The Social Network

You all know by now my irrational hatred for Facebook runs deep. Well, I should just get over it since now it is being promoted from temporal internet phenomenon to part of our shared cultural mythology via film. Yes, a movie is being made about Facebook, or more correctly, about Mark Zuckerberg. The "creator" of Facebook, and anti-hero of this film, is played by Jesse Eisenberg, of Zombieland fame. Shenanigans describes him as a more serious Michael Cera and I think that fits precisely. Here is the first trailer I was exposed to.

I also encountered a second trailer via a GeekSpeak episode, which they describe as almost thriller-esque. See here.   Despite my detestation of Facebook, my curiosity is significantly piqued. I will watch this.


During the same episode of GeekSpeak I was turned on to this fake movie trailer advertising the JavaZone 2010 event. Very well done, and believable since they use all the same tropes of this genre and trailer techniques. I'd like to see this movie, even though it doesn't exist, but that's because I'm a Java programmer and it strikes close to home.


What do you think? Should we stick to posting about lolcats and nut-shots instead?

The best trailer for a video game movie ever

Movies made of the goo of video games are notoriously bad.  With few exceptions, Hollywood has only shown how bereft of ideas it is when it tries to attempt to get some of that video game money.  And when I heard that Glitter City was gonna take a shot at not only making another Game Film, but a REBOOT OF MORTAL KOMBAT no less.  The failure of the same treatment of Street Fighter wasn't proof enough?

But then I saw the following trailer / intro short for it, and admittedly had to pick my jaw up off the floor.  If this film is shit, the folks that made the trailer need to get an Oscar.

Damn.