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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Social Network just won the Oscar

I do believe they will win, but that was just a fun expression. And I don't really bet money. :)

But if there is a lock, I'd say it is the score of TSN.
 
New York Press film critic Armond White really had issues
with the movie..agree or disagree..he makes his points..
he titled his review: Creeps As Heroes

http://www.nypress.com/article-21676-creeps-as-heroes.html

...Not Soul Man, Harvard Man nor The Paper Chase—all movies that “got Harvard” to varying instructive degrees—The Social Network is simply Hollywood’s way, post-Obama, of sanctioning Harvard’s “masters of the universe” mystique. It’s an attempt at glorifying a contemporary aristocracy-cum-plutocracy through flattery of Zuckerberg and his ilk. Ironically, these are the same shameless tycoons Oliver Stone takes out with sniper precision in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (a title that also fits this Facebook legend).

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It’s really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness. That’s why it evades Zuckerberg’s background timidity and the mess that the Internet has made of cultural discourse. In interviews, Sorkin brags about the multiple narrative and Fincher has even invoked Citizen Kane—both are grandstanding excuses for Zuckerberg’s repeated masturbatory request for friendship—a mawkish George Clooney ending. Here’s the truth: Kane was not about a brat’s betrayal, but about a sensitive braggart’s psychological and philosophical shift inward. The Social Network is more like Hollywood’s classic film industry self-romance The Bad and the Beautiful. Yet that Kane-lite film never excused its bad-boy protagonist’s sins and ended magnanimously by converging his three injured parties’ points of view into one beautifully clarifying narrative. It admitted our cultural compromises; this is TV-trite. In The Social Network, creepiness is heroized.
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I don't think he does make his point. I think he, as people do and are entitled to, either mis-interpreted the film or interpreted the film with his bias. I am personally very critical of Hollywood, and critical of governmental bias. I saw what Sorkin write as a true tragedy. I do believe, as crazy as it sounds if Shakespeare were around today it is the kind of story he would have taken great delight in telling.

Disregarding my bias for love of RED, I would not sing its praises for the simple reason of Fincher, Rezner, Sorkin et al. I think it tells the story of an era, with the backdrop of true human nature - driven by flaws of its character.
 
Paolo Tinari said:
The man is my screenwriting king. Watched the whole Studio 60 few weeks ago, some amazing writing moments there. And he was even just out of freebase at that time!
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I loved Studio 60, then again I love Sorkin's writing. I get the same thrill from hearing his words spoken as hearing a cantata like Carmina Burana.

On the subject of Armond White though, most people have disdain for critics who have wronged them...I wrote a very long rant which I deleted because well who wants to read it...by actually writing and posting a long rant about a film critic is not only giving credit to someone who swims in the bile of negativity, but its a waste of not only my creative time but yours too. Anyway it akin to writing a book about a serial killer.

If you don't know much about the guy look him up and read some of his reviews. I refuse to give credence to the guy.

Maybe he wasn't breast fed, I don't know. I'll leave that for his therapist to figure out.

http://www.nypress.com/article-21905-black-sheep-vs-black-swan.html
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/in_defense_of_armond_white.html
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/11/armond-white-darren-aronofsky-nyfcc-awards/

EDIT: I do just want to slide one thing in though, cause i can't help it. The guy thinks AI is the best film ever made. That speaks volumes. Someone who thinks AI is the best film ever made is a sheep to the collective emotional vanguard that is Spielberg-esq storytelling.
 
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