Gone Girl (Fincher)

[Ezee E]

Fuck. Is this his best? Need to sleep on it.

No, but it's amazing.

His best use of score in a movie though.

[MadMan]

So far this is the only Fincher film that I felt could have lost 20 minutes and still turned out the same. Doesn't change the fact its one of the year's best.

[Stay Puft]

His best use of score in a movie though.

Yeah, I might agree with this. Really loved the score. Pervasive and unnerving, and a great compliment to the twists and ambiguities.

I wouldn't rank Gone Girl among Fincher's best, but I enjoyed it a lot more than his last three. Had a lot of fun with it. Thought for sure I knew exactly where the mystery was going, was surprised when the twist I predicted was revealed even before the film's halfway point, and it just kept twisting and turning from there. A total blast to watch.

[Yxklyx]

Yeah, saw this finally. My third favorite of his after Seven and Fight Club.

[Peng]

Rewatched this, and damn, is this the double casting coups of the decade? Rosamund Pike seemingly comes out of nowhere to capture the slippery role of Amy *just* right. Her unknowable enigma of the film’s first half gives way and is shaded into the half-satiric/half-sincere extreme of blackest comedy, both fascinating and a complete hoot (the heel-clicking jump of joy, the quick contemptuous spit, the intensely unblinking TV watching while gobbling down ice-cream; the most delicious soap-opera fainting ever captured on film, I could go on and on).

Meanwhile, Ben Affleck is a serendipity of written character and actor’s real-life baggage. I couldn’t get over how apt he is when I first heard the casting, but the sheer feeling of serendipity would come later when the first trailer came out, and the “smile” scene, a seemingly unfilmable passage in the book, is perfectly captured in both its douchey cluelessness and second-handed embarrassment of relatability, all in a flash of a second.