David Fincher

Fincher's brilliant fusion of style and substance created a thought-provoking, bloody experience that was worshiped and criticized for its takes on movies, manhood, violence and corporate culture.

I realized I'd been tricked by Button's digital performance, so I spoke to a number of other working visual effects people and almost all of them were fooled, too.

Whatever the film's merits, I expect Revolutionary Road to do utterly dismal box office here on the home front.

The good news is that, aside from offering seamless visual effects, David Fincher's new film is nothing like Forrest Gump. It is at once enchanting and emotional, sweeping and intimate.

What unfolds is episodic and at times a bit long, but a good deal of the sequences are quite original, some very funny, most important extremely intriguing, much of which holds our attention.

"It's hugely important that we don't fall into the trap of saying, 'Oh, it's going to be harder to raise money.'"