The Social Network - movie review

First off, I don't put much store by Oscar nominations or winners. It's just a bit of fun. Stopped taking the whole thing seriously when that unmemorable bore-fest of a bio-pic Ghandi won. Titantic merely sealed the deal. The problem with the Oscars is you know that the people who do this for a living don't watch that many movies. Any more than the people who create tv shows watch many tv shows. Or people who do theater, necessarily see that many plays. Seriously - they don't have the time, and the free time they do have? Not spent on work-related things. Also, hello, biased, their friends and family members are up for these awards. The Oscars is more of a popularity contest than an actual awards show. The only awards that matter - are the ones given by people who watch all the movies (ie critics) and even then? It's subjective, so impossible to take that seriously. In other words - still fun.

That said, of the films that I've see so far, which have been nominated for Oscars - The Social Network is the one I liked the least and therefore find the nomination the most bewildering (it's probably for socio-political/pop culture reasons much like Ghandi and Titantic were, which means it will most likely win, even if it is deeply flawed and the least interesting, memorable and/or noteworthy of those nominated.). Granted I have yet to see The King's Speech or Inception or A Winter's Bone - so that could change.

( Film Review of the Social Network - spoilers )