#9 - The Social Network (2010)

Hello all!

I am going to be "liveblogging" this movie, though it's not officially live, since I'm posting it all after.  But if this movie is going to be the transcendent experience it has been for, well, everyone else, I want to get all my thoughts and feelings down as they happen.

Opening scene: The future Lisbeth Salander and Mark Zuckerberg, I mean, Jesse Eisenberg (who was one of the only good things in the entirety of the movie... something Man? I already forgot the title.  I'll come back to it.  It was terrible, after all.) are talking very rapidly (I love it).

I continue to be impressed with the speed Zuckerberg's life goes at; the dialogue, the ease with using computers, and the synthesis of these two items.  Of course, he is a horrible person.  What with the blogging about his ex-girlfriend's breast size and creating his own version of "Hot or Not" with the pictures of


OMG.  That's the "meathead" who got his playbook stolen from season 3 of Veronica Mars! He's the twins, who apparently is two different actors with the "meathead's" face CGI'ed onto the other. Hott. Anyways...

(continued from above) girls from Harvard being "pitted" against one another.

Okay, I just picked up on the major framing device: lawsuits.  Seems an easy enough starting point.

Despite his resemblance to Andy Murray, a tennis player I really despise, I love Andrew Garfield and look forward to continuing watching "Red Riding".

I am being constantly reminded that Facebook was originally established for college students to hang out online with other college students, way back in the day.  I'm sure Zuckerberg is thrilled at the teeming masses of 13-year-olds posting pictures of themselves shirtless via a cell phone and a mirror.

"If you were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook."

:D

Jesse Eisenberg has little skinny chicken legs.  Oh, and he's running through the snow in shorts.  I say pneumonia gets him sometime.  Not Eisenberg.  Zuckerberg.  Berg.  Berg.  Berg.

LOL @ Cats that look like Hitler.

Love the witticisms.  Also, Zuckerberg is such an egoist.  A Mark Zuckerberg Production = A Spike Lee Joint?

A Bill Gates cameo? Awesome!

The part of the movie that I'm most/least interested in is the eventual fallout between Mark and Eduardo.

I'm actually trying to remember if I've actually seen Justin Timberlake act before.  I'm not one of those people who refuse to believe he can be a talented actor because he used to sing for *NSYNC.  I'm pleased to know that I'm not wrong.  (I hate being wrong.)  He's quite good.

So that's how it dropped the "The". Huh.

Okay, so I know that I've got like an hour left of the movie, but it's my favorite one of the year so far.  Except for maybe Toy Story 3.

Matt and Mike and I just busted up at the sum of 19,000.  I won't ruin the fun here.

And here's the switch: Parker in, Saverin, out?

I really find the way that everyone is sitting at the table during the deposition/legal scenes fascinating.  There is always an interesting setup, chairs leaned back, facing the side, facing the window, facing each other, leaned in.  I really enjoy just looking on these scenes.

From my perspective, hard not to feel bad for Eduardo.  Or maybe it's just enhanced because it's Andrew Garfield.  Not sure, but it doesn't matter.

And along those lines, I do not feel bad for Sean Parker.  Again, this might be because of the last point.

---Movie over---

Okay, it's phenomenal.  I have heard several people say that all this hype for this movie is just too much; that its premise will root it firmly in 2010 as a seminal movie of our generation, but that it will become trite and will never be a classic.  And while I can understand the idea behind those thoughts, I cannot support them.  A movie like this may not be shown in 2050, but it's the kind of near-perfect film that will hold up.  It will be a classic, unless you desperately want it not to be, in which case, you're wrong and you need to give it up.

Congratulations on your Oscar, Mr. Fincher

Score: 10/10

Would-be Deserved Oscar Nominations:

Best Picture, Best Director (Fincher), Best Actor (Eisenberg), Best Supporting Actor (Garfield), Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay