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« on: February 03, 2011, 09:33:43 PM » |
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Somehow I seem to be the only person in America who thinks The Social Network seems wholly uninteresting. I just can't make myself want to watch this one.
I watched it and am stymied by the overall reaction to it. I just couldn't buy movieZuck's motivation (the girl) and the closing scene at all. |
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 05:08:13 AM » |
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I watched it and am stymied by the overall reaction to it. I just couldn't buy movieZuck's motivation (the girl) and the closing scene at all. Huh. She's just about certainly a fabrication, but I didn't think it was completely unbelievable, and played well with the theme of the movie as a whole. The closing scene that had to do with the girl on fb, or what his lawyer tells him at the close of the movie? |
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 12:35:29 PM » |
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Huh. She's just about certainly a fabrication, but I didn't think it was completely unbelievable, and played well with the theme of the movie as a whole.
The closing scene that had to do with the girl on fb, or what his lawyer tells him at the close of the movie?
I didn't buy what the lawyer told him either--well, it was more that I didn't buy that the lawyer would think it and tell him. but mainly the thing that had to do with the girl on facebook. |
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 12:36:38 PM » |
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We should move The Social Network discussion to its own thread. I might watch it at some point soon, and would prefer to avoid spoilage, but I don't want you guys to stop your discussion of it on my account.
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 12:43:54 PM » |
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I'll try to do that...brace yourselves...
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 12:45:14 PM » |
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We should move The Social Network discussion to its own thread. I might watch it at some point soon, and would prefer to avoid spoilage, but I don't want you guys to stop your discussion of it on my account.
SPOILER: some guy creates facebook.  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 12:50:36 PM » |
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(I hope nothing got splinched.)
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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 01:06:06 PM » |
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I don't really get why people are so enthralled by the performances in The Social Network- they're good, but the movie is much more of a showcase for Aaron Sorkin's awesomeness than any actor's movie, as far as I'm concerned. I don't really see why Jesse Eisenberg got an Oscar nomination, but I've given up trying to understand those. Not that he was bad, but as long as you can talk fast enough, you're going to sound good delivering Sorkin dialogue. (Besides being a Sorkin/Fincher fan, I wanted to see it to get a look at Rooney Mara, aka the Hollywood Lisbeth Salander, and I'm cautiously optimistic at the moment.)
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« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 06:04:14 PM » |
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Yeah, I'm more a Sorkin/Fincher fan than a fan of Jesse Eisenberg's, but he was good in the role - expressive in ways that went beyond the words on the page. I thought Andrew Garfield's Eduardo was the strongest performance in the film, though.
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2011, 05:26:39 AM » |
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I thought Andrew Garfield's Eduardo was the strongest performance in the film, though.
I totally agree. I was surprised he didn't get an Oscar nomination too. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2011, 05:28:56 AM » |
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Yeah, I don't think he'd get it over Christian Bale (I think he'll win supp. actor), but he deserved to at least be in the conversation.
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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2011, 02:10:05 PM » |
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I liked this movie, and realized that I shouldn't unfairly judge Aaron Sorkin based on what might be one of his weaker works (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). I think his writing's pretty good so long as there isn't an obvious "author avatar" character. And I accept that some details were outright made up because the real Mark Zuckerberg's life might not have been that interesting to film. It made this an intriguing movie, albeit not a particularly kind one to most of the real live people it portrayed. But I liked that it started with a completely unsympathetic protagonist and made you see his side of it in some ways over the course of the film, without ever outright excusing his actions. Some of the parallels they set up were very well-played (the twins losing the boat race and having that be a metaphor for Zuckerberg beating them to the social networking punch, for example, though the mistake of telling what they had already adequately shown was sort of committed there).
I have friends who decided after seeing this film that they really didn't want to be on Facebook. I think that's missing the point. Would you choose not to drive if you found out Henry Ford was a big jerk, or choose to do everything by candlelight if accounts of Thomas Edison's life rubbed you the wrong way?
We had just watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory before watching this movie, so to us, Zuckerberg's blunt candor and obsession with his project at the expense of his relationships reminded us of Sheldon Cooper, only not funny. I think it was a fairly realistic portrayal of the type of geek who knows how socially awkward he is and honestly doesn't care, and I've known people like this in real life - they're self-aware enough to know they're jerks, but what they don't realize is that being smart doesn't excuse it.
I also like that the ending was ambiguous - you could interpret his constant refreshing of the (imaginary) ex-girlfriend's page as him finally getting it (being the master of the world's largest social network means nothing if you yourself have no social skills), or as him not getting it at all (thinking this accomplishment might finally make her like him).
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