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Christopher Nolan vs David Fincher - Film by film

JonathanKent

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Pretty simple premise. Both have directed almost exactly the same amount of feature films. Both are staples of 00s/10s in their respective genres. Chronologically film by film. Which film do you prefer.

Alien³ vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

Feel free to copy and paste and then just put the film you prefer in bold.
 
Pretty simple premise. Both have directed almost exactly the same amount of feature films. Both are staples of 00s/10s in their respective genres. Chronologically film by film. Which film do you prefer.

Alien³ vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network
vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl
vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

Feel free to copy and paste and then just put the film you prefer in bold.

Alien 3 (haven't seen Following)
Se7en
Insomnia (haven't seen The Game)
Fight Club
The Prestige
Zodiac
Inception
The Social Network
Interstellar
Gone Girl
Mank (haven't seen Tenet)

David Fincher - 7
Christopher Nolan - 4

Fincher wins.
 
Alien³ vs Following (I haven't seen Following.)
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet (I haven't seen either.)
 
Alien³ vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game
vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network
vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet
 
Alien³ vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

7-4

Nolan wins.
 
Some of these are in a tie...

Alien³
vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

Fincher - 4

Tied - 3

Nolan - 4
 
Two of my favourite directors alive.

Alien³ vs Following (Haven't seen Alien³)
Se7en vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button vs Inception (Haven't seen Benjamin Button)
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar (Refuse to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake)
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet (Haven't seen Mank)

Christopher Nolan - David Fincher: 4-3
 
Alien³ vs Following
Se7en vs Memento
The Game
vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room
vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception -- Not seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl
vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet -- Not seen either

So of those I've seen, Nolan wins 6 - 3.
 
Alien³ vs Following
...easily
Se7en vs Memento
...close
The Game vs Insomnia
....easily
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
easily...
Panic Room vs The Prestige
easily...
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
nail-bitter...
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. vs Inception
easily...
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises
...easily
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
...nail-bitter
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
...nail-biter
Mank vs Tenet
close, but...

6 to 5, for Fincher.

Pretty crazy, because I also think Interstellar/Dunkirk are damn near perfect - Yet Dragon Tattoo/Gone Girl have more to go back to.

Putting a legendary comic-book film up against Zodiac (which is in my top 10 of all-time), was rough.
 
Alien 3 > Following
Se7en >>> Memento
The Game >>> Insomnia
Fight Club < Batman Begins (very close)
Panic Room <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< The Prestige
Zodiac < The Dark Knight (tough)
Benjamin Button <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Inception
The Social Network >>>>>>>>>>>> The Dark Knight Rises
Dragon Tattoo >>>>>>>>>>>>> Interstellar
Gone Girl > Dunkirk
Mank >>>>>> Tenet

Fincher: 7
Nolan: 4

Strong win for Fincher, but Nolan defeats some of his strongest films. So not an overwhelming win.
 
You really have to just like one over the other because they're both insanely cerebral and taskmasters regarding their craft. I like Nolan but Fincher wins out for simply sometimes taking garbage concepts and making them work.
 
Alien³ vs Following
Se7en
vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network
vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl
vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

I haven't seen Mank, but I am fairly sure I would like it more than Tenet. Hated Tenet. Thought it was easily Nolan's worst film and was genuinely terrible.

That said....5-5 tie
 
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Alien3 < Following
Se7en > Memento
The Game > Insomnia
Fight Club < Batman Begins
Panic Room < The Prestige
Zodiac < The Dark Knight
Curious Case = Inception
Social Network = The Dark Knight Rises
Dragon Tattoo < Interstellar
Gone Girl = Dunkirk
Mann = Tenet

Fincher: 6
Nolan : 9
 
This is a really good idea for a comparison thread, big ups to the OP.

Alien³ vs Following = Following and it's not close. Alien 3 is awful.

Se7en vs Memento = this is close, I'm really not sure as both has a pretty amazing sequence of twists and turns . Se7en is more disturbing , almost a horror film, whereas Memento turns your brain inside out.


The Game vs Insomnia = Hmmmm... the Game seems like a bit of a gimmick, whereas Insomnia has a great performance from Robin Williams against type. Insomnia.

Fight Club vs Batman Begins = wow. The film that saved Batman against one of the most subversive films of all time. Have to say Fight Club is the deeper film.

Panic Room vs The Prestige= The Prestige, no question, David Bowie as Tesla alone is worth watching it for. A real magic trick and very underrated IMO .

Zodiac vs the Dark Knight= Hard to compare in some ways as TDK is more fantasy, but its one of my all time favorite films whereas Zodiac is a bit stock serial killer, so TDK .

The Curious Case.. vs Inception = no contest, Inception takes this easily. Benjamin Button's central premise is too ridiculous for me and the ending anticlimactic vs one of the greatest ambiguous movie endings ever.

The Social Network
vs The Dark Knight Rises = Weird comparison, as one's an action film the other a drama.. Sorkin's writing elevates the Social Network so while TDKR is good, Social Network is better, more about Sorkin than Fincher though.


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar.
Interstellar
easily.

Gone Girk vs Dunkirk. Dunkirk, better storytelling and a powerful historical basis.

Mank vs Tenet: haven't seen Mank, but Tenet was a Nolan misstep.


Nolan = 7 Fincher = 3
 
Alien³ vs Following
Se7en
vs Memento
The Game vs Insomnia
Fight Club vs Batman Begins
Panic Room vs The Prestige
Zodiac
vs The Dark Knight
The Curious Case.. vs Inception
The Social Network
vs The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk
Mank vs Tenet

Fincher = 8, Nolan = 3

Fincher is more consistent and has better characters—especially women.
 
I'll just look at movies I consider classics.

There are three: Se7en, Fight Club and The Dark Knight.

So Fincher wins imo.
 
I believe that their careers are roughly going the same, with some classics, missteps and great films.

Each director has directed: 3 classics, 2 fantastic movies, 3 pretty good movies and 3 decent movies in my opinion.

Fincher's classics: Zodiac, Fight Club and Se7en

Nolan's classics: Memento, Inception and The Dark Knight

Fincher's fantastic movies: Gone Girl and The Social Network

Nolan’s fantastic movies: The Prestige and Batman Begins

Fincher's pretty good films: The Game, Benjamin Button and Dragon Tattoo

Nolan's pretty good films: Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk

Fincher's low ends: Mank, Alien 3 and Panic Room

Nolan's low ends: Tenet, Insomnia and Following.

Also I think fans of one filmmaker will most likely also be fans of the other. So, phrased another way, this is basically asking the question: if you have a chance to see one of these movies again what would you chose, and which filmmaker's filmography is the one you think is better film by film? The one you name should be your answer in this thread.
 
Wait? You mean in a thread about choice, I should he choosing the guy I like more??? Madness!!!!

I am half kidding, but I don't think that needed specified. It is a vs thread. Kind of is obvious given what a vs thread entails.
 
Alien 3 vs Following = Following by a thousand miles
Se7en vs Memento = Se7en by a hair
The Game vs Insomnia = The Game
Fight Club vs Batman Begins = Fight Club
Panic Room vs The Prestige = The Prestige easily
Zodiac vs The Dark Knight = The Dark Knight easily
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button vs Inception = Inception easily
The Social Network vs The Dark Knight Rises = The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs Interstellar = Interstellar by a hair
Gone Girl vs Dunkirk = Gone Girl by a hair
Mank vs Tenet = Tenet easily

4 - 7
Nolan wins
 

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