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

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Mallory Rubin, and Sean Fennessey fake their own deaths to watch ‘Gone Girl’ starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike and directed by David Fincher.
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[@Fred3209]

It’s so weird seeing them talk when I was so used to hearing their voices...

[@XLaws87]

"I dont know who this is" Bill explains "I still dont know who this is" LOL Shea, never change

[@michaelcummings8763]

"Don Draper in a bad marriage" as if he wasn't in two of them on Mad Men

[@thepablostaricco]

One of the best Rewatchables ever. I'm a fan of the Simmons-Fennessey-Ryan combos but Rubin and Serrano brought their A-games!

[@chandlerroman3130]

I know it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to stream new tv shows online?

[@chandlerroman3130]

@Bryant Kristopher Thanks, I signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I really appreciate it !!

[@bryantkristopher1208]

@Chandler Roman Happy to help xD

[@tp4155]

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo da Vinci

[@simsimdabear]

Shea on what would happen to their kids: "They'd get really good at soccer and go to an Ivy League school" 😂😂😂

[@grapes9h5]

Hahaha Rewatchables is on a mad tear right now if content. I can’t keep up!!

[@oldirtydasher]

True! Still trying to finish the John wick 2 ep!

[@edtallman7264]

What a page turner that book was.The flick was perfectly married to it.Every good thing Affleck has done has been born of a great script. Look, I know, I know. Exceptional scripts aren't a dime a dozen, but ya gotta be patient in that biz, otherwise you end up in a costume doing "Justice League of America."

[@nthnlzhang]

7:39 did anyone catch Mallory's side glance to the camera after she correctly inserted the character's name Andie, it was really funny

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

She is a mistress of comedic innuendo

[@TedYates]

I want you all to know I just paid 3.99 on KZbin to watch gone girl so I could watch this.

[@LaskInHD]

I just did as well.

[@Blackberry21838]

Mindhunter is awesome. I love Fincher.

[@alexazzi7250]

All star cast. This was the best use of 1h36 possible👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@goseeaboutagirl]

Rosamund def deserved Best Actress that year over Julianne Moore. Still Alice was such Oscar bait and totally agree with Sean, it was an "it's time" win

[@piteusx8440]

Ben Affleck is actually that dude in Gone Girl. I mean literally the same dude. He played himself.

[@Hibachi6.6.6]

If I can’t find a RLM video to get through the morning straight to rewatchables ❤

[@SolidMikeP]

Good call

[@HappyTeeth.]

plinketto in the a.m.

[@michaeldayton127]

Gone Girl 2 should definitely be 18 years after they get pregnant and the kid is about to leave and show what Amy’s contingency was to keep nick under her thumb now that he’s raised their kid

[@piabeans]

Mallory in all Rewatchables please!

[@grapes9h5]

piabeans The Queen makes everything better - more perverse for sure haha

[@mjm5081]

Yes, Mallory was great!

[@JULIEFRENCH0906]

She’s the best !!

[@mgee1723]

@L E her voice is so annoying

[@savage_skirt5386]

Yeah, she's great

[@adriennepender673]

GREAT discussion, I love Gone Girl! The reveal is the greatest twist ever. SMALL correction, though - the song playing when Carter and Lucy were stabbed is NOT Nine Inch Nails, it’s “Battle Flag,” by Lo Fidelity All-Stars.

[@unropednope4644]

The two in the back are killing me with the vocal fry.

[@jrn2121]

100%. Mallory is unlistenable.

[@versatiletitan2466]

Love the videos bill awesome rewatchable

[@JoelStephens87]

Reznor has made a seamless transition from musician to composer. That's so difficult to do mid-prime of your career. He's now considered one of the best movie composers with Hanz Zimmer, Clint Mansell, James Horner and Vangelis. He's literally shoehorning himself into an extremely difficult select group of musicians. Reznor made such a great career shift.

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

I wonder if he’s made as seamless transition with his lays. all those Gothed up anti-establishment groupie haughty girls soon becoming establishment hoary mothed-up-mothers with Gothic society houses watching those scores movies with their group of daughters and nieces

[@JoelStephens87]

@@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821 lol nice catch man. He's just following his fan base, they don't follow him. He stalkin his prey

[@doruk4374]

Awesome thanks Simmons

[@QC_Charlottean]

Shoutout for Episodes and Kathleen Rose Perkins. Yes! Wildly underrated show. Became a LeBlanc fan for the first time after that show.

[@megmegmeg33]

I 100% agree that NPH sucked in Gone Girl and I’m so glad someone else thought so as well!!

[@couturecriminal8330]

I did not pay much mind to it but I agree...

[@MsTriangle]

Nah he was great, suspicious and slimey

[@cardy0324]

I love Rewatchables! Whatever happened to the Fletch episode? Still need The Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects, Seven, Fight Club. Am I forgetting any?

[@libell74]

Amy is a true-to-life vilain that probably exist somewhere in the US.

[@2160michael]

Carol Basken

[@jasonprice5289]

Love this movie. My favorite Fincher film is the game. Grossly underrated imo.

[@savage_skirt5386]

The Game is very underrated

[@Tech-Sam]

Hi Guys. 2023 checking in. These in person/studio pods are far superior.

[@andrewadmire3104]

Mallory is just awesome. I hate that I love a ravens fan so much but since I’m a Steelers fan it’s more of a mutual respect thing. Great find bill.

[@CheefChaos]

Looking forward to that 'Once upon a Time in Hollywood' Rewatchable in a year!!

[@melworku2060]

Totally agree with Bill on Neil Patrick Harris - no business being in a Fincher flick

[@BucNasty32]

Totally Agree, NPH was complete crap in this.

[@drlee2]

Gone Girl is Fincher's best film and I feel like it should have racked up at the Oscars that year, but strangely only got 1 major nomination Best Actress for Rosamund Pike.

[@hadbetterdays]

Strangely? The Academy didn't want to embrace such a story where the female role is so strong, disturbing, layered. They didn't get it.

[@gioluvs1893]

​@@hadbetterdaysalso she lied about being raped by two different men. With me too already gaining traction I guess they assumed such a movie could hurt the movement.

[@jeremyroberts8822]

@@gioluvs1893that’s a good point, I hadn’t even considered that.

[@CP-rr8wu]

Take a shot every time Sean does the two fingers on the chin move on this podcast

[@sobecb7131]

That is the best ER episode. I literally thought that right before he said it

[@adriansan212]

I can’t find a clip of that scene with “closer”

[@neelmoudgil4962]

Never realised rewatchables had a video counterpart

[@sarahmeister6702]

+1 to Bill's comment on NPH.

[@jomarch1085]

Mallory and Shea on the same episode?!?!?!?!?! Squeeeeeeee!!!!

[@etcadambrown]

I’m excited to see shea ride for amy for the next 90 minutes

[@zetnom89]

Sequel talk, how did you miss the chance at Gone Baby Gone 2 instead of Gone Boy?! Lol the baby gets kidnapped, Casey Afflecks character gets called to Missouri just because and you have Affleck vs Affleck as he’s under suspicion again! That’s your sequel! The crossover event of the century!

[@adagiobreeze8493]

I never thought about Ben Affleck’s physique in this movie but I forgot he has a football player’s build. His physicality gives the movie a sense of mystery that he could have murdered his wife. You were genuinely shocked that someone so physically strong could be so internally weak willed and subservient.

[@timv1.082]

I thought he totally landed the satire. To me that’s what this film is at it’s core.

[@pleaserewind295]

It's why the last half hour is so good.

[@dangleesack7617]

Sean looks like Dennis Reynolds’ more wholesome brother

[@Bleh67420]

Great rewatchables but then again they all are though I think it should be required we get a line from every rewatchables movie done with Chris Ryan’s Pacino impersonation. Ps. Does anyone else feel like Mallory wants to be Rosamund Pike in this movie? PPS When is the Congo rewatchables coming out?

[@RobertStevens-eo6wp]

It was Pigeonhed not NIN in the ER episode!!

[@augerrusty]

Prisoners Rewatchables please

[@joshruiz809]

Saw the Accoutant, it’s a pretty good movie

[@AntonChigurh989]

more vid content pls

[@guykruger1]

guyz, great talk, thanks! One thing really annoyed me however. So between 39:20 and 40:20 you have this whole thing about Nick's first police interbiew, and then Sean’s “confession” and the ensuing discussion about *not knowing your/ your wife’s blood type;* seems like you totally forgot the important (and quite funny) closing bit of the scene where Gilpin asks Boney if he’s supposed to know his wife’s blood type and she whispers no with a face that says “no way”…

[@stephennear9557]

Anybody know why this episode and many others of the Rewatchables have been removed from Apple Podcasts?

[@michaelhalili9091]

rip my ears at 0:47

[@XMR_King]

5:46 Mallory Rubin apex mountain? she’s awesome

[@MrOctober44]

Cruising reference 8:03, 1:19:25

[@genius179]

Shea's Macbook is so huge compared to Sean's and Mallory's lol

[@oldirtydasher]

It's that book money!!

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

Mallory dated a celebrity yeah?

[@SymonnePeters]

❤❤❤

[@Beraksekebon21]

Gellert grindelwald lol good joke

[@Nickunparalleled]

F is the bomb The Rapper?

[@Nikkex2]

Get Russillo on again!

[@Fred3209]

Fucking finally you put up the footage of the recording

[@timv1.082]

I basically agreed with everything that Mallory said and very little that Shea said.

[@lukeharbolt7681]

Zodiac is the best time I've seen in the past 25 years

[@watofit3]

Anyone else catch Sean’s sly “nice” to bill saying $369 million

[@billyneville8579]

The woman who plays Ellen Abbott literally plays the EXACT same character in The Mentalist

[@n3rdm4n36]

I know Shea was joking about "Gone Girl 2" being like "Peppermint," but Peppermint was a great movie. It was John Wick before John Wick lol

[@forrestllyr1709]

I really want to find my own Amy Dunne... But at the same time I really dont

[@brittlebrit187]

Union NOW Bill!

[@jamalezzeddine8100]

So we still can't get the Bill Simmons Pod as a video cast? Come on, man.

[@twelve98]

Jamal Ezzeddine he does it at home a lot

[@edtallman7264]

The 3 best Fincher films, IMHO, are: 1. Gone Girl; 2. The Zodiac; 3. Fight Club.

[@savage_skirt5386]

Rosamund Pike was perfect for this role.

[@beckyleonardis6331]

This was such a great episode! I love this movie! Amy is my favorite fictional villain. But I don't agree with everything that happens. I can't see Nick and Amy staying married for another 18 years. While they raise the baby. What they should've done after Amy came home. There should've been a final showdown between Nick and Amy. And one of them dies. (Amy) I just think, it would've made it more interesting. Then everyone around them would wonder, self-defense or cold-blooded murder? When Bill said, Rosamund's Baby! I laughed so hard!

[@jbc00l]

best. lineup. ever. probably.

[@navidb]

I don't know how much she gets paid but Mallory Rubin needs a raise. She always bring it

[@etcadambrown]

She’s irreplaceable. Sooo important to the whole Ringer enterprise.

[@navidb]

@@etcadambrown Union President Mallory Rubin!!

[@w.jasonspangler2952]

Damn, these people liked Gone Girl ALOT more than anyone else did.

[@ianrobinson4200]

Yeah, it's a good movie, but when it's all said and done I'm not sure it's that substantial. Fincher and Pike elevate it a bit, but I don't feel like it holds up that well to rewatches

[@jairocruz7818]

Who won the movie The cat

[@donfrenchiano]

Why is the That Guy award Joey Pants. They made a documentary about Dick Miller literally called That Guy Dick Miller

[@jessica5497]

Nah, Rosamund was perfect and David wanted her from the very beginning.

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

She’s incredible. The conversation around her outside of uSA so much better than in the USA.

[@bubordoni2]

So these are the faces that go with those voices?!😱 so weird to SEE what podcast “voices” look like 😂

[@savage_skirt5386]

Neil Patrick Harris is a Tony award winner. Was surprising to see him in this but I thought he was fine

[@CS-de4wr]

"mhm"

[@Jboogie_81]

This is one of the few movies that fucked me up 😆 I was in awe but it’s a fincher movie

[@HappyTeeth.]

there's def a moment when Amy realizes that Desi is nuts and she is in a bad spot. He points out to her how "safe" she is by showing her all the cameras in the house and she lets out a sigh and it comes across as "oh shit"

[@bilboflaggins796]

Classic Bill to just say NPH sucks without having any real reasons kok

[@pvthitch]

Speaking of heartless women with a plan; Body Heat.

[@beckyleonardis6331]

I agree with Bill. They should've casted somebody else to play Desi. Neil Patrick Harris is best known for being a sitcom star/game show host. He wasn't creepy enough to play Amy's obsessive ex-boyfriend. Plus, he's not that big/tall. Nobody's going to believe, that he broke into their house and kidnapped her.

[@connoreasterday306]

1:11:59 How the fuck are we gonna let that slide? I GOTTA KNOW WHAT'S NUMBER ONE???

[@sinogarcon]

I don't think Jon Hamm was ever lined up to the role, to be honest, even if Mad Men's producer allowed him to work on the film. Based on Gone Girl's author/screenwriter and the director, I really think the author Gillian Flynn drew Affleck's life story as an inspiration and wrote the book. Here are the clues: 1. They already decided to cast Affleck before there was even a script; 2. Fincher then talked about his casting of Affleck based on his smile, but where did he get that idea, when there was no script? 3. Flynn was really excited when Affleck agreed to star the film, before there was the script; 4. Flynn was an editor of Entertainment Weekly before she got layed off in that 2008 financial crash. So she knew industry gossips; 5. Matt Damon might have hinted it in 2013 when he talked about Affleck and his ex-wife Garner's popularity with those housewives in the midwest. He said Affleck told him that Garner could sell tabloid magazines in the midwest, that those tabloids neither Affleck nor Damon ever heard of (so they were local publishers). Gillian Flynn and her husband relocated to the midwest after she lost the EW job and took on writing. So she knew those housewives obsession with the Hollywood couple first hand; 6. The Amy character might have been the amalgamation of all the famous women in Affleck's life before he had gotten married: The New York heiress/blond hair/cold element could be based on Gwyneth Paltrow; the controlling leeching parents might have been based on Britney Spears and her parents (Affleck had a brief casual thing in 2000/2001 with her); the paparazzi obsession/media scrutiny could be drawn from Bennifer days; the baby trap plot could be that Garner had been pregnant with their oldest daughter before they got married, or Garner attempted to save their marriage by having a son in 2011, which their sources confirmed that the third son was a band-aid baby and that they would have been divorced in 2010, had it not been the son. Amy confessed to Desi that her husband Nick Dunne’s idea of culture was a reality TV marathon with a hand down in his boxers. This quote eerily resembles what Gwyneth Paltrow said of Affleck when she broke up with him: his perfect woman would be any sort of stripper, anyone who serves cold beer in a bikini. Considering that rumour had it that Paltrow broke up with Affleck because she found out he was cheating on her with Britney Spears, and Spears had a certain image around the early aughts. The two quotes are almost on point on-the-nose. 7. Affleck did the Kevin Smith film Chasing Amy in 1997, which was supposed to be his breakout role and was written by Smith specifically for Affleck and based round Affleck's characters at the time, had it not been Good Will Hunting screened in the same year; Chasing Amy was a successful book franchise Amy's parents wrote and projected the so-called perfect daughter image in the book in Gone Girl; 8. Affleck specifically said that Gone Girl wasn't about his marriage with his wife during the press junckets and Fincher teased him for that; 9. Despite universally touted as one of his best creations, Affleck never mentioned Gone Girl when restocked his career either in the GQ video in 2020 or in the EW interview he did with Matt Damon in 2022. It's like he was avoiding it, because he clearly knew what people was talking about him and the film on the internet.

[@MsTriangle]

I think that's a huuuge stretch

[@nathanpatterson60]

So it was touched on briefly by Ben Affleck reading up on the Scott Peterson story. But I was disappointed that the fact that those two guys look alike. And in my opinion, favor heavily. Wasn’t discussed. I thought the satire came from that and the business of murder and media.

[@myytchanneldinakoha8498]

Who’s John Haim?

[@JC-ev2ns]

Mallory is a national treasure

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

She is rare and eloquent

[@noelmadrigal9275]

Shea is top dawg for me. Commentary, his likes, just saying.

[@user-mb2yp6xh9w]

Paid in full. How hard is that

[@savage_skirt5386]

Rosamund should have blown up after Die Another Day, but somehow hollywood slept on her

[@sauwurabh]

Rohan Joshi brought me here

[@ogameidentity]

What were they talking about with the fluff?

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

Implying that the practice of fluffing whereby a specific person has foreplay or intercourse With a star Of a porn film to get said star hard or at least in the mood to deliver a great Sex scene. Sean suggested Ben was fluffed to hardness and was on the way down in the relevant scene in the film

[@theprettyanxiouskoko6876]

The girls is such a geek but cute as heck...lol

[@mjm5081]

If I'm in a relationship, and I start withholding things that constitute a healthy relationship like honesty, trust, communication, patience, understanding and yes, even sex, I'm not going to be surprised if and when my partner seeks to fill these needs elsewhere...I'm not going to be surprised in the least.

[@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821]

Idealist

[@mjm5081]

@@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821 Realist 😃

[@mjm5081]

@@furiousthehip-hopsommelier2821 Ok, maybe a little of both 😃

[@creightontolliver3547]

Take a shot every time Sean says "interesting"

[@seangalvin3196]

for sure. I love the same things as him, but I find him insufferable.

[@creightontolliver3547]

@@seangalvin3196 I like him but he's very film student-ish. Dude would examine David Fincher's shit for existential themes.

[@haydenwright7526]

Thank you! He bothers me, but he makes good content.

[@gnarpress]

Tom Cruise in the post-80s / pre-couch jump days could have done it. Think eyes wide shut, interview with a vampire, vanilla sky, magnolia, minority report cruise. All psychological sexual or conspiracy type movies. Also mid 2000s Clooney could have too. The American, for example, is very similar to this in some of these themes plus he was ripped and shirtless in it.

[@shivareewaltz]

I agree with the critic on the right. Ben Affleck is playing himself. There is no love lost between Fincher and Affleck, listen to the commentary.

[@MsTriangle]

They did an interview during the pandemiczne, they respect each other, at least Affleck is

[@myfilms999]

Fincher was joking on the commentary

[@SS-oi2dd]

I have such a different perspective on why Nick was so attracted to Amy based on some personal experience - I dated a trust fund girl from a broken home with a lower-level royal title and Narcissistic Personality Disorder via swiping some Tinder in badlands between Boston and NY. She hinted at stories in her past that I filled in the details with Scoot McNairy's character and soon to be Desi. I might have even been one of her multiple Desis (what is the plural of Desi?) the way she would go hot and cold with me sometimes. She was always the most charming person in any room, showed some strategic vulnerabilities and was so good in bed. Like Nick, I felt like she made me better and knew that no matter what, no one else out there was going to be as interesting. And Boredom is a slow death. I don't feel like there was a lot of experience with dating crazy on the panel - my only criticism of this episode is that Bill, Shea, Mallory and Sean appear to be in healthy relationships.

[@ginao6810]

I think that’s part of the books brilliance. The set up is all recognisable. I know 30+ Nick Dunnes. I know stale relationships. I know people like the one you dated, (maybe not that elite, but certified beautiful trust-fund babies from dysfunctional homes). I know the stress of job loss and stick parents. I know women in Amy’s position (before the mystery takes off). Everything up until the disappearance is perfectly captured from reality. Do you know happened to the girl you dated in the part four years? Married? Kids?

[@brotherdandy]

Originally Jon Hamm was the lead. Matt Wiener prevented him form taking the role.

[@sinogarcon]

Jon Hamm certainly made it known that he was in the run, but I don't think he was ever in the run. The book and script's author actually wrote it with inspiration from Ben Affleck and his life (she mentioned in one of the interviews). They wanted him from the very start. They then went to him and he just quickly locked in.

[@mrgabgutierrez]

i dont think The Ringer can allow employees to wear tight shirts on a video cast any longer