What's so great about The Social Network (2010)?
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Considering the posts have a white backround.
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You probably won't ever hear the phrase "Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake," but the fact that I felt compelled to write this sentence at all is stunning enough.
Props to JT for pushing through the haters.
Actually that's a pretty good write-up. Aside from the HORRIBLE H8R PREDICTION. Agreed that the dialogue is pretty central.
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Props to JT for pushing through the haters.
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I like Timberlake as an actor and it makes me feel like a teeny bopper. He was hood in Alpha Dog as well.
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Yeah, dude really needed a win. Before Trolls he was just handsome, talented, rich, and married to Jessica Biel.
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I loved The Social Network, as a matter of fact, I would call it a sure-fire favorite of mine. I never had much thought about how truthful the film was, but, instead, I loved the story it told.
This seems like a loaded question, since it implies that people should only make movies if the "real story" is compelling, even if they plan to take creative liberties to make it moreso.
But to answer it anyway: the fact that one of the largest and most influential companies in history was potentially founded on stolen ideas and backstabbing, of course. I really don't understand the argument that this was some boring situation without the personalized creative liberties. There's tons of drama here inherent to the situation: money, power, legacy, and betrayal.
You keep citing the addition of material to the real story as a reason to dislike the story itself, and that doesn't wash. If you want to say you don't like people making things up about real people for narrative purposes, that's fine. If you want to say you weren't interested in the things they made up, that's also fine (though I'd totally disagree). But it doesn't make any sense to frame this as a critique of the story itself if, when elaborating on that critique, you pretty much only refer to the fact that material was added. "People shouldn't take creative liberties with real stories" is cultural criticism, not film criticism.
But to answer it anyway: the fact that one of the largest and most influential companies in history was potentially founded on stolen ideas and backstabbing, of course. I really don't understand the argument that this was some boring situation without the personalized creative liberties. There's tons of drama here inherent to the situation: money, power, legacy, and betrayal.
You keep citing the addition of material to the real story as a reason to dislike the story itself, and that doesn't wash. If you want to say you don't like people making things up about real people for narrative purposes, that's fine. If you want to say you weren't interested in the things they made up, that's also fine (though I'd totally disagree). But it doesn't make any sense to frame this as a critique of the story itself if, when elaborating on that critique, you pretty much only refer to the fact that material was added. "People shouldn't take creative liberties with real stories" is cultural criticism, not film criticism.
But maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way.
As for Zuckerberg being married to a very hot girl, a lot of times, hot women choose to marry men for the money, so she might not have married him for him, if he wasn't rich, but I guess that's another story.
Yeah, it's a fair point. I really do find it totally reasonable to be uncomfortable with tweaking real people's stories for dramatic effect, and it can definitely go too far (Titanic being the first thing that always comes to mind, for me).
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For some reason I was totally okay with Titanic ironically. I think it's because the movie seems to realize it wants to tell a fictional story with fictional characters in a real disaster. Where as The Social Network, pretends to be real more so, by using the names of the real people and having the subtitled historical recap at the end, if that makes sense?
That makes sense as a distinction, except that I don't get the impression that Titanic realizes that at all, particularly given how much press they did talking about their painstaking, historical recreation of how the ship looked (and other such things). I think it very much presents itself as historically accurate, though I don't wanna hijack the thread away from The Social Network too much. 
Anyway, I'm not actually sure how much of TSN is tweaked. I imagine there's probably still some disagreement about which liberties were liberties. Usually in cases like this more is unprovable than false.
Anyway, I'm not actually sure how much of TSN is tweaked. I imagine there's probably still some disagreement about which liberties were liberties. Usually in cases like this more is unprovable than false.
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As for Zuckerberg being married to a very hot girl, a lot of times, hot women choose to marry men for the money, so she might not have married him for him, if he wasn't rich, but I guess that's another story.
Well dude, you didnt just want to know because as with every one of your threads you just argue back when people respond. You didnt like it 
No biggy but you just like talking over anyone with a different pov.
No biggy but you just like talking over anyone with a different pov.