The Social Network MEGATHREAD

Renn · 16-07-2010 9:16am

Probably be as bad as The Game.

Sad Professor · 16-07-2010 4:57pm

Read the script for this last night and it's really good, kept me interested. But as usual with Sorkin, I'm not sure it's really film material. He's more of a playwright than a screenwriter. But I'm not underestimating Fincher, especially after Zodiac, which should have been boring but wasn't.

L'prof · 17-07-2010 2:46pm

Renn wrote: »

Probably be as bad as The Game.

As bad as The Game??? I really enjoyed that movie

Please say I'm not the only one :eek:

Basq · 17-07-2010 4:01pm

FWIW, I really enjoyed 'The Game' too..

MrSir · 17-07-2010 4:30pm

Actually saw The Game for the first time the other day thought it was good myself but a bit ridiculous. Michael Douglas was great in it.

neaideabh · 18-07-2010 10:57pm

Looking forward to this aswell! The soundtrack sounds like it will be class! I reckon that it has to become the biggest grossing film ever due to 500 million people being curious about the history of the internet platform that they use everyday and the proper marketing. It was made on a budget of $45 million which seems to be quite big considering it's not an action/adventure and would not really at all on costly special effects. I'd say a big bulk of that will be used for marketing to complement the huge marketing tool that already exists which is of course facebook!

D-Generate · 18-07-2010 11:52pm

I read the book and I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style of it all. Was waaaaayyyy too fragmented. Fortunately the trailer looks like Fincher knows what he is doing as he always does (Aliens 3 not included).

On a side note, it looks like Mark Zuckerberg will be portrayed as a sympathetic character whereas the book portrays him as ruthless albeit a symptom of his emotional withdrawal.

S.M.B. · 19-07-2010 12:04am

Really? I've heard the exact opposite.

Mickeroo · 19-07-2010 1:23am

Alien 3, while no means a classic, can be considered greatly underrated methinks.

Basq · 19-07-2010 9:22am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Alien 3, while no means a classic, can be considered greatly underrated methinks.

Wholeheartedly agree with you there!

'Alien Resurrection' however..

Handsome Bob · 19-07-2010 9:26am

I actually preferred Alien Resurrection over Alien 3.

I mean c'mon, what a cast! Winona Ryder, Michael Wincott, Ron Perlman and Sigourney Weaver all in the same film! C'mon! :P

Basq · 19-07-2010 9:39am

LZ5by5 wrote: »

I actually preferred Alien Resurrection over Alien 3. I mean c'mon, what a cast! Winona Ryder, Michael Wincott, Ron Perlman and Sigourney Weaver all in the same film! C'mon! :P

Eurgh.. not me!

Don't know what Joss Whedon was on when he wrote that screenplay!

iMax · 19-07-2010 1:54pm

Looking forward to this.

...and as a by-the-by Alien 3 actually stands up to repeat viewing & holds it's own asa standalone movie (just my opinion).

19-07-2010 1:55pm

basquille wrote: »

Eurgh.. not me!

Don't know what Joss Whedon was on when he wrote that screenplay!

The same thing he was on when he wrote some of the dialogue used in X-Men I would imagine.

Renn · 19-07-2010 2:25pm

L'prof wrote: »

As bad as The Game??? I really enjoyed that movie Please say I'm not the only one :eek:

It was all pretty much okay up until that ending.

mikhail · 19-07-2010 5:23pm

basquille wrote: »

Eurgh.. not me!

Don't know what Joss Whedon was on when he wrote that screenplay!

I've read his opinion on it. He was forced to rewrite the ending for budget reasons, and he hated the delivery of nearly every line of dialogue. I keep meaning to read his original script: it's out there if you want to google it.

Rob! · 04-09-2010 7:46pm

Kinda confused/annoyed that Ireland is like one of the only countries which for some reason has no release date for this movie. It looks amazing and early critical reception is looking very positive. Unless anybody knows more than me?

http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.net/international/ has mentioned like every country in the developed world with the exception of ourselves. And ifco.ie wasn't anymore helpful. There's not even any mention of it being released here at all.

Would be very frustrated (*politest term i could think of*) if the movie wasn't released here.

(Prob would have been more appropriately placed in rants.....) :pac:

Hank_Jones · 04-09-2010 9:01pm

Cineworld have it listed for a 15/10 release.

Generally I find that if you are wondering the release date of a fairly big film, just check the UK release date, as 99/100 they are the same.

Basq · 24-09-2010 9:20pm

Superb reviews across-the-board so far... could be some of the best reviews of Fincher's career:

100% (12 reviews) on RottenTomatoes
100% (6 reviews) on Metacritic

Magic Eight Ball · 24-09-2010 11:25pm

basquille wrote: »

Eurgh.. not me!

Don't know what Joss Whedon was on when he wrote that screenplay!

I can't be alone in thinking Whedon is utterly overrated.

mikhail · 25-09-2010 12:27am

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

I can't be alone in thinking Whedon is utterly overrated.

His fans can be a little over the top. His stuff tends to be genre, which just turns a lot of people off. Some people find his dialogue more annoying than witty. It's all subjective. Name a writer widely regarded as good who no one thinks is overrated.

Basq · 25-09-2010 12:29am

mikhail wrote: »

Name a writer widely regarded as good who no one thinks is overrated.

Aaron Sorkin maybe?

kenny1977 · 25-09-2010 12:33am

tell me guys how this work ?

kenny1977 · 25-09-2010 12:34am

just wondering how it works ?

mikhail · 25-09-2010 12:54am

basquille wrote: »

Aaron Sorkin maybe?

Well, Zuckerberg anyway, but he's probably just sore at having his life analysed and dramatised, exposing him for a bit of a douchebag.

Then there's Orrin Konheim, a freelance film critic. He criticises Sports Night as overrated, "The show is written by Aaron Sorkin so every character sounds exactly the same: they are all incredibly intelligent, they can pick up each other's pop culture references and they can finish each other's sentences. It's like the fictional TV sports network was staffed entirely by members of MENSA."

And a google search finds a few disgruntled comments at the end of various articles.

Sorkin's pretty much as close to universally lauded as they come, and there's still people who don't like him, don't like his artificial dialogue, uniform characters or ham-fisted messages. All of those adjectives are based on comments I've read online in the couple of minutes I spend searching. They're not my opinion of the guy.

Apologies to everyone else for going a little off-topic, though the Sorkin angle probably saves it!

aidan_walsh · 25-09-2010 12:58am

kenny1977 wrote: »

just wondering how it works ?

How what works?

S.M.B. · 25-09-2010 1:51pm

Great to see all the early positive reviews. I'm also really enjoying the 5 track OST sampler that's available.

Mindkiller · 25-09-2010 4:05pm

kenny1977 wrote: »

just wondering how it works ?

I don't know, but you're doing it wrong.

DingosAteMyBaby · 03-10-2010 11:29am

I'm really excited to see this. The story behind Facebook is supposed to very interesting, in fact Facebook themselves want nothing to do with the film due to the ruthless portrayal of Zuckerberg. The cast is top notch Jesse Eisenberg has definitely overcome his "poor mans Michael Cera" image. Looking forward to seeing Rooney Mara in action as well:)

Seems to be getting amazing reviews as well with 97% (from 164 reviews) on RottenTomatoes

Handsome Bob · 03-10-2010 11:49am

It has 100% I believe until the most recent reviews. Armond White claimed that Resident Evil was the better film. The bloke's a real life troll.

The Social Network *MEGATHREAD*

Comments

The Social Network MEGATHREAD