Instead, we got lots of mumbled, ultra-wordy dialog, hard enough to follow even if you could hear it over the too-loud, annoying soundtrack of throbbing music. Worse was the stunningly bad acting, making one ache for the young Dustin Hoffman or even a younger-than-today Ben Stiller in the leading role. Cutting back and forth between then and now and sometime in-between, we see the young, anti-social Zuckerberg and the older, successful but still anti-social Zuckerberg, along with lawyers and best friends and ex-best-friends, not to mention some blonde lady from the university who seems to have wandered onto the set from "Judgment at Nuremberg," asking all the hard questions of who stole what from whom, and when.
On the plus side, male voyeurs will enjoy the steamy bathroom-stall sex scene and all the nice college girls stripping for all the nice Harvard boys at drinking parties. Thrown in for some gut-wrenching realism, we see future leaders of industry vomiting in the snow, ostensibly to gain access to secret societies for people with high SAT scores.
Bottom line: This movie is just too hard to follow to be any fun at all. Besides, any film featuring Justin Timberlake in a non-singing role has got to be kidding.
animal house meets wall street . . . . some of the scenes were still pretty amusing . . .
ReplyDeleteOnce again, thanks for confirming my suspicions after seeing the previews. I didn't intend to see it until I heard it was up for an academy award. Now I will skip it. And even though it is still playing in the theaters you can rent it? wow.
ReplyDeleteI liked True Grit, did you? those coen brothers are amazing.
and what did you think of The Fighter?
Thanks for the review! I had my own suspicions about this movie....now I don't have to go see it or rent it!!
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