A mesmerizing, bewildering and infuriating protagonist makes this movie about Facebook's creation a must-see.
It’s the finest film in many years to open the New York Film Festival.
Continues Fincher's fascinating transition from genre filmmaker extraordinaire to indelible chronicler of our times.
On a first viewing, it seems almost indecently smart, funny and sexy. The second time around... half the time I sat there marveling at the similarities of the story, themes and structure to Citizen Kane.
The Social Network is the movie of the year. If Coppola were into computers, this would be The Godfather.
As socially significant to this generation as films like Network, All The President's Men and The Graduate were in their own time.
I generally love Fincher but can we stop putting Justin Timberlake in movies please.wtf? why?
Facebook has gone to the park
I am trying to get on facebook right now and i'm fucking panicking because i can't get on fucking facebook!!!!!!.
Keep on trying Methodis, you'll get there.
I want to see it but I can't stand Michael Cera
Reviews read like a bunch of Gen Y reviewers slurpin' each others ding dongs over what Gen Y has accomplished
Reviews read like a bunch of Gen Y reviewers slurpin' each others ding dongs over what Gen Y has accomplished
I'm Gen X I tells ya, GEN X!!!(Still can't deal with not being a part of gen x after being told how cool they were)you're really far off from gen x. not even close. most people on this board aren't Gen X. And they're just as dumb and selfish and Gen Y IMO.
and what i'm saying is that you can't do that. you can't even try to pretend. you're too far off! you might as well wish to be a baby boomer. you're a young fish, in and old, old pond. generation x sucks anyways. they're responsible for most of the shitty shit from the 90's
Dude in all seriousness I know I'm fucking Gen Y, can't I even post anything remotely inaccurate for shits and giggles?i was just being a dick, dude. y u mad tho?
i think it's just been an increasingly downhill roller coaster ride after WW2 and everyone riding the coattails of America's real glory days while our society as a whole just gets worse and worse while thinking they're better and better.and what i'm saying is that you can't do that. you can't even try to pretend. you're too far off! you might as well wish to be a baby boomer. you're a young fish, in and old, old pond. generation x sucks anyways. they're responsible for most of the shitty shit from the 90's
Baby boomers are the worst gen. The "hey look at us, we didn't do anything in the 60's but we're going to take all the credit anyways" generation. No wonder Gen X and Gen Y are so stuck up.
What glory days? The 50's?I'm just speaking specifically about our glorified WW2 days. Kicking ass and taking names and the way it's symbolized in history.
What glory days? The 50's?I'm just speaking specifically about our glorified WW2 days. Kicking ass and taking names and the way it's symbolized in history.
FUCKING SHIT THREAD DERAIL LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER
Why would you want to be part of a different generation? I wouldn't want to be a Boomer like my parents.
there was some outrage over the movie featuring crazy parties with coke and martinis and hot women which obviously never happened.
And it'll be pretty good but I won't really dig it cause it's a biopic and Aaron Sorkin makes all the characters talk in the same, overwritten way.
smh, boogie baby boomers fucked up everything
I don't even wanna know what this thread is about.
"I'm really a nice guy! Honest! Look at this giant check that I'm donating to send orphaned kittens to college!"that's really nice of you.
"I'm really a nice guy! Honest! Look at this giant check that I'm donating to send orphaned kittens to college!"u mad?
"I'm really a nice guy! Honest! Look at this giant check that I'm donating to send orphaned kittens to college!"u mad?
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It’s really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness. That’s why it evades Zuckerberg’s background timidity and the mess that the Internet has made of cultural discourse. In interviews, Sorkin brags about the multiple narrative and Fincher has even invoked Citizen Kane—both are grandstanding excuses for Zuckerberg’s repeated masturbatory request for friendship—a mawkish George Clooney ending. Here’s the truth: Kane was not about a brat’s betrayal, but about a sensitive braggart’s psychological and philosophical shift inward. The Social Network is more like Hollywood’s classic film industry selfromance The Bad and the Beautiful. Yet that Kane-lite film never excused its bad-boy protagonist’s sins and ended magnanimously by converging his three injured parties’ points of view into one beautifully clarifying narrative. It admitted our cultural compromises; this is TV-trite. In The Social Network, creepiness is heroized.
Possibly best this year? No effin' way. Not with Inception, Tron, and True Grit.
Armond White negative review (yeah edited because I'm an idiot):
The flick is garbage; worse than Inception and Avatar.
Who says you have to see a movie before you can troll it? The flick is garbage; worse than Inception.QUIT STEALING MY THUNDER
File me under entertained but letdown.
File me under entertained but letdown.
It's no Citizen Kane/Godfather but it is David Finchers best movie of his career and likely the movie he will be most remembered for
I really just am not a fan of the beloved Fight Club. I much rather watch Zodiac.It's no Citizen Kane/Godfather but it is David Finchers best movie of his career and likely the movie he will be most remembered for
There isn't a word to express how wrong you are here, Cheebs.
I really just am not a fan of the beloved Fight Club. I much rather watch Zodiac.It's no Citizen Kane/Godfather but it is David Finchers best movie of his career and likely the movie he will be most remembered for
There isn't a word to express how wrong you are here, Cheebs.
Note I am HUGE Aaron Sorkin fan. I like Sorkin more than Fincher. Sports Night, West Wing, etc. TV Perfection. Although Social Network still isn't my favorite of the year. I suspect Black Swan will end up being my favorite movie this year.
Haven't seen it, as I went to go see The Town last night instead (and fell asleep), but:
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After Zodiac, Se7en is my next favorite Fincher work. Proof that he should make more movies involving serial killers!And guess what his next movie is about. Rooney Mara (from the social network) and Daniel Craig investigating a serial killer!
Note I am HUGE Aaron Sorkin fan. I like Sorkin more than Fincher. Sports Night, West Wing, etc. TV Perfection.
Indeed. I will shit a brick if Dragon Tattoo isn't awesome.Well Fincher won't be able to top this no matter how often he tries, it will remain the best thing he ever directed. Maybe.:
All I'm hearing is that it's well made, but when it cones to accuracy to what made Facebook as big as it is the movie is as accurate as The Net.
Indeed. I will shit a brick if Dragon Tattoo isn't awesome.Well Fincher won't be able to top this no matter how often he tries, it will remain the best thing he ever directed. Maybe.:
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All I'm hearing is that it's well made, but when it cones to accuracy to what made Facebook as big as it is the movie is as accurate as The Net.
You say that like anyone actually gives a shit about its accuracy.
But the most frustrating bit of The Social Network is not its obliviousness to the silliness of modern American law. It is its failure to even mention the real magic behind the Facebook story. In interviews given after making the film, Sorkin boasts about his ignorance of the Internet. That ignorance shows. This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite. Instead, we’re just shown a big explosion ($25 billion in market capitalization—that’s a lot of dynamite!) and expected to grok (the word us geek-wannabes use to show you we know of what we speak) the world of difference this innovation in bombs entails.
What is important in Zuckerberg’s story is not that he’s a boy genius. He plainly is, but many are. It’s not that he’s a socially clumsy (relative to the Harvard elite) boy genius. Every one of them is. And it’s not that he invented an amazing product through hard work and insight that millions love. The history of American entrepreneurism is just that history, told with different technologies at different times and places.
Instead, what’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half-a-billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone. The real story is not the invention. It is the platform that makes the invention sing. Zuckerberg didn’t invent that platform. He was a hacker (a term of praise) who built for it. And as much as Zuckerberg deserves endless respect from every decent soul for his success, the real hero in this story doesn’t even get a credit. It’s something Sorkin doesn’t even notice.
Saw it, liked it. However, compared to Fincher's other films, I'd say this one's his weakest.Below Alien 3, Benjamin Button, and Panic Room, really?
Saw it, liked it. However, compared to Fincher's other films, I'd say this one's his weakest.Below Alien 3, Benjamin Button, and Panic Room, really?
Here save yourselves some money
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I hate the reviews plastered over the posters that say "THE DEFINING MOVIE OF OUR DECADE!" That just smacks of hipsters proclaiming Scott Pilgrim as the defining movie of a generation. Especially with Wall Street playing right next to it.
What affected more people in the last decade? Myspace 2.0 or the economy taking a dump and everyone losing their jobs, homes, etc?
I hate the reviews plastered over the posters that say "THE DEFINING MOVIE OF OUR DECADE!" That just smacks of hipsters proclaiming Scott Pilgrim as the defining movie of a generation. Especially with Wall Street playing right next to it.Are you trying to imply Wall Street 2 is more of a defining generational movie? Really?
Granted, I haven't seen The Social Network, but it speaks volumes about our current culture that Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network are battling it out for title of defining movie of our generation. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel here, folks. :'(
Granted, I haven't seen The Social Network, but it speaks volumes about our current culture that Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network are battling it out for title of defining movie of our generation. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel here, folks. :'(Scott Pilgrim isn't battling it out with Social Network. At all. Scott Pilgrim was a little seen cult internet fanboy based movie. Social Network is a very mainstream successful movie that will be sweeping most of the major awards this year. I am unsure how the best reviewed movie of the year is "scrapping the bottom of the barrel" though. Social Network is a really solid tale of greed, corruption, marketing, and the business world of the 21st century.
I don't even understand how Oliver Stone is one of those directors Manabyte is obsessed with
pulp fiction is the movie of our generation shut the fuck upThat was over 16 years ago.
who gives a fuck
Green Man wasn't even born yet when Pulp Fiction came out. :'(
I was born before Pulp Fiction came out, asshole.
In fact, Pulp Fiction came out two days (October 14th 1994) before my second birthday.
imo music defines a generation more.
The Beatles = self-absorbed, pseudo spirirtual pop = baby boomers
Nirvana = depressed = generation x
Coldplay = emo = gen y.1
Kanye West = stupid = gen y.2
licking your wombs
licking your wombs
Facebook had a huge impact on our generation. That doesn't mean a movie about Facebook will have or has had a similar impact. smh hipsters, I thought you were still busy licking your wombs from Scott Pilgrim :smugHow is Social Network about Facebook again? Or a hipster movie? Scott Pilgrim was hipster. I find it odd we somehow have a Sorkin & Fincher movie being called hipster. Those are two older straight laced holllywood types (though sorkin loves him some cocaine). Not hipster at all.
everyone knows the defining film of our generation is The Dark Knight
i just pooted reading that post by cheebswhile the topic is on moi I must ask why do you have pd's old name he used for a while (and still does on facebook)
Watch The Wire.
I haven't had cable in years. Internet>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*Your parents are still punishing your brother? Hasn't 4 years been enough?
I'd slit my wrists if I didn't have cable and dvr. I would give up most anything before I give up cable. I'd go without food.Jesus Christ, dude.
I haven't had a tv that gets channels in over 6 years, losers
:rofl Cheebs :rofl
I'd slit my wrists if I didn't have cable and dvr. I would give up most anything before I give up cable. I'd go without food.makes sense
Also I'm convinced that most reviewers thought the movie was merely OK, but they risked seeming out of touch with the "zeitgeist" the film represented, so they heaped praise on it. Nobody will remember the film in two years.
I love how this is supposed to be the thread about The Social Network and it turned into Genghis and Patel waving their hipster dicks.so..you're saying it turned out better?spoiler (click to show/hide)dicks :drool[close]
Also I'm convinced that most reviewers thought the movie was merely OK, but they risked seeming out of touch with the "zeitgeist" the film represented, so they heaped praise on it. Nobody will remember the film in two years.
when people who don't understand Facebook review a movie made by people who don't understand Facebook, there's only one possible conclusion: THIS! IS! FACEBOOK!
It kinda is bro
It's no Citizen Kane/Godfather but it is David Finchers best movie of his career and likely the movie he will be most remembered for (especially if it sweeps the oscars and I am betting it will). And I was iffy going in. It lives up to the reviews mostly. Although I am someone who thinks Fight Club is really overrated so what do I know. I'd say this, zodiac, and seven are my favorite fincher movies.
Who says you have to see a movie before you can troll it? The flick is garbage; worse than Inception.
Who the fuck add teachers to facebook?