June 2009 Weddings
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
*SBS* re: The Social Network
Tell me your thoughts!
As a movie, I didn't know what to think. I don't think I liked not having a clear cut protagonist.
But as someone whose job entails social media, I loved seeing how FB came about, and how someone who was a social outcast ended up creating this huge social networking platform.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
Re: *SBS* re: The Social Network
...I'm totally jumping in here bc I saw the movie on Friday...
I really liked it... It wasn't really a "blow me away" kind of movie for me, but I still think its probably in my top 3 this year. The acting and the cinematography were great, and I enjoyed learning the story of how the whole thing got started. I had no idea that the Napster guy was involved at all! But like Mamie said, I kind of struggled, I wanted to have someone to root for, when it seemed that everyone was crossing the lines of right & wrong, and none of the characters were especially likeable...
From the time they introduced the Sean Parker character I was like "wuh?" while thinking Sean Parker = Shawn Fanning. Ha, oops. And did you it was only ONE guy playing the Winklevoss twins??
The MZ portrayal makes him out to be an utter d-bag. But a hilarious d-bag. I don't know how that kid had ONE friend. I wonder if that has any basis in reality.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
I agree with some of your points and disagree with a lot.
I thought the movie was phenomenal. I'm calling nominations in at least Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (for Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Z.), and possibly a supporting nod or two. I think Eisenberg will most likely win Best Actor.
However, I will say that I love movies with no good or bad guy, and I love movies where the whole thing is dialogue driven. Personally, I thought the film was HILARIOUS, but not in, like, a Forgetting Sarah Marshall way. It was very dry humor - more witty than funny. You really needed to pay a lot of attention, which I know is not what most people go to the movies for...
I completely disagree that it made MZ look bad. In fact, I felt really sympathetic for him -- he's shown (in my opinion) as a socially inept young guy who got in over his head. I think Sean Parker (at least, from the way this film looks) totally took advantage of MZ's idol worship of him. I think Parker is to blame for Eduardo getting screwed.
This movie reminded me a lot of the film Pirates of Silicon Valley. That movie was about the Bill Gates/Steve Jobs rivalry. I think this movie does a lot of the same things -- it stretches a truth we'll never really know, but the movie is going to become the truth we all believe.