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    The Social Network

    http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...0,214,314_.jpg

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/


    "A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. "

    Saw this movie tonight and thought it was amazingly entertaining and was surprised there wasn't already a thread for it. Anyone else see it? Thoughts?

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    Best picture winner. Great movie.

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    Armond White gave it a negative review so it must be pretty terrible

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    I'm torn between how awesome this movie looks and my intense hatred for Facebook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Komm Suesser Tod View Post
    I'm torn between how awesome this movie looks and my intense hatred for Facebook.
    Well, are you okay with movies about the holocaust and so on?

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    Did you just Godwin a thread about facebook?

    I think you're my new hero.

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    I need to see this.

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    everyone does

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    Quote Originally Posted by Komm Suesser Tod View Post
    I'm torn between how awesome this movie looks and my intense hatred for Facebook.
    Then you would be someone that would probably like it even more. It's not a documentary about facebook, and doesn't even show a clip of facebook until the last five minutes of the entire movie. (This isn't a spoiler, it's been posted everywhere). The movie is more about the CREATOR of Facebook rather than the actual site, and how he came about making it. It's really good and is a fantastic movie regardless of whether or not you hate the product it's about.

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    I saw it this morning. As a movie, it's really good. There are a number of funny parts in which the entire theater was laughing. For as much that happens, I would say that they did a good job of 'portraying' (POV, everybody lies etc) the foundation of facebook in a 2hr span.

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    When I first heard about this, I thought it would be incredibly stupid. Then I noticed everyone's started saying it's really good. And now Armond White gave it a bad review. That does it, I need to go see this.

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    One thing I noticed in some negative reviews is that people say in the movie they make Facebook a bigger deal than it is. Like it was the first site of its kind or that it took over the internet. That kind of stuff is always cringe worthy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Riposte View Post
    One thing I noticed in some negative reviews is that people say in the movie they make Facebook a bigger deal than it is. Like it was the first site of its kind or that it took over the internet. That kind of stuff is always cringe worthy.
    That's what I was getting at with my hatred of facebook comment, seemed like it was praising it as some sort of revolutionary thing that just changed everything about the internet, where as I think it is one of the worst things ever.

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    There's no denying that Facebook has changed the internet and how most people use it. You can 'hate facebook' all you want, it doesn't make it less true.

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    and as stated, the movie really doesn't advertise facebook as the best most important thing ever, it's more of a zuckerberg story, not facebook.

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    The actual impact of Facebook is not so important. It is the idea that they turn the story into something different. Facebook wasn't original and so its creator(or whoever he stole from or something) wasn't a genius or even sly for making it. Moreover there were several social networks before it and Facebook was only marginally better/accessible(?). I suppose none of this matters if you look at it as a 95% fictional story. If it doesn't do this the movie becomes even better. Hard to take that part seriously otherwise.

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    The actual impact of Facebook isn't important?

    I think its pretty significant since it pretty much overtook every single social networking platform out there.

    But yes, the movie was very good, (really hard to say this, but I enjoyed inception more)

    The screenplay was amazing (the same guy that wrote the west wing)
    The directing was good and Fincher paced the plot efficiently throughout the movie
    The score was amazing (Trent Reznor)
    The acting was surprisingly good on Eisenburg/Garfields part. Timberlake was a believable douchebag as well

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    Good movie, they did a great job of following most of the public record over the case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ohemgee View Post
    The score was amazing (Trent Reznor)
    Didn't know this, will probably actually see this in theaters now.

    Last movie I went to theaters for was Inception, before that Taken, before that District 9, and before that xmen origins. That should give you some idea of how often I go to the theater. Taken and xmen were just to get an easy bj.

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    Meet the world's youngest billionare..... he could use some more money.

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