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| billyweeds |
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lshap wrote: billyweeds wrote: IMO Eisenberg is a major talent, Timberlake is a genuine star, and I don't know Garfield at all, except in Lions for Lambs (which can't be blamed on him).
No one I know has seen either film and has no clue who (Eisenberg) is. Sadly typical, I'd guess.
This will all change radically after he's nominated for the Oscar, as well as the movie's win as Best Picture. Btw, you can bet the farm on both.
lshap wrote: As to Timberlake, again, agree 100%. He's a rare pop star with brains, humour and minimal embarrassing moments. But I don't really know him as an actor.
Superb in the otherwise non-superb Alpha Dog. One of the best guest hosts in the history of SNL, only matched in recent seasons by Jon Hamm. Hamm and Timberlake as great comedians. Who woulda thunk it?
Timberlake is also a shoo-in for a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Haven't seen the movie and yet I know, I know. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:36 pm |
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As a person with no interest in being on Facebook..........I can't dredge up enthusiasm for this film.........but I do like Eisenberg alot and Timberlake has worthy chops.
I want to see Never Let me Go if it ever comes here.
Let me In might be less radically dark than Let the Right One In. I'll try it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:17 pm |
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The Social Network is a fine movie. Don't worry about it being about the founding of Facebook. You don't need to be into Facebook, MySpace or anything like that to like the movie, although it does help if you know what the Internet is. It does help if you know what Napster was, because Napster founder Sean Parker is the character played by Justin Timberlake, and he absolutely deserves an Oscar nomination. Eisenberg does too; he plays Zuckerman like he has a personality disorder (Asperger's most likely). He's not likeable, though for my money Parker is a lot more sinister; he may be a huge help but he's also a serpent in the Garden of Eden. If you are facing accusations of intellectual property theft, it may not be the greatest of ideas to have the founder of Napster as one of your closest advisers.
Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, Zuckerberg's best (only close?) friend and partner who provides Zuckerberg with the initial financing he needs and gradually finds himself shut out. Saverin comes off as sympathetic, but I think he was more open to the author of the book the movie is based on.
I'd say definitely one of the finalists for Oscar, with quite a few nominations, and I could easily see it winning Best Picture. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:18 pm |
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| Syd.........can't remember: how good have your oscar predictions been in the past? |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:27 pm |
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Betsy, you are such a skeptic. Of course Syd nails Oscar nominations. The Social Network (if you can trust 99% of the critics) is a lock for a nomination. Don't bother betting., you'll get negative odds.  |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:30 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Betsy, you are such a skeptic. Of course Syd nails Oscar nominations. The Social Network (if you can trust 99% of the critics) is a lock for a nomination. Don't bother betting., you'll get negative odds.
I do run into problems when the movie comes out in October, since so many nominations come from movies screened around the end of the year, but with ten nominees it should be a lock. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:16 pm |
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The Social Network didn't knock me out, but the acting is superb across the board. In a year of weak Hollywood product, expect TSN to receive Oscar nominations in all the major categories. Eisenberg, Timberlake, Fincher and Sorkin are sure bets to be nominated and all could easily win.
Saw a preview for The Coen Brothers' True Grit and it looks dynamite. Jeff Bridges stars. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:07 am |
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You were lucky. Most of the previews I saw sucked.
The Social Network will probably get nominated for cinematography and possibly editing. The editing doesn't call attention to itself, but I saw no editing flaws either. It flows well. I've read a lot of compliments on the score, which I didn't particularly notice, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm not sure how much is original.
Sound was impeccable. About the only thing interesting in visual effects is that the identical twins were played by the same actor. The film looks great. I'd say somewhere between six and twelve nominations, depending on whether there's a backlash. At the moment, I see nothing on the horizon to beat it.
On the other hand, I thought The Lovely Bones was a potential Oscar contender. Until I saw the reviews, which are not a problem for The Social Network. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:35 am |
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Unless for some unfathomable reason it bombs at the box office, there is no way in the world that The Social Network is not going to win Best Picture. It's a bet-everything-you-own-on-it lock. Checking boxofficemojo.com, I see that TSN has solid though unspectacular box office. That's good enough.
As for Oscar predictions, remember that it was I who predicted the Kathryn Bigelow victory as early as--I think--June, when I first saw The Hurt Locker. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:42 am |
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| The Social Network is fabulous and extremely timely (and in a sense a morality tale). It deserves many oscar nominations |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:44 am |
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| The Social Network and The Kids Are Alright are so far my favorite films (and IMHO the best films) of 2010 |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:26 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Unless for some unfathomable reason it bombs at the box office, there is no way in the world that The Social Network is not going to win Best Picture. It's a bet-everything-you-own-on-it lock. Checking boxofficemojo.com, I see that TSN has solid though unspectacular box office. That's good enough.
As for Oscar predictions, remember that it was I who predicted the Kathryn Bigelow victory as early as--I think--June, when I first saw The Hurt Locker.
The key difference is that you actually saw The Hurt Locker. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:12 pm |
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| Adoration, released in 2009 may be the more timely movie if it were to come out now. It has the "Are all Muslims terrorists issue' and the "Is information discussed on the internet real/true and does it generate insight and/or change in the participants and what about the ease of communicating about everything/anything?" |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:11 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
This will all change radically after he's nominated for the Oscar, as well as the movie's win as Best Picture. Btw, you can bet the farm on both.
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:40 pm |
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I wouldn't bet the farm on The Social Network -- or any other fillum -- winning (as opposed to being nominated for) the Racso this early. AMPAS will surely do the 10 picture Best Pic approach again, with the studios and agencies now prepared to market and strategize within that expanded field in ways that they weren't last year. There are already big DVD release pushes planned for The Kids Are All Right and Inception and various other early-to-midyear-issue moom pitchahs, and there's a slate of hugely well-regarded pix from the festivals coming down the For Your Consideration pike this fall --- for instance, John Cameron Mitchell's adaptation of Rabbit Hole,, with La Belle Nicole, Aaron Eckhardt and Dianne Wiest, which Toronto-attending criticalities received with the sort of awed enthusisam usually reserved for sightings of Christ on a tortilla, and that's just one example. It ain't over 'til December 31, after which it's likely to be a battle royale to make last year's Avatar-versus-Hurt Locker faceoff seem pallid by comparison.
Speaking of promising stage-to-screen adaptations, colleague Nikki Finke has some interesting news for next year:
Julia Roberts And Meryl Streep To Team In 'August: Osage County' |
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