The Social Network (2010)
Summary
Genre: DramaGoodies:
+ Better than I thought it would beBaddies:
- Not as good as the hypeOn a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
I put off seeing this movie for a very long time – mostly because it looked lame. I thought “A movie about a website, who gives a crap”. I still mostly feel that way after seeing it, BUT it was better than I thought it was going to be. It no where near deserves the amount of praise that it has gotten – critics love it because its a “generational film”, well, you could make a twitter or iphone movie and call it a generational film, I don’t think that has much standing on whether or not the film actually had cinematic credential. It’s also important for people to know that how this movie portrays Mark Zuckerberg is very slanted. The entire relationship thing is wrong – he had a girlfriend before Friendmesh and has the same one today. I can understand dramatic changing of events – so whatever, but I think a lot of people say “wow this facebook story is intense”, and feel part of it even though it didn’t entirely go down that way. I liked more of the legal side of everything that happened (which was the focus of the film, in reality), and thought the acting was really good (minus Justin Timberlake). I love that Rashida Jones was in the movie as well (and think Jesse Eisenberg did a good job as Mark — for that matter Andrew Garfield was really good too). Overall, it was a decent film, i’d suggest it, but not worth an Oscar.
only 6.5? it’s at least an 8 to me
A lot of it just felt boring to me and didn’t hold my attention which is worth a lot, and Justin Timberlake’s acting was a catastrophe.
I agree there