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Yeah, she's wonderful. And she's perfectly fine in this, as is Knightley. But it's just such a blah piece of filmmaking.

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The Boston Strangler was also a film in 1968 with an against-type Tony Curtis as DiSalvo. It's been a while but I want to say it uses a lot of split screen (an amusing way to tell a movie was made more-or-less exactly between 1965 and 1972) and was OK not great.

Also, I'm going to go out on a dangerous limb and admit to a bunch of internet movie fans that the second half of Zodiac bored me

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Zodiac is one of those movies that I consider "pretty good" which to many people sounds like I hate it.

I think it's Fincher's second-best serial killer movie.

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One thing you can say about David Fincher is that there’s no substitute. I’ll wait and see if he makes his own version of the story. Great review, Scott!

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It's been years since I've seen Zodiac, but one scene still sticks with me because it's just so damn amazing -- there's a car crash and it's in slomo and the camera is like panning from the INSIDE? I was amazed then, and I'm still amazed now.

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I should note that family obligations kept both Keith and myself from seeing SHAZAM 2 for review this week. For this, we apologize to you and thank our families.

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Accept no substitutes for David Fincher?

Memories of Murder has entered the chat.

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Dammit, you're right. Though MoM is so damn funny.

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