So, I saw Gone Girl. I kind of was sort of with it for the first half, then the second half began and I just became increasingly more irritated. The tone veers wildly and it's like you've been led down the garden path by taking the first half seriously - suddenly we're in black comedy and satire land and it may have worked as a literary device, but it sure doesn't work with the Mr. Fincher's direction, a couple of incredibly bad casting choices, a score that is literally wall to wall aural wallpaper and therefore, like the film, becomes mind-numbing, and plot turns that just get sillier and sillier until the completely unsatisfying ending. The completely full house at the DGA just sat there at the end of the film - no applause, just silence and then everyone just got up and left. I can't imagine normal audiences will react any differently. I've heard great things about the book, but maybe it all works in that world - the ridiculously overdone dialogue that no human being would ever speak, and plot points that may have been easily disguised in the book so as not to make you question them, but in a film just have you going, what?
