Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck: Worst movie of the new millenium

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2018)

It has been nearly 4 years since I painfully watched this nightmare of a film in a theater with a couple of friends who unlike me, sort of liked the raunchy and mysterious vibe Fincher created here. Really, I tend to think it was because they spent a good chunk of their hard earned, hard to come by moolah on a dismal cinematic experience. I have noticed lately, bad movies tend to give moviegoers a rather jaded feeling when they are faced with the reality of giving away that hard earned money for a mostly negative experience. The eventuality of it all happens when someone else they know, friends or acquaintances, find out they saw a new release and then ask them "how was it?" The painful answer that is given must mask the true reveal of being duped by Hollywood. Go ahead and lie about how you really feel about the flick, even if that means you will give someone else the thumbs up to go ahead waste 2 precious hours they will never get back in their life. Hey! if you don't like it too bad buddy, I did, or at least that's what I told you anyway. Technically, I didn't waste my money if I say I liked a movie, unlike you who is admitting you gave your money away. Unfortunately, misery does love company.
I have chosen to reflect on this film Gone Girl nearly 4 years later because I truly haven't ever felt like I did when I left the theater that night that I saw it. I recently stumbled onto a review of this movie on YouTube and my feelings have been excavated and I feel like coming here to express them for everyone and anyone who wants to read about them.
I can try to avoid re-iterating much of what I have read during some of the 1 star reviews already posted throughout this page so I will try and focus to what has stuck with me over the course of the last 4 years. I can clearly remember how angry and depressed I felt afterwards, lets just say I felt dejected by this movie. I could think of nothing positive or redeeming about it either back then or now. I mean what was the damn point of it all? Was Fincher trying to test the intelligence quotient of his audience by releasing a movie that had almost no point? Did he or the studio really think people were semi-retarded enough to go along with the mind-numbing stupidity that was occurring on the screen?
One question that has lingered around in my head is why did she kill have to NPH like that? Why did they have to sink to such a level of depravity by filming a man getting his throat slashed while climaxing? Afterwards, when she appears all covered in blood after so much time and money was wasted on her disappearance, why did no one really think to investigate her story? The line of questioning scene by the authorities while she was still drenched in blood was quite possibly the worst moments I've ever seen captured on film. I mean not in a B-movie MST3K kind of worst moment, but actually I feel like that scene is the closest I've ever come to feeling the pain of burning in hell. Of course the movie studio and filmmakers totally pull down their pants and moon the audience at the end by asking the viewers to accept that Ben Affleck's character is just going to accept it all and take it in stride. He will willingly go back with this disturbed, psychotic, schizoid woman. It's all OK that she killed her ex-boyfriend in cold blood but c'mon, love somehow conquers all, right? Even logic and simple basic reasoning according to those who were involved in peddling this garbage.