That's an awesome story, teacherman. Really means a lot to me that you shared that. And I'll try and remember to stay away from glass tables next time I go on a serious bender!
So, this week my girlfriend of 3 years and I broke up. It was, to say the least, a truly sucky week. I just wanted to jump in and say thanks for all the laughs that helped to brighten my day even the slightest bit during this rough patch I'm currently going through. I'm proud to call myself a Videogum Monster. Have a swell weekend, everybody : )
I don't know what promises our future robot overlords made you in exchange to write this piece, Gabe, but I assure you once Skynet takes over, you'll just look like another bag of meat--soft meat that's all too easy to kill with lazers.
I had kind of an epiphany around the time this crapfest came out; I was watching the Super Bowl with a crowd that included my girlfriend and a good friend of mine from school who is also a girl. At the end of one of the blocks of commercials, it was like something suddenly clicked, I turned to them, and said something along the lines of "Oh my God, if I were a woman, I would just feel completely insulted all the time by almost every single aspect of popular culture." Luckily they said I was right. I don't know what I would have done if they had no idea what I was talking about.
I can't wait for Fincher and Sorkin to make a film about Videogum, culminating in a scene where Lindsay goes to the fancy new offices, finds out she's been fired, and angrily confronts Gabe about it, while Soft Gabe looks on smugly, knowing he's won. Also, dark synths.
I really loved this film, except for the final act. It seems like we all knew that Justin Timberlake was going to turn out to be a total creepoid, so when the final axe drops, it's not that surprising or effecting. Also we don't really get to see Zuckerberg become disillusioned with him and realize that he's a paranoid drug addict, it just kind of happens when Eduardo gets forced out, and then the movie is over (although that last scene with him alone in the conference room was a great way to end it). So we don't really get to see Zuckerberg living with the effects of having screwed his best friend over in favor of an unstable cokehead who likes 'em young, and I wish we could have seen him live a bit more with those effects, aside from just what we get in the deposition scenes.
However, pretty much everything else about the film makes up for this. Fincher and Sorkin both brought their respective A-games, all the actors did very very good jobs (also the guy who played Dustin was totally Tim in the first "Jurassic Park" movie so yaaaay!), and on the technical side everything was perfect, from the cinematography to the editing to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's very creepy score. I award this movie 4.5 out of 5 Farmvilles! POKE!
What's really weird to me is that the actor who played both the Winklevie is named ARTIE. C'mon, no one who is that handsome and tall and whatnot can be named ARTIE. Like, huh?!
I was just about to ask the same question. I literally have no idea who that is. And judging from what usually happens when I look to rectify that situation, I think I'm going to try to remain unaware of who that is. YOUR KIND WON'T BURN ME AGAIN, KE$HA!
I know you're joking, but in the episode this guy was on, Ramsay literally told him, "Your business is about to fucking swim down the Hudson." Guess which river the authorities pulled the guy out of?
Uggh, I'm sorry dude, but that's the laziest argument in the book. By your logic, as a white person I shouldn't be offended by someone throwing around the n-word because that would somehow be offensive to black people? What are you even talking about?
ON DEADLY GROUND. This movie was made for the Hunt. It's Steven Segal's environmentalist action drama, and if that wasn't enough, it features Michael Caine (!) as an evil Texas oil tycoon (!!) I swear this is a real movie.
Some other suggestions:
Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Righteous Kill
The Ugly Truth
Leap Year
Larry The Cable Guy: Witless Inspection
Little Nicky
The Box
Labor Pains
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