Great:
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Social Network
3. Zodiac
4. Memento
5. Inception

Really good:
6. Se7en
7. Fight Club
8. Batman Begins

Good:
9. The Prestige
10. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Decent:
11. Following
12. The Game

Meh:
13. Panic Room
14. Alien 3

Well, Nolan's never made a film as bad as The Game, Benjamin Button or A3, and TDK/Memento rank up there with the absolute best Fincher could ever conceive or creating.

So, Nolan.

Great
Se7en
The Social Network

Very Good
Fight Club
Batman Begins
Panic Room
Inception

Good/Decent
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Meh
Zodiac
The Dark Knight Rises

Bad
The Game
Alien 3

Not Seen
Following
Memento
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Winner: David Fincher

Hmm, by my calculation your winner should be Nolan:

"Bad" cancels out the "great"for Fincher. Both have an equal number of films under "Meh" and under "Very Good",. but Nolan has one more under "Good/Decent"

Inception, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Prestige

vs.

Se7en, Fight Club, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Nolan wins.

Make this a three-way battle and Bay would trump them both.

Nolan
Memento- 10/10
Insomnia- 7/10
Batman Begins- 8/10
The Prestige- 8/10
The Dark Knight- 7.5/10
Inception- 8/10
The Dark Knight Rises- 8.5/10

Overall- 57/70 (81.4)

Fincher
Alien 3 (Kind of a wash but I'll do Producers Cut)- 6.5/10
Seven- 9/10
The Game- 8.5/10
Fight Club- 9/10
Panic Room- 7/10
Zodiac- 10/10
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- 8/10
The Social Network- 7.5/10

Overall- 81.9 (84.2 Without Alien 3)

It's kind of hard for me to count Alien 3 as a Fincher film. Almost half the footage he shot was cut (As we've seen in the producers cut the scenes they found add a lot) and he had no say in the final product. So even though Memento is my 3rd favorite film of all time, and overall a more consistent director, Fincher gets my vote. Very close match up though. I'd like to see either of them really take a chance down the line out of their comfort zone.

In the top half (decent and upwards) Fincher has 5. Nolan has 3.

Nolan makes larger scale and more commercial films. If he solely focused on small scale artsy stuff he would trump Finch with ease.

1. Zodiac
2. Se7en
3. The Social Network
4. The Prestige
5. The Dark Knight

6. Memento
7. Inception
8. Batman Begins
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. Fight Club
11. The Dark Knight Rises
12. Insomnia
13. Panic Room
14. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
15. The Game

(not a bad film in the bunch)

Not Seen
Alien 3

The Top 5 are just brilliant. Fincher reaches higher highs but also has lower lows. Still have to go with Fincher.

Now lets see how Gone Girl and Interstellar fair.

You actually have Fincher 5, Nolan 4. And in the bottom half; Fincher 3, Nolan 1.

I don't count bad movies when I determine which director I prefer. I only count good movies. Last time I checked, five trumps four. Fincher wins.

But why not? Fincher has a 38% chance of making a bad movie, while Nolan only has a 20% chance. I would think if in a blind movie test, you'd rather risk watching a Nolan film over a Fincher film.

The flipside is that Fincher has a better chance of making a great movie than Nolan, considering Fincher has made two already and Nolan has made zero.

If I was determining which director I dislike the most, then I would count the bad movies and not the good ones. But seeing as though this is about which director I prefer, only the good ones are counted.

Yeah I'd go by the number of great movies a director has made vs. the number of bad ones. Average movies are everywhere - its the handful of great ones a year that we all want to see.

I really like the comparison here as the two brood on darkness, crime, and psychological examination. Also, both of them make films widely popular here at WoKJ; films which I do not love as much as the average Magnus, but still greatly enjoy. Still in comparing the two of the limited films I have seen in each's repertoire:

1. Fight Club
2. The Dark Knight
3. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. The Social Network
5. Memento
6. Batman Begins
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Inception

So I guess I have to give the golden fiddle to Mr. Fincher based on my limitations.

Nolan wins

I'm obviously biased.

1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. The Social Network
5. The Prestige
6. Fight Club
7. Batman Begins
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Not Seen:
Alien 3
The Game
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Panic Room
Insomnia
Memento
Se7en
Zodiac

Man, that's just unfortunate. You really need to get on that chip.

I think I have se7en and zodiac on my dvr. So those will be watched eventually. I'm sure I'll see Memento one day... but probably none of the others.

Insomnia is really underrated with great performances by Pacino, Swank and especially Williams. To this date Williams in Insomnia and Pierce in Memento are still the best performances in any Nolan film. The Game is great too. Skip Dragon Tattoo and Panic Room, and Alien 3 especially if you don't like the series. But it is fun to watch a sequel piss on everything that came before it.

How so? Is Nolan your dad or something?

Chip and DIB - you really need to watch Seven and Zodiac.

Especially Se7en, which is just all-time greatness. I would kill to see it for the first time again.

I wish! I meant more because I've seen a majority of Nolan movies and hardly any Fincher movies.