Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Facebook Gets a Movie. I Lose Hope In Western Civilization

To quote Darth Vader: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" I like Facebook. In fact, I'm addicted to Facebook and am on it far to often. But to make a movie out of it is ridiculous! But it was confirmed (through Facebook, no less) that Aaron Sorkin, the man who wrote A Few Good Men and Charlie Wilson's War, will be writing a movie about how Facebook was made;
I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)
Mr. Sorkin has written alot of really good stuff, and if someone can make a good movie about the birth of Facebook, it's him. Still, this is just a bad idea. Behind the scenes at websites are far less interesting then the websites themselves. Besides, this could open up the floodgates for more websites to make movies that are basically advertisements for themselves! What's next? Youtube the Movie? I'm Feeling Lucky: The Google Experience? Oh god, Twitter Twatter? In the name of all thats holy, I hope this movie dies a slow and painfull death.

Speaking of Facebook, Victory Gin has just gotten it's own Facebook Group. You should join, if only to pity me.

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