Fincher is married to the real deal! :eek:
Actually, I found it perfectly in line with standard movie tropes. In the film noire - which this film essentially is - the femme fatale wins, the chump loses, and the good detective is powerless to change the natural order of things.
Initially, I was torn about the ending – “Hmm… am I supposed to be okay with this?” – but ultimately couldn’t deny my dissatisfaction. That said, I’m not much of a Noire viewer, so that probably had its impact or lack thereof (like I said, could have been a case of prior conditioning). But it seemed to be leading to a certain place… and just sorta stopped going there.
It feels much more “natural” if thats the word in the book then in the movie. There is quite a lot of setup.
Wow.
Just saw this movie last night, and based on the reviews, I was looking forward to it. I had no idea about the plot (other than basic info), so I went in blind, with just the hype I’ve heard about it, and the rating on IMDb.
What a load of crap.
There are so many bad plot holes you can drive a bus through. But I understand that some suspension of the belief system is necessary to watch a movie.
This 2+ hour snooze-fest was beyond bad.
I am amazed at the ratings and reviews.
If it is a great reflection of the book, then the book would equally disappoint me.
This is a movie that has completely baffled me from a review perspective. If I don’t like a genre, I can still appreciate a movie for what it is and what it offers its target audience.
But who is the target audience here?
I could go through all the plot holes, but I think others have addressed some of them. I figured out very early on that she wasn’t dead, so the only real “twist” for me was the very end, when Affleck stayed with his crazy, sociopathic, psychotic wife.
But that wasn’t enough for me.
Where the movie completely lost me (and there were ample spots before this, but I was going with the story for entertainment’s sake) was when she came home from the hospital covered in blood… The guy she MURDERED, by the way. She first comes to her home covered in blood, from her harrowing “escape” from her “captor”, she goes to the hospital, and the hospital and the police let her carry all of that evidence out of the hospital, so she could wash up at home? Really? :dubious:
There is no way this would EVER happen. When you insult the audience to such a degree, I stopped letting things slide, because it all added up to bad story-telling. When you then start looking at this movie with a critical eye, you can’t stop looking.
Wow, was this bad.
Just saw it last night, hadn’t read the book, nor did I know anything about the story other than that there were supposed to be some twists.
I thought it was watchable (which is half the battle I guess) but just not very good. I especially thought the dialogue was too (I’m not sure what adjective I want to use…just not normal…tried too hard to be impressive…??)
I intend to but haven’t read thru the thread yet… was she planning on actually killing herself as an option if that is what it took to screw with her husband?
In the book, she did seriously keep suicide as an option. She changed her mind, later, but in the initial planning of her disappearance, did feel enough despair about her life (what with the cold, user parents, the husband who she believed to be indifferent to her happiness, and the various humiliations she’d undergone) that framing her husband seemed worth dying for.
I loved this book so much and eagerly awaited the film, which is always a recipe for disappointment. I really enjoyed the movie but since I knew the whole story, rather than watch it unfold naturally I think I expended a lot of effort trying to imagine it through the eyes of someone who had not read the book. Now that enough time has gone my since my initial viewing I think I’ll revisit it.
One opinion of mine that I don’t think will change is the miscasting, or maybe misdirection?- of Rosamund Pike.
I think she is brilliant when it comes to the reveal of her true conniving nature, but I felt like even if I hadn’t known the twist, I could tell from the beginning what she’s about. It would have been more effective if she’d played it more innocently so the discovery of her plan would be more shocking.
I finally saw this yesterday on Netflix.
I liked it; liked the media circus, faux feminist witch hunt and ultimately the judgement of the husband as made by the court of infotainment.
I don’t quite follow the ‘plot holes’ criticism - are people saying the OJ case made any kind of sense, or a dozen other high profile cases … nothing makes sense, that’s kind of the point. In the end, the police investigation becomes secondary and subordinate.
Anyway, on a kind of social commentary level I found it engaging.
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