Gone Girl Movie Trailer Has The Good Ben Affleck

Gone Girl: The David Fincher Movie Will Be as Good as the Gillian Flynn Book Because Ben Affleck.

Yes, I said it. I think that with David Fincher at the helm, Gone Girl the movie will be as good as Gillian Flynn’s bestselling Gone Girl the bookAnd it will be because of, not in spite of, Ben Affleck.

I’m always excited to see books that I love become movies. I can’t wait to see how the magic of Hollywood will bring what I see in my mind’s eye to life. How it will compare. The result is usually bitter disappointment. Every time I hear of a new Stephen King adaptation I’m bouncing off the walls with excitement and the twelve espressos I just drank. When I hear good news it’s PARTY TIME! Only now, instead of beer or wine or a suppository of some sort, party time means copious amounts of caffeine.

Then I watch the Stephen King made for TV movie, because with him it’s always made for TV, and it’s, like, infomercial bad. Not even good infomercial bad like when George Foreman got absolutely batshit over his grill or when Billy Mays sold terrible products all jacked up on terrific cocaine, because that was entertainingly good, bad infomercialing, but terrible infomercial bad like when you’re still up at three a.m. and white people are trying to sell you vacuum bags.

George Forman

So lovable.

Most King movie adaptations are so bad you want to scream at the actors to just die already, even though they don’t die in the book and that would only further piss you off because you hate when they do that.

It’s worked very well with other books though, even when they do deviate from the original work. David Fincher’s Fight Club and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are great examples of this. The fact that Fincher is the man in the cool canvas chair on the Gone Girl set almost gives me goose bumps.

People are pissed about Affleck because people are always pissed off about Affleck. He has one of those faces that men want to punch and women… well, women also want to punch, apparently. Nobody else inspires so much internet hatred as effortlessly as The Ben.

Gone Girl Movie Ben Affleck

So punchable

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I think this movie is going to work BECAUSE of Ben Affleck. The Ben can be good or he can be pathetic. He’s pathetic when he goes beyond his range, which is limited. When he tries to shoot the moon and go all Leo DiCaprio he is unwatchable. In the role of Nick Dunne however, he has the opportunity to play a shallow, self-serving scumbag. In that he will be brilliant! All Ben has to do is be himself, really. He can do that well. The same quality that makes men and women want to punch him is perfect for this role because Gillian Flynn’s Nick Dunne is a man that men and women SHOULD want to punch in the face.

Gone Girl Movie Trailer

I only hope this Rosamund Pike will be able to stand her ground against the brilliance of The Ben.

  12 comments for “Gone Girl Movie Trailer Has The Good Ben Affleck

  1. April 19, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    This Rosamund Pike is a Bond girl. I don’t know which movie or which character, but I know she’s a Bond girl. She could stamp all over Ben’s face with her stiletto heels. I’ve never been able to take Ben seriously after he fell in love with Cartman’s hand in South Park.

    You’ve given up suppositories? Have you become a monk or something?

    • April 19, 2014 at 1:16 pm

      Ahh, I knew I recognized her. You can never take Ben seriously after he failed at pretty much everything other than Good Will Hunting. Although… Argo was pretty good as well. I think this will be good though, really.

      I have become a monk, pretty much.

      Thanks GB!

  2. April 19, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    White people trying to see you vacuum bags. Too funny. What a great choice for a bad infomercial!

    There’s a channel I watch that only plays classic movies. The downside is that all of the commercials are infomericals. And what’s even worse…the products are starting to look appealing to me.

    • April 20, 2014 at 8:43 am

      That’s how they get you. If you see something over and over it becomes first acceptable, then appealing. That’s probably why people end up in relationships with co-workers.

      Thanks Diane!

  3. April 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Er…that’s “sell” you vacuum bags. See you vacuum bags makes no sense. Unless “vacuum bags” is a person’s name. But that would require a comma and some capitalization, so it would read…White people trying to see you, Vacuum Bags. Which is just scary.

    • April 20, 2014 at 8:47 am

      You have no idea how brilliant you are! You’ve just given me another character for my next book. It’s about a dystopian future where everyone is addicted to some form of drug. Vacuum Bags is an amazing character name is this setting…. it implies so much.

      Thanks Diane!

  4. April 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    I think you are right – you nailed it about Ben Affleck! He’s good when he sticks to his range. Loved him (and his beard) in Argo.

    • April 24, 2014 at 7:16 pm

      You gotta love the beard. I’d love myself so much more if only I could grow one.

      Thanks Jackie!

  5. May 14, 2014 at 12:06 pm

    Well, I’m not into anything Hollywood and I didn’t read the book. Although I think I would enjoy the book. I’ll put that book on my ‘to read’ list. As for the movie? Nah.

    Have a fabulous day. 🙂

    • May 15, 2014 at 8:09 am

      The book was one of the best of last year. I’m sure you’ll love it.

      Thanks!

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