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The Social Network
(directed by David Fincher, 2010)
I don't think The Social Network deserves the Best Picture award at The Oscars this year.
It only really grabbed my attention at the very end of the movie. The rest of the time was really boring. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, seems like one of the biggest douchebags ever. Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the movie, was annoying, obnoxious and talks way too fast. I could not stand his John Moshitta Jr. (the fast talker from old 1980's commercials) performance. What a terrible choice for the lead actor. Justin Timberlake did a much better job as Sean Parker, the founder of Napster.
I just don't like business movies. I don't like business movies and I don't like court dramas (though, this isn't really a court drama) -- I don't like technical stuff. This was too technical. The movie revolves around Mark Zuckerberg's ability to piss people off -- in particular, his friend and co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield.) Mark makes people unhappy. He makes girls miserable. He loses friends. Yet he gains and gains and gains.
But that's not the problem of the movie. One of the most firey scenes of The Social Network occurs about 90 minutes after it's began -- Eduardo's girlfriend bursts into his apartment while he's asleep, angry that he didn't respond to her 45 text messages, and confused by his Facebook relationship status saying... "single."
Now that's a Facebook movie. Psychos that get enraged over their boyfriends still saying they're "single" on Facebook. She immediately sets fire to his trashcan.
What this movie is:
- Legal problems (way too much of it)
- Girl problems (the nerds are, of course, obsessed with scoring girls)
- Friendship problems (but nothing really exciting until the end of the film)
- Party scenes/alcohol/drugs/loud music
There is a scene in it that I found really, really annoying -- Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker are talking at a club and you can barely hear what they say because the loud music is drowning them out. They made it that realistic. It was hard to hear what they said. It was intentionally very low. Sorry - I didn't care for the artistic touch. Unless it was just my TV with a problem?
The Social Network was just not my cup of tea. It really doesn't deserve Best Picture. This is not David Fincher's best movie. Fight Club (which this movie seems most like, in some odd little way), Zodiac, Benjamin Button, Panic Room, Alien 3, Se7en -- all more engaging than this. This is a chic little movie that's scoring a lot of attention for being about Facebook. Maybe years from now I could appreciate it more, but not today.
(directed by David Fincher, 2010)
I don't think The Social Network deserves the Best Picture award at The Oscars this year.
It only really grabbed my attention at the very end of the movie. The rest of the time was really boring. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, seems like one of the biggest douchebags ever. Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the movie, was annoying, obnoxious and talks way too fast. I could not stand his John Moshitta Jr. (the fast talker from old 1980's commercials) performance. What a terrible choice for the lead actor. Justin Timberlake did a much better job as Sean Parker, the founder of Napster.
I just don't like business movies. I don't like business movies and I don't like court dramas (though, this isn't really a court drama) -- I don't like technical stuff. This was too technical. The movie revolves around Mark Zuckerberg's ability to piss people off -- in particular, his friend and co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield.) Mark makes people unhappy. He makes girls miserable. He loses friends. Yet he gains and gains and gains.
But that's not the problem of the movie. One of the most firey scenes of The Social Network occurs about 90 minutes after it's began -- Eduardo's girlfriend bursts into his apartment while he's asleep, angry that he didn't respond to her 45 text messages, and confused by his Facebook relationship status saying... "single."
Now that's a Facebook movie. Psychos that get enraged over their boyfriends still saying they're "single" on Facebook. She immediately sets fire to his trashcan.
What this movie is:
- Legal problems (way too much of it)
- Girl problems (the nerds are, of course, obsessed with scoring girls)
- Friendship problems (but nothing really exciting until the end of the film)
- Party scenes/alcohol/drugs/loud music
There is a scene in it that I found really, really annoying -- Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker are talking at a club and you can barely hear what they say because the loud music is drowning them out. They made it that realistic. It was hard to hear what they said. It was intentionally very low. Sorry - I didn't care for the artistic touch. Unless it was just my TV with a problem?
The Social Network was just not my cup of tea. It really doesn't deserve Best Picture. This is not David Fincher's best movie. Fight Club (which this movie seems most like, in some odd little way), Zodiac, Benjamin Button, Panic Room, Alien 3, Se7en -- all more engaging than this. This is a chic little movie that's scoring a lot of attention for being about Facebook. Maybe years from now I could appreciate it more, but not today.