Watching a biopic of someone my age: kind of creepy. Good movie, sure? Movie we'll ever compare to Citizen Kane again? No.

Citizen Kane is a big deal because it was the first to do a lot of things. TSN, while good, didn't change the way people make or watch movies. It's just a movie.

Ghostbusters said:

I know you guys are sick of me making threads about every movie I see

Are you comparing one of the greatest masterpieces of cinema to the facebook movie? Whaaat?

It's been done before. He's not the first.

In fact, here's a good argument for it. I hate the concept of a movie based on facebook, so I haven't seen it yet. No comment.

I can't stand the guy playing zuckenberg so I avoided it.

bkev said:

In fact, here's (link removed on request) a good argument for it.

I refuse to read that because it is on facebook. :p

Also, I think Kindergarten Cop is a modern day Gone With the Wind.

bah! I linked to something else of personal nature... fixed! I hope no one clicked that.

Ya want me to edit my post?

Yes please.

If the social network is a modern day citzen kane, then the world has truely gone to shit

bkev said:

Yes please.

Hey, you edited your answer!  Lucky for you I noticed :p

Nothing will ever be like Kane. Ever. Nothing can equal Welles's phenomenal energy on his first film. Even he couldn't. (Well, he did on Ambersons but then that was butchered. And he did on Shanghai but that was butchered. He even did on Touch of Evil and you can feel it in the restoration.)

And he did as Unicron in 1986.

We just saw The Social Network and I have to say I enjoyed it.  I assumed that the movie was more or less accurate (as accurate as movied based on true stories ever are) until I started looking at some controversy about it after seeing it.

I believe the "contract" that the movie establishes with its audience includes a clause that more or less says "These are real(-ish) people.  These are real(-ish) events.  This story is real(-ish)."  And, for me personally, my enjoyment of the movie was propped up on assuming that the movie held up its end of this contract.

Sorkin, the screenwriter, seemed to be of two minds on whether the film was accurate.  Early on he said the film was so accurate as to show Zuckerberg drinking the correct beer in certain scenes.  The wardrobe was proudly proclaimed to be extremely accurate.  But then later, Sorkin has publicly volunteered that he knows very little of Zuckerberg and that he wrote his movie to be entertaining, and didn't care too much for accuracy.  Huh?  He and Fincher have been very careful to refer to Zuckerberg in the movie as a "character which has little in common with the real life Zuckerberg".  Sorkin refered to his script and the movie as a (and I'm paraphrasing since 10 minutes didn't turn up the actual quote) "parable hung on the story of Zuckerberg [without it actually being the story of Zuckerberg]"

Anyways...

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/10/truth-and-the-art-of-the-social-network/64701/

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/09/21/the-social-network-screenwriter-sorkin-and-actors-discuss-film/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oK1yiXfc36UJ:www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-us-oscar-nominations-true-life-tales,0,5348881.story+social+network+screenwriter+accuracy&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

Inception is a modern day Citizen Kane.

TV's Frink said:

Inception is a modern day Citizen Kane.

Wait... does this mean you're a...

Darth Id said:

TV's Frink said:

Inception is a modern day Citizen Kane.

 

Are you being, like, sarcastic, dude?

You tell me.

Seconded.