The Social Network

  On 7/17/2010 at 4:05 AM, Overand said:

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.

what did that have to do with fincher? it was all in the writing.

I'm sure the pitch was "Everyone is on facebook, so everyone will want to see this movie"... but I suspect they've widely overestimated the number of people interested in startup culture.

That said, this will be a hit with the venture captial / tech startup / blogger crowd. (even if it's terrible... especially if it's terrible.)

  On 7/21/2010 at 6:44 PM, kaini said:

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept

that number seems so small compared to the 1 and a half billion people with internet access

  On 7/21/2010 at 8:58 PM, plstik said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 6:44 PM, kaini said:

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept

that number seems so small compared to the 1 and a half billion people with internet access

SO that would be 1/3 of the internet population that has a facebook. How is that small?

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:30 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 8:58 PM, plstik said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 6:44 PM, kaini said:

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept

that number seems so small compared to the 1 and a half billion people with internet access

 

SO that would be 1/3 of the internet population that has a facebook. How is that small?

depends if you're using the long or short scale for billion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

aw shit, I alway get that mixed up

one billion is just 10^9 instead of 10^12...thats what billion means in germany

*fades in shame*

  On 6/30/2010 at 1:00 AM, baph said:

Sorkin is writing, and Sorkin can be insightful, although I'm not really a huge fan.

 

I really loved the detached, matter-of-fact, info-overload style Fincher was starting to bring to the table with Zodiac, which I think is his best and most mature film by a long shot (I haven't seen that one about reverse-progeria). This could be a good chance to expand on that.

 

But that teaser made me pretty disinterested.

Baph you are wholly cool. For starters mentioning Sorkin, then moving on to name Zodiac as Fincher's best, expertly avoiding the by now cliched and wholly uncool teenage angsty Fight Club. But to bypass the movie's name (Benjamin Button) and solely mention with big words the intricate film matter. Marvelous! You get the days prize of coolness and intellectua...ality

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:36 PM, kaini said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:30 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 8:58 PM, plstik said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 6:44 PM, kaini said:

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept

that number seems so small compared to the 1 and a half billion people with internet access

 

SO that would be 1/3 of the internet population that has a facebook. How is that small?

 

depends if you're using the long or short scale for billion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

what the fuck...

this exists?

????????????

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:52 PM, iamabe said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:36 PM, kaini said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:30 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 8:58 PM, plstik said:

  On 7/21/2010 at 6:44 PM, kaini said:

facebook hit 500 million users today. jesus wept

that number seems so small compared to the 1 and a half billion people with internet access

 

SO that would be 1/3 of the internet population that has a facebook. How is that small?

 

depends if you're using the long or short scale for billion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

 

what the fuck...

 

this exists?

 

????????????

  On 7/19/2010 at 8:46 PM, karmakramer said:

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.

there aren't any blue peop aliens in this one.

Watch Suckerberg being all sweet saying that what matters is to see all these people sharing stories, connecting, blah blah...

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The facebook CEO was caught saying in IM transcript saying that users were dumb fu**ks to easily entrust him personal information like name, address, photos, email, and other contact details]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNCBqAoIV0

  On 7/21/2010 at 10:51 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 7/19/2010 at 8:46 PM, karmakramer said:

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.

 

 

there aren't any blue peop aliens in this one.

Man you are hilarious!

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The facebook CEO was caught saying in IM transcript saying that users were dumb fu**ks to easily entrust him personal information like name, address, photos, email, and other contact details]

he's right though.

  On 7/22/2010 at 12:07 AM, the anonymous forumite said:

Watch Suckerberg being all sweet saying that what matters is to see all these people sharing stories, connecting, blah blah...

 

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The facebook CEO was caught saying in IM transcript saying that users were dumb fu**ks to easily entrust him personal information like name, address, photos, email, and other contact details]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNCBqAoIV0

zuckerberg reads from a teleprompter and shakes his head "no, no, no" for one minute and twenty-eight seconds.

just wait until 4chan gets a hold of facebook stories

maybe if this movie goes well, fincher will make a new movie about joyrex and the founding of watmm.

  On 7/22/2010 at 2:40 AM, jules said:

maybe if this movie goes well, fincher will make a new movie about joyrex and the founding of watmm.

i can see it now

  On 7/21/2010 at 9:41 PM, AJW said:

  On 6/30/2010 at 1:00 AM, baph said:

Sorkin is writing, and Sorkin can be insightful, although I'm not really a huge fan.

 

I really loved the detached, matter-of-fact, info-overload style Fincher was starting to bring to the table with Zodiac, which I think is his best and most mature film by a long shot (I haven't seen that one about reverse-progeria). This could be a good chance to expand on that.

 

But that teaser made me pretty disinterested.

 

Baph you are wholly cool. For starters mentioning Sorkin, then moving on to name Zodiac as Fincher's best, expertly avoiding the by now cliched and wholly uncool teenage angsty Fight Club. But to bypass the movie's name (Benjamin Button) and solely mention with big words the intricate film matter. Marvelous! You get the days prize of coolness and intellectua...ality

I. . .

  On 7/22/2010 at 3:04 AM, kaini said:

  On 7/22/2010 at 2:40 AM, jules said:

maybe if this movie goes well, fincher will make a new movie about joyrex and the founding of watmm.

 

i can see it now

the first rule of rules club is - read the rules

ahahahaha. awesome.

trent reznor score

( with atticus )

what's with the last 2 fincher movies looking like they were extremely desaturated in color? his previous movies like The Game, Alien 3 and even Fight Club had what seemed to be a much more distinct visual look. The Game specially made excellent use of all different types of lighting.

Surprise surprise... 100% rating on rotten tomatoes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/

  On 9/27/2010 at 11:56 PM, Awepittance said:

what's with the last 2 fincher movies looking like they were extremely desaturated in color? his previous movies like The Game, Alien 3 and even Fight Club had what seemed to be a much more distinct visual look. The Game specially made excellent use of all different types of lighting.

He normally uses a different cinematographer for all his movies, but he brought back Jeff Cronenweth for The Social Network. He was the ASC for Fight Club.

Well, his two last movies are somehow "period" movies (Zodiac and Button), he took a lot of the fluorescent lighting out of them.

Basically, Fincher likes Yellow + Black / Green + Black and fluorescent lighting. The Game/Seven/Fight Club/Panic Room all look like that.

Zodiac is an hommage to All the President's Men.

Alien³ was all reds but that's for the gothic/industrial age aspect