectives investigating a serial killer
whose signature is to murder his victims
according to the seven deadly sins
some kind of friggin wax sculpture or
something
Fincher combines horror and crime
thriller to perfection here creating a
film that may turn your stomach but also
keeps you totally riveted becoming a
box-office smash and garnering critical
acclaim 7 has also pushed more directors
to make movies that can make people
think as well as cash in big wanting
people to listen you can’t just tap them
on the shoulder anymore you have to hit
them with a sledgehammer number 2 Fight
Club
gentlemen welcome to Fight Club who
hasn’t heard of Fight Club technically
if you know what its first two rules are
then no one should have heard of it the
first rule of Fight Club is you don’t
talk about Fight Club
but the fact that so many people
actually do know of it serves to show
the cult following this drama inspired I
am Jack’s complete lack of surprise by
far Fincher’s most quoted and fans
celebrated film Fight Club is also a
powerful social satire did you know if
you mixed equal parts of gasoline and
frozen orange juice concentrate you can
make napalm no I did not know that is
that true that’s right the narrator is
bored of his job and his life and has a
strange obsession with Ikea like so many
others I had become a slave to the IKEA
nesting instinct he’s a social outcast
so desperate to relate to others that he
goes to various support groups he
doesn’t really belong to Bob loved me
because he thought my testicles were
removed too based on the novel by Chuck
Palahniuk the movie is arguably more
popular than the book these days which
is a rare thing in the ear number one
the social network
rather left
you wouldn’t think that a movie about
the creation of Facebook would be
especially exciting you know you really
don’t need a forensics team to get to
the bottom of this if you guys were the
inventors of Facebook you’d have
invented Facebook and many were shocked
that venture of all people would helm a
project about it relationship status
interested in this is what drives life
in college are you having sex or aren’t
you it’s why people take certain classes
and sit where they sit and do what they
do but once again the director proved
naysayers wrong and the social network
was rewarded by countless organizations
except the always conservative Academy
as 2010’s Best Picture oh yeah that
reminds me um we’re gonna need more
money tomorrow
you know I agree more servers more help
I’m interviewing two interns to come to
Palo Alto and we’re gonna have to pay
them something the social network was an
exquisitely directed and well cast film
about friendship something only Fincher
could concoct with such success as your
$19,000 I wouldn’t cash it though I drew
it on the account you froze
and the story itself had enough drama to
make things thrilling and unforgettable
and to make it number one on our list
because I’m not coming back for 30
percent I’m coming back do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
[Music]
videos to turning the origin story of a
social network into a pulsating drama
when did you come to eduardo with the
idea for Facebook it was called the
Facebook thing welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten
David Fincher movies before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’ve ranked David Fincher’s
films in order of their lasting cult
status and critical acclaim since there
are only 10 films to consider there will
be no honorable mentions that said each
title is greater than the last so sit
back and enjoy 10 alien 3 piece of
clothes so just go like this
coming into a franchise as iconic as the
alien series is tough doing so for year
Derek told debut is nigh on impossible
yes and unfortunately this project was a
mess from the get-go with various
screenwriters and directors signing on
and dropping out before he got the
project we tolerate anybody
even the Intolerable to make matters
worse
Fincher said that studio interference
prevented him from making the movie he
set out to make it’s a long sad story
more than a little melodramatic try me
though critics panned it the sci-fi
horror made over 100 million dollars
internationally and received an Oscar
nod for Best Visual Effects his
directorial work may have gotten off to
a rocky start but this flick helped
Fincher start his career as an auteur
filmmaker number nine panic room open
the door please
my roof definitely starring Jodie Foster
and a very young Kristen Stewart this
thriller was inspired by news coverage
about real panic rooms a mother and
daughter are completely cut off from the
outside world
when burglars invade their home their
phone lines are cut and they’re forced
inside their safe room
Tommy do not know the sense that the
pair is truly trapped is further
reinforced through the use of computer
effects that make it appear as though
the camera is moving through the rooms
[Music]
panic room may have received mixed
reviews but it was a commercial success
overseas and one in which Fincher
brilliantly tackles feminism video
surveillance and more tality number 8
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button my
name is Benjamin Benjamin Button
inspired by F scott Fitzgerald’s short
story this fantasy drama marked an
unexpected shift for Fincher into a
decidedly more romantic type of film
Benjamin Button is born with wrinkles
and the ailments of a very very old man
he grows up in a nursing home where he
meets Daisy the granddaughter of one of
the homes residents I never forgot her
blue eyes the to come of age on their
respective paths and are only able to
come together at the midpoint of their
lives when they both resemble the same
age meaning in the middle it’s one of
cinema’s most touching love stories and
it marks Fincher’s third collaboration
with Brad Pitt as well as his first
Oscar nomination for directing number
seven The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo I
want you to help me catch a killer of
women
when this Swedish book series came out
everyone you knew was reading it you
liked her very much she’s one of the
best investigators I have as you saw
from her report but I’m concerned you
won’t like her the dark title itself had
the power to draw people in not to
mention the occasionally debated
circumstances of the death of the author
whose books were published posthumously
I guess that must have alarmed you
turning out more than a mom you it just
sounds like the stuff Fincher’s dreams
are made of rape torture fire animals
religion by missing you know the names
[Music]
they’re all biblical starring Rooney
Mara with a no eyebrows and raven-haired
punk look the film is another example of
Fincher’s love for women with strong
morals and kick-ass intelligence if you
fail this video will spread across the
internet like a virus
it is also arguably his most stylish li
executed work earning Mara an Oscar
nomination for Best Actress are you
reading you’re nuts
encrypted face number six the game need
to fill out these forms often hailed by
critics as one of Fincher’s all-time
best this mind thriller might make you a
little paranoid are you gonna spend the
rest of the evening crying at that
clown’s mouth a banker receives a
strange gift for his birthday he’s
enrolled in a game that involves his
everyday life in bizarre ways the game
is that what this is all about and
that’s when he finds himself the victim
of a series of elaborate pranks an
excellent dark thriller this mystery
flick highlighted Fincher’s penchant for
mind games a theme he later explored in
movies like Fight Club and gone girl –
perhaps even greater effect I want to
meet the wizard number 5 gone girl cool
girl what’s that you say marriage is too
boring to be the topic of a high paced
mystery thriller well think again my
wife disappeared three days ago when his
wife disappears bar owner Nick Dunne
finds the spotlight turned on him I
didn’t kill my wife
the media examines his every move as he
tries desperately to appear concerned
about his missing partner I did not kill
my wife I am NOT a murderer did he kill
her that’s the question that’s on
everyone’s minds
Fincher once again deals with a complex
female protagonist and successfully
tackles the dark side of humans in this
movie
and of my own husband
this heart racing thriller is also a
fascinating examination on how the media
portrays crises turning every story into
tabloid material number four zodiac Isis
Paul Avery from the San Francisco
Chronicle and looking for someone to
shed some light on the letter e received
as if seven weren’t enough Fincher felt
he had to make another movie about a
serial killer Hey bullying been a year
and a half he and I are not based on the
real-life story of the notorious Zodiac
killer the plot of this mystery thriller
follows a San Francisco cartoonist who
becomes obsessed with tracking down the
murderer do you remember the zodiac in
addition to the killer cast which
includes Jake Gyllenhaal a pre Iron Man
Robert Downey jr. and Mark Ruffalo the
fact that this case still hasn’t been
solved to this day adds to the movies
lasting appeal more often than not each
cycle since 69 corresponds with an
attack with one of the letters for an
unsolved homicide number three seven we
wrote about the seven deadly sins it’s
okay if you’re a Fincher fan who still
hasn’t seen this cult classic but you
should get on that ASAP well this is
strictly to satisfy my curiosity Brad
Pitt and Morgan Freeman play homicide
detectives investigating a serial killer
whose signature is to murder his victims
according to the seven deadly sins
some kind of friggin wax sculpture or
something
Fincher combines horror and crime
thriller to perfection here creating a
film that may turn your stomach but also
keeps you totally riveted becoming a
box-office smash and garnering critical
acclaim 7 has also pushed more directors
to make movies that can make people
think as well as cash in big wanting
people to listen you can’t just tap them
on the shoulder anymore you have to hit
them with a sledgehammer number 2 Fight
Club
gentlemen welcome to Fight Club who
hasn’t heard of Fight Club technically
if you know what its first two rules are
then no one should have heard of it the
first rule of Fight Club is you don’t
talk about Fight Club
but the fact that so many people
actually do know of it serves to show
the cult following this drama inspired I
am Jack’s complete lack of surprise by
far Fincher’s most quoted and fans
celebrated film Fight Club is also a
powerful social satire did you know if
you mixed equal parts of gasoline and
frozen orange juice concentrate you can
make napalm no I did not know that is
that true that’s right the narrator is
bored of his job and his life and has a
strange obsession with Ikea like so many
others I had become a slave to the IKEA
nesting instinct he’s a social outcast
so desperate to relate to others that he
goes to various support groups he
doesn’t really belong to Bob loved me
because he thought my testicles were
removed too based on the novel by Chuck
Palahniuk the movie is arguably more
popular than the book these days which
is a rare thing in the ear number one
the social network
rather left
you wouldn’t think that a movie about
the creation of Facebook would be
especially exciting you know you really
don’t need a forensics team to get to
the bottom of this if you guys were the
inventors of Facebook you’d have
invented Facebook and many were shocked
that venture of all people would helm a
project about it relationship status
interested in this is what drives life
in college are you having sex or aren’t
you it’s why people take certain classes
and sit where they sit and do what they
do but once again the director proved
naysayers wrong and the social network
was rewarded by countless organizations
except the always conservative Academy
as 2010’s Best Picture oh yeah that
reminds me um we’re gonna need more
money tomorrow
you know I agree more servers more help
I’m interviewing two interns to come to
Palo Alto and we’re gonna have to pay
them something the social network was an
exquisitely directed and well cast film
about friendship something only Fincher
could concoct with such success as your
$19,000 I wouldn’t cash it though I drew
it on the account you froze
and the story itself had enough drama to
make things thrilling and unforgettable
and to make it number one on our list
because I’m not coming back for 30
percent I’m coming back do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
[Music]
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