I'm sure The Social Network is good, but it's like a perfect storm of people and topics that annoy me: Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher making a movie about Facebook with Jesse Eisenberg? I'll probably get around to it eventually. Maybe I'll even "Like" it. I'M SURE NOBODY MADE THAT JOKE BEFORE.

Incidentally: in case it seems like I'm trying to promote my comment to Special Featured status, remember that hardly anybody reads this website. I think I've gotten to like the Tumblr philosophy to comments overall: chains of interconnected blogs instead of an "owner" blog with a comments section. (But then, I've been lucky that the comments are always pretty good on this one).

Also: reading over the post again, I realize it sounds like I'm defending art-as-commerce, or saying Bay & Bruckheimer can be excused for making shitty movies because they make a lot of money. Of course I'm not; I'm just starting from the assumption that that's kind of a tired and lazy argument. Plus it doesn't do any good. If anyone's going to accuse them of ruining the industry, he has to explain how and why good movies continue to get made every year; clearly, there are still people who understand the balance of quality and profitability.