Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Kevy Baby]

Was Social Network billed as a "True Story" or a documentary (meant as an 'either' question, not an 'or')? It would appear to be much closer to reality than say, anything Michael Moore has ever put out.

I like this line from mousepod

Originally Posted by mousepod

So it was a reality, just not the one that Time wrote about.

[BarTopDancer]

There are 2 sides to every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Information out of the lawsuits is certainly going to be more damning then information filtered through Zuckerberg and his talking heads.

I think the truth is somewhere between the movie and the article. But I won't be calling the move completely made up or complete truth when I wasn't privy to the actual discussions/happenings at that time.

[Not Afraid]

I need to see The Social Network because my friend Kelly Thompson's art is on the walls.

[BarTopDancer]

But was her art on the specific walls in real life?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

But was her art on the specific walls in real life?

No, but it is on mine. Does that count?

[Ghoulish Delight]

My wife is going to give a very different review, 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. Perhaps I'm a victim of self fulfilling prophecy as I watched it reluctantly, expecting to not like it, but it was worse than I expected. Seriously not a redeeming thing to say about it from my view.

[BarTopDancer]

Were your walls with that art on it in the movies or did any one of the main characters have an event portrayed in the movies in your home showing the art?

Only events that happened in real life should be portrayed in a quasi-fictional movie setting.

[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!

[innerSpaceman]

On JW Bear's recommendation of a few weeks ago, I watched 2008's 10,000 B.C. last night - purely to enjoy the yumminess of Steven Straight, who ironically brings out this Steven's gay like nobody's business.

It was kinda meh, but not really objectionable. Actionist, likable characters, yummy leading man - and I have to admit: Herds of Wooley Mammoths enslaved to help build the Pyramids was Bitchin' Cool.

[JWBear]

I wouldn't actually say I recommended it.