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    It is 100% on rotten tomatoes after 7 reviews, now lets look at some of these reviews...

     

    "half the time I sat there marveling at the similarities of the story, themes and structure to Citizen Kane."

     

    "The Social Network is the movie of the year. If Coppola were into computers, this would be The Godfather."

     

    all positive reviews and comparisons to Citizen Kane and The Godfather.

     

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/

     

    it's gonna be good.

    just watched it, the narrative style was very messy and the ending was just... didnt fit in with the feel of the rest of the episode. but overall i liked it, i'll be continuing watching it.

    Sure AC/DC was labeled commercial sounding when Back in Black sold zillions of copies? I think your point of view sums up what this generation thinks about rock though.

     

    Probably the next generation will think of Muse and Foo Fighters when defining the rock of 00s/10s like we think about AC/DC, GnR and Metallica now.

     

    But one question to think of..Where are all big rock ballads? The songs that made Aerosmith, GnR and Metallica household names (Don't Cry, Cryin', November Rain, Nothing Else Matters, The Unforgiven). I miss those ballads that were, and still are, bigger than life. Those kind of songs would make Muse & Foos even more accessible and everyone would be interested in them in some way. Although not so "rock" they'd revive the genre a bit. Kings of Leon did their part with Use Somebody and look, that was a Top 5 hit in the US.

     

    yeah, what i was getting at is who will we look back to as the massive bands like we do Metallica and AC/DC now, but rock has developed and has different style, im hoping Queens of the Stone Age (best pure rock band of today imo) will be another who we will look back on.

     

    I think big rock ballads isnt the style anymore (which is partly what im trying to get at), but Muse do have some really epic massive songs that really work in a stadium setting.

    What I worry about is the future of rock music.

     

    Sure, Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, The Rolling Stones, Judas Priest, The Who, Kiss etc. are all selling millions of albums and performing to sold-out venues all over the world.

     

    But my question is - where are their successors? How many modern rock/metal acts can you really say will be talked about in the same breath as those legends in the future? I do believe that Avenged Sevenfold will go on to become the next Metallica, in terms of being the commercial leader of the metal genre (alongside perhaps Slipknot), and Muse are certainly flying the flag for rock, despite their recent dip in album quality with The Resistance. But other than that, who is really taking the genre into the next decade and beyond?

     

    It's time to face facts - the legends won't be around for ever. Metallica and AC/DC are arguably the two most important rock/metal bands, but Metallica have got maybe another 10-15 years max, and I do believe Brian Johnson said Black Ice was the last ever AC/DC studio album? So where do they go from now?

     

    There are some really good rock bands out there - I'm a real flag flyer for The Answer and Alter Bridge, those guys are incredible - but they're not getting the same breaks the legends did. It remains to be seen if they and many others ever will.

     

    I think this is a bigger point, i can't imagine most rock/metal bands these days to get as big as Maiden or Metallica or AC/DC etc, but did back then people imagine in 2010 Metallica and AC/DC etc would be/still be doing stadium shows and selling million of albums.

     

    I definatly think Muse are going to be that massive band always, and Foo Fighters aswell, but these are perhaps more commercial sounding than bands like Metallica and AC/DC.

     

    I'm hoping and thinking that if Slipknot decide to continue they can be a massive act headlining festivals, although I can't imagine them selling out a stadium, I think they are arena size easily though.

     

    And also i'm hoping and thinking Queens of the Stone Age will become one of the massive rock acts in years to come in the same vein Metallica and AC/DC are now, just because they are an incredible band, and can pull off massive shows (they really did put GnR to shame at Reading this year, they could easily pull off headlining), but I don't know if their fanbase could grow even more and at this current time they couldnt sell out a stadium (but probaly could arenas).

     

    and then also thinking about it Them Crooked Vultures are definatly in the same vein music wise as bands as Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, if they continue they could be that big I guess, but they are a supergroup so it's sort of the same.

     

    problem is with bands nowadays that do have the sound of these massive acts (AC/DC, Maiden, metallica etc) just dont pull off the sound, it's going to have to be a different more modern sound no one wants to hear second rate AC/DC's (*cough* Airbourne) so bands with that sound are never going to be anywhere near as big.

    I enjoyed the first episode of the series but last night's was very poor, the worst they've ever done. They should have canned and rewritten the entire second half. Still, Pete and the Pirates over the end credits...at least the music remains top notch on the show.

     

    i got distracted from what Will was saying when Pete and the Pirates started playing, 'Mr Understanding' is such an amazing song.

    Isn't that why it's funny though? Ever since the first series i've been able to relate to events that happen and cringe. This will be the final series anyway.

     

    ps. this is a TV show...its not meant to be realistic!!!

     

    yeah but whats good about it is that it is realistic to a fair extent, where as this episode wasnt really.

    I've never known for ANYONE to be carted of in an ambulance from smoking bud. :lol: But it was still funny anyway!!

     

    i've never known anyone who has acted like that on weed, especially that small amount, yet alone be carted off, f*** when i was like 15 and thought it was cool i smoked loads in one night without even bacci, like stoned off my brains, and so were many people and we werent even as bad as will. i guess it all adds to the humour.

     

    oh and Donovan made me LOL a lot.

    that was funny as f***.

     

     

    although unrealistic in many ways, i.e how stoned they were on how little weed, the fact it was their 'first gig', arent they like 17? they made such a big deal out of it. also that was not moshing.

     

     

     

    best line: 'the only minge he's touched is his mum when he was born'

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