29th September 2010, 10:40 PM
I assume this is the movie about the people who created Facebook? It looks rather dull. This isn't the first sort of movie like this. It reminds me of all those other "latch onto an internet fad" movies, like "You've Got Mail" or that movie about Bill Gates working in a garage. It fills these guy's lives with a false sense of grandiose and all that fake fighting over "vision" nonsense that these things are filled with. Friends make a network, the popularity gets to one's head causing a rift, he eventually figures out what's REALLY important and makes amends and friends become friends again. Oh, plus a romantic interest. There's my prediction based on the trailers and past experience with this sort of thing.
Now a GOOD geek movie is Primer. It's not based in the real world (not like these sorts of movies are very reality based anyway) but the geeks involved actually talk like REAL geeks and engineers I've met, and the movie doesn't insult the audience. You've actually got to pay attention and if you miss certain details you get lost really fast.
Now a GOOD geek movie is Primer. It's not based in the real world (not like these sorts of movies are very reality based anyway) but the geeks involved actually talk like REAL geeks and engineers I've met, and the movie doesn't insult the audience. You've actually got to pay attention and if you miss certain details you get lost really fast.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)