re: Do you feel that "Seven" has held up well, after 22 years now? (obvious spoilers)

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My thoughts always go to whether Pitt's character got convicted or not

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Good question. I would assume he did have to do SOME time, but nothing crazy and was probably back on the force in no time. When the judge and jury look at the case, despite his reasoning which most people would do the same thing, he still killed a dude that was in handcuffs and unarmed and posed zero physical threat to pitt. Again I'm not saying Pitt was in the wrong here, just saying that in a court of law they would likely punish him somehow.

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I always assumed "temporary insanity" would work in this extreme instance and he got off.

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speaking of..does this ever actually work? You see it in TV/Movies all the time but do people actually go free because of this?

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speaking of..does this ever actually work?

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At the time this movie came out, yes, it was all the rage.

Now-a-days not so much as courts have evolved on the issue

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off their game

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Spacey

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Is this even possible?

Seven is chock full of awesome quotes, too:

Mills: "He's a Nut-bag! Just because the fricker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!"

Somerset (reading from John Doe's journal:
"On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing."

and, my personal favorite:

What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on / What fun we have dancing and fricking / Not a care in the world / Not knowing that we are nothing / We are not what was intended.

Yes. Seven is a film you can still sink your teeth into, in spite of it's imperfection.

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Do you feel that "Seven" has held up well, after 22 years now?

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Usual Suspects also from the same year. I watched it on TV just a few days ago and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Held up just as well as Seven has.

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Over the years, I've put 7 over Silence of the Lambs. Holds up very well.

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Me too. Lambs is still good but it just seems different watching it now.

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John Doe has the upper hand.

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For the actors, I bet reading that in the script for the first time was awesome.

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He toned down his acting somewhat over the years...after Fight Club...but early Brad Pitt now seems like over-the-top caricature.

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I'm trying to understand what this means. Toned down his acting? When he was playing on over top character(Kalifornia, Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club) he played the character as they were intended. There were others before Fight Club(A River Runs through it, Legends of the Fall, Meet Joe Black) which were more drama based and didn't seem, at least from my perspective, that he was over acting if that's the implication.

Not trying to hijack. Se7en will always be one of my all time favorites and Fincher one of my favorite directors. First movie I bought on DVD when I was a lad.

Just the story behind the opening credits is amazing