Premise (from wiki): "Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, the film focuses on the early years of Facebook, founded in 2004.
After being dumped by his girlfriend, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg decides to create a university version of Hot or Not. Hearing of his technical know-how, identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Harvard classmates, come to him for help starting Harvard Connection, an online community for Harvard students. Perfecting their idea, Zuckerberg creates The Facebook, an immediate success. Infuriated by Zuckerberg's betrayal, the brothers bring him to Federal court on charges of intellectual property theft."
It's surprising there wasn't a topic on it actually, since it's partly about 'facebook' and millions and MILLIONS are on it. Plus who it is directed by.
This is sad... Well, obviously everyone has their preferences; I should stress though that this isn't a movie that relies on the audience knowing anything about facebook, liking facebook, or being interested in facebook. It's part character study, part social commentary, with the most well-written dialogue I've heard this year, trademark kinetic editing from Fincher, and absolutely perfect editing.
Obviously I'm not alone, given that it has a 97% or so on rottentomatoes, but it's too bad you guys aren't giving it a chance in theaters.
That said, different strokes for different folks! I won't chastise any of you guys for never seeing this movie, I just think a lot of you would be pleasantly surprised.
I still may go see this in the theaters. This just hasn't been a good year for me when it comes to my cinema going experience. I think the last good movie i saw in the cinema was, Wolfman. There have been a few other good movies but, Wolfman is the only one that has stood out. As i said, i do think the movie looks good but i'm just not sure how much i care about the subject material and i usually don't like movies about these type characters. Although it does look like a well made movie and im sure it has some good drama to offer and i also like, Jesse Eisenberg so i still may make my way out to see it. If it came down to, Social network or Wall street 2, i'd definitely choose Social Network lol. I still need to see, The Town, however, so i think that will be my next cinema experience.
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I already know it's not just about how he created Facebook. I already know the story of about everything that happened, with him almost being expelled from Harvard, to him being a shy little pansey. I thought it was interesting, but not interesting enough for people to reinact his life at that time period and film it.
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Yep, he just donated a 100 Million to New Jersey schools to try to make his image better right when the movie came out. Which made me care about him even less .
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