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rivers_bend at 08:59am on 31/10/2010 under apartment, fangirls ftw, film rec, film review, social network
rivers_bend at 08:59am on 31/10/2010 under apartment, fangirls ftw, film rec, film review, social networkI still haven't watched this week's SPN because Friday night I was out grinning inanely at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluesoaring (because it's rude to continue to tackleglomp someone while they're trying to eat dinner) and then yesterday I was working and then the electricity in half my apartment went out, including my kitchen, and the plug for my TV runs from the kitchen outlet, and then I was at the movies with miss_begonia and overnighter, and then when I got home and tried to watch it, I realized that I have been recording the HD channel and I am not paying for HD. SO I HAD SOUND BUT NO PICTURE. :| Soon I shall have a watchable copy, though, and in the mean time I will ramble about The Social Network.
I thought it was a fantastic movie. Uncomfortable and awkward, but that's because it's about uncomfortable and awkward people. It certainly did nothing to mitigate my loathing of facebook as either a website or a company. (yet I have still not deleted my account, because it is a convenient way to keep current contact information for people I would otherwise totally lose touch with. and my dislike apparently does not mean I'm going to give that up.)
ANYWAY.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross did a fantastic job with the music; that's not something I usually really notice in movies, especially when they are lacking in sweeping space-opera themes or anything, but it was definitely awesome in this one. And all the acting was superb. Jessie Eisenberg had a creepily blank affect which was perfect for the character and meant when he did show a crack of emotion it was really effective. Justin does a great line in charismatic without engendering an overabundance of sympathy, and Andrew Garfield was a great counterpoint to both of them as (the ridiculously good-looking) Eduardo Saverin. Rashida Jones managed yet again to take a part with no meat on it and flesh it into something gorgeous to watch.
The script was (*gasp*) fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny in several places. The women are treated badly for the most part, but unlike in most movies where the women are treated badly and the men are heroes, at least in this one it's clear that the act of treating women badly is part of what makes the male characters despicable people.
I've just seen that the twins were played by a single actor and then a second sort-of body-double guy. Which would explain why they sometimes looked much more identical than others. Boy have we come a long way since Big Business where they were trying to have two Bette's and two Lily's on screen at once.
Despite the cast and the fact that Sorkin is a good writer and Fincher a good director, I expected my distaste for the subject to color my experience of the movie. I totally underestimated the amount I was supposed to find the characters and story distasteful, however, so it all worked out perfectly.
So yeah. I thought it was great. And I always like hanging out with miss b and overnighter. And I had electricity again when I got home, and now I have today off and I can write and watch SPN and finish unpacking my car. yay!
bluesoaring (because it's rude to continue to tackleglomp someone while they're trying to eat dinner) and then yesterday I was working and then the electricity in half my apartment went out, including my kitchen, and the plug for my TV runs from the kitchen outlet, and then I was at the movies with miss_begonia and overnighter, and then when I got home and tried to watch it, I realized that I have been recording the HD channel and I am not paying for HD. SO I HAD SOUND BUT NO PICTURE. :| Soon I shall have a watchable copy, though, and in the mean time I will ramble about The Social Network. I thought it was a fantastic movie. Uncomfortable and awkward, but that's because it's about uncomfortable and awkward people. It certainly did nothing to mitigate my loathing of facebook as either a website or a company. (yet I have still not deleted my account, because it is a convenient way to keep current contact information for people I would otherwise totally lose touch with. and my dislike apparently does not mean I'm going to give that up.)
ANYWAY.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross did a fantastic job with the music; that's not something I usually really notice in movies, especially when they are lacking in sweeping space-opera themes or anything, but it was definitely awesome in this one. And all the acting was superb. Jessie Eisenberg had a creepily blank affect which was perfect for the character and meant when he did show a crack of emotion it was really effective. Justin does a great line in charismatic without engendering an overabundance of sympathy, and Andrew Garfield was a great counterpoint to both of them as (the ridiculously good-looking) Eduardo Saverin. Rashida Jones managed yet again to take a part with no meat on it and flesh it into something gorgeous to watch.
The script was (*gasp*) fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny in several places. The women are treated badly for the most part, but unlike in most movies where the women are treated badly and the men are heroes, at least in this one it's clear that the act of treating women badly is part of what makes the male characters despicable people.
I've just seen that the twins were played by a single actor and then a second sort-of body-double guy. Which would explain why they sometimes looked much more identical than others. Boy have we come a long way since Big Business where they were trying to have two Bette's and two Lily's on screen at once.
Despite the cast and the fact that Sorkin is a good writer and Fincher a good director, I expected my distaste for the subject to color my experience of the movie. I totally underestimated the amount I was supposed to find the characters and story distasteful, however, so it all worked out perfectly.
So yeah. I thought it was great. And I always like hanging out with miss b and overnighter. And I had electricity again when I got home, and now I have today off and I can write and watch SPN and finish unpacking my car. yay!