I had my doubts about this movie, since the story was so specifically tailored to the format of a novel. And indeed the big twist requires some awkward construction of us hearing a diary narrated rather than just getting to read it ourselves. But David Fincher is still such a master director that it all works out great.
This movie is like a dark satirical take on marriage in general, how a lot of the times we put up with the other persons crazy isht and stay with them for the sake of public perception.
Gillian Flynn unfortunately lost a lot of the cred the book (plus Sharp Objects and Dark Places) gave her with her Amazon series Utopia, with a lot of fans accusing her of trying way too hard to live up to her own hype with the most likable character being murdered early on for literally no reason and none of the others caring about it, so there's no reason to care about any of them.
I know I'm late to the party, but holy cow, watching you get more and more stressed out to this movie is strangely soothing. Thank you so much for doing this.
i definitely enjoyed the reaction! this film has been high on my list for several years and i always get a kick out of people seeing the twist(s!) for the first time ❤
This led to a bunch of idiots saying the movie shouldn't have been made, because of course it's the movie's fault if some asshole uses it as a blueprint for their life.
i remember for like four years after this movie came out you'd see memes in movie nerd circles that would be like "here's how Gone Girl (2014) can still win best picture" i think the most recent version i saw in 2020 lmfao
Okay, I must be having a deja vu moment, because I swore I watched your reaction to this already. But then again, when this movie was a youtube trend a few years ago, I may have seen so many reactors watch this and thought you had already. Can't wait to dive into your reaction on this one, because yours are always awesome. ...And it's true. This movie is a crazy ride. She was absolutely diabolical. Let's Go!!!❤
I read the book when it first came out, so I had no idea what it was about! I was SO mad at the ending I threw the book across the room 😅 The movie is absolutely amazing ❤
If you really wanted to, you could pick the movie apart for all the "that wouldn't really happen" things in it. However, the screenplay is an excellent adaptation of the book (written by the author), and the actors performed their roles to a T. It wasn't hard to suspend disbeief to enjoy Gone Girl. Hard to believe this flick is 10 years old . . .
I will say, it's one of those rare movies I enjoy the plot and watching while I really disliked all the characters lul (it means it's good since they got me to dislike them). Of course some I dislike more then the other, but yeah! Thought that was interesting.
It's a fun movie but the ending is preposterous. Amy disappeared on July 5. She doesn't begin her stay at her ex-boyfriend's secluded lake house until July 24. Once the missing person's case becomes a kidnapping, it becomes an FBI case. Even if the FBI finds Amy credible, they are going to take a deep dive into her ex-boyfriend. They are going to make a map of his movements for this entire 19 day window and they will find that his movements are completely inconsistent with someone who is holding a woman prisoner. They are going to wonder where he kept her prisoner. The people who clean his home are to going to confirm that he was home daily and that they saw no evidence that anyone else what at his residence. Furthermore, a detailed forensic examination of his home will no evidence of a super detailed cleaning and they will find no evidence that Amy was ever there. Likewise, they will check his water and electrical usage for all the ex-boyfriend's homes. They will also check his credit card bill and they will find no charges that corroborate any Amy's contention that she was his prisoner during this 19 day window. Once the FBI finds enough things that don't make any sense, they are going to put Amy's story on a microscope and there's no way it will stand up to such scrutiny. At some point, the hillbillies will see the story and TV and put 2 and 2 together and try to cash in on the story.
This movie is the perfect example of why you shouldn't make judgments on people without the full context. You go into it thinking one thing then realizing you didn't really know half of it by the end. A lot of people could learn a thing or two about jumping to conclusions and believing accusations and specific narratives before having all the facts.
"I don't get why you're daring me to be someone I don't want to be"... When she never was her authentic self. She was playing a percieved contrived role of cool girlfriend/cool wife, because she has no true personality of her own. The reason she likes puzzles/riddles/ games of wits like treasure hunts, is because she had to struggle to learn to mask trauma growing up, & to fit into a world with high expectations, & juggle the celebrity fame her parents created for her & themselves, & present the perfect image, & never make a scene. In other words she had to develop a fake personna. She did not get to develop normally, meaning in a healthy way. Her parents did plagiarize her childhood. And exploited their daughter. At least if they had named the girl in the book Spectacular Susan, or something other than their daughters name, she would not have felt like she was trying so hard to mirror a fake character. Amazing Amy in the book, acted as a genetic mirror. But a perfect one, that the real Amy could never live up to. So yes. I think Amy did like seeing her husband & others struggle to figure her out, instead of the other way around. Hence the contrived entailed scavenger hunts she created/ masterminded. Like Jigsaw in the Jigsaw movies. Her parents created a Sociopath. Nick was also portraying a fake personna, to mask who he really was. In reality, he was emotionally lazy, & absent. In reality he wanted to be let off the hook from high expectations, or others expectations. ("I'm sick of being picked apart by women") He wanted things to be easier. Nothing is necessarily wrong with that. But if that's what he wanted, he chose poorly, in choosing Amy.
I'm not too fond of this flick. The character development made me hate everyone in the cast. Except Affleck's butt (the only saving grace of this thing). Strip away the production value & famous stars and you have a Lifetime Movie from the 1990's. Starring Brian Austin Green and Amanda Bynes with a cameo from the Olson Twins. The story was just too repetitive for me. But thank you for a great review & so proud of your editing. You've come a long way and your growth as a 1st Time Reviewer has been awesome to watch.
All of my family were psychopaths, malignant narcissists, in their full and vengeful glory. I grew up in this kind of twisted, torturous environment. I was their conscious whipping boy and unconscious scapegoat. Just the lies my parents told my schools, for instance, are insane enough to force people to check my stories before they can believe me. My standards of effort are normalized to such extremes of psychological survival, that I have trouble believing how easy everyone else's lives have been. I cannot lower my standards and expectations to accept most people, without confronting the magnitude of the betrayals against me. This produces contempt and disgust when I empathize with others, in how petty their complaints and worries seem to me. That contempt and disgust makes me seem like a malignant narcissist to everyone else, despite that it's born of empathy, not the lack of empathy. Nobody really survives what I saw, sanity fleets and people choose not to continue living in such madness. It's an open question as to how and why I could chose otherwise. There is no support, as even just understanding the magnitude of my situation is unjust. Therapy and psychiatry can't solve everything. Human comfort and validation always amounts to permission to die, because that's the best that can be expected of empathy. I'm mostly very lonely, because of people like this gone girl, stuck in that horror headspace that Brando had in *Apocalypse Now* (1979). And the way it's continually thrown back in my face, by people who can't understand, I can never really leave it in the past. It's rare that I can share.
The female cop was teasing him. And he felt like a fly hitting the light. You're supposed to get angry with questions that actually have no meaning. But he kept playing that dumb face. It's not a guilty card, but it's very suspicious...
@@OGBReactsthe point is that "they think", because stereotypes defy hard facts. like men who kill people are "serial killers", but women who do the same are "female serial killers"
It’s funny, I was rooting for her in the beginning, then it was revealed she SUCKS- but still felt bad about when all those things happened. Range of emotions! But definitely karma.
yeah.....NO. i never empathized for a second. being robbed is what is known in the universe as ✨chaos✨ & despite the level of preparedness ANYONE, Chaos cannot be accounted for ..as is it's nature. specifically, in Amy's case here, it's more precisely known as ✨karma✨ (of the BEST kind: INSTANT)....also, Amy was NEVER "held prisoner". she's VERY resourceful & willing to GO further than 100% of every other character. NO QUESTION....she was never fearful, just inconvenienced. the LAST thing a malignant narcissist (i.e. Amy) wants to be & the most dangerous for anyone causing it for them. EXHIBIT A: Desi
She wasn't held prisoner though, lol. She's an absolutely terrible person and I didn't feel bad for her AT ALL when she was robbed at the motel. Those people sucked, but she sucked more and that was just some beautiful karma. 🤷🏻♀
Someone told Rosamund Pike, while she was doing press for Saltburn, that they were afraid of her because of this movie. Her response? "Good."
I just watched Saltburn and...what?? 😂 At least 3 different scenes that I truly wish I could unsee
"So much of their conversation feels theatrical." Ding ding ding. Or literary.
“Both of them aren’t great, they aren’t great people.”
Exactly the point.
One of the most messed up psychological thriller films ever made!
I had my doubts about this movie, since the story was so specifically tailored to the format of a novel. And indeed the big twist requires some awkward construction of us hearing a diary narrated rather than just getting to read it ourselves. But David Fincher is still such a master director that it all works out great.
She did crazy terrifyingly well!!
Rosamund Pike was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Oscars for this incredible performance.
This movie is like a dark satirical take on marriage in general, how a lot of the times we put up with the other persons crazy isht and stay with them for the sake of public perception.
Rosamund Pike and her well deserved Óscar nomination for this film 👏🏻👏🏻.
She’s certainly a very scary character.great reaction
Whoever came up with this story/wrote it, is amazing! As is the performance by Rosamund Pike! Great reaction! ❤
Gillian Flynn unfortunately lost a lot of the cred the book (plus Sharp Objects and Dark Places) gave her with her Amazon series Utopia, with a lot of fans accusing her of trying way too hard to live up to her own hype with the most likable character being murdered early on for literally no reason and none of the others caring about it, so there's no reason to care about any of them.
It's surprisingly fun to watch a movie when almost everyone is a genuinely terrible person!
"This is the restricted section" LMAO
I know I'm late to the party, but holy cow, watching you get more and more stressed out to this movie is strangely soothing. Thank you so much for doing this.
In the book by the end nick is actually impressed (and implied to be attracted) by Amy's crazy plans
"Are you Going to Kill your Wife"
One of the few times in life I will say. .... Sadly No. He probably should have.
You are one of the few people who recognize how dangerous Dezi was....bet he met the right one.
i definitely enjoyed the reaction! this film has been high on my list for several years and i always get a kick out of people seeing the twist(s!) for the first time ❤
They did an amazing job honouring the book, which is so messed up. One of my all time favourite psychological thrillers
After watching this, I suggest watching the Netflix documentary American Nightmare on your own.
Edit, it's only three episodes.
This led to a bunch of idiots saying the movie shouldn't have been made, because of course it's the movie's fault if some asshole uses it as a blueprint for their life.
i remember for like four years after this movie came out you'd see memes in movie nerd circles that would be like "here's how Gone Girl (2014) can still win best picture" i think the most recent version i saw in 2020 lmfao
Can you share some?
Unfortunately, I doubt they could because UA-cam doesn't let you link things in the comments anymore @@AntiqueRem
Okay, I must be having a deja vu moment, because I swore I watched your reaction to this already.
But then again, when this movie was a youtube trend a few years ago, I may have seen so many reactors watch this and thought you had already.
Can't wait to dive into your reaction on this one, because yours are always awesome.
...And it's true. This movie is a crazy ride. She was absolutely diabolical.
Let's Go!!!❤
I read the book when it first came out, so I had no idea what it was about! I was SO mad at the ending I threw the book across the room 😅 The movie is absolutely amazing ❤
I still can't get my head around the cat having their own room..and I love cats ❤😂
Oooooweeee this was a fun one! I wish I could go back and watch it again for the first time. I loved watching you get so wrapped up in it 😂
1) I remember watching this when it came out ... I found it creepy and sad; which is not to say it was a bad movie, it had the desired effect.
My favorite reactions of yours are the ones where you have no idea what the hell is going on from the beginning lmao
What a great movie
best movie of this century
I WAS MARRIED FOR TEN YEARS NEVER KNEW HER BLOOD TYPE.
I don't know my own blood type.
Damn. You figured it out really fast 😂😂😂
What an absolute nightmare of a life.
Cool reaction as always Sam, you take care and have a great weekend sweetie 🥰❤️
IMAGINE HOW DERANGED THAT POOR KID WILL BE.
If you really wanted to, you could pick the movie apart for all the "that wouldn't really happen" things in it. However, the screenplay is an excellent adaptation of the book (written by the author), and the actors performed their roles to a T. It wasn't hard to suspend disbeief to enjoy Gone Girl. Hard to believe this flick is 10 years old . . .
Good evening lovey! How are you? I just wanted to ask you about something: do you also do reactions to tv shows as well as movies? ☺️❤
After this you need to do the miniseries "Sharp Objects". Another Gillian Flynn adaptation.
I will say, it's one of those rare movies I enjoy the plot and watching while I really disliked all the characters lul (it means it's good since they got me to dislike them). Of course some I dislike more then the other, but yeah! Thought that was interesting.
If you enjoyed this movie watch ARGO, Ben Affleck is brilliant in that. And you will love it. It's based on true events.
Great movie ❤
It's a fun movie but the ending is preposterous. Amy disappeared on July 5. She doesn't begin her stay at her ex-boyfriend's secluded lake house until July 24. Once the missing person's case becomes a kidnapping, it becomes an FBI case. Even if the FBI finds Amy credible, they are going to take a deep dive into her ex-boyfriend. They are going to make a map of his movements for this entire 19 day window and they will find that his movements are completely inconsistent with someone who is holding a woman prisoner. They are going to wonder where he kept her prisoner. The people who clean his home are to going to confirm that he was home daily and that they saw no evidence that anyone else what at his residence. Furthermore, a detailed forensic examination of his home will no evidence of a super detailed cleaning and they will find no evidence that Amy was ever there. Likewise, they will check his water and electrical usage for all the ex-boyfriend's homes. They will also check his credit card bill and they will find no charges that corroborate any Amy's contention that she was his prisoner during this 19 day window. Once the FBI finds enough things that don't make any sense, they are going to put Amy's story on a microscope and there's no way it will stand up to such scrutiny. At some point, the hillbillies will see the story and TV and put 2 and 2 together and try to cash in on the story.
26:54 When you realize "gone" means gone in the head.
This movie is the perfect example of why you shouldn't make judgments on people without the full context. You go into it thinking one thing then realizing you didn't really know half of it by the end.
A lot of people could learn a thing or two about jumping to conclusions and believing accusations and specific narratives before having all the facts.
I 💗 Rosamund Pike!!!
The weird thing to me is that the cat has its own room.
If I was rich I'd give my pet a room too, to be honest.
@@OGBReacts A cat owns the whole house, really; it cannot be relegated to one room. :)
I call this type of flick a “notagonist” movie. There is really nobody to root for in this movie, with the possible exception of the sister.
I was mainly rooting for Tyler Perry.
@@Rmlohner Any movie where one is rooting for the lawyer has to have some sleazy characters, lol.
Present lawyers excluded, of course.
He can't divorce her, he can't leave her, he cannot even annoy her, she holds all the cards.
I knowwwww D: But still ugh
Fun but sad fact. This story is 'based on' a true story . Very loosely based, but still
The book was even better...
Merci.
lol I’ve never seen you so compelled
When it comes to thrillers/mysteries, I try to be extra focused 😂
"I don't get why you're daring me to be someone I don't want to be"...
When she never was her authentic self. She was playing a percieved contrived role of cool girlfriend/cool wife, because she has no true personality of her own.
The reason she likes puzzles/riddles/ games of wits like treasure hunts, is because she had to struggle to learn to mask trauma growing up, & to fit into a world with high expectations, & juggle the celebrity fame her parents created for her & themselves, & present the perfect image, & never make a scene. In other words she had to develop a fake personna. She did not get to develop normally, meaning in a healthy way. Her parents did plagiarize her childhood. And exploited their daughter. At least if they had named the girl in the book Spectacular Susan, or something other than their daughters name, she would not have felt like she was trying so hard to mirror a fake character. Amazing Amy in the book, acted as a genetic mirror. But a perfect one, that the real Amy could never live up to.
So yes. I think Amy did like seeing her husband & others struggle to figure her out, instead of the other way around. Hence the contrived entailed scavenger hunts she created/ masterminded. Like Jigsaw in the Jigsaw movies. Her parents created a Sociopath.
Nick was also portraying a fake personna, to mask who he really was. In reality, he was emotionally lazy, & absent. In reality he wanted to be let off the hook from high expectations, or others expectations. ("I'm sick of being picked apart by women") He wanted things to be easier. Nothing is necessarily wrong with that.
But if that's what he wanted, he chose poorly, in choosing Amy.
I'm not too fond of this flick. The character development made me hate everyone in the cast. Except Affleck's butt (the only saving grace of this thing). Strip away the production value & famous stars and you have a Lifetime Movie from the 1990's. Starring Brian Austin Green and Amanda Bynes with a cameo from the Olson Twins. The story was just too repetitive for me.
But thank you for a great review & so proud of your editing. You've come a long way and your growth as a 1st Time Reviewer has been awesome to watch.
If you even sort of like this film you owe it to yourself to get the audiobook
Please do Scream (1996)
I never understood why they didn't have a Gone Girl too I feel like they didn't finish the ending
you gotta watch the US version of The Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo
Recommendation: Watch all three of the Noomi Rapace movies first, then the Daniel Craig one . . .
She already watched the originals@@rowenatulley852
Pleas, do reaction to movie Interrogation direct by Ryszard Bugajski. This is so great but underrated movie.
All of my family were psychopaths, malignant narcissists, in their full and vengeful glory. I grew up in this kind of twisted, torturous environment. I was their conscious whipping boy and unconscious scapegoat. Just the lies my parents told my schools, for instance, are insane enough to force people to check my stories before they can believe me. My standards of effort are normalized to such extremes of psychological survival, that I have trouble believing how easy everyone else's lives have been. I cannot lower my standards and expectations to accept most people, without confronting the magnitude of the betrayals against me. This produces contempt and disgust when I empathize with others, in how petty their complaints and worries seem to me. That contempt and disgust makes me seem like a malignant narcissist to everyone else, despite that it's born of empathy, not the lack of empathy. Nobody really survives what I saw, sanity fleets and people choose not to continue living in such madness. It's an open question as to how and why I could chose otherwise. There is no support, as even just understanding the magnitude of my situation is unjust. Therapy and psychiatry can't solve everything. Human comfort and validation always amounts to permission to die, because that's the best that can be expected of empathy. I'm mostly very lonely, because of people like this gone girl, stuck in that horror headspace that Brando had in *Apocalypse Now* (1979). And the way it's continually thrown back in my face, by people who can't understand, I can never really leave it in the past. It's rare that I can share.
I don't know my blood type.
Yea I don't even know my own type either.
I guess I'm the odd one out then 😂
@@OGBReacts You are smart to have that info on hand. I need to find mine out.
The female cop was teasing him. And he felt like a fly hitting the light.
You're supposed to get angry with questions that actually have no meaning. But he kept playing that dumb face. It's not a guilty card, but it's very suspicious...
Gone Girl 2 (2022) celebrity vs celebrity lawsuit.
You're gonna throw up.
You wanna stan Amy but yet you don't lol
I did- and then she made up all the abuse and lied a lot and it’s like ooo never mind, girl 💀
One of the only reasons people are shocked by this, is they think only men can be do these things, and not women.
Nah I wouldn't say that. I'm shocked by the act of it all, not because a woman did it.
Plenty of women have done viscous stuff.
@@OGBReacts the whole genre of film is about femme fatales.
@@OGBReactsthe point is that "they think", because stereotypes defy hard facts.
like men who kill people are "serial killers", but women who do the same are "female serial killers"
@@OGBReacts I assume you mean vicious, viscous is the stuff that isn't solid or a liquid, kind of like glue, syrup, or honey.
@@joshdavis3743 oops! Yes. My bad 😂
We don't like Amy, but then she's attacked at the motel or whatever, and then she's held prisoner by NPH's character.
It’s funny, I was rooting for her in the beginning, then it was revealed she SUCKS- but still felt bad about when all those things happened. Range of emotions! But definitely karma.
held prisoner?
yeah.....NO. i never empathized for a second. being robbed is what is known in the universe as ✨chaos✨ & despite the level of preparedness ANYONE, Chaos cannot be accounted for ..as is it's nature. specifically, in Amy's case here, it's more precisely known as ✨karma✨ (of the BEST kind: INSTANT)....also, Amy was NEVER "held prisoner". she's VERY resourceful & willing to GO further than 100% of every other character. NO QUESTION....she was never fearful, just inconvenienced. the LAST thing a malignant narcissist (i.e. Amy) wants to be & the most dangerous for anyone causing it for them.
EXHIBIT A: Desi
She wasn't held prisoner though, lol. She's an absolutely terrible person and I didn't feel bad for her AT ALL when she was robbed at the motel. Those people sucked, but she sucked more and that was just some beautiful karma. 🤷🏻♀
@@deadassdgaf100 That's fine. These things are there to evoke a response.
Amber Heard!!
imagine if Rosemond Pike was good looking
She is! 🔥🔥🔥
tf?
@@babotond the internet where irony goesto die
Wrong movie about a girl gone missing.
Watch "Gone" with Amanda Seyfried instead, it is so much better.
This movie was a waste of time watching it. I'm sorry I ever saw it in theater!
I disagree! But that's okay.
I love Amy Dunn, Amazing Amy.
she is obviously a Psyco but i understand why she did what she did...