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17:20 • 1 year ago

I felt that had Mr. Zuckerberg worn a jacket instead of a hoodie (showing [investors] that he respected them enough to “dress up”), he would have made a statement to them that he cares about their needs, and will act in their best interest. He chose not to make that statement, and the current share price demonstrates that investors have chosen not to support Facebook shares.

Wedbush securities analyst Michael Pachter • Blaming Facebook’s IPO flop on Mark Zuckerberg’s choice of jacket. Well, okay, he didn’t really blame it all on Zuck’s clothes: “The flop is 100% a function of a supply/demand imbalance,” Pachter wrote. “The company and its underwriters misjudged demand, and simply issued too many shares. There is no question that had this deal been 1/3 the size, the market would have absorbed it and the deal price would have held.” source (via • follow)

16:22 • 1 year ago

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section9:

lol!

Genius.

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13:04 • 1 year ago

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Sean argued that all Spotify users should not be forced to sign up for a Facebook account, but Mark wouldn’t budge. It was a full on screaming match outside the club, but stopped short at coming to blows. They then stormed off in different directions.

A witness, speaking to the New York Post, about a recent argument between Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg over the merits of Spotify’s Facebook integration. (via newsweek)

Is it wrong that we imagined JT and Jesse Eisenberg reenacting this scene in our heads? There’s always room for a sequel, Fincher.

23:45 • 2 years ago

On one less-obvious category winner

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imaginenoheaven said: I just looked on Wikipedia (because I don’t care enough to watch) and HANS ZIMMER’S INCEPTION DIDN’T WIN BEST SCORE?!?!

» We say: But TRENT REZNOR WON. We’re sure that guy has had way more groupies than the other nominees combined. Both of those scores were amazing, honestly.

21:46 • 2 years ago

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Congrats Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross! Trent is perhaps the only Oscar winner who has written a song called “Star(@(&!& Inc.” Possibly the only in that ballpark.

21:22 • 2 years ago

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His first Oscar nomination and win? I’m genuinely surprised.

But he totally deserved it this time. And that’s all that matters.

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10:20 • 2 years ago

A quick, ten-second overview of this year’s Oscar nominations

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12 totally expected nominations for “The King’s Speech”

10 nominations for the Coen Bros’ “True Grit” remake
eight nominations (far too few) for ”The Social Network”
eight nominations (also far too few) for “Inception”

surprises Who decided to nominate Javier Bardem for Best Actor for a movie that absolutely nobody saw (“Biutiful”)? How many people even knew what this movie was before this morning? Raise your hand.
disses Among others: Mila Kunis in “Black Swan.” Andrew Garfield in “The Social Network.” Ryan Gosling in “Blue Valentine.” No best documentary nod for “Waiting for Superman.” Criminal! source

» And the ultimate diss: “Inception” got eight nominations, don’t get us wrong. The movie totally deserved all of them. But the one it was most deserving of which it did not get? Christopher Nolan didn’t get a best director nod for “Inception.” The category was stacked, admittedly, but the Coen Brothers may have been the weak men this year. On a side note, there could be one even bigger diss this year – if “Toy Story 3” doesn’t win an award outside of its animation comfort zone.

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11:00 • 2 years ago

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I wish I could go door to door and make this explanation/apology to any woman offended by the things you’ve pointed out but obviously that’s unrealistic so I thought the least I could do was speak directly to you.

Aaron Sorkin • In a response to a blog commenter critical of the way “The Social Network” portrayed women throughout the film. His explanation? “I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people. These aren’t the cuddly nerds we made movies about in the 80’s.” He also notes that the misogynistic attitudes extend to the not-so-nerdy finals clubs near the beginning of the film. And he claims, out of respect for the more private people involved – Mark Zuckerberg’s putdown queen ex-girlfriend, Eduardo Saverin’s psycho ex – he didn’t use their real names. Good explanation, but will it appease everyone? source (via)

11:08 • 2 years ago

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As one of the few journalists who’s interviewed Zuckerberg numerous times and is familiar with the history of Facebook’s early founding and continued growth, seeing the movie is a jarring, disorienting experience… The real Zuckerberg… has a much more varied personality.

Huffington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas • Regarding “The Social Network.” Well, no crap, buddy. Have you not been listening to Aaron Sorkin? He’s basically been saying that he made most of it up for weeks. And it’s fairly possible that you might have some bias anyway, due to the fact that you have exclusive access to Facebook. But we digress. He’s not the only reporter to say something to this effect: “The Facebook Effect” scribe David Kirkpatrick had this to say about the whole thing: “Even before Hollywood got involved… Facebook was the subject of quite a bit of lore — not all of it true,” he said. Which is pretty much how we feel about the matter. Sorkin wrote the Facebook tall tale, and it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s real. That tall tale, by the way, scored $23 million at the box office, and it’s also awards bait, so it may be with us for a while. source (via)

15:00 • 2 years ago

“The Social Network” on track to top box office this weekend

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$8 million made by the Facebook movie in its first day alone source

» So how real is it, anyway? Not particularly. Writer Aaron Sorkin took artistic license with the idea of the film. While many of the plot points are true (Sean Parker did leave the company after a cocaine arrest, for example), the tone of many of the characters, as well as the school itself, didn’t match those of the Harvard students who saw the film. And cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig, while praising the film itself, took issue with the lessons that Sorkin took from the storyline, both with its characters (“I know Parker. This is not him.”) and with its feel of what makes the Web tick (“Sorkin boasts about his ignorance of the Internet. That ignorance shows.”). The movie is very good and one of the year’s best, but don’t let the wool get pulled over your eyes. It’s fiction based on fact.

Reviews: “The Social Network” receives epic amount of praise

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98% Rotten Tomatoes’ current rating of “The Social Network”; just one critic dislikes it (screw you Armand!)
96% Metacritic’s current rating of “The Social Network”; it’s the year’s highest-rated movie

» What Roger Ebert says: If you only trust Roger Ebert like us, you can feel free to know that this is in fact the movie of the century: “David Fincher’s film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive.” So yeah, we’ll be at the theater on Friday wearing a “Free Zuckerberg” shirt.

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