The Social Network

The Social Network (2010)

IMDB: 7.7

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg (as Mark Zuckerberg), Justin Timberlake ( as Sean Parker), Andrew Garfield (as Eduardo 'Wardo' Saverin), Armie Hammer (as Tyler Winklevoss)

The movie is about how Mark Zuckerberg, who is a freshman at Harvard creates Facebook. The quote "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies" explains it all really.

    Personal Thoughts: This movie gives enough material to speculate for anyone who loves or hates Mark Zuckerberg. There was a lot of drama happening throughout the movie but apart from that, the movie hypes you up a bit when you see a dorky, bitter freshman create something that has a huge success. The movie starts by showing Mark and his girlfriend breaking up, which doesn't really initiate the creation of Facebook, but I feel like it speeds it up as Mark is feeling shitty about being broken up with and wants to prove to his ex that he can succeed. He's a bit too stuck on her and I don't even have to talk about the misogynistic things he writes on his little blog 'Zuckonit' and the website he creates to rate girls as hot or not. 

    On a side note, Jesse Eisenberg talking gives major INTJ energy which I think was good for the character even though I don't know if Mark Zuckerberg is like that in real life. He's literally a squirrel on caffeine whenever he opens his mouth. I felt like all the blood flows towards my brain when I'm concentrating on him talking, like how your blood flows towards your stomach when you're digesting. (I'm like 78% sure that's a true fact but don't look it up). The movie definitely doesn't put Mark Zuckerberg in a good light as it gives off the feeling that the writer of the movie was the friend who Mark Zuckerberg f*cked over judging by the amount of bitterness. That could literally be anyone though, he apparently f*cked over a lot of people when he created Facebook.

    I liked the Winklevosses (Winklevii), and I liked the amount of random cool lines Armie Hammer has. I also quite enjoyed the scene where the Winklevosses were trying to convince the dean that Mark Zuckerberg was acting against the rules of the university:

    Cameron Winklevoss: Mr Zuckerberg hasn't been responding to any of our emails or phone calls for the last two weeks. He doesn't answer when we knock on his door at Kirkland and the closest I've come to dealing with him face-to-face is when I saw him on the quad and chased him through Harvard Square.

    Larry Summers: You chased him?

    Cameron Winklevoss: I saw him and I know he saw me. I went after him and then he disappeared.

    Lastly, I will talk about Andrew Garfield's performance, which was quite good I think. His character was genuine and the scene he had with Justin Timberlake (Sean) towards the end of the movie was *chef's kiss* just right. I liked how passionately he smashed Mark's computer. My favourite quote from Andrew Garfield's character is probably "I like standing next to you Sean. It makes me look so tough". It was such an iconic scene that made me like his character even more.
    Overall, I don't know if the movie reflects reality completely since my flatmate said to me the other day that Mark Zuckerberg said in a podcast that it was almost all wrong. Either way, it shows the errors in the way Facebook was created. It might've as well be called 'How to Not Run a Business'. It had a fast-moving tempo as Facebook immediately had a huge amount of recognition. It is kinda entertaining to see how people view college as well, it makes me feel like I've missed out on a couple little things when I started uni if I'm being honest. There's literally no drama going on in my university so I can't relate to our boy Zuck in that sense. I would recommend this movie to whoever's feeling like they want to be inspired and uninspired at the same time.

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The Amazing Spider Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: 2014

Cast: Andrew Garfield (as Spiderman), Emma Stone (as Gwen Stacy), Dane DeHaan (as Harry Osborn/ New Goblin)

IMDB: 6.7

The Amazing Spider-Man series has continued with the second movie. The movie is about how Peter Parker deals with the family secrets while his girlfriend is going away to England and his friend requests his help which he can't offer. His friend Harry is dying because of a genetical disease and asks Peter to get Spider-Man's blood to  help him cure himself with the special feature in the half-spider blood. Nevertheless he isn't aware of the fact that none of the people except from Peter's blood line is suited for it and it can actually kill him. When Peter (Spiderman) refuses Harry, he chooses a much different path which includes getting involved with a guy that has turned into an electric-person because of some accident in the Oscorb centre. When Electro is released, he tries to wreck the whole city to get back to Spiderman while Harry finds another way to cure himself. He finds the special projects which includes the spider project and injects himself a liquid and turns into the Goblin. He finds out that Peter is the spiderman and hates him for betraying him and not offering his help while he was dying. While they fight, Gwen gets involved and she dies eventually which makes Peter depressed.

Personal Thoughts: It really was amazing. I liked the story line for different reasons. When people watch Spiderman, they usually focus on Spiderman's side of the story but this movie gave an insight to the side of the "bad guys". To be honest, I find Electro really interesting because of his past of being almost invisible to people even if he was so important to the city. He has turned into a mutated person and I think that's a part of the reason why he became so angry all of a sudden. He had been ignored for so long that when he became another person, he automatically abandoned his old self because people actually acknowledged him and that was as good as it could get for him. I found it sad because the day he turned into that person, it was his birthday and since he didn't have any friends, he was celebrating his own birthday by his own. I think these people in movies represent the people in reality so much that it adds even more to the movie. Also, the reason why I watched the movie was because of Dane DeHaan and he truly was amazing. He's probably my second celebrity crush and he's married. Anyway, he was also great. I just find his voice and look so captivating that he can suit any character and make them seem dramatic and elegant. His desperation was really visible in the movie. I believe he became so cold because of how he was treated. He was all alone even if he didn't look like it. He had to look strong even when he was dying and nobody was helping him. It was the part where the lawyer guy said that he was basically a nothing to the world that affected me the most in his scenes. Also his personality as Harry, not the Goblin, was funny in a weird way. I think in some parts of the movie he was the funniest character (of course that's before he turned into a green skinned ginger who flew around the city on a board). I used to look at Marvel movies as simple super hero movies but I think some of them are more than that. They portrait the bad characters so well that it foreshadows the good ones to be honest. Ps: I know it sounds irrelevant now but Gwen's death was sad.

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