Escape to the Movies: The Social Network
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watched a boot leg copy.
Not impressed.
Machete is still the best movie to come out this year. Go ahead. Flame me. I dare you. It will feel good. I promise.
Not impressed.
Machete is still the best movie to come out this year. Go ahead. Flame me. I dare you. It will feel good. I promise.
Yeah just because you CAN make a movie out of anything doesn't mean you SHOULD make a movie out of anything. This guys performance in Zombieland was as dry and emotionless as Michael Cera's roles. So I can see why moviebob likes this considering he was all over Scott Pilgrim.
I find myself not being able to care enough about this movie to justify the $10 expense of seeing it. I can appreciate movies that don't have much action and are dialog heavy, but there's no suspense here, nothing to keep a person watching as the entire story is true and we all know how it plays out.
I don't think I can take people acting out what should really be little more than a documentary, although it does make me wish the History Channel would hire actors and directors like these to spice up some of their dryer topics.
I don't think I can take people acting out what should really be little more than a documentary, although it does make me wish the History Channel would hire actors and directors like these to spice up some of their dryer topics.
Booyah!cursedseishi said:Agree to disagree, and that both sides have their valid points?Nautical Honors Society said:Edit: I really don't feel like arguing over the validity of our statements when we both seem to be making somewhat valid points, let's just forget this and be buds
Heh, works for me!
By the way The Social Network was amazing. The script was impeccable and the acting was great. Jesse Eisenburg may even get a nom, who knows? Also, Justin Timberlake is a triple threat...
i like these reviews but i can't handle the way this guys talks. and he seems kinda' like a cocky moron
That's exactly how I feel.deth2munkies said:
I don't doubt it being good, just hold little to no interest in seeing it.
I got more excited out of the rendition of 'Creep' in the first trailer then much anything else.
I wasn't so sure about watching a movie based on Facebook. Sure the concept seemed kinda bland, but as I do use Facebook for games I thought it might in the very least serve as an informative movie. Understand the roots of Facebook, and therein by understanding the basis of the social networking sites in general. Still unsure if I should watch it though.
Saw it. Didnt like it. It gets a big "Meh" rating from me. totally not the or one of the best movies of the year for me, Inception has that down in my book.
Because I'm just a sucker for spiderman. And spider Man 3 was pretty bad. I doubt a new team can do worse than that.Zeeky_Santos said:
Why didn't you mention the inaccuracies of the film? The characters and the real people are completely different/
The film is just a work of fiction. A well told FICTIONAL story. It also has some heavy anti-nerd and anti-geek tones. It is a good film of that there is no doubt. But it is undeniably horrid in the exaggeration department. I saw the film not for the popularity of facebook, but how it portrays free thinking programmers that refuse to be bought off. The film fails to express this on multiple levels. It instead paints portraits that you hear endlessly on the 6:00 news about "evil hackers." The Social Network emulates modern day media perfectly. All opinions and scarce accuracy.
I love movie bob's diction and pacing. Luckily I can also recognize that this does not mean he and I will have the same taste in movies. This movie, is at best, something I will put in my collection because it is an example of good film making. I will not, however, be watching it anytime soon - my distaste for facebook still being somewhat salient.
A lot of these comments are really annoying. Do you have no sense of what art is? It's not any work that fits your biases and prejudices and its quality doesn't decrease because it's "the result of deep-seating reprehensible social values." Art is largely subjective but there is definitely an objective quality to it, and what a large portion of humanity (the part that can watch movies at all anyway) is saying is that this is objectively good. What's worse is that some people are saying, "I hate Zuckerburg and this just makes him a hero so I will never see the movie" and others are saying "I think they intentionally portrayed Zuckerburg in an overly negative light so I will never see the movie." If two people agree but with exact opposite reasonings, their conclusion is likely wrong. As a writer, it's just so annoying when people ignore something good for, well any reason. If there is something you dislike (or think you do, since you haven't actually frickin seen it) about the core values/ideas behind it, that might be even more reason to pay attention. If you really think its a problem, ignoring only lets it get worse, and studying it is the best you can do.
Shorter version: There is no justification, none at all, for ignoring a quality piece of art. Ever. Unless you're in a coma.
Shorter version: There is no justification, none at all, for ignoring a quality piece of art. Ever. Unless you're in a coma.
you know most World War II movies are based on true story's too, and are those boring? NOJaredXE said: