Fincher’s ‘Social Network’ more than just ‘the Facebook movie’

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Jason Wallis Fincher’s ‘Social Network’ more than just ‘the Facebook movie’

Jason Wallis

‘The Social Network’

★★★★ (out of four)

2010, David Fincher, U.S., PG-13

New Films

The following movies start Friday, Oct. 15:

“Jackass 3-D”

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Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O.

The plot: Documentary in which Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Bam Margera test their levels of pain and grossness.

Genre: Comedy, documentary.

Rating: R.

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Director: Tony Goldwyn.

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Rating: R.

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“The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole”

★★ 1/2 (out of four)

Adapted from the first three books in Kathryn Laski’s “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” series, the film tells the story of a young owl named Soren (voiced by Jim Sturgess, from “Across the Universe“ and “21”) who, together with his brother, Kludd (Ryan Kwanten, of HBO’s “True Blood”), is abducted by an army of vicious warrior owls led by the evil Nyra (Helen Mirren) and Metalbeak (Joel Edgerton). The evil owls apparently want to build a regiment of flightless young owls, train them over the course of a few days, and then use them as an integral part of their plan to take over the world. This plan also entails using a bunch of magic vomit-rocks (?!) to kill the Good Owls (led by Ezylryb, voiced by Geoffrey Rush in the film’s only truly accomplished voice work) and then… I don’t even know, man. And really, who cares?

Posted: Saturday, October 9, 2010 12:00 am

Fincher’s ‘Social Network’ more than just ‘the Facebook movie’ 0 comments

OK, so maybe “The Social Network” won’t make $200 million at the domestic box office. Once again, I appear to have overestimated the taste and sanity of mainstream American movie-goers. I’ll learn someday.

Meantime, I’ll take solace in the fact that the film at least opened at No. 1 with a larger-than-expected weekend gross, and at this point I’m still seeing it as the front-runner for best picture and director Oscars. And, as expected, it has turned out to deserve every bit of wild praise that it’s receiving.

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