Posted on 09/28/2010 2:21:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, plotting Internet dominance with Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in "The Social Network." After emerging from a screening last week of the highly anticipated "The Social Network" -- the dramatization of the evolution of Facebook that, for the record, is every bit as compelling as all the buzz suggests -- I overheard two women engaged in animated chatter.
"Such a jerk," I heard one of them tell the other, clearly referring to Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook co-founder who, as portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in the movie, comes across as an opportunistic, speed-talking, insecure little weasel.
Then I overheard this same, clearly agitated woman say something really interesting. She told her movie-going companion that she would "never spend time on that Web site" again, implying that Zuckerberg's behavior -- again, at least as portrayed in the film -- had completely turned her off of Facebook.
The two women, ,who looked to be in their fifties, didn't necessarily strike me as the sort of online addicts that spend entire afternoons avidly "liking" comments and posting viral videos on their friends' walls. Still, the comment made me wonder whether "The Social Network" -- a film that very publicly airs all the ugliness involved in launching the Web site that made everyone in the world our potential friends -- will turn some social networkers against Facebook.
A look at other movies that have dared to criticize corporate entities suggests that Facebook will be just fine.
McDonald's continues to serve plenty of Big Macs and Quarter Pounders, despite all the unsavory details about its food that were revealed in "Super Size Me." During challenging economic times, apparently people still want their cheap burgers and fries, regardless of whether they temporarily affected Morgan Spurlock's health.
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How is a movie about “facebook” groundbreaking? It is revisionist history to pretend that Myspace, Friendster, and even AOL did not exist long beforehand.
I’m turned off by the radio ad campaign that has pull quotes from the characters saying things like “this is OUR time!”
Ego driven hyperbole. Crap.
The Fox News report on Zuckerberg by Megyn Kelly leaves little doubt that Zuckerberg is a thief. He was hired by the 2 brothers who invented it to write code, and instead, stole the whole thing. Crime DOES pay.....6.9 Billion worth, in this case.
No because those of us who use it are addicted.
Must check for updates...
Super Size Me was a film targeted to people who wouldn't think of eating McDonald's in the first place. It played to their prejudices and confirmed their fears of meat and consumerism.
The Social Network is a dramatization targeted to a youth audience.
And what about the Hillary Clinton expose?
movie sounds boring
A student at a school I attended sometime in the past century created a local social network for fellow students. He also kept a bit of an eye on what was being posted between friends "privately" and would delete negative comments emailed about him and otherwise violate privacy. He was permitted to graduate if I recall but he was exposed and punished.
Again, nothing new. Not even for New England.
MORE bullstalin hyperbole. A film about the media's tossing Fornigate into File 13 until it was handed to Mike Drudge would be more "definitive" on what change the internet age has brought to mass media.
Is there Farmville animation in Facebook The Movies?
How about pokes?
If you're interested enough in Facebook to go see a movie about a Facebook, nothing in the movie is going to make you give up your Facebook fix.
It’s not going to hurt it at all. Meanwhile, the fastest growing demographic on facebook (right now) is 65 and up.
The SouthPark episode is all you need to skewer FaceBook.
LOL.
The took the pokes out under the threat of a XXX rating.
“Will the Facebook movie hurt Facebook’s business?”
I don’t know, but that reminds me I need to go check my facebook page RIGHT NOW!
I am on FB mainly so I can see lots of photos and vids of my grandson, but I would certainly not be interested in the movie.
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