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Will You Friend This Poster For David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK??
Harry here... Ya know, the thing that annoys me about this poster - the concept that he can have 5 Million friends, but all of the rest of us can have only a maximum of 5,000 friends on an account. I'd love to approve a few thousand friends that I can't right now because of FACEBOOK's limits.
Merrick here...
I'm a little unclear regarding who unveiled this poster first - Hollywood Reporter says FirstShowing had it, so we'll go ahead and credit them. If this is inaccurate, please set the record straight in the Talkback below.
Sooo...
Over the weekend, FirstShowing had a look at the poster for David Fincher's Facebook-centric THE SOCIAL NETWORK. The film's about the early days of the site - centering on co-creator Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg).
The image originates HERE, and also appears on the movie's official site HERE.
Personally, I really love this poster - it says so much, without going through a lot of trouble to do so.
The Aaron Sorkin scripted picture, built from Ben Mezrich's bookTHE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES (available HERE
), will hit theaters October 1.
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helloo
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Because I'm not sold on this at all.
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about this movie, but that is a fantastic poster.
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is involved with this.This just seems bizarre.Fincher, what the fuck is up chuck?
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That poster genuine, dawg? Also, D Fincher get off your moral high horse and re-cut Alien 3 for us.
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Unlikely to see the film, but I consistently hope that Suckerburg suffers a serious accident and failbook and the other social sites are destroyed. They're a criminal's charter and serve no useful function that didn't already exist.
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really, you had a burning passion to make a facebook movie? alright...
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I guess he cashed in finally.
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I really wouldn't care too much about this movie. A bit of a bland Poster tbh, especially after seeing sexy looking one for 'the American' last week. Still, fincher has yet to fuck up as a director... unless you include Alien3. Although to put it in perspective, look at the shiteness of the Aliev Vs Predator films. At least Alien 3 had menace and atmosphere... and bald Sigourney .
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Cool poster! Nothing like simple text provoking a feeling in the mind's eye.
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But this for me is up there with Ridley Scott's Monopoly movie and a possible Battleship movie as well. Is this really what we're left with?! It's like that scene in Anchorman where Steve Carell is randomly naming objects in Ron Burgundy's office and saying he loves them!
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...the idea that there could be a about Facebook that I would want to watch seem incredibly slim the names Fincher and Sorkin go a long way to convincing me that there is.
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Jun 21, 2010 3:06:09 PM CDT
Fincher must be using this to make a project he wants
by spectrebeeyatch
Like Nolan agreeing to a third Batman if WB would make Inception. Hopefully after making this he can make anything he wants. I personally hope this bombs because I don't want to see a Twitter movie or some stupid bull shit. What I hate is how socially people are claiming facebook and twitter are sociel revolutions... They are simply wastes of time and make people hermits. The people I know who are obsessed with fb are social rejects that when they go out they don't know how to deal with people face to face which is ironic since they love facebook.
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Considering all the extremely talented and intelligent people involved here, I expect that this project really might be worthwhile. Ben Mezrich wrote the brilliant and timely "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions" which is still waiting to be made honorably. (Despite, and probably because of, the horrible derivative job that was done of it by "21," totally erasing any revelance the story might have for an intelligent audience that would look beyound the fact that the entire group was of Asian descent and see the longing expressed in that group of highly intelligent young men and women who found in gambling an avenue to rise above the perception of others and become something of a fantasy of themselves, the fervor and obsession of this, the disillusionment, all ripe for a talented filmmaker to make a picture of substance and intelligence.) There is also the involvement of Sorkin as scriptwriter, the cast, and Fincher's crew, which is always an impressive one. We need to have faith in the fact that these are artists we respect and who might be actually trying to tell a story we NEED to hear, to have the very present near-past portrayed in an ellucidating manner. Maybe we will finally understand why we are sickened by continually hearing about "Facebook" and all the rest of the current generation of digital communications that have revisited the way we perceive the act of interacting with others in the way that Hollywood cults of personality have reshaped the human face itself by their pervasive use of bodily reconstruction, turning what we thought we knew into something seemingly inhuman and quite alien. We all need a healthy examinaion of our culture, to see ourselves as a whole through the eyes of those who see value in the process of self and social examination. The material had to speak to the people involved to get this great group of artists together on a project: for one, Eisenberg's casting sells me.
Seems like Fincher is trying to tell a story about a young man creating something so powerful, and so unexpectingly powerful, that it soon takes over his life. A sort of "unintentional Dr. Frankenstein" story. But Eisenberg is an inspired choice - as one of the great features of his career is his ability to make his youth speak for itself, to use his youthfulness, a mixture of vunerability and the strange sort of potency that blooms despite being overlooked and unexpected - his roles in "Adventureland," "the Squid and the Whale," and "Rules of Attraction" being chiefly among them. Fincher might really be making something wonderful out of this. It also might be a case of an comsumer base being so close to a topic that it can't sense its importance as part of the cultural paradigm that so strongly influences their lives. I mean really, this might be the perfect time for this movie. Look at Stone's "W." or Linklater's "Fast Food Nation" as timely films that were largely overlooked but nevertheless captured something important about the zeitgeist of a nation. (I might even include Greengrass' "United 93" on that list.) While a vastly different experiment apart from the book, "Fast Food Nation" was still able to capture the crisis inherent in being part of a society where moral choices are overlooked in the wake of maintaining a certain type of lifestyle. I did not expect the impact of that movie once I finally got around to seeing it. Kinear really sales it. As I think Eisenberg will be able to with this one - at least I hope so. Personally, I have high hopes for this picture. And for Fincher's development as an artist. -
I meant the picture, "Roger Dodger." Sorry.
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Some dudes make Facebook. Get millions. Where else does the story go?
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Oh, trust me. There's so much more. Essentially, Zuckerberg created the world's biggest "social" media site/service, yet all indications point to him being at the very least borderline Aspergers. The site was originally created to "rate college girls", fact. One of the creators of the site was dramatically screwed out of his cut of the fortune while some say his contribution was more vital than even Zuckerberg's. The list goes on and on. Trust me, there's more to this than "guy creates Facebook, makes millions". Much, much more.
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"It also might be a case of a consumer base being so close to a topic that it can't sense the importance of said topic as part of the cultural paradigm that so strongly influences the population's lives." We abstract the current in such a way that when mirrored, it takes on a quality of being unreal. I believe this to be true.
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Seriously. It's gripping, funny and smart. And the conflict comes from the amount of people Zuckerberg, and then his partners in Facebook, fucked over, even his best friends,in order to create it. It paints him as a really lonely, ruthless, ass. And cuts back and forth between the site's creation, and the various court cases that followed it once it was a success. It's a proper classy affair. And Fincher will have been drawn to it because of that. He'll knock it out the park.
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That way of looking at it is bullshit. No, it's not a "revolution", but they are massive services and are simply tools. Tools most people use either to spam or to friend collect and play goofball games with. But the power of a site like Twitter lies not in its public perception but in its status as the world's first truly real-time search engine. I use it to keep track of areas of interest by following certain people in specific lines of work/industries. Much more in the moment and effective than spending 20 minutes sorting through RSS readers, mish-mash google results and e-mail subscriptions. It's a tool. Not a revolution and CERTAINLY NOT a waste of time when you use it well. Twitter AND I are not responsible for others using the service in time-wasting and whoring ways. (and I mean whoring in a non-sexual context) And Facebook is certainly not a revolution, not by a long shot. But it too can be used as a tool or as a way to kill off the remaining minutes of your life through in-site gaming OBLIGATIONS created by design to keep your eyes on specific ads. It's not what they think it is and it's not what YOU think it is. It's what you USE it for that matters. If you haven't figured that out, just don't use it. Easy. But just because you haven't figured it out doesn't mean it's a time waster. (and I wouldn't use Facebook if they paid me hourly. Do not have an account, never will.. they offer nothing *I* could use worth the cost of my privacy)But this movie is going to be VERY interesting. Especially if they don't hold back on the particulars around the motivations for creating the site in the first place. Rating "chicks".
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Glad to hear it. I knew there had to be something to this project.
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...two hours of a guy sitting in front of a computer typing up code? Or just an endless stream of status updates and "lol, omg soo true" "I feel ya on dat homie" replies?
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Jun 21, 2010 3:42:50 PM CDT
I'm gonna take a big cardboard hand with me
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
And poke the hell outta everyone sitting in the theatre with me.
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Look at the whole route of nuclear technology - it is not defined not only by its best uses, but by the worst and best. It is how a culture conceives of that technology as a whole. You are a reason that the technology should continue, but I doubt that you and your ilk are one of the main reasons why it has been propogated and is so heavily engrained in our current culture. You are right that there is definately good in it, but you are also trying to justify it by ignoring the tremendous impact that the technology has had on popular culture and on individuals not in the technology or business sector. It is a viewpoint relatable to a person who works for a military contracting company that produces arms flatly ignoring the human costs of what they do and stating only the non-militaristic uses of the products they help design. And while that is an extreme example, I'm trying to merely make the point that technology itself is amoral. It has no left or right. It is how it is used. And current communications technologies run in a variety of directions concerning their uses. It would be wrong, and short-sighted, to state only the professional uses. But thanks for your view from your end - I just don't think you are looker at the whole of the angle widely enough.
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cinematic greatness.
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Jun 21, 2010 3:47:08 PM CDT
But I agree Gotik that the issue is not a simple one.
by chaunceygardiner
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It's equal parts frat-house comedy, courtroom drama and tale of friendship destroyed by greed.
At 162 pages, it's no quick read, but the attraction to Fincher is obvious. Zuckerberg has the drive and obsession of ‘Zodiac’s’ Robert Graysmith and his fledgling company even comes across a little like a sanitised Project Mayhem. Sorkin’s strength is in managing to wrap a complicated story into an expert structure whilst keeping both eyes on the disintegrating friendship between Garfield/Eisenberg's characters. The factual elements are fascinating, but it’s the destructive effect ambition and success has on the characters that kept me engaged. Zuckerberg’s a mix of antisocial tech geek and power hungry prick and I think Eisenberg’s going to have great fun playing around with him.
The ace up the sleeve is the depiction of ego-centric Napster founder/Facebook chairman Sean Parker. Dropped in around the half-way point, Timberlake has an opportunity to craft an instantly iconic character. Just trust me and wait to see what he does with it. It’s a career-making role.
Fincher’s come into some criticism for choosing the project, but I think it’s a brave, unusual choice. With a scipt this strong, they can only be onto a winner. -
Plus it's hard to argue with Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher. THE WEST WING meets PANIC ROOM - bring it on...
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To Duplicate Zuckerberg's creepy, soulless eyes.
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And Fincher plus Sorkin and Eisenberg. It seems like this movie was made for me.
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Sorkin is a pro at writing this. God, I really wish he'd do TV again...
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Zuckerberg is a tool. I know Sorkin is a good writer, but I just have zero interest to watch a movie about Zuckerberg.
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This movie won't really be about Facebook, its creation, or the superficial aspects of that story, but will be a pitch black comedy/satire/drama about completely vacuous and lost 20-somethings, trying to fill the void by creating such a thing. Those are the aspects that undoubtedly attracted Fincher to the project. I expect great things - and I fucking hate the social nuisances that are networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. But those criticising this movie for being about a cultural fad are simply looking down the wrong end of the telescope.
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I trust Aaron Sorkin's ability of turning boring stuff into exciting and compelling scripts, I'm also sure that Fincher's direction will be as slick as usual, but I don't know ANYBODY who is interested in a Facebook movie! Not even Facebook users!
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I'm simply refuting it as "simply (a) waste of time and makes people hermits". No web site can do that. It takes a user for that. He or she could do it with anything. Drugs, alcohol, BOOKS! Just as it takes an addict to become one. Addiction does not happen because the substance or obsession exists, it happens because the person was in a state to be susceptible in the first place, without the substance or obsession. Also, I alone do not define the service, I'm aware of that. But as I do not define the site, neither do its worst users. I'm just saying that it's not that "simple". A tool is a tool is a tool. You cannot blame the tool for it's misuse. Just as you can't blame a knife manufacturer for the Manson slayings. And I'm saying the technology is not defined by how it's used. I'm saying WE are defined by how we use the technology. This "we are the center of the universe" way of looking at this stuff has gotta go. (in my opinion) And we should instead be focusing on holding ourselves and each other responsible for how our lives are changed by the technology around us. I find it arrogant to say that a set of tools is practically physically transformed by the way it's used or held in the hand. The hammer is both good AND evil as it both builds a house and makes a human head concave. We say we want accountability, but only to ensure that we cannot have "persona" for ourselves. (it remains an elite-only club)We want accountability to extend only to the removal of our privacy, and conveniently leave the door open to shift blame to the technology when we don't want to take responsibility for allowing the technology to define our behaviour. We get used to letting the media tell the stories behind our failings by hunting for the latest scapegoats. And there's NOTHING new about that. We have a few million idiots falling into a digital social obligation scheme like Farmville and we hold Facebook and Farmville responsible. We say "accountability" is SO important in a place like Facebook, and in other places these days on the Internet, yet we demand this accountability only as far as identity, tracking, and Facebook's ability to market to us.We have pedophiles using social networks to groom children and we act as if the sites themselves are the cause for the increase of activity when in reality it's just focused our attention on the activity itself. It's no more a cause for crimes against children than Chuck E Cheese or The Catholic church is. (although a case could be made for the idea that forcing celibacy on thousands of men and then letting them ONLY be alone with children is probably not the best plan ever devised) And I agree, it is NOT a simple issue. Not by a long shot. But I find it hard to believe that the sites alone are THE cause for people doing stupid crap with them and becoming hermits.
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Reminds me of classic film posters, or more recently Before Night Falls. Beautifully done.
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Every character can only say 140 seconds of dialogue.
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...I don't really have a lot of interest in this project. At the very least I have no interest in the subject matter. It's something I may see if I hear great things upon it's release. Otherwise, it's a renter.
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I'd rather read a book than hang out 90% of the time. And if it's NBA season, forget about it. It's 99% certain that I'll be reading a book or watching a game if I'm not working online.
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... haven't really done much traveling. Sure, there are Facebook obsessives who play lame games and whose objective seems to collect as many friends as possible. But that's just a subset of users.
I, and most people I know, joined the site to keep in touch (or reconnect) with all the friends we made while traveling overseas. To easily share photos and keep in touch with a significant number of people who live on the other side of the world can be a time-consuming prospect - however facebook enables it to be done in a much easier fashion.
So, just because you don't have many friends in faraway lands, or don't know how to use it properly, or your only experience with facebook involves douche bags, does not negate the intrinsic value that social networking can provide in breaking down the tyranny of distance. As a forum, it's social value derives from the user's intent. Thankyou. -
some Sorkin.
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Jun 21, 2010 6:23:10 PM CDT
it's Fincher and Sorkin, it could be about fungus for all I care
by badmrwonka
do you honestly think David Fincher directing an Aaron Sorkin script could be bad? jesus, you all complain about bad directors, bad writers, and when two geniuses get together, people still fucking bitch and whine.
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does this account for all the illegals here or is this international. Maybe it's just BS. Probably BS.
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I send them an email or pick up the phone. Couldn't care less about reconnecting with someone I went to high school with and haven't seen or spoken to in twenty years. Sorkin's involvement interests me. But if the movie doesn't reveal that Zuckerberg stole facebook from the guys who hired him to write the code then I'll never watch it.
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I'm going to Japan in August. You know what I do when I want to keep in touch with someone I may have met overseas? I send them an email. If there are many people I want to send a picture to, I send a group email. It's hardly time consuming. 1990's tech that doesn't need improvement. I'll tell you what is time consuming: trying to keep your Facebook info private when the CEO says privacy is dead.That being said, if it works for you, that's cool.
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That's cool. Personally, I always hated getting group emails from traveling friends - although that may have just been because I had a couple of friends who sent group emails that were like encyclopaedic travelogues, and felt very impersonal anyway. I'd rather have the choice of visiting a friends page if I care enough about their exploits and want to see their pics. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. All I know is, I check Facebook maybe once a week and it lets me feel connected to my friends and family O/S.
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...to dictate my life. Who wants to be a technoslave? I'm a former user of FB, MySpace and Twitter, then decided to shut down accounts. Divulging too much info and bland comments (I tend to be philosophical, which gets deleted by stupid, vacuous immediate relatives because they felt embarrassed by my, uh, intellectual prowess) leads to drug-like addiction, and this does not bode for mental health. An agrarian society with emphasis on 12-hour industry (with recreation days/nights/weekends as reward) produce a more intelligent and self-reliant society. Same goes for television and bland shit. FB founder called Harvard U peers/ users "dumb fuck" for voluntarily submitting their private information in the early days of FB, what does that say about him and his asshole minions? Not to mention FB is connected to the CIA (google "facebook CIA"). The movie would not bother to incorporate these, because it would be inconvenient.And I hope David Fincher stays tight with his private life, especially after defunct Premiere magazine revealed Dave is a "closet smoker." I hope he returns to auteur form, I hated that stupid, plodding, half-assed movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Zodiac is the shit, man.
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I can see Facebook being really nice in that respect. I don't use Facebook primarily for two reasons. 1. The privacy issues and the privacy settings being confusing for seasoned, old school and new school tech professionals that have been using the Internet since back when WWW was just a sound you made when your girlfriend told you she slept with your best friend. Besides, the settings should all or mostly be to OFF when you sign up instead of ON. It's just really bad form for a site that started being essentially a private, walled garden for students only. and.. 2. I had one experience like the one I'll describe, but it wasn't so bad. Just annoying. You sign up, and immediately all those PEOPLE you wanted to put behind you from your old school, like you wanted to put behind bad 80s hair and bad 80s music, are suddenly not only in your face, but in the faces of all the other people you know now. This can be great sometimes, because a few of those people are still in my life and I still consider very close friends. And it can all go horribly wrong. A friend of mine, one I've known since high school, is on Facebook. He's connected with several old friends and old girlfriends. A recent girlfriend who lives in another country and had come to visit him several times here in the states.. recently dumped him. A short period of time passed and they were still friends AND Facebook friends. The new boyfriend appears to be the jealous type, but that's another story. They go very PUBLIC with their affections. Very public. And part of this, in my opinion, is the NON ease of use of the settings. My friend types in one message, not even directed toward her or her new boyfriend. He types this single word. I won't say what it was because that would be too specific. But it's not a derogatory word, just a descriptive word to describe how he feels about having this new relationship flaunted so publicly, so soon. He didn't rant and rave, didn't direct anything at anyone. And I wouldn't even describe it as passive aggressive. It was just a single word description of how HE felt. And her ENTIRE community of hangers-on just comes at him with insults, blame, humiliating accusations, lies, hurtful things. This just a couple of weeks after he had to watch his mother die. Just the worst type of human behaviour you could imagine, all in one place, all directed at my friend. (I'll mention again, I do NOT use Facebook) Eventually it spreads a bit to the OLD friends from back in high school, old exes, etc etc. They jump on the "hate ____" bandwagon, buying into any lie, accusation, etc. I would describe it as an ego and drama black hole. The drama just appeared to be sucked into his sphere of existence, non-stop, continuously. All while he's still grieving the loss of his mother to cancer. So he gets caught up defending himself and is sucked into the whole thing. I warn him off and tell him that these things are better left to themselves. Left to fester a bit and eventually fade and that any effort he puts into correcting and defending will simply propagate the whole thing and stretch it out longer. He's a bit new to the Internet drama thing. On Facebook, these types of situations spread to your entire world, past present and future. Why? Because Facebook connects you to these people when you sign up. When you delete an account, it even waves those same people in front of you before it lets you delete. "But.. but... BOB and TERRY and CHRIS will disappear and you'll NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN WITHOUT US!!" (well, not in those words, but that's essentially it) NO THANKS! Facebook offers nothing to me that is worth that KIND of intimacy forced down my throat every day when I sign in. And they are really TAKING TONS of your personal information and data in regard to your Internet habits, selling it at top dollar and laughing their asses off at you all the way to the bank. And what do you get in return? A few nice features, a place to connect with everyone you know in a somewhat convenient manner. Maybe a way to connect with new people who share your interests. And for some, I guess it's a decent way to hook up. (I don't see this.. really.. because most people who "hook up" rather than get to know a person before they pork them are douchebags and the girls AND guys WILL talk afterward.. seems counter-productive for your average bagger of douches) You know, famous and smart people (such as MIT's Nicholas Negroponte and many others) predicted that computer HARDWARE would eventually be free because our personal info and habits, our data, would be so valuable, it would be in these companies' best interests to just GIVE us the hardware for free so we'd use the net more. Eventually. Guess what, folks!! ??You been HAD. It's never going to happen now because with sites like Facebook, you have collectively demonstrated that you're willing to give up your very valuable data for chicken feed. Or chicken feed for your Farmville chickens at least. Best of luck with that, I'll be over here.Twitter is just a tool. You don't NEED to use it 24 hours a day and overdo it. YOU ARE NOT YOUR NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS! You are NOT your "like" count. And it's not my fault or the fault of most of the people I know on Twitter that you can't figure out how to get value out of the service when we can and do. If you don't get it, you just don't. I follow the right people and only see the information I'm interested in. If you put a little time and energy into using it right and using it well, the rewards are phenomenal and the number of hours you use it are VERY low. I would say I spend about 15 minutes a day tops on Twitter now that I've narrowed it all down and tweaked it. Just checking links and either marking them to read later or not marking them. That's it, and maybe an occasional personal message to reply to.That's it. No addiction, no vacuous Tweets about what I ate for lunch or how I "feel" today. No "friend collecting". Just real use. TALKBACK.. on the other hand. I use this FAR too much lately. I just love to read the conversations and take part. It's rewarding to me. Days like today, clearly.. when I get some free time, I devote some of it to reading and writing in talkback. But if sites like Twitter are the cause of things like Internet addictions and agoraphobia, this place takes the cake. Twitter comes nowhere close to this site when it comes to obsessives.And if you truly allow ANY site to dictate your life, that's your fault. No-one is forcing you to either use it 24/7 or leave. It's not like that. If you cannot have any gray areas in your life and cannot just use a site SOMETIMES and use it constructively without over-doing it.. it has not ONE thing to do with the site itself. It's your own fault and problem.
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Can't think of a less interesting movie that's ever been announced in my lifetime. Until it actually hits theaters, I have my doubts it won't go straight to DVD...
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Why don't you give the sef-congratulatory back slapping a rest and report some fucking film news? Oh, news that hasn't been reported a week earlier by another site.
In terms of this film? I hate Facebook, it's a fad for gobshites who deserve to have their privacy and liberty gradually stripped away - that's what happens when you freely offer your personal information. But it's Fincher, so I'm there. -
Is that many people are finding it impossible to separate their feelings about the website Facebook, and the story about the people who founded it.
Hating facebook as an entity is quite separate from the fact that there's an interesting story about the guys that made it... right?
Add to that that its David Fincher directing a script by Alan Sorki, which is damn fine pedigree. Whether or not you use Facebook should be irrelevant as to how you engage with the story. It's not like it's gonna be two hours of lame status updates and unwanted friend requests. -
lines for admission stretching for miles!
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...I love the irony of AICN Talkbackers disparaging the stupidity of using Facebook to interact with people. I've had many discussions in both forums, folks. Talkbacks are impersonal, and quickly resort to name-calling and immaturity. Facebook is much more personal and if you don't like what people are saying, you can shut them out. It's much less aggressive and you have far more control of who you interact with. Yeah, the personal security issue teh suck, but it's just a matter of fixing the settings the way you want. To me, that's far less maddening than having a 5-day shouting match with some random Michael Bay apologist or Cameron-hater. Not to mention the fact that on FB, you can actually converse with people whom you know and have an actual friendship / relationship with. Shit, I don't hate talkbacks, but I haven't really missed them much since I started using Facebook. Just my 2 cents.
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I just don't care. Does Mark Zuckerberg really warrant a movie about him? There are much better- and more interesting- people to make movies out of. Eddie Chapman, for instance.
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Will stand in line to see this film if necessary. Not sure if *I* made that clear.
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AICN still respects persona. Facebook doesn't. So you tend to read what people really think. (along with people whose sole goal is to incite) I tend to think that *I* control how many days I decide to have a shouting match. Not sure how everyone else's self control issues play out. And I decide who I interact with here, too. Someone even made a tool for it (who was that again?.. it was a greasemonkey thing) for people who cannot skip past things or ignore things on their own. Nothing wrong with that, but let's not confuse the reality of it all. It IS up to you what you respond to and pay attention to. I think the net has far too many "safe havens" already. Basically little walled off areas where they can be sure no-one ever disagrees with them or challenges their world views. That's not the net I grew up with and it's not the net I want to use. But to each his own.
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Look, I love Facebook as much the next person. I remember back when all the users were from Ivy League and near-Ivy League colleges. I loved the website back when everybody was gaga over MySpace, which has ALWAYS been shitty. But I have zero interest in seeing this movie, regardless of how many talented people are attached. It's going to have to get some astronomical, 90%+ Rotten Tomatoes reviews...because I really don't care about Zuckerberg building the website or who he may or may not have fucked over.
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Personal responsibility is definately something, a task, we have delineated to others. Sometimes we do very much resemble a coddled society. I appreciate you getting back to our discussion, as it was one that suddenly seemed important to me. Similiarly, I've found lately that I do not enjoy the talkbacks due to the anger that's so rampant around here - sometimes Talkbackers take hyperbole to a level beyound irony or sarcasm and a simple disagreement with an artist or fellow Talkbacker becomes a source of vitriol. Some threads are spoilt in a very early instance of hate speech - anonymous candor that approaches a level of absurdity laughable if not for the fact that the anger is real, whether the target is worthwhile or not. I was able to post on this talkback before much of that occurred, and I'm glad - it is fun to have a discussion about issues, to accurately narrow the focus of a film down to its themes, to the people it addresses, instead of turning it into a site of mob retalitory forces: push/pulling with such zest that they become lost in the struggle, and lose the ideas. Thank you for your civility, and for helping to make this a better talkback.
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Firstly, it says "500 million" not "5 million".
Secondly, the implication is not that he personally has 500 million friends, the implication is 500 million people use Facebook, thus they are all 'friends'.
This isn't a blog, it's a movie site. Keep your tenuously related personal gripes to yourself, or at least confine them to your own posts so the rest of us can avoid them. -
For fucks sake people, of course they use photoshop, or an equivelant program. What, you think they'd fucking handpaint the things these days???
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... But it bears quite a strong resemblance to Criterion's THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH front cover, don't you think?
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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41okWhz-2EL.jpg
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Oh, and fuck Facebook
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...weirdos, users, liars, and crooks, and usually, all four!!! It is really a failed social experiment. Other than for use in marketing, and sells, it is nothing but a waste of time.
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How stupid are some of you people? This'll be one of the films of the year, guaranteed.
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I have ZERO.That being said, I'm addicted to FaceBook.
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This will probably be fantastic - trust in Fincher and Sorkin. Eisenberg is great too - he's like a Michael Cera that can act. Who cares if the source material is about Facebook and it's creator - it will still likely be darkly funny and compelling. And I use to use Facebook as well - way back when only college users were allowed. I still have an account but I rarely ever go on. It took me some time but eventually I got fed up with the constant mindless shit that goes on. Even looking at pictures of pretty girls on my friends list is irritating as fuck - it's a collection of bitches smiling in different places. What ever happened to the candid shot? Facebook is lame. This movie will not be.
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Let's face it, if he kept on making "typical Fincher movies", we'd end up getting tired of it. Ben Button was a complete departure from what we normally expect of him and I'm glad he did it. I just hope he ends up making The Black Hole one day.
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It will take an act of God for that nebbish-cunt to portray anything beyond himself in this movie. This may be the ONLY Fincher film I refuse to see. Eisenberg was the only "actor" you could get? Seriously???
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Talk about reading the zietgeist and all that...
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...A la THE GAME and PANIC ROOM.
Ah, well...closest thing the guy gets to a vacation, I'm sure. -
hope this is great....ben button? lame.
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you'll see that there is actually a great deal of excellent material here for Fincher to do some interesting visual work with...
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My aunt rented a house to Zuckerberg & buddies when Facebook was being conceived. The casting was inspired. It's somewhat ironic that a group of social outcasts would have such a profound and visionary impact on social interactions - Facebook has really changed the way a lot of us keep in touch with friends & relatives.
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movie, kinda like that Pirates of Silicon Valley TV movie with Anthony Micheal Hall and Noah Wylie. A darker Fincher version of that story could be pretty cool, complete with those old school green monochrome monitors in gaudy tan colored casing. Nerd up Brad Pitt for Bill Gates, and get Hugo Weaving for Steve Jobs.
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