Gone Girl Done Gone

After one viewing of David Fincher's Gone Girl, I do not have a lot to add to my previous thoughts about the book. The movie hews very close to the book. Plus there is the problem of my mind filling in details from the book as I watched the movie, which makes it more difficult to compare the two without a second viewing. The report about rewriting the ending was probably true, but the substance of that denouement was unchanged from the book. In fact, I might have liked the book better in that regard, though again the movie zipped by so fast that I need to see it again to know what was missing and added. The one part of the book that I had a big problem with, the one involving the white trash at the lodgings, was cleaned up quite a bit by Fincher. Much of the nonsense from the book was removed, including the fishing sojourn. It still is the weakest point in the movie (hanging out at the swimming pool?), but it did not drag down the film. Surprisingly the scene with Nick at the mall was not in the movie. That mall scenes were the creepiest parts of the book, and I kinda thought Fincher would be all over those, but what did appear was so brief that it did not make much of an impact. Is it possible that this scene was filmed but cut? It is possible that we will see a longer cut on the home video release, though Fincher is not known for making available multiple edits. I do feel that some scenes could have been fleshed out, but I can understand why this type of movie cannot sustain a longer running time. The score is fantastic. Traditionalists will hate it like they did the other Reznor/Ross scores.