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What grade would you give this film?
A 75%  75%  [ 18 ]
B 21%  21%  [ 5 ]
C 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
D 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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Gone Girl is an American mystery thriller film based on the 2012 novel of same name written by Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. It is directed by David Fincher, and stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Carrie Coon. The film had its world premiere on opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival on September 26, 2014, a week before making its nationwide theatrical release on October 3.

Flynn has stated that the film will deviate from the novel.


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I'd give this an A.

Rosamund Pike is the obvious clear cut scene stealer & clearly has a very bright future before her career - she has come a long way since Die Another Day! IDK if folks expected her to be up for any awards so tough call but I would say she is Oscar worthy. She's all over the place does so convincingly. I have never read the book but her character feels like 5 characters in 1 (aka a normal woman/person) and she pulls them off flawlessly. There is a scene with a surveillance tape which is really good where Amy fakes the kidnapping. The montage which shows that Amys alive is good. When Nick finds out Abby is pregnant is legit intense. Affleck's good to but he's super famous so he doesn't really disappear into the role like Pike does. The 2 other folks whose names escape me are good too. The movie is also fucking hilarious. Its all dark/dry humor which I love.

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It's very faithful to the book and there really isn't too much that is changed from book to screen. Some characters' time is reduced while another prominent character in the book is eliminated though their elimination doesn't lessen the film at all.

Fincher keeps the eerie atmosphere of the book in tact and just like the book it keeps gripping you as it goes on. Fincher really made the ending work with his style and may be his best ending out of all of his films.

Affleck is fantastic and while he plays basically the everyday guy, he does it effortlessly and adds the right amount of tension when needed. Rosamund Pike owns it though and is thankfully in the Oscar discussion because she is that good here. Neil Patrick Harris is in this for less time than I would have thought given his character's importance in the novel but he shines in every scene he is in and I would like to see him and Affleck also get some Oscar recognition. Tyler Perry also surprised me as he does a solid job as Tanner Bolt as does Carrie Coon as Go.

This was as good as an adaptation as we would have gotten for this novel and Fincher hits it out of the park again. Not sure where it would rank among his films yet.


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So what was that talk about the changed ending? They didn't change anything about it.

It is a solid film, but far from Fincher's best and worse than his last two. Pike is terrific and deserves an Oscar nom.

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So what was that talk about the changed ending? They didn't change anything about it.


The only thing I think they may have changed and tell me if I'm wrong...

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Don't Nick and Amy have sex sometime after she gets back and that's what gets her pregnant instead of her just using his sample like in the film?


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I don't remember whether they ever directly adress in the novel. how she got pregnant.

Anyway, I didn't like that ending in the novel and I don't like it in the movie.

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This was exactly what I wanted and more. It was a very faithful adaptation of the novel indeed; David Fincher completely captures the darkly humorous tone of the book, and the twists and turns of the plot are handled with precision. The whole ensemble does an incredible job bringing these characters to life. Ben Affleck gives one of the best performances of his career (maybe even the best). Carrie Coon and Kim Dickens are particularly effective in their supporting roles, as is Tyler Perry, who embodies the character of Tanner Bolt. Others, such as Neil Patrick Harris and Patrick Fugit, also do a solid job. But the film belongs to Rosamund Pike, who is absolutely stupendous as Amy Dunne, perfectly realizing this complex woman. I actually came out of the theatre wanting to watch it again. So this is definitely an A.

I'm gonna attempt to rank Fincher's filmography (though I need to watch Gone Girl again to make a final decision):
1. Zodiac A
2. The Social Network A
3. Se7en A
4. Gone Girl A
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A
6. Fight Club A-/B+
7. Panic Room B-
8. The Game B-
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button C

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David Fincher's Gone Girl is not only a note-perfect adaptation of the novel (one of my favorite books), but it's a chilling, brutal, macabre, twisted, often deliriously funny cinematic accomplishment for both Fincher and Gillian Flynn. Without going into spoilery detail, there's so much to be said here about the state of modern marriage, Nancy Grace-style media indictments, and perceptions of those around you. The film is impeccably cast from the leads to the smallest roles. After seeing the film, it's apparent that Ben Affleck was perfect casting for the role of Nick; he wavers between affable lunkhead and smarmadouche in all the right ways. Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit: all superb in roles with varying screen times (and Missi Pyle and Casey Wilson are hysterical in their brief scenes). The standout of the supporting cast is Carrie Coon, who builds Go into a headstrong audience magnet. But what can be said about Gone Girl without Amazing Amy? Rosamund Pike has been granted the role of a lifetime and to say she delivers is understating matters. This seems like a performance that will go down as "legendary," and for good reason. I was purposely as vague as possible in this review because I think this material OWES itself to going in blind if you haven't read the book. A


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One thing that is "bothering" (perhaps the wrong word...) me about Gone Girl. It is a good movie, really good, don't get me wrong (I'd give it a B+, verging on A-). But thing is: what si good about it, is mostly good thanks to its source material. The ideas, the plot twists, the dialogue, the concepts of the characters...it is all in the book. Fincher put preciously little of his own mark on the film here, unlike, say, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Fight Club (in both of those cases I also read the novel before the film). It's a good novel that Fincher adequately brings to the screen, but the achievements are in the novel, IMO.

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I've never read the book, but this movie was INSANE and immensely entertaining. This has got to break out big.

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Quite easily the best film of the year so far and it may possibly be David Fincher's most impressive film to date. Gone Girl is everything you would want out of a movie; surprising, intense, darkly hysterical, impeccably direction and it also has the strongest cast I've seen in a film in quite awhile. As great as all of the performances are, the movie belongs to Rosamund Pike, who turns in a star making performance and should become a household name overnight. Her character is so utterly complex and she nails every single beat. Ben Affleck (who I have always been a fan of) is perfect as Nick. The supporting cast that consists of Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon (who also deserves to be in the Oscar discussion), Casey Wilson and a few others are all great and play off each other perfectly. This is a movie that you should know as little as humanly possible before seeing it and I'm glad I stayed away from spoilers. It's an utterly spellbinding film that is as much entertaining as it is a social commentary on our society today and marriage. I can't recommend it enough and you would be a fool not to see it as soon as humanly possible.

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One thing that is "bothering" (perhaps the wrong word...) me about Gone Girl. It is a good movie, really good, don't get me wrong (I'd give it a B+, verging on A-). But thing is: what si good about it, is mostly good thanks to its source material. The ideas, the plot twists, the dialogue, the concepts of the characters...it is all in the book. Fincher put preciously little of his own mark on the film here, unlike, say, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Fight Club (in both of those cases I also read the novel before the film). It's a good novel that Fincher adequately brings to the screen, but the achievements are in the novel, IMO.


Is that really a bad thing? As someone who has never read the novel, this is 100% a Fincher film and if there wasn't much changed from the source material, that only goes to show how strong it was in the first place. That really shouldn't be a fault in the film.

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One thing that is "bothering" (perhaps the wrong word...) me about Gone Girl. It is a good movie, really good, don't get me wrong (I'd give it a B+, verging on A-). But thing is: what si good about it, is mostly good thanks to its source material. The ideas, the plot twists, the dialogue, the concepts of the characters...it is all in the book. Fincher put preciously little of his own mark on the film here, unlike, say, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Fight Club (in both of those cases I also read the novel before the film). It's a good novel that Fincher adequately brings to the screen, but the achievements are in the novel, IMO.


Is that really a bad thing? As someone who has never read the novel, this is 100% a Fincher film and if there wasn't much changed from the source material, that only goes to show how strong it was in the first place. That really shouldn't be a fault in the film.


Maybe, but I have read the novel and it certainly does not appear to be a 100% Fincher film. In the two cases I have mentioned, I also loved the books, but Fincher added a lot of himself to the visual style of the films. In Gone Girl, it is just basically bringing what is on the page to the screen - including the ending that I disliked in the book already.

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Yeah, this is my favorite movie of the year thus far as well. It's just absolutely masterful and as someone who hasn't read the book I was consistently on the edge of my seat. The casting for this was perfect - so many great character actors getting a chance to shine. Even those I had doubts about were seriously great - Tyler Perry was awesome for example! - and everyone was given an opportunity to steal scenes. Casey Wilson was so spot-on as was Missi Pyle, and Kim Dickens and Carrie Coon were absolutely fantastic. Coon deserves a Best Supporting Actress nod and is becoming one of my favorite breakouts of the year after this and "The Leftovers." Neil Patrick Harris is also really good playing against type and his character gave me the creeps. The movie really belongs to the two leads though. Ben Affleck was sensational and did a great job of portraying Nick as a flawed yet likable leading man. I never really knew what to expect from his character and I think that Affleck's own persona lended itself well to the role. This is one of his strongest performances. The clear standout of the entire thing though is Rosamund Pike. She is absolutely sensational and this role will make her a superstar. It doesn't really seem like such a complex role until maybe an hour into the film, but after the twist is revealed she just runs away with the entire movie. Her character was so batshit insane, so loathsome, and so calculated - Pike pulls off every beat and it's insane to see how well she manipulates some of the characters. She's honestly one of my favorite onscreen villains I've seen in quite some time. The direction is great - David Fincher not only puts his trademark on this story but totally nails the social commentary and the story's dark and twisted sense of humor. Gillian Flynn, adapting her own novel, also deserves credit for consistently maintaining a level of uneasiness and tension and also giving the actors GREAT passages of dialogue to work with. The score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross just adds to the mood of the whole thing. Despite being two and a half hours this flew by and I didn't want it to end. It's going to be a huge hit and I can't wait to see it again. A+


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So what was that talk about the changed ending? They didn't change anything about it.


The only thing I think they may have changed and tell me if I'm wrong...

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Don't Nick and Amy have sex sometime after she gets back and that's what gets her pregnant instead of her just using his sample like in the film?

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I literally just finished the book before seeing the movie and it was the same, Amy used Nick's sample.

I think the change is how Desi was killed no? In the book Amy gives him sleeping pills and stabs him, not sure if it was in the neck or with a boxcutter.


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I'm thinking about seeing it again. For some reason I was really distracted in the first 10 minutes or so because I felt like the credits/dialogue was sped up due to something messed up in the theater but thankfully it became less noticeable. I also imagine seeing the movie with no knowledge of the plot points would be more fun.

Overall I thought it was a very adept adaptation of the novel. Who knew Rosamund Pike would end up delivering a performance like this, good for her. That said, I don't really know how I felt about Affleck in the movie.


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I'm thinking about seeing it again. For some reason I was really distracted in the first 10 minutes or so because I felt like the credits/dialogue was sped up due to something messed up in the theater but thankfully it became less noticeable. I also imagine seeing the movie with no knowledge of the plot points would be more fun.

Overall I thought it was a very adept adaptation of the novel. Who knew Rosamund Pike would end up delivering a performance like this, good for her. That said, I don't really know how I felt about Affleck in the movie.


Correct me if I am wrong, but is not that the point of the film?

In regards to Hanni Lecter, MD (in honor NPH), it seems like your problem with the film is it follows the book too closely. You wanted a different ending which you feel was insufficient, outside of that you don't seem to be willing to grant this may be the pinnacle of a Fincher film in that it allows the viewer to contemplate the bigger ideas also being addressed much more effectively than in a film like The Social Network, which may have been more hindered by Sorkin's writing. I enjoy Sorkin, but he writes porn for liberals.

In terms of being a Fincher film, his films have a geographic and spatial sense of immersing the filmgoer in the area the characters physically inhabit from the cramped squalor to the desert vistas in Seven, to the beautiful lake scenes of Zodiac, and river scenes of The Social Network, his films tend to be well lit when outside and darkly lit when interiors are shot. For this film, all the shots inside and out are shot more neutrally with some dark elements, the light/brightness shows up unexpectedly once the hammer drops. There is the darkness of the human heart when we are in private settings and the brightness when we are in more public settings. Fincher plays with expectations, for instance what could possibly go wrong on such a beautiful day at the lake in Zodiac, and uses dark comedy to ease the tension in his films to varying degrees. Sometimes he wants to put the viewer in a vice of dread and sparingly uses humor, in other films like this and The Game he uses it more frequently to allow the viewer to breathe. It is definitely a Fincher film, source material be damned.

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I have not read the Gillian Flynn novel Gone Girl. Not out of any particular aversion. I just never found my way around to it. So I entered this film adaptation by premiere stylist and suspense conjurer David Fincher quote-unquote blind beyond a general knowledge of the story involving a suburban Missouri man who becomes a suspect in his wife's mysterious vanishing. And beat by beat, scene by scene, twist by twist, the film blew me away. It is an airtight and atmospheric blend of the hilarious, the macabre, and the romantic. It satisfies first as a crime mystery. With a perverse, yet playful hand, it transforms the essential and inevitable questions of the genre (who is who? who is where? who has done what? who is alive? who is dead?) into delightful webs of opaque morality and disturbing brutality. There are other concerns and components, too, and this joins such films as Sweet Smell of Success and To Die For among the best indictments of media sensationalism and the way it can bastardize humanity. It achieves this via acidic and vivid (and therefore highly enjoyable) illustration of its points rather than didactic condemnation.

The film is buoyed by spot-on casting decisions. In a strange way which pays enormous dividends, many of the stars seem to be chosen based on their undesirable traits. Ben Affleck, a capable actor and a fine director, knows what is to be caught in the media's unforgiving line of fire and has earned poor reviews in the past for exuding a certain bordering-on-self-parody, macho-man overconfidence and self-satisfaction, so he is an ideal choice to play the husband, an individual who is either a decent man in over his head or a chiseled sociopath who can barely hide his smile in front of the cameras. And the beautiful Rosamund Pike can seem distant on screen, a type of icy English rose to be admired and never touched, and she is therefore ideal as a so-picture-perfect-as-to-be-unknowable wife pushed to unusual and dangerous places. Hers is a particularly alarming and inspired turn (the actress' best since the undervalued Barney's Version), and it would be a shame if she were not recognized by the Academy with her first nomination early next year.

This line of casting thought extends to other plays in the substantial ensemble. Why not, for example, hire Tyler Perry, who has turned himself in a household name with outsize charisma and a self-forged aura of spiritual authority, to play a showboating A-list lawyer? Throughout Gone Girl, the roles fit so very snugly. And behind the camera, Fincher is in as fine a form as ever. My favorite films of his are still Zodiac and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but this plants its flag close to the top. His antiseptic, meticulous, and perfectionist shot compositions turn the banal suburban environments into under-lit and malevolence-infused spaces, and every scene (whether overtly suspenseful and violent or of a quieter domestic variety) has an incisive and taut quality. This is a long film at 148 minutes, but never an overweight or ponderous one. It holds viewers' heads and hearts with vice-grip intensity from frame one onward and leaves us (or me, at least) at once amused, energized, and despairing.

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I'm thinking about seeing it again. For some reason I was really distracted in the first 10 minutes or so because I felt like the credits/dialogue was sped up due to something messed up in the theater but thankfully it became less noticeable. I also imagine seeing the movie with no knowledge of the plot points would be more fun.

Overall I thought it was a very adept adaptation of the novel. Who knew Rosamund Pike would end up delivering a performance like this, good for her. That said, I don't really know how I felt about Affleck in the movie.


Correct me if I am wrong, but is not that the point of the film?


What I meant was that I didn't think he was particularly bad or great, at least on first viewing.


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publicenemy#1 wrote:
I'm thinking about seeing it again. For some reason I was really distracted in the first 10 minutes or so because I felt like the credits/dialogue was sped up due to something messed up in the theater but thankfully it became less noticeable. I also imagine seeing the movie with no knowledge of the plot points would be more fun.

Overall I thought it was a very adept adaptation of the novel. Who knew Rosamund Pike would end up delivering a performance like this, good for her. That said, I don't really know how I felt about Affleck in the movie.


Correct me if I am wrong, but is not that the point of the film?


What I meant was that I didn't think he was particularly bad or great, at least on first viewing.


I get what you mean, but was slightly confused on if you meant the character he was playing, the actor, or him as a choice compared to your vision of the book, which I assume you read. I think the difference between Pike and Aflleck is the difference in what Fincher wants to show the audience. He can't show too much in his character as much as Pike's character. I think it is much easier to get noticed playing an aggressive character as opposed to a passive character. I think NPH is getting a bit of a bum rap, because his character is ambiguous at least as presented in the film. People expect him to be one extreme or the other, but not this nuanced performance hinting at certain aspects but not calling attention to hero, victim, or villain traits necessarily. Affleck as well is somewhat more hamstrung by his actions being withheld from the audience, whereas Pike's are not.

Basically, do you believe him as Nick Dunne, I did, but then I had no preconceived notions on what he should be from reading the book.

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I'm thinking about seeing it again. For some reason I was really distracted in the first 10 minutes or so because I felt like the credits/dialogue was sped up due to something messed up in the theater but thankfully it became less noticeable. I also imagine seeing the movie with no knowledge of the plot points would be more fun.

Overall I thought it was a very adept adaptation of the novel. Who knew Rosamund Pike would end up delivering a performance like this, good for her. That said, I don't really know how I felt about Affleck in the movie.


Correct me if I am wrong, but is not that the point of the film?

In regards to Hanni Lecter, MD (in honor NPH), it seems like your problem with the film is it follows the book too closely. You wanted a different ending which you feel was insufficient, outside of that you don't seem to be willing to grant this may be the pinnacle of a Fincher film in that it allows the viewer to contemplate the bigger ideas also being addressed much more effectively than in a film like The Social Network, which may have been more hindered by Sorkin's writing. I enjoy Sorkin, but he writes porn for liberals.



I am not willing because it is not the pinnacle of a Fincher film. And it is not a problem per se because it is still a good film. But it makes it difficult for me to love it because the achievements lie within the book and less so within its adaptation. As far as the ending, I didn't like it in the book and I don't like it in the film still.

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This film is so steeped in Fincher's aesthetic and (I say this with affection) chic nihilism. So, it seems very strange for me to hear it said it is not recognizably "Fincher-ian" enough.

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Loved it. I doubt I'll laugh at a line this year as much as "You fucking bitch."


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This is a fantastic, deliciously twisted movie. I hadn't read the book and thankfully didn't have anything spoiled for me before seeing it so I didn't know where it was going. That is the best way to view this. It's surprising and totally insane. Rosamund Pike deserves that Oscar nomination she'll no doubt receive. Affleck is really good too, but I felt it was her movie all the way. Though the supporting cast is very strong too. Carrie Coon is terrific as Nick's sister. My second favorite performance in the film. Most surprisingly though is how not distracting Tyler Perry was. I found him distracting in the trailer but he's actually pretty good in the movie.

Anyway, this is a great, thought-provoking movie. Despite already running nearly 2 and a half hours I kind of didn't want it to end. I found it totally engaging and wouldn't have minded it being longer.

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I was a little iffy about how I felt about this movie the first time around but upon more thinking and another viewing I definitely think this is one of the best movies of the year, one that lingers.


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