The Social Network - David Fincher's next!

jscottprice said:
One of my favorite lines in that movie, by Alan Rickman, of course:

"By Grabthar's...Hammer.............................................................................



What a savings."
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Just to prove a point...I never would have believed Tim Allen would be in anything called a good movie until I saw Galaxy Quest, so maybe you should give JT a shot, considering the circumstances and that he has a rather small role.
 
Great filmmaking all across the board. As good a telling of this story as you could possibly ever see...and therin lies my one problem with it. The first 1/2 of this film is ridiculously compelling -- propulsive, sexy and fun. After that it starts to lose steam and then pretty much runs out of narrative gas by the last quarter. I don't think there was anything the filmmakers could have done as they can only bend reality so far, so I chalk it up to the limitations of the source material. The film eventually bumps up against the limitations of the story it's telling. But everything from the writing, directing, acting, cinematography, editing and soundtrack was all done to perfection. Even Justin Timberlake turns in a great, sleazy performance. The cast of this film reminds me of the cast of The Right Stuff. That film was chock full of stars and character actors who wound up dominating 80's movies -- Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Scott Glenn, Lance Henriksen, Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepherd, Jeff Goldblum...I think we're going to be hearing a lot from all the cast members of The Social Network, some of whom I'm seeing for the first time. I'm sure Armie Hammer will take some superhero role in the future. I guess The Flash is all that's left and he wouldn't be a bad fit. He was going to play Bruce Wayne in the cancelled Justice League movie that George Miller was set up to direct. It is a complete cosmic injustice that he looks like he was chiseled from marble, and is also the heir to a fortune. Yeah, life's fair.
 
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saw it last night. gotta agree with batutta on this. the beginning was really good, and it wasn't until the end when it started running out of gas. facebook is still a relatively new thing, so i'm sure the story will continue evolving. i'm only a year younger than zuckerberg, so i'm right at the age of everyone who jumped on the facebook bandwagon from the beginning. i remember when it first became available at my college, and exploded in about a week. it was odd seeing the little bits and pieces that have changed since facebook first came out--things that i'd forgotten all about. like when they dropped the "the" and how his roommate's face used to be on the masthead.

but back to the movie. the acting was all very good and the parts well-cast. the rowing sequence with the tilt-shift lenses was fantastic. i wanted to see another 30 minutes. definitely worth seeing.

oh, and $6.9 billion... i can't even fathom that much money
 
After ruminating about the movie more, I think the issue for me is that because of the flashback, Rashomon type structure, i knew where the movie was going way before it got there, so the betrayals that compromise the last third of the movie had less emotional impact than they should have. The structure works well in the first half, giving it a lot of energy and narrative efficiency, but it ended up having a price in the end...One thing I forgot to add about Armie Hammer's performance, the twinning effect was completely seamless. And the performance helped sell it further. An amazing effect, even more impressive than Benjamin Button.
 
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OK, Batutta, I will see this movie. I am making plans to see this movie. I haven't seen anything since Inception almost two months ago.

I have a review of my films and crap this week at school; then I have 2 weeks of DP'ing two different shoots and sound recording on another; then I have a bunch of tests and crap; then two weeks of editing 25 hours a day to finish projects; then planning my winter shoot.

Sweet! I'll get to see the film December 10th.


:S
 
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