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Posted by: J▲hq 20th April 2016, 10:36 PM

Based on the best-selling novel from last year that I've read about a third of and need to get around to finishing

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 20th April 2016, 10:40 PM

So excited for this! Have been getting round to reading the book for ages so really need to hurry up with that, maybe I'll read it in the summer

Posted by: Jack 20th April 2016, 10:41 PM

This looks amazing! I love Emily Blunt and it looks very 'Gone Girl'/'Dark Places'. I will try to give the book a go before the movie comes out too.

The one book that I really hope gets a film adaptation though is 'The Kind Worth Killing'.

Posted by: Froot. 20th April 2016, 10:58 PM

The book is incredible and I'm very excited to see how they portray it in the film. I haven't read many books over the past few years so it'll be exciting to experience that feeling again!

Posted by: Alejandjob 20th April 2016, 11:05 PM

Emily is amazing but I just can't see her as Rachel at all.

Posted by: Jonjo 20th April 2016, 11:10 PM

That trailer is astonishing. So tense and gripping!! Really excited for this! Emily Blunt coming for that Academy Award?? *.*

Posted by: Alejandjob 20th April 2016, 11:14 PM

She should have won one for The Devil Wears Prada tbh.

''I'm sorry, do you have some prior commitment? some hideous skirt convention you have to go to?''

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 20th April 2016, 11:17 PM

Agreed, still can't believe Emily Blunt didn't even receive a nomination for Devil Wears Prada

Posted by: notfurlong 20th April 2016, 11:31 PM

I enjoyed the book but it was quite... trashy isn't quite the right word, but unsubtle. It definitely doesn't seem like Oscar material, just the makings of a solid thriller. Much as I agree Emily Blunt should have at least one Oscar nomination by now!

Posted by: Chez Wombat 20th April 2016, 11:47 PM

The book was excellent and Emily Blunt seems a great fit for Rachel. I'm looking forward to see how they transition it to the big screen, though I do hope it doesn't turn out like Before I Go to Sleep, where it worked brilliantly as a book, but not so much on screen (and performances -_)

Posted by: Joe. 21st September 2016, 10:14 AM

I thought there was already a thread for this.



Merge if there is.

Posted by: Jonjo 21st September 2016, 11:56 AM

There definitely is somewhere

I wonder if the topics been made invisible, by accident?

Posted by: J▲hq 21st September 2016, 12:01 PM

QUOTE(Joe. @ Sep 21 2016, 11:14 AM)

Posted by: Joe. 21st September 2016, 12:44 PM

I did a google search for it and everything. How odd.

Anyway I saw this last night. It was great, entertaining, quite tense but a little predictable. The performances are all outstanding - Emily Blunt and Haley Bennett especially, with Rebecca Ferguson being pretty good too.

Posted by: Jack 21st September 2016, 02:40 PM

I can't remember the last time I saw a trailer so much for a movie, I might even have the dialogue memorised at this point. I am looking forward to it though, exactly my kind of film.

Posted by: jark 21st September 2016, 03:44 PM

I hope I love this but I feel it looks a bit... sterile? Just a little formulaic and lacking any particular visual style. If Fincher had made this movie it would be almost certainly be exactly my type of thing.

Still hoping to be proved wrong.

Posted by: Jonjo 6th October 2016, 12:44 AM

It's good. Slow and slightly predictable and generic, but it was good. Not great though. Fantastic performances, but there wasn't anything particularly unique about it and it felt a little too slow at times. Worth a watch though, definitely.

Posted by: Addy K!ng 6th October 2016, 01:12 AM

I didn't like the book tbh but trailer looks amazing.

Posted by: HausofTravis 6th October 2016, 05:20 AM

Watched it last night having had no idea about the book or anything and it pleasantly surprised me. Don't think it lived up to my expectations from the trailer but there were some brilliant moments and I was second guessing myself throughout so it kept me on my toes!

Posted by: jase. 7th October 2016, 11:04 PM

LOVED the book so I'm hoping this comes close to matching it in terms of quality!

Posted by: Addy K!ng 10th October 2016, 06:06 AM

omg just saw this and loved it...definitely better than what I remember from the book.

I went to see this with no high expectations (after I saw last week Ms. Peregrine and got slightly disappointed) but I actually enjoyed it and the story line was unfolded very well.

Posted by: J▲hq 12th October 2016, 12:20 AM

At first I thought it might get confusing with the time jumps/flashbacks and various points of view but it actually ended up being easy enough to follow. In a way glad that I hadn't read the book in full because there were still surprises to be had, didn't know how it was going to end and I think that helped my enjoyment.

Emily Blunt surpassed my expectations, she played unhinged brilliantly and an Oscar nod would be very well deserved. Shame that the race will be too crowded with Natalie, Emma Stone, Amy Adams x2, Viola, Ruth Negga etc

Posted by: Frank! 13th October 2016, 12:25 PM

Watched this last night and I quite liked it.
Loved how it started, with the three monologues by the three women, I think they could have done more with that throughout though.
The suspense wasn't built up as I had hoped, I didn't really feel the tension. Loved the unveiling at the end, I thought it was done quite well.
Emily Blunt was excellent in this, with a role that could easily become boring/monotonous in the hands of the wrong actor.

Posted by: Josh. 16th October 2016, 08:33 PM

After seeing this I'm really gutted that Emily Blunt is pretty much completely out of the running for an Oscar nomination, she's a fantastic actress and long overdue at least a nomination so it's frustrating to see this probably will be her best chance in a while and will likely miss out. I loved the book anyway and the film delivered without skipping any of my favourite parts so I enjoyed it very much, perhaps a bit slow starting for the casual movie-goer but I knew all the characters/story beforehand so I was just loving seeing it brought to life visually. Just like the built, I love the climax and how all the clues unfold into such an epic finale, even knowing the outcome from the book, the twist still comes as a shock. I haven't seen Gone Girl still so I can't compare but I'm a bit gutted how mixed/slightly negative the reviews are for this as I enjoyed it so much. The acting was great too from all three lead women, it's really weird how much Haley Bennett looks like Jennifer Lawrence though?!?