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You couldn't tell from his speech? Wow. He insulted the public by saying that they aren't as smart as the people that make movies.

Are you talking about the "elites" line? Lol I thought maybe he had a left-leaning daughter who wanted to work with "The People" and he was saying this is where you need to be.
 

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Are you talking about the "elites" line? Lol I thought maybe he had a left-leaning daughter who wanted to work with "The People" and he was saying this is where you need to be.

No, that was after. This was part of his thanking Sony.
 

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Somehow I didn't catch that. What did he say? Sony ought to be thanking Aaron Sorkin. The Network made them a really big pot full of money.

Not sure what the exact quote was, but it was something like "thanks to Sony for showing that people who watch movies are at least as smart as those that make them." Doesn't sound right, but that's close.
 

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OK decided to finally watch this. It was a good movie overall. I did enjoy it even though I thought I wouldn't.

However there is no way in hell Jesse Eisenberg was even close to worthy of a Oscar nomination for this role. His nomination is a flat out joke. He wasn't bad. but he wasn't fantastic either. That role was the same throughout. Monotone and emotionless for the most part.Not bad by any means. But nothing impressive at all.
 
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I had absolutely no desire to see this film. In fact if it wasn't a David Fincher film i would have easily stayed away.
I was thoroughly engrossed(i like that word) by it. Very well done.
Best picture? Meh...not in my eyes.
 

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OK decided to finally watch this. It was a good movie overall. I did enjoy it even though I thought I wouldn't.

However there is no way in hell Jesse Eisenberg was even close to worthy of a Oscar nomination for this role. His nomination is a flat out joke. He wasn't bad. but he wasn't fantastic either. That role was the same throughout. Monotone and emotionless for the most part.Not bad by any means. But nothing impressive at all.

I agree. Jesse E in no way should be nominated. It felt like I was watching Zombieland again. I think the screenplay gave him lines that were so witty or whatever people thought he was acting well. People who never saw him in other movies. I also wonder why 1) Eduardo sounded like Baby Vader most of the time 2) why the last rowing sequence was necessary.

I also thought the ending was a bit of a cop out. But a decent show though highly overrated. Like most of A Sorkins work.
 

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OK decided to finally watch this. It was a good movie overall. I did enjoy it even though I thought I wouldn't.

However there is no way in hell Jesse Eisenberg was even close to worthy of a Oscar nomination for this role. His nomination is a flat out joke. He wasn't bad. but he wasn't fantastic either. That role was the same throughout. Monotone and emotionless for the most part.Not bad by any means. But nothing impressive at all.

I've never seen him in anything else, but have you seen the real Zuckerberg? There's a reason he was being monotone and emotionless, that's how the real guy is in real life. It's why he has this weird persona people don't know if he's cold blooded or just so intelligent and socially awkward that he doesn't get that he's being that way..

There's been several interviews done over the last year with former employees who basically say that's how he is, he's not very receptive to other ideas and he often leaves you feeling very small if he doesn't like your idea.
 

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Colin Firth farts in Eisenberg's general direction. Firth's performance in "King's Speech" (and A Single Man last year) was so much better of a performance it is not even funny.
 

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I've never seen him in anything else, but have you seen the real Zuckerberg? There's a reason he was being monotone and emotionless, that's how the real guy is in real life. It's why he has this weird persona people don't know if he's cold blooded or just so intelligent and socially awkward that he doesn't get that he's being that way..

There's been several interviews done over the last year with former employees who basically say that's how he is, he's not very receptive to other ideas and he often leaves you feeling very small if he doesn't like your idea.

That may be true. but from an acting standpoint it wouldn't be a hard role to pull off. I think him being up for an Oscar is just plain dumb.
 

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That may be true. but from an acting standpoint it wouldn't be a hard role to pull off. I think him being up for an Oscar is just plain dumb.

I haven't seen the other nominees so I can't judge. I guess I'm just saying I can't fault him for playing the role that way because that's how Zuckerberg actually is in real life.

in some ways if you're not that way in real life playing someone who is would be a stretch of your acting skill.

It's something they've talked about quite a bit in the bay area since it came out that while there's some dispute on how accurate the overall movie is, was it really that cut and dried he stole the idea etc, the one thing agreed upon is they nailed Zuckerberg's personality quirks. Even at a young age he seemed to show very little interest in what anybody else thought, it was his opinion that mattered.

I do think the weird thing with the girl who dumped him sort of goes against that though, why did HER opinion of him matter so much to him? Was she really the only person he ever cared enough about to value their opinion?
 

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Based on the best picture, actor and director nominations I was expecting a whole lot more from this movie. It was okay, but I think if it wasn't such a timely subject matter it wouldn't have made any waves.

In fact, because it's so steeped in something that has our attention now, I suspect this movie will be largely forgotten in 5-7 years.
 

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Pretty good movie. Like most movies today it was too long. Should have cut about 15-20 mins. off. I didn't like Timberlake in this movie at all. I thought his character was cartoonish.

Eisenberg was very good. His performance was much more nuanced than I expected. I thought his Oscar nomination was deserved.
 

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I had absolutely no desire to see this film. In fact if it wasn't a David Fincher film i would have easily stayed away.
I was thoroughly engrossed(i like that word) by it. Very well done.
Best picture? Meh...not in my eyes.

Yeah, the only thing that got me excited to watch this was that it was a Fincher film. Solid film, but no way was it Best Picture worthy.

Colin Firth farts in Eisenberg's general direction. Firth's performance in "King's Speech" (and A Single Man last year) was so much better of a performance it is not even funny.

Definitely.
 
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