The "Gone Girl" Discussion Thread [SPOILERS]

[Jello Biafra]

Oh yeah, and for all the praise Pike gets (she was excellent), I was more impressed by the actress who played the sister. I don't know if it was because I was already expecting it from Pike, but she filled that role in perfectly. I tell you right now, she's the only c00n I'll ever hang with (her name is Carrie c00n).

Also, I'm surprised no one (until now) has made this yet:

Carrie c00n is going to blow up really soon. She is hands down the best actress on The Leftovers and she really did fully embody the role of Go in Gone Girl.
Wait till she starts getting nominated for awards.

 

[Jello Biafra]

But the movie didn't sell me on him still being in love with her either, which is my precise point. Nick, for better or for worse, seems mostly like a pretty regular guy for most of the movie, which is why it's hard to swallow that he would stick with her in the end. Like I already said, I see all the ingredients as to why Nick would stay with her, but I just didn't buy them because the movie undersells all of it. It undersells every motivation he could have for sticking with her (the baby, the public image) and it undersells the fact he is still in love with her. Like I said:



Even though it's clearly intended to be that way, I think it just doesn't work the way it's presented. I can ignore the numerous plotholes of the movie for the sake of rolling with it but I can't ignore how it completely mishandles a character's motivation that is the essence of the entire ending.

I believed that Book Nick still loved Amy in a really perverse masochistic way but I don't think that Book Nick and Movie Nick are even the same character. Book Nick's desire to be there for his child was also better conveyed in the book because they explore Nick's relationship with his parents (especially his horrible relationship with his father) far more deeply in the book than in the movie.
Movie Nick is a lot more of a "what you see is what you get" surface level guy than the character in the book was. Movie Nick I genuinely believe is staying with Amy out of fear...fear for their unborn child and fear for himself because he has no clue what hell Amy would rain down upon him if he truly attempted to leave her.

 

[TheGodling]

Carrie c00n is going to blow up really soon. She is hands down the best actress on The Leftovers and she really did fully embody the role of Go in Gone Girl.
Wait till she starts getting nominated for awards.

Finding out she is in it almost makes me want to pick up The Leftovers because I like to keep track of new talent, but it's a Damon Loose-end-elof show so probably not.

I believed that Book Nick still loved Amy in a really perverse masochistic way but I don't think that Book Nick and Movie Nick are even the same character. Book Nick's desire to be there for his child was also better conveyed in the book because they explore Nick's relationship with his parents (especially his horrible relationship with his father) far more deeply in the book than in the movie.
Movie Nick is a lot more of a "what you see is what you get" surface level guy than the character in the book was. Movie Nick I genuinely believe is staying with Amy out of fear...fear for their unborn child and fear for himself because he has no clue what hell Amy would rain down upon him if he truly attempted to leave her.

I guess I would like the book better then because I definitely feel these things, while present in the movie, are just not emphasized enough.

 

[gluvnast]

But the movie didn't sell me on him still being in love with her either, which is my precise point. Nick, for better or for worse, seems mostly like a pretty regular guy for most of the movie, which is why it's hard to swallow that he would stick with her in the end. Like I already said, I see all the ingredients as to why Nick would stay with her, but I just didn't buy them because the movie undersells all of it. It undersells every motivation he could have for sticking with her (the baby, the public image) and it undersells the fact he is still in love with her. Like I said:



Even though it's clearly intended to be that way, I think it just doesn't work the way it's presented. I can ignore the numerous plotholes of the movie for the sake of rolling with it but I can't ignore how it completely mishandles a character's motivation that is the essence of the entire ending.

Well, the movie is about putting up a front, and Nick the entire time was fronting the same way Amy was. The truth is we don't know who either of these people are. Nick, throughout the film, had that BS look on his face, so I can understand how it is hard to believe this dude for anything he say which I still believe was by intent. We don't know what is in the mind of either of these folks. And the movie, just like the book, is left-open ended like that.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I completely disagree about Nick in the movie and the audience not knowing who the character was.
That aspect was played up early on when the film was trying to play up the audience questioning whether he killed his wife or not but once the twist came I felt that the movie presented Nick as a pretty open book.

 

[luckyse7enz]

no homo..but was i the only one wondering when affleck's penis was gonna show up since it made so many headlines during the week?

i think it added to the dread and suspense

Won't front. I had no idea how long the movie was going to be and had to use the bathroom around the time of the plot twist, but I held it. Had to use the nudity as a mental marker to know that there was more movie to come.

 

[FlyRy]

Won't front. I had no idea how long the movie was going to be and had to use the bathroom around the time of the plot twist, but I held it. Had to use the nudity as a mental marker to know that there was more movie to come.

i wonder how many women went to see it thinking he pulled a jamie foxx in django unchained

it made a lot more than expected at the box office

 

[Μαρία]

Saw Gone Girl this weekend. Loved it! Tyler Perry was actually good in his small role as Nick Dunne's lawyer. I liked Carrie c00n's character as the witty smart-mouthed twin sister Margot. Didn't care for the actress in The Leftovers but she was great in this. I think we should lookout for Rosamund Pike during awards season because she put on quite a show.

I could only manage to feel sorry for Ben's character. Yes he was an under-achieving, slacker cheatin husband but he didn't deserve all that!

 

[Μαρία]

Also this wasn't your average David Fincher film. There was a lot more humor than expected.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Those British actors be having American accents down

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Just seen it. Great movie

Loved the minimalistic soundtrack. Had a Tangerine Dream vibe to it

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

40 minutes later and I'm still

Not watching a trailer or reading a review, I had no clue () that this movie was gonna be the way it turned out.

I thought the movie was over at the reveal, but then the movie just opened up even more.

shyt man I can't stop thinking about this film.
So glad I caught this in the theater.

 

[MartyMcFly]

40 minutes later and I'm still

Not watching a trailer or reading a review, I had no clue () that this movie was gonna be the way it turned out.

I thought the movie was over at the reveal, but then the movie just opened up even more.

shyt man I can't stop thinking about this film.
So glad I caught this in the theater.

Felt the same way Saturday breh

 

[FrostBite]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I just finished the book. Am I the only one who hated the ending? So anticlimactic. The reveal in the middle had me more than how it ended.

 

[Spin]

I put this movie up there with the Grand Budapest Hotel and The Purge Anarchy as most entertaining of 2014.

What really does it for me in this film is the grab for power between everyone involved. Affleck finds a rich heiress who basically became his sole money source once he gets fired. Amy who's life has been so controlled by her parents lives somewhat in her own world. You have the dysfunctional stalker of Amy who has loads of cash, but no social life. While exaggerated, these people do exist especially in big cities like NYC, LA, etc. Affleck and Pike almost remind me of a pathetic version of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright from House of Cards.

One key thing here since this movie talks about media perception is Amy's neighbor. Anybody notice that the "dumb" neighbor who was for Amy the whole time was a minority? Amy knew she could easily manipulate her. Why? Obviously the neighbor wanted so badly to be part of the "in crowd" she had blind faith in Amy. Better wake up out here.