Gone Girl [Blu-ray]

The main female character is scary because she is all too realistic. I would be very concerned if I was the husband, and I would definitely lock the door at the end when she comes back, after murdering an innocent man to make it look like a rape.It was very entertaining to see the dynamic of public relations, a flawed but innocent husband going through the drama of telling the truth, and more. Tyler Perry was excellent as the lawyer.It's well paced, well directed, and every actor plays their part spectacularly.

I told my bf that I’d rather watch shows than movies because they don’t really keep me entertained, and he made me watch Gone Girl with him. I really enjoyed it!The plot kept me interested throughout the whole movie and I was invested in the characters. They made you feel their pain, envy, and anger.

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Stellar movie, not so stellar release for film fanatics.It's always difficult for me to know how to review a film on Amazon. Do I rate and review the film itself, do I talk about the technicals or do I merge the two and average out my overall review on both film and the final Bluray result? I decided to go with the latter.At well over 2 hours, you get your moneys worth by the films running time alone - of course as long as the film is, it doesn't actually feel that long. It's a great film, now a given assumption with David Fincher's name attached. I was uncertain about much of the performances early on but the reveals in the film helped me understand why I wasn't terribly convinced by the performances and made me realize just how great the performances actually were. What I thought were bad acting choices were actually brilliantly played, all deliberate and for good reason.So the film itself is wonderful. But how about the Bluray specifically? Well...The artwork looks nice, it comes in a semi-hard cardboard sleeve much like the packaging for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo or Social Network (but without a matte finish feel). Inside are three slim items:1) The Bluray case; a hard cardboard "book" that opens up with artwork printed inside and out and a single Bluray disk sitting on a clear plastic disc tray. No technical information printed anywhere on this "book".2) An 'Amazing Amy Tattle Tale" book, as in a real book. Solidly constructed, durable thick paper binding with semi thick paper pages. Big children's book style font and color illustrations, about 33 pages in total. Very well put together. I'm curious if the book has any clues about the movie inside it. Something subliminal in the text or hidden in the drawings? I don't know.3) Bonus: A sheet advertising the actual novel for purchase and a sheet explaining where to download the digital copy of the movie using a provided code.The Bluray disc itself:The menu is certainly exhilarating. It appears to be the middle of a news cast - a ticker at the bottom moves across with headlines, DOW/NASDAQ and weather info sit at the bottom right corner, a Fox logo on the bottom left and a headline about a missing Amy. It all sits over a pixelated shot of a lone boat on a river - the river water and clouds move but the boat and those on it appear to be static. The sounds of an old TV playing the broadcast is heard in the distance. As you let the menu play, brooding atmospheric music builds, and the sounds of a live police search increase - helicopters, people outside and the image on the TV begins to go static and flicker - flashing half-second images from the film.The options at top are "Play" "Set Up" "Search" and "Commentary" ("Search being the chapter menu/bookmarks - but what a great choice of wording for the chapter menu!)And herein lies my biggest problem. A David Fincher Bluray release without extensive behind the scenes features? This is unacceptable! We have been given a pattern in recent years, we've been given an expectation: when you buy a David Fincher fill, you are also buying film school in a box.This was not the case with his earlier work, certainly. Alien 3, The Game, Seven, on some level Fight Club, Panic Room and Zodiac all had releases that had little or no special features - The Game being the worst offender in my opinion for its lack of widescreen enhancement, misprints, bad film transfer and not a single special feature to be had. I hear an out of print version of Seven was not widescreen and had a bad transfer and no features either, but ANYWAY...In 2008, David Fincher's "Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" came out in America in one version only: a two disc special edition by Criterion packed to the gills with special features; and entire documentary on the making of the movie from planning, to shooting to post-production to releasing it in theaters.In 2010 we had "The Social Network" also released as a double disc set packed to the ceiling with special features; two audio commentary tracks that featured director, cast, and writer and another fascinating 1hr 30min documentary into the making of the film.2011 was "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". This time a THREE disc set - the movie and special features on their own Bluray discs and a third disc, a DVD version of the movie. Again, the behind the scenes footage spanning over an hour.And during (and before) this time we had rereleases of Seven; now a two disc set with tons of features and commentary tracks, Panic Room now a three disc special edition with an insane amount of features and commentary tracks, Zodiac, now a two disc set with behind the scenes features and commentary tracks, and a Criterion rerelease of The Game with outstanding behind the scenes features and commentary tracks. Oh, Alien 3 got the special feature treatment on it's single Bluray release and the Alien Anthology release!So... in the last several years, every Fincher film, new release and rerelease have come out PACKED with special features. Surly Gone Girl would be released the same way. And yet sadly, it's not. I love the book that's included, I think it's an amazing touch and I can see a lot of work went into creating it. The story on the pages and pages themselves all crafted wonderfully. I don't want at all to take away from how cool that is.But this is a Bluray in an age of Netflix. I feel like people who choose to buy a film on Bluray over buying it on DVD or streaming it through Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu etc are people like me who want to know all there is to know about the movie. I buy the movie in hopes to see the movie itself AND how it was made. I feel like a book is great for a fan of the novel, to get to hold "the book that is in the book" as it were. But I'm buying a Bluray. I'm buying a movie. I'm interested mostly in the MOVIE side of "Gone Girl" not so much collecting things that the story is about.Again, I do love the book, it's a great addition and I welcome it with open arms. But it comes at the sacrifice of missing all the other stuff I was hoping for.The commentary is great, of course. Fincher jumps right on in as he always does - talking about "wig technology" and how they had to digitally futz with the opening shot to make the wig look more real. Before that he commented on the need for Regency to change their logo (don't do it, Regency!)But I wanted more. I hoped for more. And I fear they will release a "special edition" and I'll have to buy the movie a second time which I always found like a cheap money grabbing move from the studio.David Prior has been a DVD producer for Finchers films for a while. So I'm curious if he is behind this release as well and if so - what (if any) his plans are for releasing more behind the scenes features. I mean, c'mon - YouTube has a video showcasing all the green screen work that was done! Where did that come from?? It's not on the Bluray! It and all the other special features I expected, are, well......gone.

Dies the book justice and rosmund pike is awesome 👌

I enjoyed this book

Good!

Gone Girl is billed as a psychological thriller and tells the story of a man whose wife goes missing. The story is shown from the perspective of the husband, including his discovery of the apparent crime scene. Therefore the audience is never led to believe that the husband was responsible, and it would not be a spoiler to say that he wasn't responsible for his wife's disappearance. The problem is that the setup for the story makes the conclusion nonsensical.The police come upon a scene where things don't add up. A table is shattered, yet nothing else is disturbed. No pictures have fallen over and nothing else is out of place. The kitchen is generally clean but there are telltale signs as if somebody tried to do an immaculate job cleaning up the scene. Of course anybody who has seen a cheap crime drama knows that luminol will be used to look for hidden blood and the amounts of cleaned up blood are later shown to be massive. Thus we are presented with clear evidence that there was a violent and bloody crime scene resulting in severe head wounds, loss of consciousness, almost certain death, and a perpetrator who went out of his way to make it look like an abduction and who took great lengths not to make it look like a murder, yet lacked the ability to fathom what a basic investigation would find.The movie did a reasonable job of explaining many of the details as the story progressed. It established a plausible scenario for how the blood appeared and how the clues appeared as long as you can accept the nature of the characters, and the film let you do that. For the first two thirds of the movie, it was strikingly clear why all that was necessary, and also established the cunning nature of the characters. In fact, it did such a good job of establishing a specific scenario that a plot twist would make it almost impossible for an alternate scenario to make sense or appear convincing, yet that's what happened.Rather than giving a true spoiler, it's easier to just look at what evidence the police had, and whether any possible twist could fit in with what happened. An open question from the beginning was that if it was a murder, then where was the body? If a body turned up, then the question would have to be whether it had massive wounds consistent with huge blood loss. If it wasn't the husband, then there would need to be an explanation of why there was an attempt to make the crime scene appear as it did. And if it had been an actual abduction, then it would make no sense for the abductor to spend an extreme amount of time to make the crime scene appear as if it had been an abduction, hide evidence of a non-murder or even of a severe injury. If anything, an abductor would want it to appear as if it hadn't been an abduction. If it had been an attempt to frame the husband, then it would have required showing how a process that should have taken months, not hours, could have happened. If such a process had taken place, it would have been a matter of explaining why the only viable suspect wasn't a suspect. And if the body turned up, but not in the expected condition with massive wounds that would have resulted in extreme amounts of blood, then everything would have been called into question.The problem was that there was a plot twist, but the movie couldn't carry it. Had the wife turned up dead, it would have amounted to no more than a tale of a botched investigation and there would have been no closure. Had the wife been spotted out in the open and turned in to authorities, it would have been a sudden anticlimactic ending. And had the wife turned up on her own, then it would have required her to have been a cunning, devious and calculating woman capable of being many steps ahead of the game, who wouldn't have been stupid enough to show up in a condition that was in obvious contradiction to the supposed abduction disguised to look like an abduction. And had the police been portrayed as inept from the beginning, it might have been possible for them to be clueless in the end, but they weren't clueless from the beginning. If you eliminate any of those as non starters when it comes to possible plot twists, then you'd need something else that never made it into the movie.Without giving away the ending, the scenario presented was stupid and shallow, required us to accept that characters once cunning would switch to feeble minded tactics and that nobody would question things. And the total anticlimax to the whole thing is that it all just simply disappeared when the FBI came in out of nowhere in a scenario where there wasn't a hint as to why it would even be in their jurisdiction, and ordered the police to stop investigating, while they accepted things on face value. It simply came across as shallow and absurd.

Una muy buena película en una gran edición en Digipack y con el libro de Amy, me encantó y a un muy buen orecio.

This is billed as a psychological thriller. It is a neo-noir psychological crime drama,and a very good one at that. I have been watching quite a lot of what is called "neo-noir films lately, and I often compare classic noir with the new noir. What I like aboutthe classic noirs is, what they don't say, and what is implied. These days, film makershave more choice of what can be said, and sometimes they get over dramatic withlanguage and action, so they can be overly simple, for a simple audience. That is notthe case here.Gone Girl, is a story of our times in the age of multi-media, and the court of public opinion.This movie had a budget of 67 million dollars, and you can see where the money was spent.It was spent of the script and writing. This is a a writers film, written by Gillian Flynn, from herbook of the same name. The plot builds up and surprises at each turn, and I have to say themusic score is great. They could have went for a orchestrally score with lots of strings to heightenthe tension, but no they didn't, they went with an electronic music soundtrack. At a very importantplot point, the music kicks in with a out of time beat to the the scene. It sounds jarring and out ofplace, but as the scene moves, it all makes sense. The music score reminded me of Hitchcock'sThe Birds, as in you don't even notice it, and I have to say this is the kind of movie Alfred Hitchcockwould make today.This is a classic movie that will only get better with age, and, if you want to learn about GOOD writingwatch this film, as it is a master class in screenwriting

The movie is a brilliant and one of the best movies of the last year.. Filled with amazing performances from Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon and Rosamund Pike, it's an absolute treat. As for the product, I received it in a perfect brand new condition.. No distortion, no DVD problems and no delivery problem as well. I received it within promised time.

Edizione molto bella quella di Gone Girl, l'ultimo film di Fincher...ho preso la versione inglese che ha audio italiano, il formato è digipak + libretto molto molto carino, per l'incredibile prezzo di 10 euro spedito (amazon mito!!) la metà rispetto l'edizione ita che e' anche senza il libretto.Piu' di cosi.....film magnifico A/V pazzesci unica nota negative pochi extra.

Plus besoin de présenter David Fincher, il est sans aucun doute devenu le maître du Thriller comme l'étaient Alfred Hitchcock et Brian De Palma avant lui. On attend avec impatience chacun de ses films, car peu importe le sujet, on sait d'avance que Fincher en fera quelque chose de grand. Le sujet de Gone Girl est l'adaptation du Best-Seller "Les Apparences" de Gillian Flynn qui se retrouve scénariste du film. Le matériel de base était donc très prometteur vu son succès, et dans les mains de David Fincher on s'attendait déjà au chef d'oeuvre.Et dès les premières secondes du film on comprend que ça va être grandiose ! Gone Girl est un Thriller pleins de mystères, et l'ambiance créée est fantastique. C'est d'ailleurs la grande force du film. David Fincher a un style très caractéristique et tous les autres éléments comme la photographie ou la musique appuient ses propos (grand travail de Trent Reznor et Atticus Ross). Bref, maîtrise est le maître-mot... On parle d'ambiance, l'histoire s'y prête également. On découvre au fur et à mesure des minutes ce couple unique. Amy et Nick ont des personnalités troublantes, on ne sait pas sur quel pied danser avec eux, et on nous dévoile petit à petit chaque mystère. Toutes ces révélations sont troublantes, Gone Girl agit comme une émission de télévision, un média que le film critique violemment.On se rend compte que les personnages cachent des choses à nous spectateurs, et c'est prenant. D'ailleurs, le bouleversement majeur du film se déroule à la moitié de celui-ci. Sans en dire davantage, il y a plusieurs grilles de lecture dans ce film, ce qui en fait un très grand Thriller. On pourra reprocher au film un manque de rythme dans la première heure et une fin trop abrupte, mais ce serait vraiment pinailler.Le casting est lui aussi très bon. Ben Affleck joue avec son image et confirme son renouveau. Rosamund Pike est excellente et trouve son plus grand rôle. Le reste du casting n'est pas en reste, j'admire toujours les castings des films de Fincher, on a le droit à des stars d'Hollywood, et à des stars du petit écran, le tout fonctionnant formidablement bien.A mon avis, Gone Girl est l'un des meilleurs films de l'année 2014, si ce n'est le meilleur. Fincher confirme encore. Maintenant c'est la peine qui nous assaille, il va falloir attendre un moment avant son prochain film, et on se dira que ça valait le coup d'attendre !Je suis fan. 10/10.