The Rewatchables: 'Gone Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Mallory Rubin, and Sean Fennessey

Published 2019-08-13; 1:43:45 by the feed.

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Most rewatchable scene

  1. pick Nick comes home, finds Amy missing and calls the police; Boney's meticulous walk-through with the iron and post-its
    “I really like when Affleck comes home and discovers Amy's missing and calls the police and everything they do”
    Bill Simmons · 0:31:40
  2. pick The outdoor Amy rally with the protesters and the turn on Nick
    “The outdoor Amy rally with the protesters is that's a fun twist.”
    unknown · 0:33:51
  3. pick The big reveal, Amy's "I am so much happier now that I'm dead" monologue
    “So the next scene is the big, the next thing I got for rewatchable is the big reveal.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:34:52
  4. pick Lola Kirk as Go: the pool scene and the memory of Affleck touching Emily's face
    “I just love Lola Kirk in this movie.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:39:50
  5. pick Nick's interview with Sela Ward's character
    “Next one is Nick's interview with, um, See La Word's character, who I thought was funny, who was in the Fugitive, which is also a wife burner thing.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:40:15
  6. pick Amy's return to Nick's house, covered in blood, and the lead-up to the TV interview
    “Amy's return to Nick's house.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:40:40
  7. pick Amy returning to Nick, covered in blood, and the rest of the movie from there
    “I'm never not watching that movie if this is on and Amy's about to go back to her house.”
    unknown · 0:41:48
  8. pick Nick's first police interview and Boney's growing doubt
    “I really like his 1st police interview.”
    unknown · 0:42:08
  9. pick The press conference: Nick's hamming grin against the parents' stump speech
    “I think the press conference is a really good scene too”
    unknown · 0:43:03
  10. floated The Desi murder
    “Yeah. Has to be. Has to be in here.”
    unknown · 0:44:08
  11. pick The reveal scene
    “I'm always going to be connected to the reveal scene.”
    unknown · 0:44:58
  12. floated The early seduction scenes: meet-cute at the party and the proposal at the Amazing Amy book party
    “I think also all the seduction scenes between the 2 of them at the beginning are really good.”
    unknown · 0:45:51
  13. pick The reveal, Amy's monologue and the depth of her plan
    “Well, you know, the interesting thing about those scenes and it comes up in the reveal, which is also my pick for most rewatchable scenes.”
    Mallory Rubin · 0:46:29

Casting What Ifs · Who almost played the parts, or who might have.

  1. pick Jon Hamm as Nick Dunne: Was reportedly set to lead but Mad Men would not release him; Bill thinks it would have ignited his career.
    “I think John Hamm was supposed to be the lead of this movie.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:05:13
  2. nominee Tom Cruise as Nick Dunne: Floated and then shot down as too short and not savvy enough to keep up with Amy.
    “Do you think Tom Cruise could have been in this?”
    Bill Simmons · 0:13:12
  3. nominee Reese Witherspoon as Amy Dunne: Optioned the rights and wanted to play Amy; the hosts agree she is too open and likable.
    “Reese Witherspoon obtains the film rights.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:15:22
  4. nominee Charlize Theron as Amy Dunne: Listed among the other actresses considered; Bill says the natural move would have been Charlize and Ben Affleck.
    “I think that the natural move would have just been to get Charlize in call it a day.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:18:09
  5. nominee Julianne Hough as Amy Dunne: The weirdest name on the list of actresses considered for Amy.
    “The weirdest one is Julianne Huff.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:16:55
  6. pick Emily Ratajkowski as Emily: Fincher cast her on a recommendation from Ben Affleck.
    “Fincher cast Emily Radikowski.”
    unknown · 1:07:23

What Aged the Best · The part of the movie that holds up best on rewatch.

  1. pick Nick's unshaven video game swoon: A true-to-life moment of a bummed-out husband.
    “I like his unshaven video game swoon.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:48:44
  2. pick Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's score: Relaxing music that instills dread.
    “The musical score.”
    unknown · 0:51:25
  3. pick Rosamond Pike as Amy Dunne: Her performance will live forever.
    “I think Rosemont Pike's performance as Amy Dunn, which will live forever.”
    unknown · 0:57:23
  4. pick Affleck putting on a Mets hat: Elite detail, from Fincher's Yankees-hat story.
    “You know what's age? Big era for twin cest? Is Affleck putting on a Mets hat?”
    Bill Simmons · 0:57:39
  5. pick The small supporting roles: Every small role is perfectly cast.
    “I think every single small role is perfectly cast.”
    unknown · 0:58:26
  6. pick The mid-movie twist: Argued as both best and worst: the shock is gone but every detail rewards a rewatch.
    “That's why I think it's age the best is because, yeah, I think it's both.”
    unknown · 1:00:07

What Aged the Worst · The part of the movie that holds up worst on rewatch.

  1. pick The mid-movie twist: The theater shock cannot be recaptured once you know it is coming.
    “The big twist in the middle has actually aged the worst because in the theater, if you didn't read the book, it was the best part of seeing the movie in the theater.”
    unknown · 0:59:44
  2. pick The internet's outrage over the movie: The first big wave of online takes treating art as something to be outraged about.
    “The internet. The acting is just all of the internet.”
    unknown · 1:00:40
  3. pick The Desi murder: Brutal, and hard to rewatch.
    “It's aged the worse for me.”
    unknown · 1:03:43
  4. pick Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings: Bill thinks he is bad in the part; others defend the casting.
    “I just I think he sucks in this movie.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:04:48
  5. pick Wesley Morris's review: A brilliant piece of criticism that lands on a bad opinion.
    “This is a brilliant piece of movie criticism.”
    unknown · 1:06:37

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

  1. pick Amy's money belt at the hotel: A meticulous planner has no good way to hide her money and the belt falls off when she jumps.
    “Can't figure out how to hide her money.”
    unknown · 1:17:44
  2. pick Amy's suicide plan: She loves herself too much to ever kill herself.
    “I just think she loved herself too much to ever actually kill herself.”
    unknown · 1:19:35
  3. pick The incompetent FBI interview: No one presses her on the box cutter and she is let go while covered in blood.
    “Um, We talked about how incompetent the FBI was.”
    unknown · 1:19:56
  4. pick Nick going down on Amy with her underwear still on: The sex scene makes no sense with her underwear never removed.
    “Nick is going down on Amy and does not remove her underwear.”
    unknown · 1:27:16
  5. pick Nick leaving Bleeker the cat among the broken glass: Nick walks the cat through broken glass and leaves him alone.
    “I just don't like that when Nick is sweeping off the broken glass in the kitchen.”
    unknown · 1:28:38
  6. pick Tanner Bolt's Google trick: A $100,000 lawyer is sold on finding a registered sex offender anyone could Google.
    “So the thing that sold you on an $100,000 retainer lawyer is that he could Google a guy.”
    unknown · 1:29:19
  7. pick The Mets hat: He wears a Cardinals shirt half the movie, so the Mets hat does not make sense.
    “Should have just been a cardinal's hat doesn't make sense.”
    unknown · 1:29:33
  8. pick Amy covered in blood during the FBI interrogation: They would want her clean; the blood is a movie flourish for the shower.
    “Just Amy covered in blood during the FBI interrogation.”
    unknown · 1:29:58
  9. pick Amy's trust fund math: Almost all of a million minus 870 thousand still leaves over $120,000, so they are not poor.
    “Y'all are not poor, like at, like fucking relax about the fucking depression or whatever.”
    unknown · 1:31:07

Best Quote · Favorite lines, with the Amy monologue off limits.

  1. pick I swear you people are the most fucked up people I've ever known: Tanner Bolt's line, a non-Amy favorite.
    “My favorite non-Amy quote is, I swear you people are the most fucked up people I've ever known, and I specialized in fucked up.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:32:23
  2. pick I love tests: Amy's answer to Nick asking for a paternity test; Bill's favorite line of the movie.
    “That's my favorite line of the whole movie.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:33:22
  3. pick Fun fact for the readers, you have a world-class vagina: Mallory's pick, thrown out in case someone else took it.
    “I was throwing it out there thinking maybe one of you were going to pick.”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:33:49
  4. pick I think of my wife. I always think of her head.: The opening narration and its questions about any marriage.
    “The real payoff is the primal questions of any marriage, what are you thinking?”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:34:11
  5. pick I thought writers hated cliches: One of Go's good lines when she needles Nick about the affair.
    “I love when goes like, I thought writers hated cliches.”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:34:44
  6. pick There's some wood, bitch: Go's pep talk, called the least believable line of dialogue in the movie.
    “You can go home and fuck her brains out.”
    unknown · 1:35:36
  7. pick No, but it is humiliating: Gil's line, which gets at the gender politics of Nick being funded by Amy.
    “I like, um, I like the exchange between Boney and Gil about how Amy is funding Nick's life and the line when Gil says, no, but it is humiliating.”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:35:47
  8. pick Invite pregnant idiot into your home and ply her with lemonade: One of Amy's many good lines.
    “Invite pregnant idiot into your home implier of lemonade.”
    unknown · 1:36:33
  9. pick He actually expected me to love him unconditionally: Amy's line, which the speaker finds crushing.
    “I think my favorite Amy one, though, is he actually expected me to love him unconditionally.”
    unknown · 1:36:35

Sequel, Prequel or TV Show · Whether the movie could be a series or have a follow-up.

  1. pick Gone Girl as a 10-episode Netflix show: Yes, but as two five-episode seasons; the hosts prefer Mindhunter as a series.
    “I think the answer is yes, but it would have to be two, 5 episodes seasons.”
    unknown · 1:37:07
  2. pick A Gone Girl sequel: Rosamond Pike has said there are rumors; the hosts joke it would be the further crazy adventures of Amy.
    “What does a Gone Girl sequel look like?”
    unknown · 1:37:56

Unanswerable questions · Things the movie leaves open.

  1. pick How many YouTube views Amy's return clip would get: Guesses range from 125 million to 500 million.
    “Would Amy returning to Nick's house in front of the cameras?”
    unknown · 1:37:31
  2. pick Did no one hear them in the bookshop?: A person is close by while they have sex.
    “Did no one hear them fucking the bookshop?”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:39:35
  3. pick Was there any fluffing?: A question about the filming of the Desi sex scene.
    “Was there any fluffing?”
    Mallory Rubin · 1:40:04
  4. pick Tanner Bolt's two guys: The recurring "I got 2 guys" that could have filled 30 minutes.
    “I can't believe we didn't do an unanswerable question on Tanner Bolt's 2 guys that he keeps mentioning.”
    unknown · 1:42:08
  5. pick What happened to Bleeker the cat: Hosts are told the cat is thriving, then joke he ran away.
    “What happened to Bleeker, the cat?”
    unknown · 1:42:19

Hottest Take · The speaker's boldest opinion of the episode.

  1. pick Staying with Amy: He would stay and make a life with her because she loves him or will pretend to.
    “But listen, this is going to be my hottest take of the whole of the whole podcast.”
    unknown · 1:23:12

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead from making the movie.

  1. winner Rosamond Pike as Amy Dunne: A shared win, since four or five actresses would still have scored points with the part.
    “Rosamond.”
    unknown · 1:40:53
  2. nominee David Fincher: Bill's usual answer for Fincher movies: his biggest hit before he left for Netflix and an ode to Hitchcock.
    “I always say Fincher when we do Fincher movies.”
    unknown · 1:40:55
  3. winner Bleeker the cat as Bleeker: Proposed as a co-winner with Pike.
    “Maybe it's a shared win for them and for for Bleeker the Cat.”
    unknown · 1:42:05

Best That Guy / Joey Pants Award · The best that-guy actor in the movie.

  1. nominee Patrick Fugit as Gil: The Almost Famous guy, all grown up.
    “It's got to be Patrick Fuget, right?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:08:08
  2. winner Missi Pyle as Ellen Abbott: The Nancy Grace character; no one knew her name.
    “It's the Nancy Grace lady because I have I had no idea what her name was until you just said it.”
    unknown · 1:08:37
  3. nominee Boyd Holbrook: Pushed back on since he has outgrown the status.
    “I mean, Boyd Holbrook is in this movie?”
    unknown · 1:08:26
  4. nominee Kathleen Rose Perkins as Shawna Kelly: A face seen in many TV shows, great in her one minute.
    “Kathleen Rose Perkins because she's an episode.”
    unknown · 1:08:49
  5. nominee Casey Wilson as Noelle Hawthorne: Also considered, though some say she is already famous from SNL.
    “Casey Wilson for me.”
    unknown · 1:09:07

Best Overacting · The Saul Rubinek Award for overacting.

  1. nominee Casey Wilson as Noelle Hawthorne: Nominated.
    “I had Casey Wilson, I had Rosamond Pike.”
    unknown · 1:09:21
  2. nominee Rosamond Pike as Amy Dunne: Goes for it a couple times in the cunt you married speech, maybe 10% too much.
    “ratchet it up maybe 10% too much.”
    unknown · 1:09:27

Small Role, Big Impact · The Dion Waiters Award for a small part that lands.

  1. pick Lola Kirk as Greta: Bill's pick; called the runaway winner unless Tyler Perry makes his case.
    “My personal choice, Lola Kirk”
    Bill Simmons · 1:10:03
  2. pick Tyler Perry as Tanner Bolt: Only in about four scenes and a likable performance.
    “Tyler Perry, who I think qualifies, is only in like 4 scenes.”
    unknown · 1:09:57
  3. pick Casey Wilson as Noelle Hawthorne: Nominated for the Dion Waiters.
    “Casey Wilson.”
    unknown · 1:10:01
  4. pick Scoot McNairy as Tommy O'Hara: A harrowing 90-second scene.
    “Scu McNarius, Tommy O'Hara, the boyfriend who Ben Affleck goes to visit and he tells the whole story of their encounter.”
    unknown · 1:10:16
  5. pick Emily Ratajkowski as Andie: Her whole performance is a series of vivid moments.
    “She's my pick.”
    unknown · 1:11:57

Apex Mountain · Where a star's or filmmaker's work sits on the mountain.

  1. pick Rosamond Pike as Amy Dunne: The definition of Apex Mountain.
    “Rosemont Pike, I think, is definition of Apex Mountain.”
    unknown · 1:16:00
  2. pick The Social Network: Their Fincher apex, though it changes depending on the last one watched.
    “We decided social network, right?”
    unknown · 1:16:06
  3. pick Mountain Dew product placement: The one product placement the movie lingers on.
    “Is this the Apex Mountain for Mountain Dew?”
    unknown · 1:16:32

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