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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Jessica - Sep 26, 2010 5:33:04 pm PDT #11294 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Holy crap Justin Timberlake is adorable in person. And the movie was pretty good too.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2010 8:26:17 am PDT #11295 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Longer Social Network review:

This movie is very, very good. The script is snappy and just Sorkin-y enough to be meaty without getting too bogged down in dialogue. Fincher's direction goes a long way towards splitting up the trademark Sorkin walk-n-talks with some great visuals (the closest this movie ever gets to an action scene is a crew race that Fincher shoots like a gladiator match, but he gives good transitional montage and manages to make hacking visually interesting without resorting to stupid onscreen graphics).

Incidentally, according to Sorkin, the ONLY notes he got back from Facebook about the final script were jargon corrections for the hacking scenes. Buncha nerds.

The performances are all very strong, including Timberlake who gets to say things like "You're looking at the man who brought down the record companies!" with a completely straight face and get away with it.

At the Q&A, Sorkin continually stressed how much research he (and the rest of the production team) did in order to make the movie as factual as possible. Which raises the question, why are all the women in the film fictional or composites? And the further question, do these fictional women and their storylines serve to make the (real) male characters appear more or less douchey than they are in real life? I wish there'd been time to discuss this during the Q&A, but it was a PACKED screening and they were only given about 20 minutes to chat, so unfortunately most of the questions were things like "99 takes? Really?" and "Are you on Facebook?"


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2010 8:34:57 am PDT #11296 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Chris Evans on Captain America set. Looking large. Also, pointedly porcelain.


Jesse - Sep 27, 2010 8:38:36 am PDT #11297 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Did you get a chance to lick J.T. for me?

I have to say, I like both of those guys' work (Fincher and Sorkin), so I'm sure I'll like this too. Bummer about the women, though.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2010 8:45:19 am PDT #11298 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Did you get a chance to lick J.T. for me?

No, but I kind of brushed past him in the lobby when everyone was leaving! It was very exciting.

The thing about the female characters all being made up while the male characters are based on real people is I'm not sure there would be any women in this movie if Sorkin hadn't written some in, so it's hard to say for certain whether the choice was a net positive or negative. (I mean, I wouldn't trade the line Zuck's girlfriend gives at the end of the opening scene for anything - it's flat-out awesome. But knowing she's pure narrative device while he's a real guy gives the whole thing a weird vibe.)


Jesse - Sep 27, 2010 8:48:34 am PDT #11299 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

No, but I kind of brushed past him in the lobby when everyone was leaving! It was very exciting.

That is exciting!


Jessica - Sep 27, 2010 8:58:46 am PDT #11300 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

(I just realized that there are 2 female lawyers in the courtroom scenes who may in fact have been based on real lawyers. But since they're part of the frame and not the main narrative, they don't really count as characters. The purpose of the deposition scenes is to give the main characters a handy excuse to transition in and out of flashbacks, so the lawyers' roles are pretty much limited to asking "So what happened next?" and "Is that the way you remember it?")


smonster - Sep 27, 2010 9:09:15 am PDT #11301 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Chris Evans on Captain America set.

What's with the hobbit feet?


juliana - Sep 27, 2010 9:11:05 am PDT #11302 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

What's with the hobbit feet?

Probably to protect his actual feet for a barefoot running scene.


tiggy - Sep 27, 2010 9:12:59 am PDT #11303 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

he looks...not good.