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Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:55:32 +0000

I think a movie about the rise and fall of Commodor would be great. They went from being THE computer company in the mid to late 80's to being completely broke and out of business by the mid 90's. The people running that company at the end either botched it because they were complete morons or (and this is the popular opinion, I think) the guy running it decided he could make more money by driving it into the ground than keeping it successful.

There's a home video out there on the web (edited on an amiga, I think... hehe) where one of the engineers recorded the last day of work, the party afterward and a get-together at one of their houses a week or so later. Intercut with the home video are title cards explaining some of the key moments of the rise and fall of the company. Toward the end of the video a lot of them are drunk and they start doing some pretty crazy shit. Then they burn an effigy of the owner.

It's like The Wicker Man for computer nerds.

Here's a trailer for it. The full movie was on Google video, but I think google has scrubbed most of the content from that older service.

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Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (avatar) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:31:24 +0000

So after Social Network and the Steven Jobs biopic, we'll get the Larry Page and Sergey Brin buddy movie.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (avatar) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:23:39 +0000

It's also fascinating how Pirates of Silicon Valley started with Steve Jobs being a drugged out hippy while Bill Gates was a ruthless unscrupulous businessman/nerd, and yet it turned out that Gates (through his philanthropy in Africa) actually walked the talk, whereas Steve Jobs' desire to 'give something back' was never apparent right up to the very end.

PoSV paints Jobs like a unstable Californian religious guru. If not Apple, then an Evangelical mega-church.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (paulou) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:54:34 +0000

I've never seen Pirates of Silicon Valley, but in any Jobs movie worth a damn that story would only serve as the first act.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Matt Vayda) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:21:52 +0000

We might get more with the Steve Jobs biopic, but from what I've heard they're basically just re-making PoSV. I could be (and hope I am) wrong. PoSV does an admirable job of telling the story of the rise of Apple and Microsoft, and I can see the biopic sort of taking over from there. On the other hand, PoSV is trying to tell that story from several angles, Steve Jobs being just one of the players involved.

At any rate I agree, the ending is a bit off. You can find footage of that very conference on YouTube, and it doesn't come across nearly as menacing as the film makes it out to be.

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And just look at where Apple is now. Yeah, I think they've done alright since then.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (avatar) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:32:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip re: Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). Enjoyed it. Needs a sequel though, as it ends with Windows vanquishing Apple.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Dave) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:55:56 +0000

Holy crap, I'm not the only person who will go and watch a film based entirely on Trent Reznor featuring in the soundtrack.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Matt Vayda) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:40:32 +0000

Enjoyed the film, for many of the same reasons mentioned. Great script, great director, great music, well done all around.

Also, if you're a fan of Mr. Garfield go get caught up on Doctor Who, he's in a two-parter:

Season 3, Episode 5 & 6

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (avatar) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:53:58 +0000

Great commentary dudes - would like to hear more commentaries on Fincher and Ridley Scott films if you ever get the time.

Just a quick addendum - The Insider (Michael Mann) is another "recent period" movie made just after the actual events portrayed in the movie. In fact, the time period between the events depicted in The Insider and the movie is even shorter than The Social Network.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Doctor Submarine) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:56:40 +0000

The official website for the film, 500millionfriends.com, has the screenplay available for free download. That's where I got it from.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (redxavier) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:48:22 +0000

I didn't much like this movie. Mainly because the central character is an unlikeable douchebag and the film never seems to know how to handle it. It never seeks to explain why he's acting the way he does and what motivates him - he appears to be a dick because he wants to be. He's a borderline sociopath. The film seems to want to counteract this by making all the people he's up against equally unlikeable. Then at the end the film wants the audience to feel sorry for him, and this was a bit too forced and sudden for my liking.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Trey) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:25:28 +0000

Owen Ward wrote:

Budget:$1,000 (estimated)
Oh, I can't wait!

You don't have to, here it is. http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/66534 … -network-2

College Humor videos are often surprisingly good, but this one wasn't one of their better efforts.

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Owen Ward) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:09:51 +0000

Budget:$1,000 (estimated)

Oh, I can't wait!

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Xtroid) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:00:06 +0000

There's a sequel!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124069/

Re: The Social Network

null@example.com (Eddie) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:24:56 +0000

I wrote it before you guys got to that part. I was reacting to comments earlier in the commentary.