Escape to the Movies: The Social Network

[XShrike]

Are people actually upset that Timberlake is doing well as an actor? What small pathetic people they must be. So what if he was in the Backstreet Boys, or was it the other one, what does it matter?

 

[Blind Sight]

Someone who's also called his customers 'dumb fucks' because he openly shared their private information with friends of his who asked. Someone who has stated that he doesn't believe in privacy, yet refuses to publish his own private revenues due to hypocrisy. And don't give me crap about hating someone because they're rich. It doesn't factor in, what factors in is the way he treats his customer base. If it weren't for the fact that the majority of Facebook employees are rebellious little pro-privacy nuts, Zuckerberg would be selling information left and right.

And you wouldn't if you had that kind of power?

No I would not, why? Because I respect privacy, I understand the need for it, and I feel it's a good businessman's moral obligation to respect their customer base. I work in statistics, I usually have to go out and talk to people about touchy political subjects. I always read them my statement of privacy first (technically I have to when doing academic work) and have never used personal information for anything but analyzing social and political norms, and even then all subjects are anonymous. I respect my own privacy far too much to try and interfere with others'. That's why I'm not a hypocrite, and Zuckerberg is.

People say that power and money corrupts, but in reality it's the person who corrupts power and money.

 

[Impluse_101]

Bleh, hate facebook, not gonna watch the movie.

But still, thanks for the review.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Well, this is definatly a suprise. When this came up as an advert when i went to see Inception i just groaned in anger. Perhaps it will actually be entertaining...

 

[APSunder]

Hey Bob, liked the review as always and think you're spot on. Are you planning to do a review of the film festival this year?

 

[Furious Styles]

Can't wait to watch it, I've been rooting for Andrew Garfield since Boy A and virtually everyone else involved I like too (even Timberlake, his music sucks but he's a funny guy).

 

[Arkvoodle]

Why are VR Troopers in "Escape to the Movies?"

 

[04whim]

So, what I'm kinda getting here is a sobered up movie version of Death Note... a bunch of really smart people trying to screw each other over through writing with over dramatic camera angles (minus the whole write a name people die shinigami's like apples etc.)

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

The lesson of this Movie? The drive to belong becomes an obsession, an obsession tinged with anger.

The unnerving thing for me, and I suspect a lot of introverted nerds, is just how much I identified with Zuckerberg...right up until a certain scene I will not ruin.

Damn good movie, couldn't agree with MovieBob more.

 

[Bosnique]

Still not interested anyway I was hoping for let me in review, maybe next week?

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

I don't have to accept Timberlake as anything.
Also I still refuse to see this movie, mostly because I hate Facebook and don't want to have anything to do with it.

That's a little childish, no one from facebook is even remotely involved in this movie. It has about as much financial links to facebook as Zodic or Seven do. That's like saying you will never see the godfather becuase you dissaprove of the Mafia.

Sorry, I'm with Canadamus on this. Whether or not it has anything to do with Bookface or not, it's still promoting it as something that's great.
I like Ridley Scott. I don't like his Apple commercial - for exactly the same reasons.

This isn't a movie about Faceache, as Bob said, but it's a movie that promotes ideas embedded into it that are a social toxin - and is itself as much a social toxin as those god-awful Meet The Spartans.

It's about taking Nerds and making them Jocks - at its base. Letting the Jocks know what that Nerds are just Jocks with Social problems and Mental Muscles.

That's bullcrap; and I'm surprised that Bob supports this film. Perhaps there just have been too few good ones around recently.

This, as a film, is like Mazes & Monsters. It ignores what's actually happening to spoonfeed the idea to the audience that "These guys aren't so bad". I'd be surprised if their cute puppy dog wasn't called Zynga.

Sorry, apathy is always easier to show, and that means I won't be seeing this. You can quote me as "Oh you're so..." but, imho, this film is just showing sexualised fiction as history - and I don't go in for all that.

I would say give the movie a shot because your problems with the film have nothing to with the actual film.
1. There's almost no sex.
2. There are no real jocks.
3. This movie doesn't glorify anyone involved in founding facebook.
4. The movie doesn't try to make you like Zuckerberg, you'll either hate him or think he's a sad bastard.

 

[standokan]

I'm not really eager to see this but thats just because i still have inception and scott pilgrim on my movie list.

 

[chaosblade22]

So, anyone else think that this and The Town are going to be dominating the Oscars next year?

 

[Kingsman]

I'm not going to see it, partly from me not being part of (or caring about) Facebook, and partly from me being insanely jealous that two people at my age have more money than I'll ever see, let alone have, for getting rich off of people's ability to gab.

 

[Gizen]

Probably because they're trying to reconnect the Marvel movies together, given that X-men, Spiderman, and a whole lot more would have some major problems interacting with each other when they finally combine them in the Avengers movie (think about this: How many of those movies were set in New York? How did all those heroes not interact with each other during the major incidents that occured in each movie (Magneto's giant mutation device, the mini sun Doc Ock made, etc.)?

No, that's not it at all. So long as the film rights to Spider Man belong to Sony, Marvel can not get Spider Man and the Avengers into the same universe. The reboot will in no way help with this. The reason they're rebooting it is because Sam Raimi and Sony had vast disagreements over what to do with the film franchise, and rather than try to work out some kind of agreement, Sony decided 'fuck it, just fire the whole lot of them and we'll replace them all', and it's easier to replace everyone if they reboot it.

 

[ImpostorZim]

Funny thing about this movie is, I was gonna watch it regardless of what Bob thought of it. MovieBob liking it is just a bonus.

 

[HotFezz8]

once again movie bob flips his shit over some artsy film i guarentee 99% of the population will fall asleep during.

i get that he has to watch 10 or so movies a week, and i would really enjoy movies that seem to be deeper as well if i were him, but for fuck sake. this sort of thinking got the expendables hammered. oddly enough this sort of thinking got pirahannas called "best action film of 2010", so go figure.

my point is movie bob seems to be setting off fireworks over his hard on for this film, whilst all i can see is a boring slow dull film filled with tedious uninteresting dialougue which will only interest those who either care about where facebook came from or who have had to watch 10 copies of the losers this week.

movie bob initially i agreed with almost every word out of your mouth, but your getting too extreme. please take a bit of a break, so that the next time you watch something like the the expendables or (yes yes i know this will earn me stick) twilight or harry potter you can at least pull far enough back to work out why it is so popular.

 

[Giest4life]

Of the movie alone isn't the reason to see the movie, the soundtrack surely is: the cover of "Creep" by Scala & Kolacny Brothers is absolutely spine chilling.

 

[wonkify]

Even knowing this is a well executed movie it still creates all the excitement of a mayonnaise sandwich for me. The whole megillah just leaves me cold. If it pops up on HBO someday I will likely watch it, if there isn't anything else marginally interesting happening. I'll probably agree with Bob when I do see it, but I just won't move one inch out of my way to do so.

I'm finding more movies than ever striking me this way the last couple of years. Think I'm burning out on H-wood and have moved more and more of my interest to books and gaming instead.