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I love watching people watch this movie because I know how hard it pulls the rug out on people.
You and me both mate, you and me both.
a truly perfect movie for these types of channels
Genuinely one of the few movies, only one that comes to mind, where I was actively angry at the ending. But you're supposed to be.
@@cctomcat321 You hate her, him, her parents, and most of the media. The sister and the detective are the only positive characters. Maybe Tyler Perry , too, although his character was in it for the fame and the money.
@marsta1980 I don't really hate him, considering... the only thing we know is he went all midlife Midwest crisis and cheated. Scummy, yeah, but turns out he was also with someone cold and empty. So normal scummy. Even borderline understandable scummy.
Should've still left the relationship, but she kinda Tated him. Controlled all his assets, home, work. Making sure she had control over him if she needed it. That he'd know what it meant to leave her.
All we _really_ see him do is shove her against the wall at the end, which... warranted. But otherwise, his biggest mistake was falling for "Amazing Amy" and her sociopathic ways.
He could've been cheating _with_ his sister and I still wouldn't put them on the same level as her. Except for maybe the obvious Nancy DisGrace character. By the end of this, Affleck is a full on victim.
I could agree that each character has their own level of likeability and wouldn't paint it black and white.
Rosamund Pike was so good in this film that I'm still terrified of her to this day 😂😂😂
She should have won the Best Actress Oscar.
I remember when Eric Roberts did such a great job of playing a scumbag in Star 80 that I couldn't stand to watch him in anything for years.😂
Yes! I watched Pride and Prejudice a little while ago and in the back of my mind I had this feeling of "Who's she gonna betray?" lol I just can't take her seriously anymore as someone who's actually happy.
@@drlee2 I think the one who should have won an acting Oscar was Carrie Coon as the sister. (She wasn't even nominated.)
She's definitely someone you want on your side lol I envy her determination
David Fincher came up with the idea for how the soundtrack should sound while he was being massaged in a spa and he heard "spa relaxation music". He said that the music made him uncomfortable because it created an eerie atmosphere, when it was supposed to make him feel relaxed. This gave him the idea to set the music as passive and relaxing, but also with a sense of dread. He said to the composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross : "Think about the really terrible music you hear in a spa... The way that it artificially tries to make you feel like everything’s OK. And then imagine that sound starting to curdle and unravel."
Trent and Atticus are so perfect at working with Fincher. I love their absolute creative passion for each soundtrack.
it's kinda like the music in the "safe areas" of re4. supposed kinda soothing but there's a melancholy and foreboding aspect to it
@@swish007 YESSSS!!! totally. same with the gamecube remake of the original
@@swish007 And now I have to listen to the save room theme from Code Veronica.
I bet masseuses' get farts in their face a whole lot.... sorry just a random thought that never occured to me before. I mean, that's gotta be anxiety enough for them right??
Rosamund Pike will forever be legend because of this movie alone. Its one of those "for the ages" performances.
She also has great taste in music, she starred in the music video for Massive Attack’s “Voodoo in my Blood” and killed it in that too
The book plays out much like the movie, with alternating first person chapters from Nick or Amy’s POV. Nick’s story is the present, starting when Amy disappears, but he speaks as though he’s actually talking to the reader, which sets him up as an unreliable narrator because you can tell there are things he’s holding back (his affair, for instance). Amy’s chapters are her diary entries from the fake diary, which of course the reader doesn’t know is fake. At the same moment in the story that the film drops the twist, Amy’s chapters suddenly begin in the “real world” on the day of her disappearance, and eventually the timelines sync up together. If they don’t already, they should teach the books as a perfect example of “unreliable narrator.”
loved George's comment 'But that's kinda' the way he acted around JLo at awards shows...'
I love Nick & Margo's relationship in this. The ups and the downs. I think Ben and Carrie pulled off being twins very well.
Went to see this movie in the theaters when I was 25... walked out of the movie thinking "maybe I don't actually want to be in a relationship."
One detail that comes out better in the book is that Amy writes personality quizzes for magazines. Specifically, these quizzes are multiple choice, just like the personality that she is putting on at any given moment.
I first watched this alone, then I watched with my husband. he was so distraught at the reveal moment, we had to pause to make him comfort food to even go on 😄
That was an incredibly kind and loving thing to do!😊
I can understand him.
This movie taught me many lessons. The main one being, that my attraction to intelligence is way stronger than my common sense and self-preservation instinct.
You, too?! lol
Yeah at the beginning I was like damn is she is attractive (and I dont mean her looks). But to be fair in the beginning of the movie you don't get shown any of her negative sides whatsoever. Or at least I can't remember any.
@@xXBenutzer235Xx Well, the thing is, I was way more into her when I saw her masterful manipulation skils and will to actually make her plans happen. She's like the negaverse version of manic pixie dream girl that pulls you out of your ordinary life and makes it interesting :D
@@poslednisoud Yeah I didn't find her attractive until the reveal haha
"We were on a break" is a famous line from Friends George lol. At least that is where I believe Simone is pulling this from when Ross said it to Rachel as they were arguing. This movie took me for a ride when I watched it. How they manipulate the viewer to think one thing, then the reveals and then how it ended. O_O Amazing experience on a first view. Terrifying to say the least.
Edit: I typed all that and then Simone explained it haha
"I wonder how this plays out in the book"
I had my girlfriend read the book, and she yelled at me saying "Why would you make me read this? He's so awful!!"
I said "Keep reading. Trust me."
She was angry, but got halfway through.
"Oh. Okay."
The book also changes halfway through.
So so good.
David Fincher is one of the best directors of the last three decades, no question. Another banger.
Opening with “WE WERE ON A BREAK!” Was so perfect 😂😭
George: I can’t picture any of these people as villains
Me, having seen the movie: Funny because I can picture them all as villains
@@HappyHarryHardon lol what about the Ads? lol if you didnt know this is your 12th reminder of the video that they have paetron i bet you didnt know
@@HappyHarryHardon i mean the in video ad's and paetron, if people didnt sub to it the first time its mentioned, harrassing people by saying 3 or 4 more times throughout the video is makes it expoentionally worse, even when my version of youtube skips most in video ads its still annoying to hear "hey you know we have a paetron hint hint" then 5 minutes later, "hey you can sub to our paetron" then again 6 minutes later, then again and again. and the excuse of we are trying to get paid to keep creating content for us... last i check they only do reaction videos which just is no where near any other content on youtube. can you name ANY catagory of content where literally all the work you do is just sit there and be recorded? look im here so i like it but im not going to give them that excuse sorry :(.
@@possibear You're not only exaggerating, you're being hysterical.
"Harassing"? I don't think you know what that word means. XD
@@StayFractalesque EveryONE is a villain even ME 😂
@@StayFractalesque Lol. What does being beautiful have anything to do with being a reactor? Foolish
Rosamund in “I Care A lot” is fire as well
I also like her breakout role as Miranda Frost, a “Bond Girl”, in Die Another Day, an otherwise meh Bond film.
That is a hell of a good movie as well!
The book plays out basically the same. The chapters alternate between Nick’s POV and Amy’s diary. It makes a much stronger case for the idea that Nick might have actually done the murder until the middle when the POV switches to Amy alive and the big reveal.
I wanted to read the book before I saw it in theaters, and wow is it well done. Unreliable narrators are difficult to pull off in my opinion, but I thought Gillian Flynn did great with Gone Girl. And I think Fincher really captured the complicated tension that readers felt, especially during the first half of the story and then after the reveal. I think that's why it's fun to see other people react to the movie because it's such a wild ride.
I'm surprised it isn't reacted to more, as it was a relatively small release, despite being a critical hit. As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I clicked... work can wait 😅
... are you fucking retarded or just cant read? please quote where I said that I didnt like george? go ahead ill wait for an eternity.
This is one of those rare times where they get a psychopathic character done right.
Gone Girl was nominated at the Oscars for Best Actress (Rosamund Pike) and she KILLED it. It’s such a shame it wasn’t up for Best Picture and ESPECIALLY Best Adapted Screenplay.
The author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn is the woman that Miles hired to write the murder mystery dinner in Glass Onion. Just a little thing I wanted to add. Lol
EDIT: Specified that Flynn is in fact a woman instead of “guy”.
The best movie of the year doesn't usually win best picture.
@@willvr4 Too true. Only a few times do they get nominated for BP and even fewer actually manage to win. 😞
This! But Gillian Flynn is a woman, not a guy
@@O___________0 I’ve been using guy as a gender neutral term for so long that it completely slipped my mind as I was typing. 😂 Fixed it for clarity’s sake. Lol
@@Little1Cave Glad you changed it! It’s important to know a woman wrote the book. A man could never write Gone Girl 😌
The Judge who said 'you seem a cold uncaring' person was from the movie Shawshank Redemption
"People believe what they want to believe" - George
"I don't have any stragety" - Simone
This is why I love you guys.
Fincher is so good at casting his movies. It's no coincidence that he cast Affleck in the lead male role with what he was dealing with in his real personal life at the time.
This is David Fincher's best film, imo. Should have won all the Oscars that year.
Rosemund Pike is so good at just making you hate her guts. It's an art.
I can't help but like her lol
but she was the loveliest in Pride and Prejudice
I liked her LOL
@@clownmonomaniac2630 you mean the character unironically rooting for them?
If that's the case... you're kinda telling on yourself.
But as a character? If you dislike the character, like the performance? Then that's an acknowledgment of a well-written and acted character.
@@slonmish Also unrecognizable to me the first time in The World's End. She's great at conveying that coldness while being able to play normal characters and not looking like the random psycho in other stuff.
It didn't make the YT cut, but as for Amy getting off scott free I think the husband says something along the lines of "no matter what happens, inside you'll always be....you" near the end, which actually seems to stick with her. She can fool the whole world into thinking she's Amazing Amy, but it doesn't change how really she's a bitter sociopath who doesn't understand real happiness.
One of my favorite movies of the past decade...its sooo good!
The bone-chilling , Oscar nominated score courtesy of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails. They won an Oscar for their work on "The Social Network”.
And for Soul.
The Cool Girl monologue is absolutely iconic and the screenplay was written by the author of the book!
Also, Gone Girl is one of those films where every aspect in execution is excellent: acting, writing, directing, the score, cinematography.
If I’m not mistaken, Gone Girl was directly inspired by the frenzy of the disappearance of Laci Peterson in 2002. Obviously, the author took quite a few liberties but the blueprint is there.
It’s such a wild commentary on the way the world looks at these true crime cases.
Ben Affleck is such a good choice for the Scott Peterson type guy
I love watching this movie as a single person.
Right. Nick is an awful man and husband, this films portrays the reality if many women - they don’t end up framing their husbands for their murder though. But their husbands do murder their spirits quietly.
Rosamund Pike delivered an astonishing performance as a Psychopath. When I see the actress I see Amy, that's how good she really is in that movie.
A horror movie that still gives me shivers when I think about it.
YES what a great film. Amy’s monologue still gives me the chills too. This is a psychological thriller though, not horror.
@@O___________0 it is razor thin close to being a horror movie though. Rosemund Pike is absolutely fucking terrifying in this movie.
@@christianjohnsjohns8723 Yeah even though it's classified otherwise, I don't even blink when people call Gone Girl a horror movie.
LOL I can’t tell if George’s 'Take 76' joke was referring to the Ben Affleck acting joke earlier or a reference to David Fincher wanting his actors to do a lot of takes when they’re in his movies, cause Fincher is notorious for that.😂
Pretty sure he was referring to how Affleck caught the cheese puff or whatever that was that they threw in his mouth. I think he was saying that prob took 76 shots.
A parody movie called "Bye Boy" would be hilarious, of Ben trying to escape from his psycho wife 😆
Needs a scene with her walking towards the camera, holding eye contact, explaining her elaborate evil plan of getting him to spill his coffee in his lap while she creates another sock orphan in his dresser drawer.
If you guys liked "Gone Girl", you should definitely give "Promising Young Woman" a try. It's a dark thriller in a very similar vein to "Gone Girl".
Yess wilddddd!
Similar in what way? Yes both include revenge but Promising Young Woman comes from empathy towards the main character's friend, while Gone Girl is an empty vessel of a human faking personality, and then ruins multiple people with elaborate planning because she's upset. Nothing similar about the two.
I respectfully disagree. Sure, you're not wholly wrong in your breakdown, yet there are other things that make them similar.
As you yourself mentioned, revenge is a main theme in the two movies; That alone already makes them similar in some way. Then there's the dark mood/tone in their respective plots, their thriller-esque genres, as well as having an underlying bit of black comedy with their over-the-top violence. And as for the main female characters in each movie, they both get a weird kind of sadistic joy out of their behaviors. Again, more similarities.
All I was trying to get at was that there were things that made them similar. It's not like I insinuated they were exact mirrors of each other. Saying they were similar was just implying commonalities, which there are. They both can be considered to be in the thriller genre. The main female characters both have motives of revenge. There is over-the-top violence in both films. And there's a dark tone in each movie's plot. That seems like enough of a reason for me to say they're similar. You may disagree, and that's fine, but I see more similarities than at first glance.
The opening scene, Amy Dunne looks up at Nicholas Dunne.
The ending scene, Amy Dunne looks up at the audience.
That David Fincher, he is a sneaky one! 🤔🤨🧐😳
This is really one of my favorite movies. Watching it in theaters after reading the book was such a treat
13:56 is my favourite moment of this reaction hahah, George's face! I feel you brother.
“We were on a break!”george and Simone relationship confirmed!
The music is 'unsettling' and 'Se7en' because it was NIN (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, although at the time Atticus wasnt official part of NIN)
The way Fincher was able to pull off this story is next level - he is a master filmmaker. It also doesn't hurt to have an excellent book (which I immediately found after watching the film) and screen play to work from.
I found this to be such a totally depressing ending - made Se7en's ending look like a fairy tale.
All I could think when I finished it was: imagine being a friend of Flynn and her husband and reading this! You'd have to pull them aside and be like, "You guys are okay, right? Right??"
I was on board with your comment until that silly remark about Seven, c’mon now….
@@juanprc10 same lol
@@juanprc10 was referring to the final scene in seven, not the obvious A-bomb what's in the box moment
Your picture on the thumbnail 😂😂 hysterical!
3:30 that was a great line.
i busted out a loud laugh in the theater, immediately covered my mouth and sunk deep into my seat. 😆
One of the greatest movies in the last 10 years, and that's even with Ben Affleck in it! Rosemond Pike is absolutely AMAZING in it.
Ben Affleck has had some good films throughtout his career...so idk the passive-aggressive remark.
he did 1 horrible movie (🙄 you know the 1! Gigli. ugh) & Batman (which wasn't a bad movie, just no one wanted Affleck as Batman....a very iconic role, so understanably ppl hated him for it, so it was deemed a 'bad film'.)
Gigli is unanimously God-awful. correct. the Batman film is debatable, but to each their own....however, still doesn't constitute him being 'bad' professiknally.
personally, though, he needs some ummm..... help? guidance? basically, his REAL life needs to get it's SHXT together! lol.
@Nicolle Campbell tf you talking about throwing batman into the mix???
Rosamund Pike shouldve gotten the oscar for this lol.
You guys should do Lucky Number Slevin.
My ex had a borderline issue we could never work through. There were habits she couldn't do anything about, because she had trouble seeing them clearly and it affected her memory and eroded trust. Whenever she would become even the least bit angry or frustrated, with anything, moments would happen where she would stumble or drop something or otherwise make a mistake, and she would fabricate the affectation that I had hit her or had pushed her or otherwise hurt her. She did that to everyone a little, but men mostly, and me in particular. Anyone noticing would give me glares at least, and if they said anything, she was fast to speak up, but it always sounded like excuses and denial to the bystander. But she did it in private, too, when nobody else was watching. And sometimes she would rewrite the scenario in her memory and eventually she built the wrong idea about me being manipulative. She sorta knew she did it. Our friends knew she did. Her kids knew she did. But we could never work it out, and it just got worse. It was the product of trauma, but it was just too big for her to even see, let alone get past. I thought I understood the behaviors, but it didn't matter. I made her worse, increasingly paranoid and unhinged at times, just because we were close. She was increasingly having trouble with her son, too, last I knew. I hope she's well.
When did you decide to leave her?
One line I remember from a psychotherapist friend: Everybody always underestimates the pathology of a beautiful woman.
@@Asehpe When it became clear she was only getting worse with me around. She started keeping weapons handy to protect herself from me, scissors, knives, an old softball bat, a phone to quickly call 911, and she wouldn't listen that I wasn't a threat, not from anyone. One day she reached for a kitchen knife to protect herself and started chasing me around the house. Afterward, she never forgave me for calling 911. But it turns out that if she had even nicked me it would have meant an automatic five years in jail, maybe more, whether I wanted to press charges or not. She refused to get into counseling, because she insisted that I was the problem, and to her, suggesting "she was crazy" was just another sneaky tactic on my part. And increasingly she suggested her kids were in on it, or whoever went along with me. By that time I was only a Boogeyman in her eyes, and I had to face it that our marriage wasn't coming back. Now I think I stayed too long, but I didn't want to give up. I wonder if her memory continues to change or if that stopped once I left. Last I knew, she was warning our friends that I was a pedophile. (Her children were already grown, before we got together.) It was just sad and intractable, at least from my position. Once we decided to split, I came home from work one day and everything was gone. I got the house, because she was scared to stay there, and she got pretty much everything else. It wasn't a bitter split, just confused and sad. I still don't know if it was arrogant or devoted to try to make things work for so long, hoping it would change back to how it was. She was a lot worse by the time we were over. I was in therapy for a while.
@@Asehpe It was really weird at the end, because she still made dinners and did laundry and everything like she normally had, except also she was constantly suspicious of me. She acted like all that was her job and I was trying to stop her, and she wouldn't let me. I had to sleep in another room, because I started becoming scared of her. It became a total mind bender for me. I was "the bad guy" the whole time, and I really was by the end, because it was my presence making her worse. First decade of the millennium we were together -- it started with so much hope, and it ended so badly.
@@willcool713 Damn I'm sorry to hear that. Sounds like you genuinely cared a lot for her to go through all of that. I hope someone maybe a little healthier has the luck of having you in their life now :)
Sure buddy.... Can't wait to hear her side of the story....
one of those movies that were interpreted well from a book or novel. I remember scrambling to read the book before I watched the movie.
David Fincher was once asked what he thought of the people watching his movies and he replied that all people are perverts. That does explain what type of movies he likes to make and Gone Girl is a perfect fit.
I love the reaction when the opinion chick comes over for the interview. I was, like, just drop kick her out of your door!
The detective is Kim Dickens, my favorite actor from Fear The Walking Dead.
Shout out to "Johnny Cream-puff" , when I heard that all I could think of, "Johnny you're a cream puff!"
Lol
Hilarious!!!
The movie's structure is the same as the book's (alternating viewpoints for the first half, and then the big reveal halfway through), so big credit to Gillian Flynn there. It's a very "literary" structure, using her diary entries and then her interior monologue, so I was worried in advance that the book might be essentially unfilmable. I was delighted to be wrong about that, and I even returned to the theater the next day, to enjoy the craftsmanship all the more. It's quite a stunning achievement.
With increased familiarity, I can see shaky points in the story -- mostly that after Amy's money is stolen, absolutely everything miraculously goes right for her: she has a wealthy admirer with a remote house, the press isn't inclined to investigate every detail of her story (some of it, like the security tapes, wouldn't hold up on really close investigation), and she now gets pregnant from Nick's frozen sperm on the first try. Still, on first viewing/reading, the narrative push is thoroughly convincing, and I love both book and movie.
Simone's word "stragedy" is in fact ideal for this movie -- a horrible tragedy, very strategically masterminded. Thank you!
I’ve never been more terrified and attracted to a villain in all my life.
this movie was based on the book but the book was based on the laci and scott peterson case, it’s a pretty interesting case if you have the time to research
I remember when this movie came out, people were like “but who is the bigger villain, Amy or Nick?” Well Amy does murder, so…
One of the most unsettling things I've come across on the internet was the comments section of another reactor's reaction to this movie. The title of the video said something about how the reactor didn't blame her or something like that, so I went straight to the comments to see what people were saying about his unusual take. I never actually watched the reaction because the comments were too disturbing. Apparently, he was rooting for Amy or something because the comments were full of people going on about how great she is, how they also loved her, and how the husband deserved it because he had cheated... it was legitimately disturbing to see how many people's take away from this movie was that Amy is "a queen" 😬
This reminds me of the 1994 movie Oleanna, where a woman and a man have very different impressions about a conversation between the two of them. This movie really disturbed me. I had to check online how my perception of that key conversation matched up with that of other viewers. To some surprise there was a very divided opinion about that key conversation.
The last time I was so wound up by fiction was when I (had to) read Kafka in school.
The most realistic part of this is the robbery scene. Amy is highly intelligent, highly. But she’s never been poor and believe it or not, poverty has a certain "aire" - your speech, pace of speech, pace of walk... Amy's never really struggled - she's brilliant, but not street smart and they sniffed it out.
I don't even know my own blood type
I found out mine by donating while they had a blood drive event in my HS senior year. They send you a donor card via mail about a week later with your type on display. I've never not had it on me, in plain sight, facing outward through a clear window next to my ID. Life is... pretty unpredictable, to put it lightly - so *if* I get hit by a car, for instance, at least a paramedic looking for my ID would get a head start on that transfusion!
It just makes me feel a little better knowing that it's -right there- just in case!!
@@Rickety_Cricket Lol, weird timing, I just had blood drawn today including a request for my blood type. So I guess I'll know soon.
@@buzzardbeatniks That IS weird timing! 😂😂😂 Wow! Good on you, though! It's a good thing to know, for sure!
Such a great movie about media manipulation.
Who doesn’t know “we were on a break”?
The guy who plays Amy's father in this film was also Palmer in The Thing.
As much as Rosamund Pike's performance is incredible, this movie perfectly utilizes Ben Affleck's on screen, and frankly off screen persona too.
Gillian Flynn said that she wrote the book based on the fact that there are lots of stories out there about men who commit crimes and do evil things and we enjoy them. Of course, a good portion of these stories are noble criminals like Robin Hood, or semi-neutral criminals like Jackie Brown (she's enriching herself, but she's stealing from a villainous guy, or there are plenty of stories where criminals are going after systems or corporations that are not humanized either way), but there are characters who by any other standard would have to be considered at least a little immoral. John Wick, for example, not only has thousands of kills under his belt, and many of these people, especially before he met his wife, were probably innocent or good people and he simply got paid enough to take them out. With that sort of thing in mind, she set out to create a villainous woman whose wickedness and cruelty would be part of the thrill of reading/watching her.
One little detail some people seem to miss is the callbacks to the beginning where Amy says Nick's chin is conveying dishonesty. When he's on Sharon Schreiber, he coyly covers it when he says "I love you, Amy."
A minor disappointment, to me anyway: Reese Witherspoon is credited as a producer. She was originally set to play Amazing Amy, but Fincher didn't think she was right and convinced her to vacate the role so he could cast Rosamund Pike. I like Rosamund Pike, and I think she's very good in the movie, but as you two point out, she always seems a little calculating, even when she's supposed to be "Cool Girl," whereas I think Reese Witherspoon could've done an interesting swing from the neighborhood to Elle Woods to the neighborhood of Tracy Flick (a character she played in a movie you should two should react to called Election).
Don't know if you've both already seen The Social Network, but that's another Fincher I'd love to see you tackle.
Also, small correction: If I remember correctly, the one where the judge comments on the defendant's demeanor isn't The Fugitive, but The Shawshank Redemption.
Good analysis! But I disagree on the Reese Witherspoon point. I think she would have seemed too "familiar" to audiences; we needed someone who was a bit of a mystery to us viewers as well, so that we'd never feel quite sure what was real (until we're told).
Nah, Reese would have been a weird choice. I love her but I don't think she has the nuance to play someone so scary.
@@GrainneMhaol if you haven't seen Election you should see it
I like Rosamund's casting better honestly. I don't doubt the fact that Reese could flip switch in the middle of the movie, but I think she plays nice too well and to me would've lost the nuance of the character, it would've been a little bit too easy to believe her. I love how Amy here is unsettling and gives off the "wolf in sheeps cloothing" energy all the time, but it's able to manipulate her privilege in her favor to the point that she makes us doubt Nick even though we've been following him all the time. Reese playing Amy would've been "Oh of course everyone fell for that smile", while Rosamund playing Amy is "how tf did I let myself get played like that??"
Fincher’s The Game is a must watch! Please add to your list.
I read the book back when it was new, when there was just talk of it becoming a movie... and when I saw the film, it was like reading the book all over again -- very, very similar.
One of my favorite things is where he tells his sister that his mistress is "in her early twenties" and later the news shows she is exactly 20.
I love that y'all had never seen this movie cause the twist is so good!! I did the same thing where I was really hanging on to that beginning sequence where he was looking for her cause it just didn't make sense that all signs were pointing to him when he seemed so confused. Maybe it would've worked better if they showed the neighbor calling the police for a break in and then Nick being called but either way it still turned out to be a banger movie.
Rosamund Pike has a very English accent. That is why her American accent may sound unusual here.
See
I Care a Lot (2020)
also with Pike.
It's next level - I'm not kidding!
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
I wish we had more fully evil messed up female villains. Pearl is the latest one I can think of. Female monsters and slashers and psychos are such a rarity.
Weird coincidence: Affleck's brother made a different critically acclaimed movie with the word Gone in the title, that also involved a brilliant actress playing a heinous bitch. "Gone Baby Gone". If you ever want to see Amy Ryan convincingly playing a selfish disaster of a woman, that's the one. Also Morgan Freeman!
Wooooooow. 😯
This was like watching people watch the sixth sense. I mean, I was SHOCKED neither of you had heard of the twist before. Not seen the actual movie I get, but just didn’t know? Or heard the cool girl monologue? Really? 😮
It’s just become this reference, all over, everywhere, for so long. I knew about it WAY before I saw it and that was so long ago.
Just WOW. This wasn’t a first time reaction I ever expected to get, but so glad I did! 😂❤️👍
I've never heard anything about the twist before and have struggled to get into the film the couple of times I've made an attempt to watch it.
@@UtopiaBlue68 God, I’m so jealous! I don’t know how, but I always get twists or surprise endings ruined for me. Even if I try to avoid spoilers like the plague. 😂
But I also had a hard time wanting to see the film (although for me it was because I already knew so I wasn’t really motivated). I think I’ve only seen it through reactions?
I’ve actually done that a lot. Used reactions to get me to watch stuff I’ve avoided for no particular reason.
"You know you can sleep with me, right?"
How'd that work out for the last guy?
This is one of those movies that I thought was great, very well made, and thought provoking, that I will only ever watch once. Fargo is also included on that list.
I also got the Friends reference. I'm not a Ross fan, but Rachel was in the wrong there.
Yes Simone with the Buffy reference!
Your reaction to the first reveal was amazing. loved it
The character Amy Dunne has to be at the top of the list or hell.....IMO number one ranked female movie villain of ALL TIME. Second to Mary Lee Johnston from the movie "Precious" which I highly recommend for you guys to watch.
Nurse Ratched has entered the chat. Followed by Annie Wilkes. And maybe Dolores Umbridge.
amy elliot dunne is up there with john smith and anton chigurh as far as thriller killers go for me, she is scary because she's so fucking smart and im sorry but the mug? flawless, face card never declines my gawd
I watched this film specifically so I could watch your reaction to it, and now i have a phobia of Rosamund Pike
one thing I always find so fascinating is when Nick finally does push her, even after the audience knows the kind of person she is, I've seen a lot of people still react negatively to that. There's definitely some interesting commentary on like levels of charitability on the basis of gender that we have throughout the movie. Also shoutout to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who did the soundtrack, the track when she kills Desi is so memorable and unsettling.
It's such a blast watching you guys try to solve these great mysteries, and then your shock and surprise when the truth is revealed. You have to watch Fincher's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, in my opinion a better mystery and movie overall than Gone Girl.
I hope they will watch it too. It's such an underrated movie.
me too!! Man I wish it would have won the poll
Goes to show how shit modern CGI laden movies are, and this wasn't even that long ago.
if you want to watch a movie about Salander, it has to be the original trilogy. it’s way better, imo, even though Rooney Mara did her best
also David Fincher's version of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' is really good 👍
Wow. First time I got Simone's opening reference.
You may remember her as martin freeman's sister( and Simon Pegg's love interest in The World's End
I remember watching this movie and never hating a woman so much in my life... just wow
I read the book before I watched the movie, and I though it was interesting up until you find out Amy is still alive, then it became a bit of a drag rather quickly. The movie is a quite good adaptation. Of course things were more elaborate in the book, more diary notes, longer treasure hunt, we get to follow Amy for longer at the holiday resort before she is robbed, Nick visits more of Amy's exes and ex-friends and they all say she reached a tipping point after which she started harming herself and framing them for it, but apart from natural cut for the sake of a movies runtime, the change that I put the biggest note on was that in the book there was much more focus on Nick not wanting a lawyer cause only guilty people need lawyers. In the movie, it's Go who want's him to hire Tanner Bolt, but in the book she initially freak out when he does, saying it's as good as a confession as Bolt is infamous for representing people who are almost certainly guilty.
I love how much this movie draws on Joe Eszterhas-scripted erotic thrillers, like Basic Instinct. The whole 'maybe he did it' motif is writ so large here. The twist is too early for it to be the end of the film but not late enough for it to be the twist. Fincher went full maverick with this one :)
I recommend this movie to every couple for the Valentine's Day. I think it's very educational.😂
Friends quote!! 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Actually.. All the gummy throwing was digitally added. Fincher always uses A LOT of digital work. He's a super control freak.
After watching the "all female bartenders in movies" meme, the bartender in this movie is exactly that lol
Movie recommendation: Denzel Washington, Queen latifa, Angelina Jolie- 1999, The Bone Collector. An amazing Thriller Murder mystery.
I love this movie. Fincher does a fantastic job with the directing. The characters are great and the twists and turns are dark.
@@kuhpunkt Hey :) Nice to meet you here.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this film the hammer to the eye will always be crazy
Cool reaction as always Simone & George, you both have a great weekend
You should research Rosamund Pike's films -- she's really good.
11:56 we all need a sister like Margo.