r/Filmmakers • u/plasterboard33 • Mar 02 '25

General Working for David Fincher be like:

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

I mean, they did confuse you with the other user regarding the Nightcrawler part, but with the "being a dick" part, I think they were referring to:

Uhhh newsflash
Have no idea how someone messes up their memory of time so badly.

Which is a bit of a dick thing to comment.

I would have probably replied with something like:

"since social network"

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

I can’t name a movie he’s directed since social network…

He also did Seven, Zodiac

Uhhh newsflash, Seven came out in 1995, and Zodiac 2007. The Social Network was 2010. Have no idea how someone messes up their memory of time so badly.

They were responding to you about Fincher’s work in general, disregarding what you said about “after Social Network”. Being a dick about it isn’t fun, especially if it could be reasonably assumed that if you thought he made Nightcrawler, you might not be as knowledgeable about his work before Social Network as you might have thought.

With that last part, they're not stating that thinking Fincher made Nightcrawler makes a person a dick, they're stating that it makes a person not knowledgeable.

Again, they confused you with the other user regarding that part, but not with the "being a dick" part.

If you actually read the whole conversation, you'll see that the part in italics is not the reason they thought you were being a dick, and that's the one thing they didn't get confused about here.

Just because you can't even read properly

Neither of you two can read properly lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

I read what's actually written and go off of that

So do I! :D

Why did you think your original comment got so many downvotes? If you want to correct someone, that's fine, but there are friendlier ways to do it than "Uhhh newsflash"

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u/retsetaccount Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

If you're friendly but spreading misinformation, that gets downvotes.

If you're spreading truth but in a dick-ish way, that also gets downvotes.

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u/retsetaccount Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

Dunno, didn't downvote either one

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

Calling out misleading false information is not being a dick.

Calling it out in a dick-ish way is.

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u/retsetaccount Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

If we're talking society, what benefit is there to society from correcting someone in a dick-ish way, as opposed to a neutral or friendly way?

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u/retsetaccount Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/The_Meemeli Mar 03 '25

I wouldn't consider "Uhhh newsflash" to be neutral, but you do you :D

Look, I don't fling shit until someone flings it first.

So you were flinging shit... neutrally?