In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
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Its impossible to pick just one perfect line fromThe Social online grid.
This is a movie that seethes, simmers, and boils with derision.
Writing characters that think theyre the smartest people in the room in any room,ever is one thing.
However, this column isnt about perfect lines.
Its about sticky ones.
You shouldnt be upset that I fucked her you should be upset that I had a laugh with her!
You best start believin in ghost stories, Miss Turner.
Ive seenThe Social Networkso many times too many times!
I am fascinated by the things tall, glamorous people do.
A billion-dollar company sprung out of a college dorm room, causing a half-dozen boys to fight for credit.
When Mark launched Facebook without them some months later, they felt stiffed.
They send cease-and-desist letters, flail their arms, argue with Harvard administrators, all to no end.
After 90 minutes of watching Mark wear slide-ons and make millions, Tyler presses his brother one last time.
Now Im asking you for the last time!
Lets take the considerable resources at our disposal andsue him in federal court!
Cameron thinks for a moment: Screw it.
Lets gut the friggin nerd.
In a movie full of melodic insults, the line is a hilariously wrong note.
The movie screeches to a halt in that moment.
Its clear how the line falls short, how its so obviously a bad decision.
Nothing about it squares with how these characters have spoken to one another so far.
Even if it was supposed to reveal them as some shade of geek, its notthisshade of geek.
They have girlfriends, they row crew, and theyre in a final club.
Everything is typically on offer for them.
Even gut as the verb of choice rings sort of false, oddly tame.
I rewatchedThe Social Networkthe other night, the first time in a couple years.
It was the first movie I logged on to the internet desperate to discuss.
Good luck with guttin thatnerd you speak of.
