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the social network
Friday, November 19, 2010 || 10:38 pm
My initial thoughts on the facebook movie, boldly titled 'the social network', were that it would be a lame, slow-moving and generally mediocre film. After sitting through the short trailer of the film in the cinemas, I was sure that my initial opinions were confirmed. After all, as my finance lecturer advised us: "your first guess is usually your best guess" - in answering multiple choice.
I saw a lot of good reviews of the movie on friends' facebook statuses (ironic, right?), but I still doubted it's ability to entertain, after all... it's not often that we like to give up 2 hours of our lives to sit through something boring. I mean, if we wanted to sit through boring things... we'd show up to all our lectures and tutorials at uni, right? Anyhow, so the movie was receiving a lot of good comments and although my boyfriend and I were still a bit skeptical about the story-line, we gave it the benefit of the doubt and downloaded it. Bahahaha. My thoughts on the movie? Keep reading.
The plot was developed excruciatingly slowly, not that many (if any) pretty chicks, and definitely confirmed the unconvincing story-line. The founders of facebook are now billionaires, and all they had to pay was $US65 million and everything would have been fine and dandy. They're not
just billionaires, but with 25 billion in their accounts, what is 65 million to them? Pretty sure it would have just been like giving away spare change to those pompous brothers and their petty minion.
I've learnt to go with my gut feeling.
Besides
the social network, Dylan and I have spent days on end watching a few movies here and there:
blair witch project 1 and 2,
the exorcism of emily rose,
and
the sorcerer's apprentice.
The exorcism of emily rose was fucking scary. I had to reaffirm myself that it was just a movie, and that the producers used a fine-tooth comb to pick out all the creepy details of the real story and amplified those elements ten-fold to produce what the movie became. I googled about the story, and confirmed that most of the movie was just special effects and the such.
Ooo... Yeah.
End of my little role as a film critic. HAHAHA. I'm so lame...
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