No they didn’t.
I’m not going to argue with you. It was a year ago, that was the impression I got from the ones I saw. It’s possible that’s not what you got out of them, but it was mainly what I noticed. And the main impression they left with me. And honestly I don’t give a shit about the movie or the trailers now, so whatever. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but it’s not for me.
Who said I enjoyed it? I just can’t figure out why anyone would think that a movie about the creator of the 21st century’s most influential company would be a fake.
Years ago, I read a comic that had the television breathlessly pushing all kinds of junky kitchen appliances, such as salad spinners and turnip twaddlers, on the hapless Opus the Penguin. It was obviously a parody of infomercials and the likes of Ronco.
Imagine my surprise years later when I was helping to cook, and someone asks me to spin the salad. “Wait, you mean that really exists?”
I didn’t enjoy it, but it definitely is not a movie about facebook, at least not the way you made it sound. It, to me, was a rather average movie about how a company got formed and many wealthy students arguing over who really started it.
A rip-off of a classic Woody Allen nightclub routine.
We are obviously never going to agree or get each other’s view here. To my mind, a movie about the founding of facebook is still a movie about facebook. It’s just being pedantic. And I still don’t care about it.
Going off the Roger Ramjet example, the animated cartoon based on the video game Earthworm Jim had the main characters dwell in the city of “Turlawk” California. I later found out there really is such a place, only it is actually spelled “Turlock.”
One from The Dark Knight that got me, was when Batman kidnapped Lau from Hong Kong. I thought that the “winch on a plane” escape was ridiculous, and would have ripped him in half. It took me out of the story at the time.
Turns out the Skyhook system was developed by the CIA back in the 50s, and was tested first with a pig and then actual live humans (and they remained so afterwards).
To the extent that Radio is a movie about football, or Lord of the Rings is about jewelry, sure.
But after reading this thread I looked up some trailers on YouTube, and some did make it seem like it was all about logging on to FB. That’s just bad marketing.
In reading the Illuminatus! trilogy, I assumed that the island of Fernando Poo was fictitious. But then the whole nature of that book is to get you confused about what’s real and what’s not.
I knew that Fernando Poo was real, but according to your wiki link there is an actor named Fernando POE. I would assume that was a chain yank, given the relationship of POE with Fair Play for Fernando Poo in Illuminatus, but reality does seem to bend over backwards to mimic those books in the most surprising ways.
Look at the one called “The Wedding at Cana”.
Three times as many people and animals, climbing the walls, playing musical instruments, prepping food. The guy in green in the front left appears to only have one leg, and it is twisted into a weird position. Jesus is sitting in the center staring straight ahead with a look of astonishment - complete with lines radiating from his head to emphasize the expression.
(Yeah, I know that’s supposed to be his holy radiance, but it still kinda resembles how artists depict astonishment.)
If you are talking about this one. I actually like it as a short film. It just oozes how ubiquitous Facebook as become in many people’s lives. It’s very “slice of life” for the early 2010s for good or for ill.
Oh! I hadn’t seen that one. Wow that’s good. I don’t mean to derail the thread but this was a really interesting movie and the performances by Timberlake and the guy who played the twins were awesome.
Yeah, in the US it’s nothing, about as offensive as doofus or something. In the UK though, surrious bidnez.
Last year Hasbro was going to sell a Transformers figure in the US with the name Spastic. People in the UK went, well, spastic at the very notion, even though the toy wasn’t even going to be sold anywhere but the US, and so Hasbro relented and renamed the toy.
A friend of mine mentioned to a co-worker she’d just returned from a family funeral in a different state. When asked whereabouts, she answered, “Forks, Washington.”
Co-worker got pretty irritated and replied, “You don’t have to make crap up to impress me!”
Seems since Twilight is set in Forks, she assumed it was a make-believe town.
I have no idea how, “I went to my dad’s funeral in imaginary land,” is supposed to invoke envy.
He’s standing on his left leg with his right leg up on the step in front of him. He’s gesturing with his snake (hur hur) towards the woman looking straight out of the canvas over on the left hand side, whose attributes are so astonishing that the guy behind her, the one next to her, AND the woman to the far side of him are all gawking at them as well. The woman at the far end of that table can only pick her teeth and gaze dreamily from afar, sadly…
I was once the subject of OMG that’s real. Decades ago during univesity freshmen orientation our little tour group of dozen or so incoming freshmen is talking to each other as we are being shown the library, the UC, etc., and I am asked about my ethnicity. I told them I was Roma and about half of group doesn’t know what that is, so I explain. Three people, one a white woman from a small town and a black woman and a black man from urban Houston of all places responded more or less with “Wow, I thought gypsies were just something they made up for fairy tales.” The woman from the small town asked if she could take a picture of me to send home.