Gone Girl sucked...

[plowking]

Can anyone who has seen this and enjoyed it explain to me what exactly makes this an 8.4 on IMDB?

From the very get go, the dialogue was flat out terrible, and the acting for the most part was flat. Not to mention the ending and last 40 minutes in general were so bad that I almost wanted to stop watching.

I really wanted to like this movie, and I did for the most part despite the dull and unrealistic dialogue in the first hour. Generally love these type of movies, like Prisoners which came out earlier this year (or last?), but wow... I couldn't stand the last half of the movie.

Everyone who watched this movie out of my friends loved it, apart from another couple me and my GF hang out with. We were shocked when they disliked it, generally because they have pretty good taste in movies, and because we had only heard great things prior to their opinion. Now I kind of get it after watching it though.

[arkain]

Yeah last 30-40 mins were a complete mess. I would have looked away if there a couple minor plot holes but the last 30-40 mins really ruined the movie for me.

[Thorpesaurous]

I guess Spoilers:

I saw it and enjoyed it. It is in my wheelhouse content wise, and I do love Fincher, although this isn't really pure Fincher for a lot of it. And I also think 8.4 is fair. To me that reads good to may maybe very good, and that's about what I'd say, I think I said high 80s in the review thread. But that would temper over time.

There was a fair amount of conversation about the first act coming off as this weird flat line-y tone. I had read it as being shown that way because it wasn't real. None of that stuff actually happened. It's all coming out of her fictional diary. So it doesn't look and sound real because it's not. But I also say that having an idea of what was coming from friends who had read the book. So while it wasn't spoiled, I sort of knew the gist of it.

I also think movies like that with big twists have a visceral impact on their audiences, and probably don't age as well as people who are rating them as they walk out of the theater. I'm also not sure it's fair to knock those movies for not holding up, when they're really designed to expose that big reveal. So I'm not sure how I feel about it. But I do think that has something to do with it. And movies like that almost always suffer in the development of their characters, because they have to hide so much about the characters to keep from exposing the plot, which takes center stage in this stuff.

I wasn't as crazy about the very third act either. The scene with Doogie Howser was a bit over the top for my taste with everything up to that point. But I saw it in a crowded theatre on opening night, and there was a huge reaction to it. So I know it worked in general.

I really liked the media satire angle of it. And the sort moral grey area the thing got to play with by idealizing Nick through the diary, then making him look like a jerk in reality, then juxtaposing him after exposing her and him coming off sympathetic. I thought it was an interesting dance.