Well JC's voice isn't in it. Everyone looks properly cool, but there's otherwise this trailer is as purposely featureless as any. I can't say it made me suspect there's anything to get excited about.

What could possibly be so fantastic about The Social Network? Obviously, Fincher is a director's director, but I've seen the trailers -- I just can't imagine what could be so surprising and/or revolutionary about his approach. I wish I could see it now, but will likely have to wait a few weeks for the German opening. I'm as eager to see this film as I've been in a long time.

EDIT: I guess I only have to wait until this Thursday. Hooray!

Let's start this Movie Dictator Club already! I am either champing or chomping at the bit here.

good to see let me in and social network are getting good reviews. plan on seeing both this week.

Ok lets just do this small group this month they open it up next month if you all like it. What should be our topic?

How about horror since it's October?

Horror!! Be afraid of this movie group, be very afraid. I vote for the horror.

The social network was a decent movie. I don't understand why everyone says it was great, when it's really just a nice film. The dialogue and humor in the film are great, but the story itself is just a little bit boring.

I also got the feeling that whoever wrote the script really hates women.

I also felt the best part of the film was the trailer for True Grit.

That's like saying the guy who wrote The Accused must like rape!

When someone mentioned that there was a movie about the founding of facebook I didn't say to myself, "oh this is going to be a film about how women are stupid and just use men to better their own lot in life."

Not sure I follow you Clovis.

The only girl with any redeeming qualities ended her role about 5 minutes in, and the other one had only a one liner.

Just my take.

My point was the view of women in the film is not Sorkin's it's the Harvard Elite's and that of young men who are depicted in the film.

Can I join the group too?

Ah ok I guess we agree then. I didn't know that Harvard had a reputation for having students who thought of women in that way. I thought it was unique to whoever originally told the story.

indeed...

Clovis
Kioshk
BustoRyhmes
diebitter?
Dominic
Nucleon
John Cole
HobbyHorse

No girls allowed in the movie clubhouse!

I know you will be shocked by this, but I really disagree with you about this. I think this movie was quite, quite inferior to the original, barring the two lead actors - Owen and Abby - who were excellent. I mean, they completely messed up the pacing and the ominous feeling of the original by showing way too much of what Abby really was. I guess, they were just trying to amp up the gore and what not, but that's what I loved so much in the original. The original built up the ominous, eerie question of "wtf is wrong with this girl?" precisely by not showing exactly what she was until pretty far into the movie (and those stupid glowing blue eyes - blech).

It was also a huge mistake to open this film with her caretaker/father being rushed to the hospital. I don't know if this was mimicking the book's structure or not, but it completely throws off the story because in the end, we don't really care about her caretaker and it throws off the time line of the movie by jumping back in time after this little high drama snippet. This story is Owen's story, and that's who they should have started the story off with as they did in the original.

I also found the music to be really intrusive, particularly when they were using it to amp up the suspense/tension. I got annoyed, especially remembering how effectively the original version used the "quiet".

It made me roll my eyes that this version completely circumvented the "is Abby a boy/girl" question from the original.

I also think that the director completely messed up how the pool scene was shot, especially those memorable underwater moments. I was so annoyed.

The only things that I liked about this version - apart from the wonderful child actors - was that they cut out the cat scene completely and that they emphasized how Abby's caretaker was once a boy like Owen more than the original.

Oh and another random thing that completely baffled me about why they did this: they never showed the face of Owen's mother. There was never a close-up shot of her, not even when she was speaking. They blurred her, they put her head just out of frame in a bunch of shots...it was so odd. It had to have been deliberate but I can't image what the purpose of this was.