Is this really art?

Rating: 2/10 (21 June 2015)

I mean really. There are so many pluses in the cast...Affleck, Pike, Sela Ward...how could this one turn out so horrible. Maybe that's what they were trying for...a horror film. A film about the horrible way people treat each other. If that is the case, they succeed immeasurably. However, my question is the same. Why tell this story? Why spend all that money to tell this type of tale? How does this "story" help make us a better society? There are several subplots that would have been interesting to develop...Nick's father or mother, Amy's mother and father, Nick's sister, anything would have been more interesting than what was given the second half of this movie. And while I'm at it, why so much foul-language? How does this move the story along. You may say, "Well, that's the way people talk nowadays." but really, it isn't. It seemed as though the writers went overboard trying to get as many curse words in the movie as possible. I wonder if any curse words made it to the cutting room floor at all! To be absolutely honest, I would like to erase this film from my memory entirely. I sincerely hope that Gone Girl is completely GONE...forever! Such a shame, Rosamunde is such a lovely girl.