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
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.
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 🤣
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.
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.
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 ;)!
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.
I must have suggested this movie atleast 2 times to you. So happy you loved it, but lots of us knew you would. The direction of this movie is flat out amazing. I keep recommending this to people.
My favorite part is definitely Samantha reacting to the wine bottle insertion and the crazy sex scene. THAT IS THE ONE OF BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN NY LIFE! She was BOTHERED! 😂
Also, right after “The scene”, she is about to start feeling emotional, then shrugs it off. THAT INTIMIDATED ME in a way I have never felt before. That character was NUTS
This movie is executed perfectly. If you want another movie that's, not the same theme, but executed beautifully, one of my favorite movies, Arrival (2016) with Amy Adams as the lead, and Jeremy Renner. I'm pretty certain you will love it, it's not what it seems.
Been waiting for you to react to this movie! Awesome reaction! Loved every bit of it. The other movie I would love for you to react to is CHINATOWN. Especially because nobody else does. It's in the AFI top 20 movies of all time I believe, and nobody talks about it.
I like how Ben Affleck’s acting In this he seemed sus the whole time 😂like least to me I never felt safe when he would talk and he didn’t know next to nothing before everything hit the fan, the wife’s a genius great writing it’s a messed up creepy story
That's why casting Ben Affleck in the role is so brilliant. It's possible to believe him as a cold emotionless killer, or equally well as an ordinary semi-crappy husband.
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 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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This one of the most f@cked up movies I ever saw only once and never again. Not even sure I can watch this reaction to be honest. Great film, just scared the hell out of me from ever getting married or bringing a lady over to my house.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
I really hope that you will watch some of these comedies: Eastbound and Down..... Napoleon Dynamite..... Envy...... Meet the Parents + Meet the Fockers.... Hot Shots 1+2...... Four Lions...... 7 days in hell..... The Campaign..... Semi-Pro.... Tucker and dale Vs Evil.... Norsemen.... Black Dynamite.... The Big Lebowski.... Idiocracy.... Zoolander...... Adam's Apples.... This is the End..... Pineapple Express..... Knocked Up....... Adventures of Power..... Why Him?...... 40 Year old Virgin..... Dinner for Schmucks..... The Cable Guy...... Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinking Your Juice In The Hood..... Scary Movie 1+2...... National Lampoons Christmas Vacation..... Bad Santa 1+2.....
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.
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.
The book is probably the best example of unreliable narrator I’ve ever read. It alternates chapters from Nick’s POV in the present and Amy’s journal from the past. When the truth is revealed halfway through and Amy’s narrative shifts to the present it is legitimately shocking. The film does a good job with this but since film is visual it can’t deceive you quite the same way. All the same, I think this is probably my third favorite Fincher film behind Seven and Fight Club.
That moment when you turn that page is amazing. I can't wait for the next Gillian Flynn book. After Gone Girl I read all her other novels way too quickly.
@@scarlettmi Any recommendation that comes to mind ? Edit: Well, should have googled the books first i guess. I gave Sharp Objects a try before and kinda bounced off of it. I don't even remember why though.
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. 💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙🌿💙
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 🤣
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 knew Samantha was going to put this as a top movie for her.
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.
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
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 ;)!
I LOVE Samantha's face watching this 😆😅
Love watching with you guys ans Congratulations on your new edition.
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 😂
Love this movie! Probably one of the only movies I've seen that really stuck with everything in the book.
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.
I must have suggested this movie atleast 2 times to you. So happy you loved it, but lots of us knew you would. The direction of this movie is flat out amazing. I keep recommending this to people.
16:55 the reveal
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.
I think it was supposed to be called “Girl? Gone!”
You guys would love Zodiac. Another David Fincher masterpiece
My favorite part is definitely Samantha reacting to the wine bottle insertion and the crazy sex scene. THAT IS THE ONE OF BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN NY LIFE! She was BOTHERED! 😂
Also, right after “The scene”, she is about to start feeling emotional, then shrugs it off. THAT INTIMIDATED ME in a way I have never felt before. That character was NUTS
This movie is executed perfectly.
If you want another movie that's, not the same theme, but executed beautifully, one of my favorite movies, Arrival (2016) with Amy Adams as the lead, and Jeremy Renner. I'm pretty certain you will love it, it's not what it seems.
You really need to watch David Fincher's "The Game".
It was so much fun watching you guys react to this movie. Gillian Flynn is a genius.
Been waiting for you to react to this movie! Awesome reaction! Loved every bit of it. The other movie I would love for you to react to is CHINATOWN. Especially because nobody else does. It's in the AFI top 20 movies of all time I believe, and nobody talks about it.
Rosamund Pike was fantastic as Amy, her Oscar nomination was well deserved.
Ben Affleck basically played himself.
I really like your videos.
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Any chance of a Wind River reaction?
A couple movies to consider with twists and turns, No Way Out with Kevin Costner, Fallen with Denzel Washington or Jagged Edge with Jeff Bridges.
I like how Ben Affleck’s acting In this he seemed sus the whole time 😂like least to me I never felt safe when he would talk and he didn’t know next to nothing before everything hit the fan, the wife’s a genius great writing it’s a messed up creepy story
That's why casting Ben Affleck in the role is so brilliant. It's possible to believe him as a cold emotionless killer, or equally well as an ordinary semi-crappy husband.
If this were an anime he’d have the “😅” look in so many scenes
This movie scarred me for life. ❤
It is always fascinating how easy people believe diarys.
He had it coming 😌
I love this movie so much!! I feel like is very underrated maybe because is difficult to recommend without spoilers
This movie is sick, Sick, SICK! I love it.
Please put Zodiac in a poll. One of the best David Fincher films, imo/
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 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?
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!
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.
I loved the way y’all’s jaw dropped when the movie showed she was framing her husband. 😲
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.
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
@@shanenolan5625 Facts
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.
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.
"So, toxic marriage I guess?"
Understatement of the year.😆
Damn, I was going to write that comment myself! 😆
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.
I don't know my wife's blood type.....shit, I don't even know mine lol.
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.
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
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.
David Fincher, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is a combination that transcends.
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.
The expression on Sam's face at the mid-point is priceless! What a great movie.
This one of the most f@cked up movies I ever saw only once and never again. Not even sure I can watch this reaction to be honest. Great film, just scared the hell out of me from ever getting married or bringing a lady over to my house.
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.
David Fincher’s; The Game, next please.
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.
Huge Fincher fan here as well. I think you'd really enjoy 'Zodiac' and 'The Social Network'.
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
I highly recommends you guys Amadeus(1984), it got 8 Academy Awards/Oscars including Best Picture, hope it will be next on your list.
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.
14:15 "Eww! Ohhh! She was pregnant?"
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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
David Fincher is a master at directing. You should watch The Game, which came out in-between Se7en and Fight Club.
masterpiece
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.
I like right at the start TBR said *” oh, so toxic marriage huh?". Just a tad worse lol
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.
Tough & scary movie to watch with your wife. It is almost as close to horror a movie can come to, while strictly talking about relationships
Another top notch Fincher movie is Panic Room with Jodie Foster.
You should try "The game", you'll be lost during the whole movie, just awesome. David Fincher is really in my top 5 directors
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!
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
Lucky number slevin, if you love figure things out in a movie.
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.
Did you check your wife is actually pregnant and didn't just steal another woman's urine?
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.
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.
5:31 she doesn't seem very stuck-up or complicated.
i sniggered.
I really hope that you will watch some of these comedies:
Eastbound and Down..... Napoleon Dynamite..... Envy...... Meet the Parents + Meet the Fockers.... Hot Shots 1+2...... Four Lions...... 7 days in hell..... The Campaign..... Semi-Pro.... Tucker and dale Vs Evil.... Norsemen.... Black Dynamite.... The Big Lebowski.... Idiocracy.... Zoolander...... Adam's Apples.... This is the End..... Pineapple Express..... Knocked Up....... Adventures of Power..... Why Him?...... 40 Year old Virgin..... Dinner for Schmucks..... The Cable Guy...... Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinking Your Juice In The Hood..... Scary Movie 1+2...... National Lampoons Christmas Vacation..... Bad Santa 1+2.....
Seems both of you are ready for David Fincher's 1997 movie "The Game"...
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.
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.
Hey Schmitts, you should watch Zodiac.
Also directed by Fincher, also twisty-turny, also with great performances.
That death scene was one of the most disturbing, scariest death scenes ever for me. Completely freaked me out!
David Fincher is God. Check out his best movie, Zodiac.
The real heroes are the crooks that robbed her while she was in hiding. They saved Nick's life.
This movie is a mind fuxk. Rosamund Pike kills it in her role.
“It’s light out.… Yeah you gotta send her out in the dark”! 😂😂🤣💪
The book is probably the best example of unreliable narrator I’ve ever read. It alternates chapters from Nick’s POV in the present and Amy’s journal from the past. When the truth is revealed halfway through and Amy’s narrative shifts to the present it is legitimately shocking. The film does a good job with this but since film is visual it can’t deceive you quite the same way. All the same, I think this is probably my third favorite Fincher film behind Seven and Fight Club.
That moment when you turn that page is amazing. I can't wait for the next Gillian Flynn book. After Gone Girl I read all her other novels way too quickly.
@@scarlettmi Any recommendation that comes to mind ?
Edit: Well, should have googled the books first i guess. I gave Sharp Objects a try before and kinda bounced off of it. I don't even remember why though.
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
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.
Love this movie. Rosamund Pike is amazing.
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.
Great reaction video! Have you seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? That’s another David Fincher film I think you’d like!
The detectives partner is the boy from Almost Famous.
“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.
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
This is one of my favourite movies of the past 10 years.
I love watching people discovering this movie. It’s the best unreliable narrative I know.
18:05 she is Amazing Amy.
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.
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Awesome movie! Thanks guys! I hope you have a good one!! 🥤🍿💪🏽😎