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Mmmmm so do I

Why are you rolling your eyes at my post? I was just saying.

I wasnt rolling my eyes lol! I was tryna do a dreamy face hahaha sorryyyy

Watched The Truman Show tonight. It has been years since I saw it and I don't think I fully appreciated it back then. It's a brilliant film, so well made. Carrey is really good in it, but I still wasn't too impressed by him - I hate the goofy crap he always brings. But you get swept up in the emotion of the story and it's one hell of a ride. One thing's for sure; Weir is a terrific and often overlooked director.

Oh right, okay.

He makes me wet.

Have any of you seen The Green Hornet yet?

I just finished watching Into the Wild and I dont really know what I think of it.. it is amazing that it was based on a true story and the way they captured the wildlife is really interesting but otherwise..I dunno.

Has anyone else seen it? what did u think of it?

What I thought was really frightening about the concept is that in the forseable future I can actually see it happening :/ (I always think of the future as a dystopia)

I'm guessing that's maybe Chuck Palahniuk influenced by Burgess more, but it's funny that Fincher directed Fight Club.

Is it that frightening though? Truman certainly had a better life than he would have done otherwise, and had far better quality of life than most of the people working on the show. Does it matter if it's not real if you're not aware of that? I don't think it's as black and white as instinctively it feels.

It's more to do with the fact that the majority of people have no objections to enclosing someone into a 'fake' world for entertainment.

I think the majority of people did have a problem with it on some level, hence



But that's more to do with herd mentality. If 20 people see someone get mugged responsibility is divided between them and people are far less likely to intervene than if they were the only witness. All that's the difference here is the grand scale of billions that are part of the herd.

Is it that frightening though? Truman certainly had a better life than he would have done otherwise, and had far better quality of life than most of the people working on the show. Does it matter if it's not real if you're not aware of that? I don't think it's as black and white as instinctively it feels.

But most of his 'friends' were actors along with his own wife.. I'd much rather live in a world where I know that those who have befriended me have done so because they genuinely want to, as apposed to having to do it as a job.. They're just different types of realities, one being true and the other being a lie.
I guess it's kind of like the whole 'So, do you want to take the blue pill, or the red pill?'.

The Social Network a 7/10? Seriously? It's easily one of the best movies I saw last year, if not the best. A full 10/10 IMO. If it didn't have Sorkin writing, then it would've probably had been a 8 or 9 out of 10.

Well a 7/10 is quite a good rating in my books. I can't ever see myself giving a 10/10.

I think the fact that I hated the characters, especially Mark Zuckerberg, tainted my enjoyment of the film. Plus, the ending wasn't the best, imo. I think the King's Speech, and especially the Black Swan, were markedly better than the Social Network.