the social network, hi jc Options

[gojira]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/board/flat/171736274

did anybody watch this? i thought it was surprisingly good. reasons why you should go see it? 1) the script was well written 2) the scenes were shot beautifully and i very much enjoyed the soundtrack 3) good acting


did anybody notice rooney mara playing his girlfriend? she's going to be lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo

[sixfive]

did the include the part where he said people were f*cking stupid for trusting him with credit cards and all their personal information?

[heyo-captain-jac...]

did the include the part where he said people were f*cking stupid for trusting him with credit cards and all their personal information?

no

it had a few strong points (ie it actually showed hacking as something other than sitting in front of a green terminal while typing nonsensical code) but other than that it was just Antitrust with different characters.

[mipadi]

it had a few strong points (ie it actually showed hacking as something other than sitting in front of a green terminal while typing nonsensical code) but other than that it was just Antitrust with different characters.

The Social Network was nothing like Antitrust. I'll start with the point that The Social Network wasn't a murder mystery and work my way up from there if I have to.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

The Social Network was nothing like Antitrust. I'll start with the point that The Social Network wasn't a murder mystery and work my way up from there if I have to.

Antitrust hardly had a mystery to it.

In any case, the murder in Antitrust was just symbolic and in all honesty the movie would have made just as much sense if the main character was trying to find out who egged his house.

I suppose you didn't see the connection between Avatar and Pocahontas either?

[mipadi]

I suppose you didn't see the connection between Avatar and Pocahontas either?

Wow, we got a regular film sleuth over here. You must read a lot of blogs or somethin'.

But really, the only similarities between Antitrust and The Social Network are that each features a CEO who isn't afraid to step on a few people to make it to the top. But the difference -- and thematically, this is a major element -- is that the CEO in Antitrust hurts people he doesn't like or doesn't know or doesn't give a shit about, whereas the CEO in The Social Network -- and this is crucial -- is willing to betray people close to him, like his best friend and the only girl he really ever loved, in order to make it to the top. That makes all the difference: anyone can kill people they don't know, but not everyone will throw their best friends to the wolves. Because of that, Antitrust becomes little more than a thriller, whereas The Social Network gets allusions to Citizen Kane (which I think are unfounded, but that's beside the point).

I won't even go into the stark cinematographic differences between the two films.