MCN Weekend Archive for October, 2010
Friday Estimates – October 2
At the top of the weekend, The Social Network has a slow start, but has enough friends to launch it firmly into the top slot, with Wall Street 2 and The Town neck-and-neck for second. Meanwhile, Let Me In lags behind out of the top five.
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But, in the top fillip of The Social Network’s many, many ironies, we see that maybe Mark and his fellow web movers and shakers — and the whole new social-communal wrinkle that they‘ve been chosen to dramatically represent — don’t really “need” things like empathy, sympathy, what we’d call humanity.
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – September 30
The Social Network|Yellow|Green|Green|Yellow|Green Let Me In|Green|Green|Green|Green|Green Case 39||||| Barry Munday |||||
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So now I’ve seen it and yes, okay, The Social Network really is all that and a bag of chips, as the kids say — for what it is. Not a “masterpiece.” Not “astounding.” Probably — almost definitely — not a film that will “literally” change your life. Maybe — dare I say it? — not even the absolute “best” film of Fincher’s oeuvre.
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Here’s the thing with American remakes of foreign films: while I get that studios have a vested interest in making a lot of money off of taking a well-received foreign film and purging it of its, well, foreign-ness, to make it more appealing to the subtitle-averse mainstream American filmgoer, I’m also a pretty firm believer…
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