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Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and I discuss The Social Network on the tenth anniversary of the film’s release. We did about one and a half hours and dove into into the movie, which is still as fresh and relevant today as it was ten years ago. It’s a film I watched around 30 or so times in 2010, partly because I loved it but also because I was perplexed by its completeness. I put it to the test to bore me, annoy me or lose my attention but all it ever did was dazzle me. And as readers of this site well remember, we mostly went down with the ship in 2010.
Next time we’ll be going over the films of David Fincher’s career prior to the Social Network (The Game, Seven, Fight Club, Panic Room, Benjamin Button).
Have a listen.
I still prefer The King’s Speech as the most deserving masterpiece of the two, of sweeping the Oscars (specially Picture, Director and Lead Actor). Eissenberg’s nomination still looks to me as a joke, when Garfield and Timberlake were SOOOO much deserving in the same film and where snubbed. Still, absolutely outstanding dialogues by Sorkin (as usual) and Fincher found a way to make entertaining a what in other hands than Sorkin and Fincher would have become a quite mediocre and boring film (just check out Jobs, to compare… thank God for “Steve Jobs” later on).