I just saw Gone Girl and Fury this weekend. Anyone else see either of these?

[DebJ]

Everyone I know who saw Gone Girl raved about it.
I found it to be morbid, twisted, dark, violent, and depressing.
There is enough insanity in real life; I don't want to pay money to see such stuff on screen.
I wish I could 'un-see' it.


Fury also had a lot of morbid, twisted, dark and violent moments.
But inside and throughout all of that, what you saw was men trying to cope with the ugliness of
reality, and of things that were historical fact. That, I can handle. And have a new sense
of awe for soldiers who survive war and actually manage to have a life afterwards that
allows them to ever feel joy or sanity again.


Gone Girl, on the other hand, was just sick and revolting.

[Hoppy]

1. I didn't get sick and revolting out of GG. But it was still money wasted.

[DebJ]

2. Odd thing is that I found the scene with Neil Patrick Harris more palatable

than the husband at the end of the story.

[mainstreetonce]

3. I'm still conflicted about the husband

Were we supposed to see from the beginning that he was in his own way as sick as the wife?

If so Affleck's acting was terrible.

[whathehell]

4. Thank you!..You're the only one besides my huz I've heard say that!

Even my therapist liked it.

[bigwillq]

5. Gone Girl was fantastic (nt)

[Aristus]

6. I posted my own thread about 'Fury'. I was a little disturbed by it.

All in all, it was pretty good. As horrifically graphic as war films have become, at least the upside is that glorifying war through film is getting more and more difficult. I would imagine anyone out there having ludicrous Rambo daydreams about being a war hero doesn't include the parts where, even if you're on the winning side, you're going to be cold, or unbearably hot, tired, frightened, frustrated, confused, hungry, dirty, covered with blood and other assorted bodily filth, and have experiences that never would have found their way into your fantasies.

One issue that 'Fury' didn't address was the fact that Eisenhower ordered his troops to treat all German prisoners humanely, with an eye toward getting them to surrender much sooner and more quickly than if the Germans thought they were in a fight to the death.

I know individual American commanders told their troops to take no prisoners in SS uniform, in retribution for the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. I wish the film had at least addressed the fact that atrocity was not official US Army policy.