Escape to the Movies: The Social Network

[MB202]

It's odd to think that it's finally October now... Next thing you know, it'll be Christmas!

Anyway, heard good things about this movie, wasn't TOO interested, but now I'll probably check it out.

 

[daxterx2005]

guess I'll watch it since Bob seems to have the same taste as me in films.

 

[Weaver]

My favorite part of the movie is that Mark Zuckerberg hates the movie because barely any of it is true or how it happened.

 

[dalek sec]

Nnnnnnope.

While I'm sure it's really well done and everything, I cannot muster the strength to watch a movie like that. Basically because every single character from all the trailers and scenes I've seen is a huge prick and I don't really wanna spend money on that.

Thumbs up for the makers and actors though for making the movie good - if it is. Wasn't easy I'm sure.

I wish I wasn't on facebook, but I am, so there.

This pretty much sum's up my compliants with the movie as well. Everyone just comes across as such a massive prick that I'd want to strangle them. As Lisra said, I'm sure it's well made and all but I just can't watch a movie with some curly haired punk in it.

 

[Aisaku]

I lol'd at the 'Brick wall' comment...

Maybe Andrew Garfield is fed up with movies wants to retire to a modest lifestyle after the big bucks Spiderman will bring?

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

I am confused by all the facebook hate. Sure there are some users that are retarded and just play Farmvill and shit and some people, like me, that use it as a genuinely good tool to talk to friends and organize events (like LAN's and gaming sessions). I don't see anything wrong with that unless you are a hipster douchebag who just hates everything popular.

OT: I didn't want to see this movie until I saw the early reviews of people comparing it to citizen kane which just stunned me and made me curious to see it.

 

[Unesh52]

Actually, I think Timberlake is a quadruple threat:

singer/actor/dancer/butt-pirate

And the last one is probably the most threatening one of all.

OT: The previews got me super excited, but I can't fight off the notion that this film will bore me. I don't completely understand it myself.

 

[Antacid]

OH HOW UNPREDICTABLE. You just don't have the balls Armand White has, do you?

 

[Mana Fiend]

The concept really does sound terrible. Also, interesting to see how good a reception the film's received.

I just can't bare to watch it because of the trailers; seriously, they were filled with such mind-numbingly unnecessary dramatics that I've been turned right off it from the get go.

 

[JackRyan64]

Just got back from seeing this movie with a few friends. I was extremely impressed.

Don't let the fact that this movie is about Facebook dissuade you from seeing it. If anything, I think if you hate Facebook this movie only validates your hatred. If Zuckerberg is half the asshole IRL as he is in this movie, then he makes even Kotick look like Jesus Christ.

 

[RTR]

Didn't FIncher also direct benjamin button?
I really wanted to know what Bob thought about The Town, so thanks.
I get where Bob is coming from with this whole idea of no liking to connect with people through the Internet.

 

[The Great JT]

I really want to hate Justin Timberlake, but I just can't do it. He's a damn good singer, a damn good dancer and a damn good actor.

Also, really? A reboot of the Spider-Man movies? Why? Sure that third movie was kind of a trip-up but it wasn't anything awful and it's certainly not as bad as people make it out to be. Toby MacGuire did good as Peter Parker/Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Sam Raimi did a great job directing, the first two were well written (the third was decently written, but there were some stupid points, most of them involving the shoehorning-in of Venom) and they were, on the hole, very enjoyable action movies. And of course that's nothing to say of the great costume work.

 

[RTR]

I was expecting Let Me In, but still damn good review Bob

 

[MovieBob]

I thought they were rebooting Spidey because of the outcry of Marvel and Spidey fans.

That'd be nice, wouldn't it? But sadly it isn't what happened.

The whole story hasn't come out yet and different parties have different versions, but basically everything fell apart while they were making Part 3. Sam Raimi (the director) wanted Sandman and Vulture to be the bad guys, but Sony and the various producers insisted on putting Venom in the movie instead because the character is more popular. He didn't want to do it (doesn't like Venom, prefers the older "crooks in animal-costumes" enemies) but he ultimately agreed and rebuilt the movie around the Black Suit storyline. That, plus various other disagreements over the movie between the two parties, are why #3 came out like it did. Raimi was publically ticked-off, and didn't participate in the film's DVD commentary (the other producers talk about how pissed he was about being forced to do Venom on the disc) as a result.

After that, everyone assumed he was going to leave the series, but Sony initially won him back with (supposedly) an agreement to let him have more control over #4 so he could do one more his way and end it on a high note... but that didn't happen. The studio started making "behind the scenes" moves, and as that was going the producers started making more demands for "marketable" characters and gimmicks - specifically, they wanted The Black Cat in the movie, they were mad at him again for trying to use Vulture as the main heavy, and they (allegedly) wanted him to shoot it in 3D. There were more, even stranger rumors, but ultimately Raimi walked off the project along with Dunst and Maguire.

Then it got weird: Within about a DAY of Raimi walking away, Sony put out to the press that they'd ALREADY comissioned a finished script for a Twilight-style reboot of the series and were gonna start it up immediately - i.e. they were already putting it together. Of course, no one can "prove" anything, but it looked (and still looks) a lot like they were angling to "move Raimi aside" and start-up the reboot all along. Someday, this will be a heck of a "behind the scenes" book.

But, yeah... nobody at Sony cares about an "outcry," basically

Spiderman is a kid when he was bitten by the spider (if you read comics or watch the TV show). When he fights crime, he does it as a teenager.

True... but he was only actually in High School for the first 28 issues (of about 650 at this point.) After that, they shipped him off to College - during or after which is where the lion's-share of the "big" Spider-Man stories people remember ended up taking place. It's one of those weird "things" where people generally think of the character as a teenager, but for all but the first two years of his existence he's been an adult somewhere between 20 and 30.

 

[TraumaHound]

I'm with Bob in that Timberlake is, indeed, a "triple-threat". We all know he can sing and dance (and, single-handedly responsible for bringing sexy back; at least that's my understanding of how sexy was brought back) but his acting is way better than one would normally expect of the singer/dancer types and, to top it off, his wicked-funny! Catch any of his SNL hosting gigs and he's definitely one of the best who've ever hosted the show; definitely one of the consistently funniest, not afraid to try something absurd for a laugh (the "Omletteville guy", Robin Gibb, a backup dancer for Beyonce...all brilliant!)

I'd figured that I'd see this once it hit video since I do like Eisenberg (and I'd forgotten that JT was in it) but with writing and directing powerhouses behind this (which I wasn't aware of) it would seem it's so much more than about Facebook (which I, like Bob, find I could do without though I do, begrudgingly, have a FB account due to some highschool friends I actually like dragging me in.)

 

[Theflyingass]

Just from the trailer of this movie, it instantly reminded me of Pirates of Silicon Valley.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I was actually planning to see this movie for a long while.

I never really cared that it was about Facebook to begin with.
It kinda like that whole thing about the new Devil May Cry game, except less fanboys -.-

But now I have an idea that it's good, so now I wanna see it even more.
I mean, it's David Fincher, the guy who directed Fight Club, one of my all-time favorite movies, so I pretty much have no choice.

 

[Vortigar]

Bleh, double post, see next page.