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DigiPack Gone Girl SE (Blu-ray Digipack) [USA]
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Man, you really don't like critically acclaimed films!
What kind of movies DO you like if you don't mind me asking?
Man, you really don't like critically acclaimed films!
lol, did you see that I hated Interstellar, too...?
There's no one thing I like or dislike. Ok, that's not true, I hate musicals, which basically discounts almost anything Disney. Anyway, there's not really anything I always like or dislike, I just watch and form an opinion then.
Fincher's most recent films have had cool extras with the blu ray releases.
Man, you really don't like critically acclaimed films!
I'm with @satanclaus on this. I've been a Fincher fan for years, but this film was awful. This is practically on par with Alien3 for worst Fincher flick ever. Affleck was good and Pike was good, too, but the story, plot holes, editing... it was all just so bad. The Social Network and TGWTDT were both good films, but I miss the GREAT films that Fincher used to pump out. Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room... hopefully he picks his next film better.
Gone Girl is far better than Alien 3, Panic Room, Benjamin Button, and IMO Se7en. I was more satisfied after a first viewing than I was the first time I saw Social Network and Dragon Tattoo. The story had me hooked from the start. It's like a pulp Hitchcock film, you have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the show.
So you like nothing!
So you like nothing!
I didn't particularly care for this either, but I honestly think it's not so much Fincher's fault as it is the material he's choosing to work with. Take Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for example. That whole series made such a buzz when it came out and I went into the movie blind, having never read the books and with no real idea about the plot. It wasn't bad, but considering how much those books were talked up, I thought it was a pretty generic thriller, but done very well because Fincher knows how to make good movies. I felt pretty much the same thing after watching Gone Girl. Fincher's track record is still pretty damn good, and when you have things like Se7en, The Social Network and Zodiac under your belt, it's gonna get pretty hard to top what you've done before.
I'll still be picking this up though as a Fincher completionist. I also love how it's now a standard for his movies to get beautiful packages too.
I believe a lot of the problem with Gone Girl was Gillian Flynn. She should've definitely had assistance with her screenplay, but I guess there must've been a clause where the film could only be made if she had the sole rights to the screenplay. I feel like Fincher really slacked on the film, too, though. His usual passion didn't seem to be there. It felt like it was a "filler film" until he finds the right one to put all his heart and passion into again.
TGWTDT was a rather generic thriller, as you said, but at least it was very well-made and that usual Fincher touch was there. That was missing from Gone Girl.
I talked to my good friend who we joke is a "Fincher *****" (Fincher is practically a religion to the guy) and even he tore into Gone Girl. He said it was one of the worst films of the year and it upset him as such a Fincher fanatic.
To each their own, but I think Gone Girl is the most overrated film of the year.
It's not an Amazon exclusive? To hell with them and their $35 order limit for free shipping. Best Buy does the same thing but at lease I can go to the store and pick it up without paying for shipping.
I've had metal items from BB (futurepaks, steelbooks) come in those shrink wrapped white plastic pags, and then I've had some steels come in the corrugated cardboard containers, and then they will send a PS4 game in a bubble envelope. There is no rhyme or reason on what BB uses to ship their items. I would rather just do an in store pick up with BB. There's no guarantee with that either. The plights of a blu ray collector.
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