Ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (21 June 2015)

I will start by admitting upfront that I can't stand David Fincher. His overuse of half-tone gray and sickly yellow filters in every shot of almost every film he directs drives me completely nuts. We get it! It's a dark/suspenseful/sinister movie! Even scenes shot in bright sunlight or under the glare of indoor office lights are turned murky and dank. I really don't enjoy being beaten over the head for nearly two hours by distracting visual cues in EVERY scene.
Anyhow, at least I didn't bother to see "Gone Girl" in a theater but waited until it was on HBO. I watched it because it had been much-hyped and had Oscar nominations. This movie was a complete disappointment and I simply don't understand how anyone could have enjoyed it. The acting was mediocre at best, and the storyline impossible to buy into. You could have chopped 45 minutes off of it and it *may* have had a more satisfying end. Amy should have just drowned herself and it would have been better. The twists and turns became almost laughably ridiculous until it was finally over- then you hate yourself for the time you just lost forever wasting your brain cells on it.