Rosamund Pike was ROBBED of an Oscar for “Gone Girl”

I love Julianne Moore but Rosamund should have won.

Hell yeah, OP!

Love the Desi death scene

I loved her "that's marriage" line. I"m sure it pissed off the fraus.

R4 idk where you’re from but in Brooklyn we have the BAM theater and I watched this movie there (twice) and the second time there was a Frau couple next to me and I knew that cause the female snickered at that line as well as Amy’s comment about boring Midwestern girl or something like that lmao.

I was like you’re clearly a frau from the Midwest. GO BACK.

And there was a group of gay guys behind me that must have only went to get a glimpse of NPH and BA penis cause that’s all they talked about. And I hate when people talk.

I fucking love that whole confrontation scene between Nick and Amy. Rosamund was brilliant in her delivery of lines.

Fear not, this could be my year!

Not really Oscar worthy, she has like one personality trait. Oscars should go to people who exhibit range.

Maybe not, OP. Perhaps if Adrian Lyne had directed it but Fincher didn’t know how to construct a “star making” performance for Pike. Worst example: the moment you’ve been waiting for, when you know she’s going to go batshit crazy, Fincher has her bury her face in a pillow. I don’t go to movies to see people but a pillow in front of their face.

Gone Girl left a stank. Couldn’t wait to get out of the cinema.

r10 so true about Adrian Lyne.... there is something so aloof and impersonal about Fincher's films, he's too interested in being cool and slick, wheras Lyne takes you into the intimacy of these twisted relationships.

Gone Girl did not stink.

What about Tyler Perry?

hahahaaa I kid, I kid

Perry was great in this but not Oscar worthy.

i hated the green filter over this movie. Visually, it was perhaps the ugliest film i have ever seen.

Really R15? I felt the cinematography was wonderful

R3 It always bothered me how she kept her underwear on during sex.

That's funny R5. I'm from NY too. I happened to catch it on a Monday and there was hardly anyone in the theater (that's how I like to see movies these days since most people talk or text) so I didn't hear any reactions when she said that.

R18 I saw it opening weekend at 7pm (I remember the showing and all) and it was a sold out showing.

I don’t think anyone expected this to be a big hit.

R18 The novel was a huge bestseller.

I wish they'd fleshed Nick and his background out a little more. We really only get a glimpse of it when you see his dad in the beginning.

Was Nick more fleshed out in the book? I never read it but my sister said he’s not that much different, albeit maybe a bit more neglectful and prickish

R10 I agree with you about the “movie star” comment. This role could have been a huge movie star making performance but it wasn’t and never felt like it.

After viewing it I was like “wow she was incredible!” But never once thought “wow a star is BORN” while watching it, like say, Rami Malek in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, where after viewing I said “A BIG STAR WAS JUST BORN”. I was apparently correct. He’s everywhere now and one of the most talked about celebs now.

Like OMG r5 you saw it at fucking BAM you are sooooo cool.

R23 Rami Malek? Wtf does he have to do with rosemund pike and this movie? Also, some actors don’t want to be stars. They want to be actors that give incredible performances. There is a difference.

R24 did I say I was cool for it? I was just saying where I saw it in case they knew of it and the setup of that theater. Geez.

Some of you are such bitchy cunts for no reason.

R25 I know. Ryan Philippe in his height would get mad at his “movie star” image cause he wanted to be an ACTOR, not a movie star.

[Quote] Was Nick more fleshed out in the book? I never read it but my sister said he’s not that much different, albeit maybe a bit more neglectful and prickish

Well that's more what i meant. To show a bit more of his negative side and background.

The film was fine, she was very good - but it would have been a far better film if Jon Hamm had been able to play the Affleck role

The whole setup for your bitchy cuntery r5 was how you saw that shitty movie at BAM not once but twice no less. You sound like a tired snob. NPH and BA were so miscast in those roles and Rosamuns Pike did nothing to improve on a lackluster script.

It's a corny Lifetime movie. Nobody deserved anything except, maybe, for Carrie Coon who played the sister, the only realistic character.

I know in the scene where she says her infamous “That’s marriage” line he was supposed to choke her out like in the book. In the book he chokes her out and can kill her but then decides against it to not look like a monster who just killed his wife that just returned from being kidnapped and raped etc.

It’s probably better that kept that out of the movie.

R31 Margo was my favourite character and had the best lines.

She was great

Rosamund Pike was 35 and pregnant when Gone Girl came out — I think these factors contributed to the movie not really being a big star making role for her. I think she’s focused on making British movies since then (all of which she’s been very good in), but that limits her exposure.

A Private War is her first performance since GG that’s received any awards attention, but unfortunately it sounds like the movie itself is not as good as her performance. Her Marie Curie film will be her next shot.

A private war was one of the best films I’ve seen in 2018. It was beautifully shot and the performances all around were great.

I find her boring

I had mixed feelings about the film. It's probably not a film I would watch again. I didn't like the dreary greyish cast to the film that so many movies have now, it makes me feel disconnected from the characters and story. One thing the film captured perfectly though was the way a story like this plays out in the media and how journalists and the public treat the people involved. Another thing that I thought was really canny was how quickly the "white trash " woman and her boyfriend /fuck buddy sniffed Amy out. Amy was very good at fooling naive suburban fraus and the media but not somebody who has led a rougher life. That scene where the woman asks Amy "You've never been hit have you? " was spot on. Ben Affleck was perfectly cast as the type of shifty ,aloof hot white guy who the media and housewives would distrust (but still want to hear more about ) . An actor with a warmer affect might not have worked as well. Pike was very good but I'm a little curious what Witherspoon would have done with the role.

Witherspoon would have been awful. She’s no Amazing Amy.

R39 Pike did a very good job but I'm not so sure Witherspoon would have been awful. I think she would have taken the role in a different direction. While Pike had a upper middle class ,east coast wasp ice queen vibe Witherspoon probably would have been more a perky but passive aggressive southern middle American type. The type who will smile serenely to your face but make a cutting remark once you leave the room. It certainly would have changed the tone of the film.

Also, Rosamund followed this film with A United Kingdom. I was so excited to see it at TIFF and my friend and I thought it was shit. So predictable and disappointing.

The role in GG is somewhat one-note. Like why are we supposed to care so much Amazing Amy and why she's so devious?

Witherspoon was better

[Quote] Witherspoon probably would have been more a perky but passive aggressive southern middle American type. The type who will smile serenely to your face but make a cutting remark once you leave the room.

I doubt that would require much acting on her part.

Witherspoon would not be the Amy Dunne of the Book. Pike was. Read the book.

I think Witherspoon would’ve been a lot like Tracy Flick.

David Finchet wouldn’t make the movie with Witherspoon and told her so.

Not in a mean way. She had the rights and he welcomed her as a producer but told her she was completely wrong for Amy.

He was right.

Goop would've been good as Amy.

She's too old now, but that's an interesting suggestion, R48. I think a younger Goop might have been better than Rosamund.

The movie was not terrible but all the news stuff was laughable. The stunt Nancy Grace almost made me stop watching but I like Carrie Coon in this. And I thought Roseamund Pike was marvelous in this. She played everything granted in a genre film but she played many notes. Only Miss Barbara Stanwyk has played a superior femme fatale in my eyes. Thoough Pike played more colors Miss Syanwyk was just delicious.

Truth! Op, you are 100% correct.

When I saw Missi Pyle I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't Reese. It might have been a kick if Reese had taken that part.

She was not that good. She has resting bitch face and in the scenes before the big reveal she is not at all convincing. Amy is supposed to be ableto fool people and she acts like an ice queen before andafter, as someone said above. In the book you get really surprised at her deviousness, but not in thefilm. Also, Affleck and her never look or sound convincing as a couple (though this maybe not solely her fault).

Did she get that big dick?

Bullshit.

Young Gwyneth would have been genius as Amy. She played that character all her life.

I was glad Perry was in the film, he made it more watchable. I did like the casting.

Love movies that feel a bit noir without trying too hard to throw back. This one had me from start to finish.

R59 I did not like the casting. Tyler Perry, Sela Ward, Neil Patrick Harris, Missi Pyle, Kim Dickens, Casey Wilson. Not necessarily bad actors, but they made the film feel a bit low rent — almost as if the casting director thought she was casting a television movie or series.

I thought Rosamund Pike was fabulous.

As somebody already mentioned, Rosamund Pike's ice queen looks and cool, aloof and aggressive vibe scream 'sociopath'. Amy should have been cast with somebody like Amy Adams or Anne Hathaway, somebody absolutely prissy and sweet and agreeable, who doesn't stand out of the crowd, who can easily mask her psychopathic nature.

Did you all read the book? Cause if you did Rosamund was perfectly cast.

This one actually kept close to the source material.

I believe Reese optioned the book for film and really wanted to play Amy. In the end, I read that both she and Fincher agreed that Pike would have been a better fit for the role. I thought Pike was excellent. She doesn't seem like the type who does a lot of campaigning for Oscars. I thought I read that she and Affleck hated each other and wouldn't do press together towards the end of their tour. He said that personality was very similar to Amy IRL and couldn't stand her.

Amy was a cold Ice Queen character in the book. That’s why Pike was deemed better. Cause she fit the character. Reese doesn’t.

No, she wasn't. Amy had legitimate grievances with her parents and husband. And how her dreams and fantasies of adult life didn't meld up with the reality was heartening. So when those elements of her character are proved to be actually the only positive and relatable things about her, it's kind of shock when she is increasingly revealed as a psychopath.

Jennifer Garner would have been good at expressing the self-pity and the Type A obsessiveness.

Oh, my sides! Thank you, OP.

I really loved this movie and saw it twice in theaters, which I hardly ever do. I thought Pike was good, but people are right when they say she never really had that "this is a STAR performance" moment. She lacks the delicious villainy that someone like, say, young Sharon Stone would have brought to the role. I also thought Fincher's color-drained photography was annoying. I almost wish it had been all bright and perky like an Ikea commercial. It would have a been a little more bizarre and kooky.

Maybe someone like Adrian Lynne or Paul Verhoven could have perked it up a little bit.

[quote] This one actually kept close to the source material.

The issue is that the source material is frau schlock. Now, someone like Brian de Palma would've been able to turn something like that into dark camp but Fincher doesn't have that sort of sensibility.

Bingo, r70--especially about that fine source material.

Oh, God! De Palma really would have been the perfect director for this. Why didn't that happen? He'd have made it a total blast and it would have had a gorgeous Pino Donaggio score.

R69 so many movies nowadays have that boring, dull, drained of life and color look to it. This greyish cast is depressing and unsightly, frankly I would take even technicolor over this style.

R70 yes I agree with you on the source. When the book and movie came out, Amy became something of a feminist hero on corners of the internet, particularly among pampered but inexplicably aggrieved upper middle class waspy women, who seem to imagine they lead terribly difficult lives.

Amy was popular because even though (or maybe because) she was a pure villain, she tapped into female rage.

Totally agree with you r73. It's the problem with so many reboots/remakes. They all look so dull and colourless.

And totally agree about De Palma. He would have made Amy the right mix of camp, sex appeal, feminist, villainess and cunt.

Now, I can't stop thinking about a De Palma Gone Girl and it's driving me crazy at how brilliant that might have been. He'd have understood how to do it and it would have been a hoot. He probably wouldn't even have to change any of the casting.

R39 In the novel Amy is 39. She's slightly older than Nick, which makes for an interesting dynamic between them.

Reese would have probably acted the shit out of the role and been fun, but besides the blonde hair, I just don't see her as Amy.

Every actress in Hollywood probably wanted that role, but it definitely needs a certain type. Young Kathleen Turner would have slayed it.

She was incredible.

I know this is NOT high brow entertainment.

HOWEVER BITCHES-

I saw the film first and then read the book-

The film was EXCELLENT trash. Rosamund Pike was PERFECT. Scary. Frightening. Gorgeous. I loved her.

And Amy had so many VALID POINTS/VIEWS, it was sometimes hard to remember- that this bitch is EVIL. But she was NEVER crazy. She KNEW what she felt. She was a sociopath. And so intelligent.

The book!??? A FUCKING PAGE TURNER. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN! One of the best books ever.

So, in closing. I am trash. My taste is trash. And I agree with OP!

(And after seeing Rosamund in A Private War- she IS the real deal, and I am quite in love with her. (As much as a gay man can be)