Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by mousepod

What's interesting for me is that when Heather and I saw The Social Network, not only did we enjoy it, but we liked the Zuckerberg character (for the most part).

How can you *not* like Jesse Eisenberg, with that cute-as-hell Jew-fro? I gotta see Social Network, glad it is coming to Netflix prior to the Oscars. I'm not so worried that it is heavily fiction. I can't think of any "based on a true story" movies that are meant to be exact accounts of what happened. That usually makes for boring movies, since life doesn't really progress in story arcs.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But I daresay there's a reason Inception is nominated for a ton of awards and Tron is nominated for best sound mixing.

I didn't say that Tron was academy-award material, 'cos it isn't. It seemed to be one of those movies that pretended to be deep but really it was a silly excuse to show "look at what we can do with computer effects!" which hasn't really thrilled me since Jurassic Park. (for another example of such a movie, I cite The Matrix and Larry Fishburne's intense spewing of "deep" utter bullsh~t. Incidentally I liked Matrix 3 because it was just an action film with no such pretensions.) It just wasn't my cup of tea, even if it was yours. I won't think any less of you, I promise.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

but 300 accidentally ended up at the top of our Netflix queue and that has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

But it did make for an awesome episode of South Park. Scissor me timbers!