The Social Network

[Alma]

People here will like it. Very much, I predict.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

People here will like it. Very much, I predict.

I don't think it would be possible for Fincher and Sorkin to make a bad movie.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Isn't Jesse Eisenberg related to the kid who does Fantasy Football for CBS Sportsline?

 

[shockey]

People here will like it. Very much, I predict.

I don't think it would be possible for Fincher and Sorkin to make a bad movie.

and they each have a strong following on SportsJournalists.com.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Alma likes this

 

[Mizzougrad96]

98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

The Town, which I loved, was 95 percent.

 

[JayFarrar]

Three "rotten" reviews. One being from professional naysayer Armond White, whose only purpose in life is to write negative reviews of critical and commercial hits.

Best guess is The Social Network or True Grit takes home best picture.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I had to check IMDB; I had no idea there was a remake of True Grit coming out. With the Coen brothers doing it and Jeff Bridges in the lead, I have a feeling this will be one of the few remakes that improves on the original. For sure it will have more, well, grit.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's way to early to be talking about who's going to win what, since most of the films that are supposed to contend don't come out until November and December, but I have a pretty good feeling that three of the 10 films nominated will be Inception, The Social Network and The Town and I'd probably add Toy Story 3 to that list as well.

 

[Lugnuts]

Some genre-combining film called 'Never Let Me Go' is supposed to get an Oscar nom, too.

Appears art house but is also sci fi ?? It just looks weird to me.

Can't wait to see The Social Network this weekend. With munchkins in the house, I rarely see a movie in the theater these days.... But for this, I'll make it a point.

 

[93Devil]

For five of the nine years I worked at a summer camp, Zuckerburg was a camper.

The camp had a reunion this summer and a few people were there from his era, and ironically, no one can remember anything about him.

There were 500 campers, so it was easy to be forgettable, but it is a little ironic.

 

[Dyno]

As I posted on the "Last movie I watched" thread after I saw this a few weeks ago, I liked it a lot. And you come out of it thinking Mark Zuckerberg is a douchebag.

 

[dreunc1542]

Some genre-combining film called 'Never Let Me Go' is supposed to get an Oscar nom, too.

Appears art house but is also sci fi ?? It just looks weird to me.

Can't wait to see The Social Network this weekend. With munchkins in the house, I rarely see a movie in the theater these days.... But for this, I'll make it a point.

It's based on a very good novel. I've read very uneven things, though, about the movie, so I'll probably stay away until it comes out on DVD.

 

[Deeper_Background]

It's way to early to be talking about who's going to win what, since most of the films that are supposed to contend don't come out until November and December, but I have a pretty good feeling that three of the 10 films nominated will be Inception, The Social Network and The Town and I'd probably add Toy Story 3 to that list as well.

add Black Swan with Natalie Portman to that list and True Grit from the Coen Brothers & Jeff Bridges

 

[Dick Whitman]

With munchkins in the house, I rarely see a movie in the theater these days....

Off topic, but this is the worst thing about having children.

 

[dooley_womack1]

With munchkins in the house, I bet you get stuck watching Wizard of Oz a lot

 

[Mira]

"Never Let Me Go" is a great novel. I just finished it a couple weeks ago and loved it. I would see the movie just to see how they dealt with the cloning aspects of it ... and I think Knightley and Mulligan are amazing actresses.

 

[BYH]

As I posted on the "Last movie I watched" thread after I saw this a few weeks ago, I liked it a lot. And you come out of it thinking Mark Zuckerberg is a douchebag.

I thought that after I saw a story about how he values his privacy but went on Oprah.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Sorkin hasn't been at the top of his game as a writer since he was banging Maureen Dowd. I hope this one is decent, but I have doubts...

 

[LongTimeListener]

You can tell how nervous Zuckerberg and Facebook are about this movie because of the Oprah appearance, the magazine article (he never used to grant access), the $100 million he just donated, and the articles all over the Bay Area with these supposed "inside looks" at the Facebook campus and infrastructure. None of that was ever happening before. I'm sure today's announcement of the 5-for-1 stock split was timed to counter the bad publicity too.