One of the major disadvantages to watching films on TV is that as you are flipping through the dial, you seldom find one right as its beginning. A Woody Allen like insistence on seeing a film from the very opening shot is just not workable, unless you feel like thinking in advance, looking at schedules, and recording stuff, which I suppose is all easy enough, but not as easy as changing the channels, so I wind up seeing a lot of movies from 15 minutes in.
Behind every great man there’s a great woman who dumped his sorry ass
So, I felt very lucky today to happen to see The Social Network right from the beginning. Then I thought, hey wait a minute, this film is only about 2 years old. If it’s on TV already, that must be because it sucked. Or, maybe that’s just the turnaround time now, but that’s what I thought.
I liked the film a lot. I found all the principal characters believable and, surprisingly, likable. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg was (probably still is) an arrogant prick but, in the words of the late, great Dizzy Dean, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” The Winklevoss twins were (probably still are) spoiled rich kids, but I’m glad they got their $65 million dollar buyout, because Zuckerberg did kind of steal their idea and run with it. Of course, it wasn’t specified at the time how much Eduardo Saverin got. He was the one I felt sorry for in the film, went into business with a college buddy and got screwed because he was in way over his head.
However, since he has just renounced his American citizenship and taken up residence in Singapore in order to save up to $100 million in taxes, I’m guessing he got a decent payout.
Another thing I enjoyed about the movie was the way people were smoking pot and knocking back shots everywhere you went, and the very basic, central fact of the movie, that facebook started almost as a college prank by a bunch of geeks who just wanted to get laid. It gives me hope for the future of the world.
In other facebook news, Mr. Z (28) got married to Priscilla Chan (27) the other day. They’ve been together for 9 years, so her character was apparently left out of the movie. I wish them all the happiness in the world.
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