Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Social Network

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The Social Network is about the making of Facebook. It was made by this guy attending a pretigious school in the East of the United States about ten years ago.Mark Zuckberg's girlfriend just broke up with himfor being rude and non-existent in their relationship.Mark wants payback so he goes on his internetblog and bad mouths her the entire night. The next night he goes back on his blog, drunk and angry he startscomparing girls at his school to variousfarm animals and sends it out to the rest of his peers. Mark is confronted by a bunch of people telling him what a bad person he is asked to take the site down. Mark didn't take it down though, he only just added more names and more animals to compare them to. Later in the year, Mark is approached by two twin brothers, they asked him to make a site kinda like myspace but only for college students. Mark and his best friend both become intrigued by the idea to do the same thing but they tweaked it so it wasn't exactly like the site that the twins asked him to make.  Zuckerberg and his friend are taken to lawsuit by the twins after a while for allegidely copying the program that they origionally hired Mark to make for them. Mark and his friend enlist someone to invest in their website called The Facebook. Their new associate told them to change their name to Facebook instead of The Facebook because it sounded cleaner and more upbeat. The movie goes through a the entire story and lawsuit of Facebook that Mark Zuckerburg had to deal with.
I thought this movie was really boring. It was slow and it seemed to take its time getting to the interesting things such as when Mark bought a house, the parties and the drinking and smoking and girls and all that stuff was way more intersting than the lawsuit  that was upon them. However, showing the drinking and the partying made me feel like Mark didn't care about his company as much as he was lead on to have cared in the first part of the movie. Justin Timberlake was, of course, gorgeous in the movie but he didn't do a great job of acting like the sophisticated associate that the character he was playing acted as in real life. I probably wouldn't recconmend this movie just because of the slow plot line. I was bored.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Wall-E

 Wall-E was about a small robot in the future cleaning up our world because it is over polluted. The little robots name is Wall-E, all of the other robots like him are broken down and no longer working. Him and his bug friend are the only ones on Earth that are still alive, the population of the world is floating in space in a resort-like spaceship controlled by robots. Because the entire spacecraft is managed by by computers, the population is completely morbidly obese. Meanwhile, Wall-E is back on Earth picking up trash when another robot, named Eva is sent to find plant life so the whole human race can come back and live on the planet. Wall-E falls instantly in love with Eva, and she is reluctant  to do the same, although she ends up loving him by the end of the movie. Wall-E shows Eva a plant that he found and Eva takes it back to the spaceship. Wall-E, seeing Eva leaving gets on the spaceship so he can be with Eva. When Wall-E gets onto the spaceship he sees how everyone has gotten very lazy and fat. The entire space craft is ran by robots, clean up ladies, waiters, and chefs, even the pilot is a robot. The population rides around on space chairs and no one had stood on their feet in weeks. The people don't even have their own children anymore. They are birthed by eggs that are fertile and are born out of incubators. As soon as Eva gives the pilot the plant, she shuts down and gets sent to storage with other robots. Wall-E, seeing his love get sent to storage, follows her there and accidentally turns on all of the robots in the storage area and they start running amongst throughout the ship.
       Wall-E was a really good movie for a Pixar Animation, normally I dislike Pixar, but the effects and the fact that it was essantially a silent movie really made me happy, and gave me hope for future Pixar movies.I felt really good about the making of Wall-E because it really opened the viewers eyes up to how populated we are all making the world, and how obesity is on a high rise. This movie really hit two birds with one stone.