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Tonight I saw The Social Network
Re: Andrew Garfield - I get it now. This plus his comments on The Goonies have totally sold me.
The Social Network, to me, felt like an exercise in taking interesting, creative people with a unique storytelling method and then sucking all the creativity and uniqueness out of them. Aaron Sorkin, where are you in this movie? David Fincher, where did you go? There are good performances in this movie, and it has its moments, but the dialogue didn't grab me at all. Jesse Eisenberg does a good job with a difficult character, managing to dredge up sympathy, but Andrew Garfield is the heart and soul of this movie. Justin Timberlake, who I have liked in other things, feels kind of out of place in this. I felt uneasy watching it, as though it was being filtered through too many people to be clear about what it was aiming for. Also, there's a kind of casual sexism and misogyny that I really didn't like. Eduardo confronting Mark in the Facebook office and then scaring Sean is ten kinds of awesome, and there are some great, complex relationships built here, but it's also...kind of boring, a lot of the time.
3 out of 5
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Re: Andrew Garfield - I get it now. This plus his comments on The Goonies have totally sold me.
The Social Network, to me, felt like an exercise in taking interesting, creative people with a unique storytelling method and then sucking all the creativity and uniqueness out of them. Aaron Sorkin, where are you in this movie? David Fincher, where did you go? There are good performances in this movie, and it has its moments, but the dialogue didn't grab me at all. Jesse Eisenberg does a good job with a difficult character, managing to dredge up sympathy, but Andrew Garfield is the heart and soul of this movie. Justin Timberlake, who I have liked in other things, feels kind of out of place in this. I felt uneasy watching it, as though it was being filtered through too many people to be clear about what it was aiming for. Also, there's a kind of casual sexism and misogyny that I really didn't like. Eduardo confronting Mark in the Facebook office and then scaring Sean is ten kinds of awesome, and there are some great, complex relationships built here, but it's also...kind of boring, a lot of the time.
3 out of 5
Only a little Darren spam today.
Zip with 31 covers by Darren.
Zips with Darren's original songs.
Green Queen