Absolute Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2014)

Watched Gone Girl last night - absolute pile of garbage! Odd film that doesn't know what it is. Tries to be a parody of the modern world where the media subverts any notion of the truth but the characters are nowhere near defined enough and so we never buy in to it (well I certainly didn't). No real development behind the break up of the couples' relationship - one minute they're having sex in a bookshop, next thing he's lost his job and they hate each other. Silly things like the way the Pike character drops her hidden money during the crazy golf scene, the way she eats a lot and dyes her hair but still looks like the absent wife and the jelly baby scene with the lawyer. Very contrived - worst case of plot manipulation since Crash. As for Pike's certain Oscar nomination, it's a really bad version of Glenn Close's routine from Fatal Attraction; blank expression and the odd violent outburst does not an Oscar performance make. Best bit in the film was the mistress' breasts which were a major highlight considering the dullness of the movie - to quote the Pike character: "The girl with the giant cum-on-me tits." Very astute; shame Fincher wasn't as perspicacious.