Last movie you watched......

They ran through a bunch of directors, including M. Night and Cuaron, before Lee was ready to do it.

 

Different strokes. I saw the preview for this and thought "WTF?"

 

I'd forgotten that Shyamalan's name was connected to it.

I'll be interested to see it because I love the book so much.
Lee is a mixed bag as a director. His visual touch is always great, but sometimes he interferes with himself in his role as storyteller.

 

Watching The Social Network on FX.

Just an amazing movie that will be watched 100 or 200 years from now.

 

HC & I went to a pre-noon screening of The Master today. There were five of us in the theatre.

Both Phoenix and Hoffman are Oscar worthy---Phoenix in particular is brilliant. He seemed to embody the role of on-the-edge craziness. The way he walked, talked and had these funny little tics was pretty mesmerizing

Problem was trying to decipher the relationship between the two main characters.

Can understand why it didn't do well at the box office. A fairly bizarre film but the two performances were worth every penny.

 

Not sure that performance is much of a stretch for Phoenix.

 

It'll barely be remembered 10 years from now.

 

I saw it. Wasn't that great. But tonight ...

House of 1000 Corpses

Anybody wanna tell me what in the blue monkey fuck I just watched?

 

I think you are underestimating how Facebook has changed the way we function as a society.

Ask your IT department how many hits your stories are getting because of "likes" on Facebook.

 

But the movie isn't about that. That movie hasn't been made yet. Because that movie would be too boring for words.

"The Social Network" is a legal drama. It's the civil suit "A Few Good Men," if Jessup and the two kids had plea bargained at the end.

 

I think it uses the legal setting to tell the story of how Zuckerburg began formulating Facebook and how it grew as an idea.

To me, the best scenes are the "is she dating anyone?" and "try to buy something from a Tower Record."

I could have cared less about the law suit because we all knew how that was going to end.

 

'The Social Network' was well made movie that surprisingly wasn't ruined by Sorkin's dialogue.

Over time, it won't be as highly regarded. When it came out, people mistakenly believed the subject matter held some larger cultural, or even historical, significance. But it doesn't.