Mellow Gold

David Fincher movies, blockbuster hits with indie credibility. Fincher walks a fine line, creating both interesting films with a large budget, this trend is impossible to continue on. Fincher has a strong track record but Hollywood only looks at you're most recent film. If he continues taking risks he'll eventually have a flop and his budgets will drop. This creates a conundrum that is not much unlike Mr. Scorsese's a few years ago. To make the films he wants he needs a good budget, but a good budget requires him to take on less risky stories, creating a serious problems. Where his films get progressively less progressive and ultimately they become the same movie over and over again.

Today I saw his new film "Zodiac," based on the killings of the same name and I think he has reached the threshold. The movie was good but not great. His stories are going to become either a lot more edgy and indie or they are going to become a lot more self referential. I believe that the later is coming true, as much as I don't like to admit it, Zodiac was very similar to Se7en and the tone is much like Fight Club. Eventually all good things come to an end, I guess.

Who loves serial killer movies?

Out of the Mystic

What happened to the music of the late 60's and early 70's?
Did it die in Altamont?


Sure.

Come to think of it, it probably isn't dead but it's dying, specifically it's dying a slow and agonizing death. I was witness to this knell's song first hand on Tuesday at the "Van Morrison" concert.
The problem is not that his voice is worn, that his songs have become too "organized jazz," or he's gone way too into the delta blues. Well actually the Delta blues thing may be right, he's lost his Celtic spirit and his "dark side". He no longer has his Celtic sensibilities, his psychological issues, and his insecurities. He's basically lost everything that separated him from the singer song writer crowd. He no longer plays any songs from Astral Weeks his defining album, it's as if giving up alcohol and becoming religious removed the problems that defined him, certainty destroyed the wonder in his music.

Would you find me?

Sadly, not anymore.