The Social Network

  On 7/15/2010 at 11:58 PM, vamos scorcho said:

you can see it poetically if you look at it the right way. the internet isn't all tits and farts and racist youtube comments. i've had romances that started/developed on the internet/facebook/aim. i think most people would say that they've experienced creeping on a crush, or something like that on facebook.

Did you mean to say "a beautifully amoral data-mining light being shined onto the formerly secret insides of our hearts as a society, at the behest of corporate and security interests"?

it can be seen that way too. i'm not going to wax cynical about it because that side is obvious and everyone talks about it.

there are different parts of the picture.

forget it though, keep farting and shitting, i like that stuff too.

also i deleted my facebook two months ago and haven't used it since. believe me when i say that i detest it in many ways

someone enlighten me on the poetry and grace of twitter

this thread is shakespeare

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:08 AM, Z_B_Z said:

someone enlighten me on the poetry and grace of twitter

  Quote

ACT I

SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.

FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO

BERNARDO

Who's there?

FRANCISCO

Nay, ans--

  On 7/15/2010 at 11:58 PM, vamos scorcho said:

you can see it poetically if you look at it the right way. the internet isn't all tits and farts and racist youtube comments. i've had romances that started/developed on the internet/facebook/aim. i think most people would say that they've experienced creeping on a crush, or something like that on facebook.

Don't read too much into a movie about Facebook. Just sayin'...

dont read too much into a film by david fincher. unless its zodiac.

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:00 AM, Overand said:

Radio head cover in face book film.

wat?

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:31 AM, jules said:

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:00 AM, Overand said:

Radio head cover in face book film.

 

wat?

The song in the second trailer. I was just kind of amused at the words rolled out. zeitgeisty.

it's got the yellow Fincher tint

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:21 AM, Z_B_Z said:

zodiac

most underrated fincher film

im thinking, 7 and fightculb woulda suck if david fincher did not have Darius Kondji as a DOP,

same goes for oliver stone with Robert richardson as his DOP, Alexander sucked balls cuz he had The DOP for brokeback mountain

Alien³ (director's cut version) = most underrated Fincher.

Oh wait, The Game, no? Oh wait... Panic Room... err nah not really. So let's see, Zodiac, no?

ARGH!!

  On 7/15/2010 at 11:58 PM, vamos scorcho said:

the internet isn't all tits and farts and racist youtube comments

this is not provable

Fincher in vitriolic humor mode is usually pretty amazing. I have high hopes that this'll be as funny as the first half of Fight Club.

  On 7/15/2010 at 11:58 PM, vamos scorcho said:

you can see it poetically if you look at it the right way. the internet isn't all tits and farts and racist youtube comments. i've had romances that started/developed on the internet/facebook/aim. i think most people would say that they've experienced creeping on a crush, or something like that on facebook.

I think you'll find you shouldn't make generalizations without any form of statistics to back you up. I'd also say that given most people in the world don't have a facebook account, you're very wrong.

  On 7/16/2010 at 12:02 AM, baph said:

  On 7/15/2010 at 11:58 PM, vamos scorcho said:

you can see it poetically if you look at it the right way. the internet isn't all tits and farts and racist youtube comments. i've had romances that started/developed on the internet/facebook/aim. i think most people would say that they've experienced creeping on a crush, or something like that on facebook.

 

Did you mean to say "a beautifully amoral data-mining light being shined onto the formerly secret insides of our hearts as a society, at the behest of corporate and security interests"?

Don't let any applications have any permissions, let only most aspects of your profile be seen by friends and for gods sake don't play mafia wars or farmville. Oh and log out of facebook before using the net.

I'm pretty sure this movie will be shit but I still want to see it. To see how shit it is.

More I watch the trailer, the more I think this is going to be one of the best of the year.

  On 7/4/2010 at 11:25 AM, troon said:

in many ways i agree with you about this chen - i should treat the watmm community with the sincerity and respect that i would any other community i interact with - i am not perfect (yet) and get carried

away in my passions and lawless banter sometimes like many do - i am human and my fleshiness and lower physical nature sometimes gets the best of me - i'm working on this just like i'm

sure you are maybe working on many things in yourself regarding the human being you aspire to be. i appreciate the chance you provided me to have a glance into the mirror and introspect on

who i truly am

i do not know if i can take anymore of this lawless banter.

It's Fincher so I'm fucking in.

Benjamin Button destroyed, entirely, the notion that Fincher was incapable of making a really terrible film.

you'd better strap in vergas ...

I still think its hilarious that because some know the basic story of who/how facebook started, they think this film will be boring. This could be one of the more thought provoking films this year, reflecting our current culture/generation, and probably not in good light. This one feels like its going to more akin to Fight Club, but founded on a true story.

  On 7/19/2010 at 9:01 PM, xxx said:

There is plenty of really heinous stuff associated with FB, not the least of which is how Zuckerberg put it, in its first iterations, for your privacy to be "split beaver" by default, when anyone passing that through ethics muster would cry foul. Now, like the Apple thing, no one put a gun to your head to sign up but there is this "good faith" clause that umbrellas everything we do and violating it is just assholish.

 

I never knew that it came down to him versus his friends with FB rights and that winding up in court--I'd like to read about it first before the dramatics of a movie get ahold of it.

 

I also don't know this for sure but, obviously, the reason he didn't take the millions, billions is because he knew he could make that in seconds a hundred times over with deals with egregious data miners like Google. At least, that would have been my thinking. We all here at WATMM really underestimate our savviness--we proxy our torrents and pr0n, we know how to make privacy settings iron-clad, plenty of us even dabble in shit like DoS. The other 99% of the web using world is going..."DEE OH ESS? lol wut?"

lol I don't know shit about proxying.

I never knew of the legal struggles either. I hope the film isn't all just legal drama though. I want commentary about how facebook makes us more socially self conscious assholes and red-cup party whores. or something

particularly epic trailer you have to admit

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept