Expression of Opinion: Movie Review

Link to the review: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2014/1003/Gone-Girl-The-movie-doesn-t-move-beyond-the-formulaic-video

I immediately went off the bat of this blog post by choosing a negative review of a movie I love, from a site that I loathe. The Christian Science Monitor, a title as jarring as Wealthy Ghetto Watch. Of course, as any open minded person should, I went in without bias and sought out their points and reasons for disliking the 2014 Fincher flick, Gone Girl.

And it did not shift my views at all.

From the start, they recognized the film's natural transition from the novel, but immediately fail to recognize any of the real dilemmas that made the narrative so engaging. Peter Rainer, the main reviewing, seems hung up by how the present scenes / out of New York scenes are not nearly as exciting as the beginning years of the character's relationship. This is an actual negative he states, he wants scenes in Missouri to be filled with dream-like love despite the disturbed nature of their move and the natural pacing that the protagonist's relationship goes through. It actually offends him.

Rainer goes on to state how he doesn't care to much for Fincher films anyways, which I can accept from a matured perspective, but his reasoning is bratty at best. "“Seven” and “The Fight Club”," two of film's best movies ever, vouched by their cultural and medium impact, "...were a smart adolescent’s idea of the heart of darkness, and “The Social Network”," another masterpiece of the 21st century, "...was a glib, smart-alecky epic about a master race of supernerds." Calling people children and nerds doesn't make you sound like a film buff or an intellectual, Rainer.

Failing to state real criticisms about these films at all just makes you sound like you didn't like them for the sake of not liking them. Call it "formulaic" as much as you want, but don't forget to tell people who may love the movie where it fell instead of being upset about how Missouri wasn't nearly as fun as it should of been. Other improvements range from reviewing the score, cinematography, or themes at play, to stating something insightful about where the movie fell off instead of being bored from the start.