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Author Topic: Social Network, The (2010) Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2011 10:17 AM                        I can, there was nothing special at all about his performance. Anyone could have done it.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-25-2011 02:18 PM                    Joe-We know you couldn't pull it off, there would be too many one-liners  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-27-2011 12:00 AM                        I find it amusing how you refer to yourself in the plural-tense. And I can be a dick to the nth degree. The role would be too easy.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-27-2011 12:34 AM                     I'd say that Timberlake's part was performed adequately. But adequate isn't "Oscar-deserving."  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-01-2011 08:15 PM                    We finally watched this last night. My wife wanted to see it. I was indifferent to it. So we rented it... I don't get it. The score was great? What score? I don't even remember anything about the score. You could play it for me now along with a bunch of other scores that I've never heard and I don't think I could tell you which one was for this movie. The main character was somewhat interesting to me, and on some levels I can kind of relate to him... but I didn't really care about him. Overall, I found this movie to be boring. I don't think I cared about any of the characters come to think of it. How this movie ended up being mentioned in the same sentence as The King's Speech is a real mystery to me.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-01-2011 09:44 PM                        The score is special because it is by Trent Rez Nor. He was the star of some heavy metal band back in the 90's named after a phallic symbol the members were obsessed with. Same music by someone else and it would not be considered special. He cleans up well since he lost the girly make-up, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-01-2011 10:42 PM                     Trent Reznor's music isn't for everyone. The music score to The Social Network isn't radio friendly pop music. I liked the score for its unconventional style and how it still fit the movie. So many movie music scores, even Oscar winning scores, have the usual traditional orchestral sound and are often endlessly repetitive. Roger Ebert said this about the score and its Oscar win on his web site: quote: Roger Ebert Original score went to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for "The Social Network," an urgent composition that drove the film's headlong momentum. Its strength was to serve the film almost single-mindedly; nobody left humming it, or perhaps even particularly remembering it, but that was a strength. I also have another theory why some Oscar voters chose to honor Trent Reznor: he has been pretty friendly to the movie industry since the early 1990s allowing them to use his music in movies and in the marketing of certain movies. The first movie trailer for 300 was arguably better than the movie itself. The Nine Inch Nails instrumental Just Like You Imagined off The Fragile really set the tone for the trailer. The "precursor" mix of the NIN song Closer is integral to the opening title sequence of Seven. I like the soundtrack to David Lynch's Lost Highway a lot more than the movie. Nine Inch Nails has a couple tunes on that. Man on Fire lifted music out the The Fragile album. There are theories about there being more to Paul Newman getting his Best Actor Oscar for The Color of Money than just the performance in that movie. He made Hollywood a shit load of money over a few decades. Helen Hunt won an Oscar in As Good As It Gets not long after she starred in Twister a movie that made a lot of money but a movie I have an increasingly difficult time watching because it seems to get worse with each viewing. Anyway, it seems a little like the "you scratch my back I scratch yours" thing at work.  |  IP: Logged Tony Gallimore Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Willis, Virginia, USA Registered: Jul 2009 posted 03-03-2011 01:46 AM                     Mixed feelings all the way around. The storyline was weak in development as was Zuckerberg's characterization. Is Zuckerberg really that dull? Don't think so. I'm not a participating Facebooker, and I wasn't enticed to become one. No sale for me!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-03-2011 02:00 PM                        I agree with Ebert about the score driving the film's momentum, because without it, the movie has next to none.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-04-2011 10:54 PM                    I would say that the bits streaming off of the satellite into my TV did more to propel the momentum of the movie than the score did.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 03-05-2011 01:37 AM                    I really liked the score. I think it is outstanding! I really liked the movie as well and wrote and predicted that it would win for Best Picture which of course it didn't.  |  IP: Logged

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