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druss44121-1 — 13 years ago(February 09, 2013 12:23 PM)
I've seen almost all the movies mentioned here, and the only one that comes close to similar to Zodiac and feel and the epic scope is JFK.
All the President's Men is good, but it's much different. Part of the reason Zodiac works is it was made after the fact, like JFK, so it's not made within the exact same culture that it takes place in. Zero Dark Thirty is not like Zodiac either, for this same reason, plus the filmmaking behind both Zodiac and JFK is special. Zodiac with it's great use of CGI and setting, JFK with its editing and varied use of film stock.
Basically, if you haven't seen JFK, watch it. As Zodiac is about why serial killers fascinate us as a society and as people, JFK is about why conspiracy theories exist (because they make for great storytelling, and play on things that will likely always remain uncertain). -
Clemencedane — 12 years ago(January 12, 2014 10:43 PM)
This may seem like a strange choice, but I highly recommend the film
Cruising
for a similar feeling, as well as a psychological portrait of the way a series of unsolved murders slowly change the detective investigating them. It's late 70s Manhattan (even if it was released in 1980), but has a similar dark, period feel, a shifting kaleidoscope of suspects, as well as mounting, unresolved tension and mystery. Two of the few films that have truly given me the creeps. And it takes a LOT to do so, unfortunately.
I was reminded of
Cruising
just now when I was reading this description of
Zodiac
on the WordPress blog Weminoredinfilm.com:
Its a film about the spellbinding, haunting aspects of an unsolved crime, but is not about the crime itself. Its a film about characters who venture down a rabbit hole, chasing an elusive monster in the dark, and the tolls such a pursuit takes. For a film about obsession, its as much a film about what happens to the obsessed when their drives go unsatisfied.
I would apply this same description to
Cruising
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airwalks — 11 years ago(October 19, 2014 07:34 AM)
I agree! I noticed especially that the zodiac killer was played by several different actors in the film, as was "the killer," whoever or whatever that may be, in Cruising.
Most critics completely missed the point of Cruising.
For some thoughtful analysis of this film,
http://www.rouge.com.au/3/friedkin.html
and also another article I read called "The Sound of Violence." -
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Jotauvece — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 08:10 AM)
Prisoners
http://www.imdb.com/board/11392214/ -
Fergoose — 11 years ago(July 30, 2014 01:21 PM)
Apologies if it's been named above but (with an outstanding Stephen Rea) is a similar and earlier film about a (real) Russian serial killing. I preferred it to Zodiac and bizarrely it never got a cinema release despite actors like Donald Sutherland and Max von Sydow.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10112681/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_74 -
Pennst411 — 11 years ago(November 30, 2014 05:47 PM)
Didn't go through all the posts to see if anyone mentioned it, but Memories of Murder is one that comes to mind. It's a Korean film which I thought was similar to Zodiac.
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