first on both pages, and i havent even seen the movie yet lol

10/4/2010 12:01:05 PM

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"^obviously loves myspace"

hate myspace worse than facebook, I just think a movie about it just seems like an uninteresting movie. And i like the Chinese iteration, almost died loling. They make the funniest shit and to think it's a news cast.

10/4/2010 12:39:50 PM

It's not so much about Facebook as it is about the creation of a billion dollar company.

10/4/2010 12:52:46 PM

Thank you, bobster. Exactly right.

10/4/2010 1:15:16 PM

^^
agreed.


you're missing out on a decent movie if you aren't watching it because it's "about facebook." I went in a little skeptical and really enjoyed it. You could go into that movie having never heard of facebook and still enjoy the movie. It isn't campy and it held my attention the entire time.


[Edited on October 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM. Reason : expanded]

10/4/2010 1:24:27 PM

^Exactly right again.

10/4/2010 1:35:24 PM

humm... is it now? Just sounded cheesy. I guess I'll wait for it to come out on netflix.

10/4/2010 2:39:29 PM

have you not seen the fucking awesome trailer

10/4/2010 2:41:19 PM

When I heard about it I was hesistent.

When I watched the trailer, I was interested.

When I looked up directors, producers, actors, et cetera, I was far more interested.

And after reading some of the reviews from the people whose voice matters most in the industry, who are all saying it's an amazing film, well now I really want to see it.


...but Mission Valley has shitty screens.

10/4/2010 3:34:07 PM

Trent Reznor did the musical score. I think he's going to win an Oscar for that.

10/4/2010 8:46:40 PM

^It's a good score. It tends to distract from the movie at certain points, though, something a score should never do in my opinion. Then again, I thought Jonny Greenwood's score, while also good, committed the same crime in There Will Be Blood and he got rave reviews for that score, so what do I know?

I think my favorite line in this movie is when Eduardo Saverin flips out on Sean Parker: "SORRY! I must've left my Prada at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my fuck-you flip-flops, YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHEBAG!"

And also, when Zuckerberg flips out on the Winkelvii's lawyer: "I don't want to perjur myself, so I'm legally obligated to say 'no.' You have part of my attention. The other part is back at Facebook headquarters where my colleagues and I are doing things that nobody in this room including and especially your clients are intellectually or creatively capable of. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?"

Not that I totally agree with the sentiment behind either line, just the way they're delivered is pretty great.

[Edited on October 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM. Reason : .]

10/4/2010 9:04:35 PM

i found myself thinking multiple times throughout the movie (which i enjoyed a whole lot) how excited i am that andrew garfield is going to be spider-man. he's a really solid actor.

10/5/2010 3:56:54 PM

I thought he was great in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

10/5/2010 6:16:22 PM

Does it portray the world of website development as gritty and cut-throat?

10/5/2010 6:26:20 PM

I have got to see this movie.

10/6/2010 1:14:49 AM

^^yes

10/6/2010 6:41:32 AM

looks lame and apparently its "fiction" according to zuckerberg

10/6/2010 7:59:57 AM

Yeah if you saw any of the trailers you knew immediately this movie was going to be about 80% fiction. Definitely dramatizing an otherwise boring story to make it more interesting to audiences. But from what I've heard it's a great movie, just sad that I'm sure over half the people who saw it think it's entirely true, haha.

Much like they adjusted the true story from "The Blind Side" and made it more Hollywood friendly.

[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 8:08 AM. Reason : .]

10/6/2010 8:07:26 AM

this movie just frustrates me because I realize it could've been me!!! I could be worth 6 billion right now if only I thought of this idea

10/6/2010 8:21:38 AM

^or if you had been a Harvard douche bag and sued him.

10/6/2010 9:58:15 AM

I think I will go see this.

10/6/2010 10:41:30 AM

i don't care if it stretches factual information as long as it is a good movie and according to people who have seen it, it is one of the best of the year

10/6/2010 11:02:50 AM

What would be Zuckerbergs motivation to say anything in this movie was fact?

10/6/2010 5:59:17 PM

i'd know that he has an awesome sense of humor and it didn't come from aaron sorkin

10/6/2010 8:02:11 PM

I was also skeptical but this was highly entertaining

10/6/2010 11:14:12 PM

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"this movie just frustrates me because I realize it could've been me!!! I could be worth 6 billion right now if only I thought of this idea "

Honestly? I guess maybe you had it in you. I certainly didn't, and would question most people I know if they would claim they do. Having an 'idea', and being able to transform it into a 500m+ user website and a 25billion dollar company in 5 years are two pretty different things. It's not quite the same as winning the lottery.

10/7/2010 2:01:06 AM

I just saw it. I definitely enjoyed it, and was pretty impressed all-around.

Certainly didn't feel like 2 hours.

10/7/2010 3:39:39 AM

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"And also, when Zuckerberg flips out on the Winkelvii's lawyer: "I don't want to perjur myself, so I'm legally obligated to say 'no.' You have part of my attention. The other part is back at Facebook headquarters where my colleagues and I are doing things that nobody in this room including and especially your clients are intellectually or creatively capable of. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?""

I saw this part in a trailer and it annoyed me, because no one talks like that and the guy saying it looked like such a huge douchebag that I'm pretty sure I couldn't bear to see the rest of the movie if it had anywhere near the same levels of condescending witty banter, which it seemed to. Maybe if at the end the Zuckerberg guy got hit by a train it would be ok I guess, but I don't wanna watch a movie about an asshole who ends up with a billion dollar company.

10/7/2010 9:52:25 AM

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"it annoyed me, because no one talks like that"

not an Aaron Sorkin fan, huh?

10/7/2010 1:20:28 PM

As a history major, one thing about this movie that I think is fiction is that it portrays Zuckerberg as having this "grand vision" so early in the game. The oldschool TheFacebook (I joined January 2005) was intended to be somewhat tight-knit, and from what I remember firsthand there was significant debate as to whether it should expand beyond colleges.

Remember the old "how do you know John Smith?" box that would pop up? And if you clicked "I don't know him" then it wouldn't add him as a friend iirc. Remember when groups were only for your own school? In the movie Zuckerberg starts talking about his vision for photo albums and tagging people in late 2004. But that feature didn't come until late 2005 from what I remember. And in the beginning, people at Harvard are like "Facebook me" and I never heard anyone use the term as a verb until at least 2006.

I think Zuckerberg was feeling his way along like any normal person would. The movie shows him as a decisive visionary, a "man with a plan."

10/7/2010 6:22:22 PM

just saw this.

Liked it a lot.

10/8/2010 11:20:07 PM

Enjoyed it. One question: A couple of different times I heard them mention people called "VCs". What are those?

10/8/2010 11:47:10 PM

Venture Capitalists?

10/9/2010 7:55:35 AM

finally saw it...great movie

i really liked the rowing race scene

i feel like that scene put the way our society is moving with the advances in technology into a visual metaphor

also the chicken parts were hilarious

10/11/2010 12:20:16 AM

See this movie.

10/11/2010 12:30:25 AM

also kudos for using accurate programming lingo and not having the computers make crazy futuristic sounds while people were programming

10/11/2010 12:50:27 AM

it was a good movie, i dont think its great, but very enjoyable

10/11/2010 1:20:06 AM

^^Dude, I thought the same thing.

I expected the hacking scenes to be like something out of Firewall.

10/11/2010 3:04:33 AM

I liked this movie, definitely didn't feel like 2 hours.

I've read varying opinions on the score, but I thought it was pretty damn good

10/11/2010 9:55:01 AM

Awesome movie! Good script, good score, good acting. Inspired me to pursue an idea of my own I've had for a while.

10/13/2010 4:30:39 PM

LOVEEED the movie. felt sorry for eduardo, though. good guy, zuck screwed him over.

10/17/2010 12:45:40 PM

saw it the other night. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

the "plugged in" reference is pretty true for myself when i code. It seems to you really get into it and if you get pulled out of the zone you lose it.

10/18/2010 12:46:43 PM

^I'm the same way as an engineer. Especially when I am creating calculators using excel/VB (which I guess is coding, just in a much more elementary manner to what you are talking about...). I just need to have my earbuds in and focus, focus, focus on what I'm doing. If someone stops by my desk and has questions, it totally kills the productivity for awhile; it really takes awhile to get back to the same level too. You just build this momentum that keeps you performing at a really high rate I guess.

[Edited on October 18, 2010 at 1:13 PM. Reason : .]

10/18/2010 1:09:59 PM

I like the soundtrack...haven't seen the movie

10/19/2010 11:58:59 PM

Finally saw this movie last night...enjoyed it VERY much. Comment time...

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"I saw this part in a trailer and it annoyed me, because no one talks like that and the guy saying it looked like such a huge douchebag that I'm pretty sure I couldn't bear to see the rest of the movie if it had anywhere near the same levels of condescending witty banter, which it seemed to. Maybe if at the end the Zuckerberg guy got hit by a train it would be ok I guess, but I don't wanna watch a movie about an asshole who ends up with a billion dollar company."

Eh...dumb reason not to see the movie. Lot of that dialogue in there...and yes he ends up with a ton of money, but it also portrays him as a very pathetic individual socially.

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"In the movie Zuckerberg starts talking about his vision for photo albums and tagging people in late 2004. But that feature didn't come until late 2005 from what I remember."

I thought he only mentioned putting the photos up...I don't think I heard him say anything about "tagging." And there's a difference between talking about the feature and actually making it available on facebook. I'm sure it might have taken him a year to perfect it and make it available on the website. Also, I'm sure it could have been up a little while before people actually began using it.

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"And in the beginning, people at Harvard are like "Facebook me" and I never heard anyone use the term as a verb until at least 2006."

Did you go to Harvard during that time?? I started hearing "facebook me" when I actually started using facebook more and my friends did as well (out of college for a year, just starting grad school). That campus was probably going nuts over facebook. I can see that term becoming of use a lot quicker at the school it originated at than in other parts of the country/world.

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"LOVEEED the movie. felt sorry for eduardo, though. good guy, zuck screwed him over."

Meh...I feel sorry for him in actually getting screwed over and losing a friend...but Zuckerberg seemed like he sucked anyways, good time to cut his losses on that friendship. And I'm going to assume Eduardo got PAID big time. If the Winklevii got $67 million and they weren't even suppose to be a 30% partner, I can he got substantially more as well as the reinstating of being "co-founder." Who knows, he probably still has decent stock in the company. Doh...just found this:

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"He owns a 5% share of Facebook, worth $1.3 billion USD as of October 7, 2010."

I'd be retired now if I were him. Damn, must be nice.

I thought the Winklevii were awesome. Those guys were like robots. Also...Rooney Mara is smokin hot! And I always love me some Rashida Jones. Wonder how much they paid her for a pretty small role...figured they could have gotten someone less known for a better price. When I saw her, I immediately though, "Oh snap...she's going to bang Zuckerberg by the end." Little disappointed not to see her in sex scene.

11/11/2010 12:12:58 PM

You really thought they were going to bang?

You had a better chance of seeing James Franco deep throat Sean Penn in Milk

11/11/2010 12:20:45 PM

Just trying to justify why they gave Rashida such a small role, that's all.

11/11/2010 12:31:30 PM

wow, movie was much better than i expected. They did their homework on the computer jargon.

is there anything though that shows how much of it was true? did he buckle the network by hosting a webapp on it, etc.?

12/20/2010 1:15:13 AM

There's a couple major discrepancies between the real story and the fictionalized one, and they're all pretty open and you can look around for them (wikipedia will tell you the major differences--his best friend in the movie wasn't the case in real life). As far as Zuckerberg's personality, most people that know him say that it was exaggerated and fictionalized for the movie (the jury is still out--still, it was made pretty obvious that some things were changed to make it a better paced film).

12/20/2010 5:16:03 PM

setemup

12/24/2010 11:38:34 PM