Facebook: the movie

what the fuck

So who will they cast as 'Tom,' their evil rival from the West Coast.

how do you HAVE internet savvy? isn't that something you are or are not?

guys sometimes i get riled up about facebook

this makes me fuckign sick for some reason

It should be a musical. What would it be called? Oh yeah, Facebook!, of course.

No way, they film this as a straightforward comedy/drama, and then the musical adaptation off-Broadway is called Poke!

:D

Show-stopping number "Status Update" turns into a crowd favorite...

Thanks for reminding me that it's been months, MONTHS since I've been poked.

O T M N E D

"I'm nervous, I'm anxious!
I can only hesitate!
Tell my friends, all at once
About yesterday's date
Will they read, do they care
For my status updaaaaaate!"

i would produce this.

"Contact importer
Your favorite friend sorter
It's your time to shine..."

anyone know an orchestrator?

i could probably do that shit

or wait is that the same as a conductor

no. i could probably come up with tunez but would need someone to do the orchestrations ie figuring out which instruments play what and writing out everything.

"Just one application
You can try it out on me
Just one application
Really, soon you'll see

Go write a testimonial!
Get reranked on Sparkey
Even play some Scrabulous
While you can, for free..."

worst idea ever!

i want to be the conductor of the orchestra of this musical production

by conducting do you mean pressing the buttons on the synths? because that is what most pit orchestras have been reduced to. woohooo virtual orchestra. aslkjdgas.

not that i feel passionately about the issue or anything.

really?? the last plays i went to had orchestra-orchestras i think, but then that was like 10 years ago now

they usually keep the house minimum (which ranges in size, excluding some exceptions) and then everything else that was originally scored is eitehr cut out via reorchestration or put in through virtual orchestra. it is bs imo.

He threw a virtual omlette at me!
He threw a virtual omlette at me!!
What have I done to deserve such nerve?
Such egregious contumely?

Venageance, however, shall belong to me!
I shall mirror his rudeness
By throwing some foodness
And, in so doing, make war playfully!

But what shall I let fly?
A sausage? A leek? a potato? A custard pie??
I can slap him with gloves or can smite him by throwing my shoes
And yet, and yet....
I CANNOT DECIDE WHICH APPLICATION TO USE!!!

And what if he
Should then return fire on me?
And escalate conflict (though only virtually)?
Will our playful game end in pain or confirm our camaraderie?

AAAAAM IIIIII WAAAAAAAAAASTING MY TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME????

*cheers*

"And now, Bernadette Peters sings "He Threw a Virtual Omelette at Me" by command performance..."

"Just one application
You can try it out on me
Just one application
Really, soon you'll see

Go write a testimonial!
Get reranked on Sparkey
Even play some Scrabulous
While you can, for free..."

-- Ned Raggett,

I always wanted to be the Fagan character at school, but it was always given to a teacher. Fagan would sing this one.

Oh no. I mean sweet fucking Jesus. Why. Only someone with no internet savvy would say, "sure, yeah! I'll make a Facebook movie!"

Wait unless there's money involved.

You can always rely on the kindness of strangers etc

Hahahah moley that's been my exact model in this thread so far.

"New Or-le-ans!" etc.

Teh endtimes approach.

whenever i think about writing a musical i picture homer simpson singing 'where is the rent? i must have the rent!'

You know at first I thought this was going to be some sort of godawful heavy handed mockumentary.

dude. sorkin. farnsworth invention. studio 60. dude takes his shit seriously.

I pretty much don't know what that means.

Did you ever see The West Wing? That was him.

Nope. I live in a pop cultureless cave. I have a friend who tells me everything in the world about this stuff, but it's in one and out the other with me.

this is stupid

this thread, i mean

you guys

BAH

Loosen up jeff and help us write this damn musical already.

Take a look at my facebook,
I am cultured, I am nice
I've got 300 friends,
Most of them pretend

Add me, add me, add me

I started writing one that began as a solemn moment of social networking doubt and turned into riveting internet paranoia, but it turned out to be not so riveting and sort of crappy.

This should be like West Side Story with the Facebookers in one gang, and Bebo as the other with Bill Gates playing Officer Krupke.

and John Foxx should be on the soundtrack with "DO you remember MySpace?"

Eduardo isn't cliche but his character isn't that complex -- he's a chump, but an intelligent one. Like how joe pesci is a bum, but he's a harvard bum.
he's a chump for carrying a chicken around, chump for dating a psycho, chump for this and that decision, and the movie goes out of its way to make it ambiguous whether anyone is actively shafting him or if he's done it all to himself through intelligently reasoned but chumpish decisions, which I think is less interesting than if they didn't start with the presumption that Eduardo's vision of how to do things is wrong. Any avenue for complexity is closed off by the Zuckerberg character ultimately being right in every circumstance.

Not saying they should have made it more complex. Like, RoboCop wouldn't be a better movie if they'd explored whether OCP's actions were justified.

We see the character differently. To me, he's only a chump in outline--in two of the three scenes I listed above, he's got Parker figured out exactly. He signs away his fortune, yes, but--and this is definitely where people are going to view him differently--I don't see him as a chump there, just a guy who's again operating in a universe different than the one Zuckerberg and Parker are in. (This admission won't make me sound especially complex, but I think I'd put up with a lot of psychotic behaviour from Brenda Song to have her climbing all over me.)

no, i agree, he's totally sussed out Parker. this is an intelligent dude doing the smart thing, and in most movies he'd be the hero, but he's a chump here because you're right, this is a universe in which smart people doing smart things are chumps. Zuckerberg doesn't escape chumphood by being smarter, or having a better grasp of the situation (in fact it's Parker who has that psychic power), he's just right by fiat. In fact, the closest thing this movie has to a message is to lawyer up. If you lawyer up, you'll get the money owed to you, or some portion of it. The lawyers won't judge you for being smart or a chump or a sociopath and likely you'll get one with a sympathetic ear in the form of Rashida Jones. In this universe, only through lawyers do you have agency.

"Lawyer up" describes the whole movie pretty well. Like Pesci says in Raging Bull, if you win, you win; if you lose, you still win. The amoral guys walk away with billions, the less amoral guys with millions.

so i've seen this movie three times now. went from "eh" to "!!!". i think this is an exceptional film and it deserves every stupid Hollywood award it gets.

I believe Morbius has moved from "eh" to "EH!!!"

just a film that deserves to be shrugged at

Liked this. Well-scripted, well-acted, Eisenberg was absolutely superb again (great shout-out to Roger Dodger upthread!) and most importantly the film was entirely about the kind of privileged, self-entitled fuckers I spent my entire education surrounded by, and the hideously artificial social parameters they created for themselves - we created for ourselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgcp7l_l8g

most importantly the film was entirely about the kind of privileged, self-entitled fuckers I spent my entire education surrounded by, and the hideously artificial social parameters they created for themselves - we created for ourselves

oh I dunno -- they're kinda fun. I love Edith Wharton.

I still say "Zodiac" is his masterpiece, and it's got a lot in common (stylistically and technologically with Social Network), but this movie is more than solid enough to make up for "Benjamin Button." I mean, I've got issues with "The Social Network," but a stage play it is not. This is a capital M Movie.

Button > Sorkin

Had a weirdly upset reaction to the final third of this film. When z-berg let parker lead him round by the money and they shat all over his bro eduardo, I was SO MAD. I dont know why I had such a reaction but I just got REALLY UPSET for him. I blame that moon, or maybe the entire bottle of wine I'd consumed, haw.

Weirdest comment from my housemate: "I really identify with Zuckerberg's attitude in this".

Programmers.

pretty excellent film. most likable characters imo are, maybe surprisingly, the winklevoss twins. i feel like the film took a slight turn for the worse when parker showed up, it seemed like an excuse for fincher to steer it towards nightclubs and cocaine and a pg-13 version of boogie nights post-1980, though i suppose it may have been accurate. can't dispute the accuracy of how parker's character was since i don't know anything about him, but the depiction of him as this prime mover and shaker and nightlife star rang false.

rashida jones' character was a useless creation and the last line of the film was pretty terrible because as morbs says he was indeed an asshole. if anything the truth was the opposite, he was trying to play the good guy but didn't know how, his actual nature was towards striking out and single-minded ascent. having said all that, dope flick.

it was pretty watchable for obvious hackneyed bullshit, mostly thanks to the actors and whoever held the 2-hour-maximum stopwatch

Big in Italy

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5592465670_20c37cd63d.jpg

dare i ask what 'club step' or 'ethnotronica' is

It's Italy, this is the land where someone told me with a straight face once, pointing out some random dude hauling gear in a black T-shirt, "Oh, he's the keyboardist for Italy's biggest reggae band."

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/09/03/sweet-facebook-ride.jpg

Facebook - the failure

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13693791

this was mostly boring, kinda lol. Reznor's sdtk was EXTRAlol tho

mostly boring, kinda lol

efficient otm review imo

I have more nuanced views as well but figured no one would care at this late date

we're getting in in the cinemas next month actually

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/20/technology/summers_winklevoss_facebook.fortune/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

"One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case."

man not even a president of harvard can make his pronouns agree at this point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

oh im aware

singular they is tearing grammar apart

this is easily the funniest thing Summers has ever said

It is, although I'm a little baffled by "One of the things you learn as a college president" -- did he not attend college?

I'm pretty sure his undergraduate days actually were mandatory coat-and-tie times so that wouldn't be a good differentiator

Plus, saltpeter in their starchy meals 'to prevent urges'

What he said applies doubly to law school, where both job interviews during the schoolyear and assholes are common.

" assholes are common."

The world is a law school then. :-(

^^the original opening lines to "Bullet With Butterfly Wings".!

oh im aware

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<3

just remembered this film. couldn't ever work out why people were so in love with it? genuinely, i can't understand..

Because of its even-handed characterization, e.g. "I'm 6'5", 220 and theres two of me."

The refresh-refresh-Rosebud final scene gets me.

it grows on you this film. and that first trailer with 'Creep' by Scala & Kolacny Brothers still rocks.

Yeah, the greatness of this really didn't become apparent until second/third viewings. Fincher's best film outside of Zodiac IMO.

I would agree that both Zodiac and The Social Network are the best Fincher movies. Despite the good reviews I had very low expectations of TSN at the time because I didn't care much for FB and the origins of social media, nor Fincher barring Zodiac but ended up liking this movie quite a lot at the time and actually re-watching it a few times.

If you wondered how 80s preppy signifiers disappeared, not just from people but from institutions, this movie covers it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYd_5aggzd4

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"We're sitting in chairs."

Rep screening tonight; holds up great. Actually was going to quote the same line I quoted seven years ago--always kills me (you need the line before for context). Much more familiar now with Rashida Jones because of The Office and Parks and Recreation, so that had some added interest tonight. Hard to square the "We don't know yet what it is" idealism with the

(oops) utter wasteland the site's become in 2025. The occasional ad for Snooky's Cookies (Timberlake/Parker's jibe at Eduardo) would be so much better than what you get instead.