I agree. The only thing in it that I wish were different is the very end after the final narration: I want 4 or 5 seconds of black screen so I can feel and absorb the ending for a moment; instead, the credits start rolling almost before he finishes. That's really petty, I know, but everything else is so very well done.
I didn't know Rosamund Pike before this film, but she blew me away. Her performance as Amy is one of the all-time great film performances. I'm glad she was nominated for an Oscar, and pretty much every other award show nominated her too, for this film.
@@OneArmedRetroGamer I really enjoy Doom, especially the first-person sequence, cute addition to a fun movie. Also love that the unofficial Rosamund Pike trilogy is Doom, Gone Girl and Die Another Day. Seems crazy that she hasn't (to my knowledge) been in any other really standout movies. She always brings her A-game.
I saw Pike as Miranda Frost in 007: Die Another Day and, despite how absolutely godawful that movie is, she jumped off the screen at me and I was certain she was going to be a big deal. …and then nothing happened for over a decade. I couldn’t believe nobody would turn her into a star until this movie came out. Rosamund Pike is so so so good and I’m glad she is finally has the recognition she deserves.
The actress was robbed of an Oscar for this performance. One if the best movies I've ever seen. I randomly watched it when it was in cinema and I'm so thankful. Excellent writing and acting by the entire cast.
pretty crazy how great of a director Fincher turned out to be considering his career nearly ended before it began with the whole Alien 3 debacle. What saved him was the fact that during that whole thing Sigourney Weaver vigorously defended him in the press and praised him as a visionary director with a lot of talent. This helped convince producer Aaron Kopelman to take a chance on Fincher with a little movie called "Se7en".
Did Weaver really do that? I was 7 when that movie came out. I remember not liking it all that much when I first saw it, but then there was a producer's cut that was put out that whoever was in charge said was much closer to Fincher's vision and it was an entirely different experience and a better film. Fincher still wants nothing to do with that film, which is why they called the re-release a producer's cut instead of director's cut. But if Weaver stood up for him like you say, that just makes her even more of a class act, which I thought couldn't be possible. Fincher is pretty much tied with the Coen Bros as my favorite directors, so it's amazing to think that Weaver had a hand in him getting a future chance after Fox botched A3.
@@SpaghettiYOLOKingTTV I unironically really like alien 3, especially the assembly cut, but man am I sad that we didn't get a proper fincher version of that movie with the same actors. The sets are amazing and they have some really god damn good actors in it.
@@SpaghettiYOLOKingTTV it was believable. aliens was a cameron film and she literally saved everything because the crew hated cameron and wanted to quit but they love weaver so much that they stuck through it because of her
That's David Fincher for ya. No other director is as exacting and as surgical as he is. The super smooth camera shots, the whole pristine look to every scene. I can't think of any other director that shoots things the way he does.
Excluding Alien 3, which wasn't his fault as the studio butchered his movie, the man has put out nothing but quality films that all have his signature touch but aren't always in the same genre.
Don't get me wrong, 'Catch Me If You Can' is great and all, but 'Gone Girl' is some next-level Hitchcockian level intensity and shocking twists and turns. It's hard to see upon first viewing (at least for me), but it's actually a very dark comedy. It was fun seeing you guys appreciate that aspect almost right away. Truly an incredible film with a very high rewatchability factor.
@@pablosonic892 Exactly how I feel. Catch is interesting and lots of fun, but ultimately safe and somewhat predictable. Gone Girl grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go, daring you to even try to predict what's going to happen next.
Not sure why you’re comparing the two. Catch Me if You Can is a biopic, while Gone Girl is pure fiction. It’s like comparing Apollo 13 to Star Wars because the two take place in space. Both might be thrilling, different types of stories. Hardly a fair comparison. 🤡
The film is real good. Don't care for the ending that much. Also, once you realize its based off a weird ladies fantasy books it kinda goes from intense thriller to gross pulp pretty quick. The ending reveals the authors weird kink fantasy.
The author of gone girl also wrote Sharp Objects, which was made into a great southern gothic murder mystery HBO, 7 part series, with Amy Adams, who absolutely slayed her role
Sharp Objects is probably one of the greatest mini-series to have aired on TV. RIP to the director, but that project fires on every cylinder! Such a raw and powerful performance from Amy Adams
It's hard to describe how much I love this movie, particularly the juxtaposition of the beginning and ending scenes that are essentially identical, yet hit completely different once you have proper context. Absolutely brilliant.
i like it but honestly movie would of worked better if the audience and everyone is convinced the husband is the killer and he goes to jail for murder and then its revelaed she faked her own death. i dont know why they didnt do that . i know it might be predictable but it would just of worked better. would of made for a great ending...the real ending is so anti climactic
right, it's subtle but u can the contrast between the first and the last. the insecure amy lacking control who needs to conform to nick, and the confident amy with full dominance in the relationship now he has to conform to her imagine of him.
@@DannyCosmos The issue is, the husband is immediately the main suspect right from the very start, so it would be really hard to keep the movie interesting if they waited until the very end to reveal what the wife was actually doing. The story needs the reveal of the wife to happen at the halfway point, so that the rest of the movie can be messier, crazier, and more unpredictable.
Rosamund Pike is terrifying but beautiful and hypnotic but literally a psychopath. This is one of the greatest mystery thrillers of all time! Glad you reacted to it, I hope you react to other David Fincher films like: Mank, The Social Network, Zodiac (Which is a Masterpiece) , The Game and Benjamin Button!
This film is a faithful adaptation of the novel. David Fincher deserves a lot of credit, but Gillian Flynn's book set the tone, the pacing, and all the plot twists--including the big one halfway through. Word of mouth made the novel a bestseller and a phenomenon. Fincher made another adaptation of a literary phenomenon with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It'd be great to see you guys react to that, along with Fincher's The Game from 1997, which has many plot twists and was made right after Se7en.
@@myfriendisaac Nope, the version of the character we see about 7 minutes of total charmed Amy Dunne, the other one though who accompanies us for the majority of the film charmed no one. I think maybe that’s a huge plot point considering the fact his wife decides to destroy his life. And everybody thinks he’s guilty considering his lack thereof.
@@urangmyphone265 So you agree? Ben’s character WAS charming (even if only for 7 minutes of screen-time). My original point remains, that he was able to showcase several sides of his character, good & bad.
This might be the best reaction to a movie you two have had on your channel. Your responses to the twists and turns, guessing and second guessing yourselves, the way you condemned Affleck's character before the plot reveals itself. Everything was perfect. The cherry on top for me though was Samantha's reaction to the "climax" (for lack of a better word) scene with Neil Patrick Harris in the bed 🤣
Certainly at least one of the best reactions on this channel, if not THE best ! I just love how the first half got you (for the most part at least). I'm a sucker for movies where "the villain" wins as they are so few and far between and even less get it right, this does. Rosamund Pike walks the thin line between super-competent and full-on mustache-twirling super-villain who gets away with things because the plot requires her to, but in the end, and i might be reading too much into this here, it kinda functions as metacommentary on high-publicity cases. The cops might have been doing their job just right, although the partner comes in biased already, and the fatigue from the whole ordeal must be immense. At some point people just want to close the books, some order from above comes in and the case is closed, because the general public loves the happy end. I could see that happening and it kinda frightens me, but it makes for a fun ride for sure when looking in from the outside.
This is the book that pushed me into the online book community. I had to find other book readers to talk to about this book. It was so crazy. The movie was a fantastic adaptation
This has to be one of my favourite reactions of yours, because you both fell hook, line and sinker for everything in the first half. Fincher is a genius.
Such a brilliantly done film, from top to bottom. Everybody hit it out of the ballpark. I highly recommend other David Fincher films like The Game and especially Zodiac, my other favorite of his along with Gone Girl. Thanks for the great reaction!
One enduring thing that other filmmakers should heed here is that in the trailers for this film, Fincher decreed that no footage from the second half of the film could be used, so the twist wouldn't be given away. We saw the husband gradually coming under suspicion, but there was no hint that Amy was still alive. This is how movies should be promoted, instead of these ridiculous trailers that basically show the whole film in order and thereby obviate the need to bother seeing them.
This movie was an absolute, out of left field, blindsider of cinema. David Fincher is my favourite director of all time and this is why. The subtle notes of intensity from the characters and dark humour well blended with the seriousness of the situation was so well executed. When I saw this in theatre no one spoke or did anything. Everyone was in awe of what they were watching that they were glued to the screen. This is honestly a fantastic film and I'm glad you guys added this to your channel.
This is so funny. When I watched the movie, and the push seen came, I gasped and said, "he's so big!" LOL. I think the casting people knew what they were doing. Your primal instincts go up in that moment. I mean, I'm five two so most men are bigger than me but he's a beast.
In my opinion, the core desire of the movie is to prove how easily we can be manipulated by the way things are portrayed in the media by using the same methods on us, the audience, to sway our perspective of the facts. We started hating him, the her and at the end, both of them. Great reaction and the best to you both plus one ;)!
David Fincher's work on this was phenomenal, but one also has to give props the screenwriter, Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the novel from which her screenplay was based. Her script followed her novel extremely well, right down to Amy's character written via diary entries.
A friend and I went to the opening weekend showing of this. The ticket checker looked at us and said, "You are in for a treat." After the movie we passed by him, and he saw our faces and was like, "I had the same exact expression when I saw it." I even read the book after and that was great as well.
Fracture, another movie that has amazing twist and turns like Gone Girl. Has Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and Rosamund Pike. One of my top ten movies.
@@O___________0 It’s true & only tainted because it’s used by a lady already damaged by her parents’ upbringing to justify hurting THIRD PARTIES just so she can get back at the bad man in her life.
When I read the book I was sure there was no way the movie would be as good but Fincher totally delivered. Just such a good movie and helped to have Gillian Flynn (the author) write the screenplay. She was inspired to write it during the Scott Peterson investigation.
Such a great Fincher thriller!! Rosamund Pike is excellent in this film and I loved the Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross ambient score which added to the atmosphere!
Oh, one thing I've always noticed about this movie is just how "amazing" Rodamund Pike's penmanship is (assuming it's actually her writing in the diary). Beautiful hand writing.
One of the most horrifying aspects of the story, for me, is imagining what kind of mother Amy will be...& what kind of scenario the child will be subjected to when Nick finally has had enough. That's astounding writing to weave a tale that worries the crap out of you about what happens AFTER the end of the film. Great movie. Terrific reaction & discussion. I kept thinking about the fact that you two are about to become parents & wondering if the story freaked you out even more than it normally would. I'm a fairly new subscriber & I'm enjoying your channel immensely! Much love from Kentucky. 💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙
In advance, I thought Gillian Flynn's book was unfilmable, with the different viewpoints and narration from the diary, but the movie handled that beautifully. If you're unfamiliar with Rosamund Pike, it's worth noting that she's British, so that's another impressive layer to her performance; it never occurs to me to think that she's "doing an accent" while I'm watching. There had been talk of casting a more familiar American star in the part (I think Reese Witherspoon was mentioned), but Fincher said he wanted someone whom audiences wouldn't feel in advance that they "knew." She had to be "discovered" as the story unfolded.
This gives me a smidge of hope for a Blood Meridian adaptation lol. I've seen quite a few people say that the source material for Gone Girl was unadaptable.
Great reaction guys! Haha, I remember reading the book of this and loving it. Gave it to my girlfriend to read, she kept yelling at me through the first half "Why did you make me read this? The husband is so awful! He killed his wife! I hate this book!". Just kept gently telling her to keep reading. She got to the halfway point... "Oh." And then the movie was arguably even better. So much fun.
This is such a great movie. Going in completely blind, is the best thing one can do. Both of you had no idea. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I had no idea, when I first watched it. Fincher is a great director. The look of this film, the actors, the twists. I loved everything about it.
TBR you've done it again! I was having one heck of a slow dull night. So I checked my phone and saw your update and now in psyched! Thanks for the years of great movies and dope comments. Shout out from Salem Oregon cottage street crew Whoop whoopp
Highly recommend another David Fincher movie - The Game I hope you get to it some day. Very mysterious and a movie everyone should watch. It’s an experience and one of his most underrated films
I'll never forget the first time I saw this, when she looks at us through the lens of the camera in the final scene. It was terrifying and sent chills to my core.
That actress who plays the pregnant neighbor she’s an old classmate of mine from TC Williams well now it’s called Alexandra City High school….. it’s also the same school that they made a movie called remember the Titans
SO glad you enjoyed this one so much! It's such a brilliant film filled with brilliant acting/writing/directing. I love how it goes completely off the rails, and becomes WAY more bonkers than you initially expect.
Gillian Flynn is such a great writer. One of the tightest constructed screen plays I've ever seen on film. The book was just as good and her other two books are equally crazy, dark and well crafted (Dark Places, and Sharp Objects).
If you want more of my favorite director David Fincher. “Zodiac” is a great crime drama with a great cast. “The Game”. Is also a very interesting thriller. I appreciate you and your channel.
y’all should read the book because Amy is MUCH more psychotic than she is in the movie, which is crazy to think there’s a level of insanity beyond what she is in this movie
David Fincher movies are incredible and his films become your go to comfort movies when you want to watch something good. A go to comfort movie a thriller? Yep I know that many agree. Samantha does!
what i love about you both, is how down to ground you are. no shennanigens, no overractions. sometimes may seem too cold, but you just who you are, no bullshit. all my love to you both and your next children challenge.
This is a great movie and Fincher did about as good of a job as possible adapting the book which is also amazing. He is the king of book adaptations. Highly recommend Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well.
Seeing as you loved the movie, I'd highly recommend reading the book. It is an incredible read and adds loads more context that there wasn't time for in the movie.
Rosamund Pike was marvelous in this thriller/mystery/satire movie. Ben Affleck was also great. Amy is an unreliable narrator/character, with an incredible psychological density. The movie is a rollercoaster ride, so well photographed, edited and also amazingly directed by David Fincher. For me, it is a modern masterpiece.
This was a good one. Here are a few more classy suspense movies that I believe you two would enjoy. I would particularly recommend the twisty neo-noir "Body Heat" (1981). It made Kathleen Turner an instant star and reminds me of "Gone Girl" in its cleverness and execution. But these are all pretty memorable. - The Most Dangerous Game (1932, colorized) Joel McCrea, Fay Wray - Man Hunt (1941) Walter Pidgeon - Notorious (1946) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman - In A Lonely Place (1950) Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame - The Narrow Margin (1952) Marie Windsor - Don't Bother To Knock (1952) Marilyn Monroe - The Night of the Hunter (1955) Robert Mitchum - The Bad Seed (1956) Patty McCormack - Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton - Cape Fear (1962) Gregory Peck - Wait Until Dark (1967) Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin - The Day of the Jackal (1973) Edward Fox - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw - The Odessa File (1974) Jon Voight - Marathon Man (1976) Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier - The Silent Partner (1978) Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer - Body Heat (1981) Kathleen Turner, William Hurt - The Bedroom Window (1987) Elizabeth McGovern, Steve Guttenberg - Dead Calm (1989) Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman - The Client (1994) Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones - Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman - The Negotiator (1998) Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jackson - Double Jeopardy (1999) Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones
Gone Girl is the definition of "Superb Writing". To convince your audience to root for a character you spend a hour and a half building up as a murderer is amazing. And the way they reveal the twist? You actually feel what Nick felt in the film when you realize she's alive lol RIP NPH lol
This movie is typical of a female’s emotional and irrational viewpoint of the world. Not a single make character in the movie, acts that way or thinks that way in real life. It’s a feminazi’s wet dream of fantasy and stupidity.
Honest Trailers really struck gold when they joked that NPH in this film also believed in HIMYM Barney’s “It’s ok if she’s cray cray if she’s also super hawt” philosophy
This movie blew my mind. Her parents thought more of her as her book character and a meal ticket. The mom was making accusations about Nick's behavior to volunteers, but they were hamming up their "famous" daughter to capitalize on. I think they were more concerned about that. The Desi thing...he was a puppet she played and like he said, she dangled her affection to have him in her back pocket to use whenever she may need to. Nick's was telling his sister that he was staying because he wanted to protect his child from her. But if he didn't keep playing along and tried to report her, what exactly could she have hidden away or plotted to use to ruin his life like she almost did this time? If she went down, and the FBI and state police decide to press charges holding her accountable for the time and money she made them use to find her, when it was all a game to her to set Nick up....what could she possibly have to bring him down with her? I think he felt trapped. She was a real psychotic and narcissistic nut job. Now a man died with the world thinking him a monster, so unless Nick could convince that Sheriff to look into it with him, then he may not have something to work with to bring her down.
Amy in the end is really like those school shooters and serial killers who fixated on a “type” of people they deem need to die, and they kill and maim so many EXCEPT for the ones that actually directly hurt her.
This is the reason to never trust a accusation without any evidence, no matter how awful it may be. Unfortunately there are many crazy people around us. It's pretty scary actually...
A friend once recommended me this movie and some days later I didn't remember the exact movie name anymore. I ended up watching 'Gun Women'. Oh boy, quite different. xD
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This is one of those movies where every aspect in execution is excellent. Acting, writing, directing, the score, cinematography.
I agree. The only thing in it that I wish were different is the very end after the final narration: I want 4 or 5 seconds of black screen so I can feel and absorb the ending for a moment; instead, the credits start rolling almost before he finishes. That's really petty, I know, but everything else is so very well done.
@@DelGuy03 The ending in Gillian's novel is a lot better imo. Though as far as movie endings go, this is still one of the betters ones.
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I didn't know Rosamund Pike before this film, but she blew me away. Her performance as Amy is one of the all-time great film performances. I'm glad she was nominated for an Oscar, and pretty much every other award show nominated her too, for this film.
Idk, Doom was pretty good. Close call 😅
@@OneArmedRetroGamer I really enjoy Doom, especially the first-person sequence, cute addition to a fun movie. Also love that the unofficial Rosamund Pike trilogy is Doom, Gone Girl and Die Another Day. Seems crazy that she hasn't (to my knowledge) been in any other really standout movies. She always brings her A-game.
I saw Pike as Miranda Frost in 007: Die Another Day and, despite how absolutely godawful that movie is, she jumped off the screen at me and I was certain she was going to be a big deal. …and then nothing happened for over a decade. I couldn’t believe nobody would turn her into a star until this movie came out. Rosamund Pike is so so so good and I’m glad she is finally has the recognition she deserves.
I remember her from bond. ( pears brosnan) her first movie.
@@bobblebardsley Oh, come on. "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), she played Jane Bennett.
The actress was robbed of an Oscar for this performance. One if the best movies I've ever seen. I randomly watched it when it was in cinema and I'm so thankful. Excellent writing and acting by the entire cast.
pretty crazy how great of a director Fincher turned out to be considering his career nearly ended before it began with the whole Alien 3 debacle. What saved him was the fact that during that whole thing Sigourney Weaver vigorously defended him in the press and praised him as a visionary director with a lot of talent. This helped convince producer Aaron Kopelman to take a chance on Fincher with a little movie called "Se7en".
Did Weaver really do that? I was 7 when that movie came out. I remember not liking it all that much when I first saw it, but then there was a producer's cut that was put out that whoever was in charge said was much closer to Fincher's vision and it was an entirely different experience and a better film. Fincher still wants nothing to do with that film, which is why they called the re-release a producer's cut instead of director's cut. But if Weaver stood up for him like you say, that just makes her even more of a class act, which I thought couldn't be possible. Fincher is pretty much tied with the Coen Bros as my favorite directors, so it's amazing to think that Weaver had a hand in him getting a future chance after Fox botched A3.
Alien 3 doesnt exist
@@SpaghettiYOLOKingTTV I unironically really like alien 3, especially the assembly cut, but man am I sad that we didn't get a proper fincher version of that movie with the same actors. The sets are amazing and they have some really god damn good actors in it.
i enjoyed Alien 3, it's just unfortunate it has to follow up to one of the best movies that is Aliens.
@@SpaghettiYOLOKingTTV it was believable. aliens was a cameron film and she literally saved everything because the crew hated cameron and wanted to quit but they love weaver so much that they stuck through it because of her
I loved the way y’all’s jaw dropped when the movie showed she was framing her husband. 😲
I absolutely adore how this film was shot and edited.
Uses pretty much only natural colors. Probably enhanced here and there but still, pretty distinctive.
Same! I actually think I’ve worded it exactly the same on another reaction somewhere. Love it.
That's David Fincher for ya. No other director is as exacting and as surgical as he is. The super smooth camera shots, the whole pristine look to every scene. I can't think of any other director that shoots things the way he does.
IKR; I hope they watch girl with the dragon tattoo next, also great editing.
David Fincher is a magician of filmmaking.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara is another great David Fincher movie.
Excluding Alien 3, which wasn't his fault as the studio butchered his movie, the man has put out nothing but quality films that all have his signature touch but aren't always in the same genre.
I never knew Fincher did The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but now that I know, it makes a great deal of sense...two of my probably top 10 movies...
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is much better than Gone Girl, IMHO.
The original version is better. Swedish
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Don't get me wrong, 'Catch Me If You Can' is great and all, but 'Gone Girl' is some next-level Hitchcockian level intensity and shocking twists and turns. It's hard to see upon first viewing (at least for me), but it's actually a very dark comedy. It was fun seeing you guys appreciate that aspect almost right away. Truly an incredible film with a very high rewatchability factor.
Agreed. Well put. Catch Me seems to be straining to be forever be striving to always be great. Gone Girl just IS great.
@@pablosonic892 Exactly how I feel. Catch is interesting and lots of fun, but ultimately safe and somewhat predictable. Gone Girl grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go, daring you to even try to predict what's going to happen next.
Not sure why you’re comparing the two. Catch Me if You Can is a biopic, while Gone Girl is pure fiction. It’s like comparing Apollo 13 to Star Wars because the two take place in space. Both might be thrilling, different types of stories. Hardly a fair comparison. 🤡
The film is real good. Don't care for the ending that much. Also, once you realize its based off a weird ladies fantasy books it kinda goes from intense thriller to gross pulp pretty quick. The ending reveals the authors weird kink fantasy.
@@harley2704 Catch me if you can is pretty much fiction aswell.
The author of gone girl also wrote Sharp Objects, which was made into a great southern gothic murder mystery HBO, 7 part series, with Amy Adams, who absolutely slayed her role
Loved Sharp Objects!
Sharp Objects is even better
10/10 limited series
Sharp Objects is probably one of the greatest mini-series to have aired on TV. RIP to the director, but that project fires on every cylinder! Such a raw and powerful performance from Amy Adams
Would you recommend the book?
It's hard to describe how much I love this movie, particularly the juxtaposition of the beginning and ending scenes that are essentially identical, yet hit completely different once you have proper context. Absolutely brilliant.
i like it but honestly movie would of worked better if the audience and everyone is convinced the husband is the killer and he goes to jail for murder and then its revelaed she faked her own death. i dont know why they didnt do that . i know it might be predictable but it would just of worked better. would of made for a great ending...the real ending is so anti climactic
Amber Heard also really loved this movie. A little to much if you ask me.
right, it's subtle but u can the contrast between the first and the last. the insecure amy lacking control who needs to conform to nick, and the confident amy with full dominance in the relationship now he has to conform to her imagine of him.
@@ScottyDoesntKnow69 😂😂😂😂
@@DannyCosmos The issue is, the husband is immediately the main suspect right from the very start, so it would be really hard to keep the movie interesting if they waited until the very end to reveal what the wife was actually doing. The story needs the reveal of the wife to happen at the halfway point, so that the rest of the movie can be messier, crazier, and more unpredictable.
Rosamund Pike is terrifying but beautiful and hypnotic but literally a psychopath. This is one of the greatest mystery thrillers of all time! Glad you reacted to it, I hope you react to other David Fincher films like: Mank, The Social Network, Zodiac (Which is a Masterpiece) , The Game and Benjamin Button!
This film is a faithful adaptation of the novel. David Fincher deserves a lot of credit, but Gillian Flynn's book set the tone, the pacing, and all the plot twists--including the big one halfway through. Word of mouth made the novel a bestseller and a phenomenon. Fincher made another adaptation of a literary phenomenon with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It'd be great to see you guys react to that, along with Fincher's The Game from 1997, which has many plot twists and was made right after Se7en.
I'd love to see them react to The Game, especially if they have never seen it.
The Game is such a great movie!
Flynn also wrote the screenplay. who better to adapt the book than the author herself?
@@nicolojavier As I said, she deserves all the credit.
I remember watching this on opening day. The sheer silence while the audience tries to get a grip after that ending still gets to me.
I knew Samantha was going to put this as a top movie for her.
David Fincher, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is a combination that transcends.
This is a film that Hitchcock would have been proud of. Rosamund Pike in particular is incredible but it's an amazing movie all over.
I think this is Ben’s best performance! He’s smug, bewildered, charming, aloof, petty… such a dynamic role 😂😭
In what world is this character charming?
@@urangmyphone265 He certainly charmed Amy Dunne 🤷🏾♂️😂💍
@@myfriendisaac Nope, the version of the character we see about 7 minutes of total charmed Amy Dunne, the other one though who accompanies us for the majority of the film charmed no one. I think maybe that’s a huge plot point considering the fact his wife decides to destroy his life. And everybody thinks he’s guilty considering his lack thereof.
@@urangmyphone265 So you agree? Ben’s character WAS charming (even if only for 7 minutes of screen-time). My original point remains, that he was able to showcase several sides of his character, good & bad.
The expression on Sam's face at the mid-point is priceless! What a great movie.
This might be the best reaction to a movie you two have had on your channel. Your responses to the twists and turns, guessing and second guessing yourselves, the way you condemned Affleck's character before the plot reveals itself. Everything was perfect. The cherry on top for me though was Samantha's reaction to the "climax" (for lack of a better word) scene with Neil Patrick Harris in the bed 🤣
Certainly at least one of the best reactions on this channel, if not THE best ! I just love how the first half got you (for the most part at least).
I'm a sucker for movies where "the villain" wins as they are so few and far between and even less get it right, this does. Rosamund Pike walks the thin line between super-competent and full-on mustache-twirling super-villain who gets away with things because the plot requires her to, but in the end, and i might be reading too much into this here, it kinda functions as metacommentary on high-publicity cases. The cops might have been doing their job just right, although the partner comes in biased already, and the fatigue from the whole ordeal must be immense. At some point people just want to close the books, some order from above comes in and the case is closed, because the general public loves the happy end. I could see that happening and it kinda frightens me, but it makes for a fun ride for sure when looking in from the outside.
This is the book that pushed me into the online book community. I had to find other book readers to talk to about this book. It was so crazy. The movie was a fantastic adaptation
"So, toxic marriage I guess?"
Understatement of the year.😆
Damn, I was going to write that comment myself! 😆
This has to be one of my favourite reactions of yours, because you both fell hook, line and sinker for everything in the first half. Fincher is a genius.
He probably is, but a lot of credit must go to the source material. The movie isn't very different from the book.
33:57 Yes it was. Rosamund Pike said she got a concussion from it.
Such a brilliantly done film, from top to bottom. Everybody hit it out of the ballpark. I highly recommend other David Fincher films like The Game and especially Zodiac, my other favorite of his along with Gone Girl. Thanks for the great reaction!
They have to do the game, it‘s a movie lot of people seem to forget about…what a ride
Huge Fincher fan here as well. I think you'd really enjoy 'Zodiac' and 'The Social Network'.
One enduring thing that other filmmakers should heed here is that in the trailers for this film, Fincher decreed that no footage from the second half of the film could be used, so the twist wouldn't be given away. We saw the husband gradually coming under suspicion, but there was no hint that Amy was still alive. This is how movies should be promoted, instead of these ridiculous trailers that basically show the whole film in order and thereby obviate the need to bother seeing them.
A movie with a lot of twist and turns. Another great Fincher film. Also Congrats again guys on the news. You guys are going be cool parents.
This movie was an absolute, out of left field, blindsider of cinema. David Fincher is my favourite director of all time and this is why. The subtle notes of intensity from the characters and dark humour well blended with the seriousness of the situation was so well executed. When I saw this in theatre no one spoke or did anything. Everyone was in awe of what they were watching that they were glued to the screen. This is honestly a fantastic film and I'm glad you guys added this to your channel.
This is so funny. When I watched the movie, and the push seen came, I gasped and said, "he's so big!" LOL. I think the casting people knew what they were doing. Your primal instincts go up in that moment. I mean, I'm five two so most men are bigger than me but he's a beast.
In my opinion, the core desire of the movie is to prove how easily we can be manipulated by the way things are portrayed in the media by using the same methods on us, the audience, to sway our perspective of the facts. We started hating him, the her and at the end, both of them. Great reaction and the best to you both plus one ;)!
the plot twist was so well done. you guys were shocked! lol brilliant. this is one of those perfect movies. I agree its Bens best work
I love Rosamund Pike, she's talented and very beautiful.
David Fincher's best film to me is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Wolf agrees.
That is a good movie, but remember their is 2 versions, the Swedish version and the American version. The American version i think is the best.
David Fincher's work on this was phenomenal, but one also has to give props the screenwriter, Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the novel from which her screenplay was based. Her script followed her novel extremely well, right down to Amy's character written via diary entries.
A friend and I went to the opening weekend showing of this. The ticket checker looked at us and said, "You are in for a treat." After the movie we passed by him, and he saw our faces and was like, "I had the same exact expression when I saw it." I even read the book after and that was great as well.
I don't know my wife's blood type.....shit, I don't even know mine lol.
Fracture, another movie that has amazing twist and turns like Gone Girl. Has Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and Rosamund Pike. One of my top ten movies.
This is Fincher's De Palma movie, and I love it. Great theater experience. I went in mostly cold.
I like that comparison you made.
“The cool girl” monologue was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen or heard!
It’s the most sane thing though, it’s the reality for many women in relationships with men.
@@O___________0 It’s true & only tainted because it’s used by a lady already damaged by her parents’ upbringing to justify hurting THIRD PARTIES just so she can get back at the bad man in her life.
Amy is committed. I'll give her that😂
When I read the book I was sure there was no way the movie would be as good but Fincher totally delivered. Just such a good movie and helped to have Gillian Flynn (the author) write the screenplay. She was inspired to write it during the Scott Peterson investigation.
That death scene was one of the most disturbing, scariest death scenes ever for me. Completely freaked me out!
“It’s light out.… Yeah you gotta send her out in the dark”! 😂😂🤣💪
Such a great Fincher thriller!!
Rosamund Pike is excellent in this film and I loved the Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross ambient score which added to the atmosphere!
Oh, one thing I've always noticed about this movie is just how "amazing" Rodamund Pike's penmanship is (assuming it's actually her writing in the diary). Beautiful hand writing.
Beautiful and AMAZING handwriting
One of the most horrifying aspects of the story, for me, is imagining what kind of mother Amy will be...& what kind of scenario the child will be subjected to when Nick finally has had enough.
That's astounding writing to weave a tale that worries the crap out of you about what happens AFTER the end of the film.
Great movie. Terrific reaction & discussion. I kept thinking about the fact that you two are about to become parents & wondering if the story freaked you out even more than it normally would.
I'm a fairly new subscriber & I'm enjoying your channel immensely!
Much love from Kentucky.
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Yup. Nick will be the bad guy and Amy the battered and bruised wife/victim. He never stood a chance
This is one of my favourite movies of the past 10 years.
In advance, I thought Gillian Flynn's book was unfilmable, with the different viewpoints and narration from the diary, but the movie handled that beautifully. If you're unfamiliar with Rosamund Pike, it's worth noting that she's British, so that's another impressive layer to her performance; it never occurs to me to think that she's "doing an accent" while I'm watching. There had been talk of casting a more familiar American star in the part (I think Reese Witherspoon was mentioned), but Fincher said he wanted someone whom audiences wouldn't feel in advance that they "knew." She had to be "discovered" as the story unfolded.
This gives me a smidge of hope for a Blood Meridian adaptation lol. I've seen quite a few people say that the source material for Gone Girl was unadaptable.
Great reaction guys! Haha, I remember reading the book of this and loving it. Gave it to my girlfriend to read, she kept yelling at me through the first half "Why did you make me read this? The husband is so awful! He killed his wife! I hate this book!". Just kept gently telling her to keep reading.
She got to the halfway point... "Oh."
And then the movie was arguably even better.
So much fun.
This is such a great movie. Going in completely blind, is the best thing one can do. Both of you had no idea. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I had no idea, when I first watched it. Fincher is a great director. The look of this film, the actors, the twists. I loved everything about it.
TBR you've done it again!
I was having one heck of a slow dull night.
So I checked my phone and saw your update and now in psyched!
Thanks for the years of great movies and dope comments.
Shout out from Salem Oregon cottage street crew
Whoop whoopp
The Cool Girl monologue is one of my favourite things every committed to film.
Highly recommend another David Fincher movie - The Game
I hope you get to it some day. Very mysterious and a movie everyone should watch. It’s an experience and one of his most underrated films
I highly recommends you guys Amadeus(1984), it got 8 Academy Awards/Oscars including Best Picture, hope it will be next on your list.
I'll never forget the first time I saw this, when she looks at us through the lens of the camera in the final scene. It was terrifying and sent chills to my core.
That actress who plays the pregnant neighbor she’s an old classmate of mine from TC Williams well now it’s called Alexandra City High school….. it’s also the same school that they made a movie called remember the Titans
You should try "The game", you'll be lost during the whole movie, just awesome. David Fincher is really in my top 5 directors
This movie is a mind fuxk. Rosamund Pike kills it in her role.
David Fincher is a master at directing. You should watch The Game, which came out in-between Se7en and Fight Club.
masterpiece
This movie came out in October of my senior year! I remember this was all anyone could talk about at the time!
Love this movie. Rosamund Pike is amazing.
SO glad you enjoyed this one so much! It's such a brilliant film filled with brilliant acting/writing/directing. I love how it goes completely off the rails, and becomes WAY more bonkers than you initially expect.
Gillian Flynn is such a great writer. One of the tightest constructed screen plays I've ever seen on film. The book was just as good and her other two books are equally crazy, dark and well crafted (Dark Places, and Sharp Objects).
If you want more of my favorite director David Fincher. “Zodiac” is a great crime drama with a great cast. “The Game”. Is also a very interesting thriller. I appreciate you and your channel.
y’all should read the book because Amy is MUCH more psychotic than she is in the movie, which is crazy to think there’s a level of insanity beyond what she is in this movie
David Fincher movies are incredible and his films become your go to comfort movies when you want to watch something good. A go to comfort movie a thriller? Yep I know that many agree. Samantha does!
Sooo glad you guys loved it. It's a f'ng fantastic movie and book. They are both sociopaths, they deserved each other. It was beautiful 😂
what i love about you both, is how down to ground you are. no shennanigens, no overractions. sometimes may seem too cold, but you just who you are, no bullshit. all my love to you both and your next children challenge.
i love the Oh My God at 31:13 !!!!
Saw this a week after getting married.
Good food for thought.
In my top 5 of all time. A fabulous woman role perfectly perfomed by R.Pike.
Every big name actress in Hollywood was apparently after this role
David Fincher’s; The Game, next please.
5:31 she doesn't seem very stuck-up or complicated.
i sniggered.
I still remember when I read this book I audibly gasped at many points. It kept me on the edge of my seat.
Congratulations on the baby girl. So excited for you guys
This is a great movie and Fincher did about as good of a job as possible adapting the book which is also amazing. He is the king of book adaptations. Highly recommend Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well.
This movie is an absolute MASTERPIECE
Gone Girl reminds me so much of the Scott Peterson case in Christmas 2002.
The girlfriend part inspired it.
The detectives partner is the boy from Almost Famous.
Love this movie! Probably one of the only movies I've seen that really stuck with everything in the book.
One of my top five directors.
His style is like no other.
If you haven't already, please do Panic Room. You won't be disappointed.
Seeing as you loved the movie, I'd highly recommend reading the book. It is an incredible read and adds loads more context that there wasn't time for in the movie.
*Mindhunter
Manhunter was the first Hannibal Lecter movie from the 80s
Rosamund Pike was marvelous in this thriller/mystery/satire movie. Ben Affleck was also great. Amy is an unreliable narrator/character, with an incredible psychological density. The movie is a rollercoaster ride, so well photographed, edited and also amazingly directed by David Fincher. For me, it is a modern masterpiece.
My top of Fincher:
1- Gone Girl
2- Seven
3. Fight Club
4. The Game
I love Samantha's reaction to the "reveal." I am also a little afraid. The great-new mom to be looks like she's planning something. Getting inspired.
This was a good one. Here are a few more classy suspense movies that I believe you two would enjoy. I would particularly recommend the twisty neo-noir "Body Heat" (1981). It made Kathleen Turner an instant star and reminds me of "Gone Girl" in its cleverness and execution. But these are all pretty memorable.
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932, colorized) Joel McCrea, Fay Wray
- Man Hunt (1941) Walter Pidgeon
- Notorious (1946) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
- In A Lonely Place (1950) Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
- The Narrow Margin (1952) Marie Windsor
- Don't Bother To Knock (1952) Marilyn Monroe
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) Robert Mitchum
- The Bad Seed (1956) Patty McCormack
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton
- Cape Fear (1962) Gregory Peck
- Wait Until Dark (1967) Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) Edward Fox
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw
- The Odessa File (1974) Jon Voight
- Marathon Man (1976) Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier
- The Silent Partner (1978) Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer
- Body Heat (1981) Kathleen Turner, William Hurt
- The Bedroom Window (1987) Elizabeth McGovern, Steve Guttenberg
- Dead Calm (1989) Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman
- The Client (1994) Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones
- Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman
- The Negotiator (1998) Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jackson
- Double Jeopardy (1999) Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones
Gone Girl is the definition of "Superb Writing". To convince your audience to root for a character you spend a hour and a half building up as a murderer is amazing. And the way they reveal the twist? You actually feel what Nick felt in the film when you realize she's alive lol
RIP NPH lol
This movie is typical of a female’s emotional and irrational viewpoint of the world. Not a single make character in the movie, acts that way or thinks that way in real life. It’s a feminazi’s wet dream of fantasy and stupidity.
Honest Trailers really struck gold when they joked that NPH in this film also believed in HIMYM Barney’s “It’s ok if she’s cray cray if she’s also super hawt” philosophy
I really like how they structured this movie. It works so well to tell the story.
Amazing performance by Ben Affleck, cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both have a nice day
Hey Schmitts, you should watch Zodiac.
Also directed by Fincher, also twisty-turny, also with great performances.
I dont even know my own blood type - I better not disappear because that would make me a prime suspect lol
14:15 "Eww! Ohhh! She was pregnant?"
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This movie blew my mind. Her parents thought more of her as her book character and a meal ticket. The mom was making accusations about Nick's behavior to volunteers, but they were hamming up their "famous" daughter to capitalize on. I think they were more concerned about that.
The Desi thing...he was a puppet she played and like he said, she dangled her affection to have him in her back pocket to use whenever she may need to.
Nick's was telling his sister that he was staying because he wanted to protect his child from her.
But if he didn't keep playing along and tried to report her, what exactly could she have hidden away or plotted to use to ruin his life like she almost did this time?
If she went down, and the FBI and state police decide to press charges holding her accountable for the time and money she made them use to find her, when it was all a game to her to set Nick up....what could she possibly have to bring him down with her?
I think he felt trapped. She was a real psychotic and narcissistic nut job.
Now a man died with the world thinking him a monster, so unless Nick could convince that Sheriff to look into it with him, then he may not have something to work with to bring her down.
Amy in the end is really like those school shooters and serial killers who fixated on a “type” of people they deem need to die, and they kill and maim so many EXCEPT for the ones that actually directly hurt her.
This is the reason to never trust a accusation without any evidence, no matter how awful it may be. Unfortunately there are many crazy people around us. It's pretty scary actually...
I LOVE Samantha's face watching this 😆😅
Love watching with you guys ans Congratulations on your new edition.
George Costanza "Just remember: It's not a lie, if you believe it".
A friend once recommended me this movie and some days later I didn't remember the exact movie name anymore. I ended up watching 'Gun Women'. Oh boy, quite different. xD