The Social Network

Peter Travers calls it "the movie of the year that also brilliantly defines the decade." There's award talk for Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake.

I will be surprised if Aaron Sorkin goes unrecognized for adapted screenplay. Eisenberg and Garfield are excellent. Timberlake struggles some. But it's an excellent, solid film and I don't think Travers's statement above is unfounded. It may not be the film of the year, but it certainly addresses the decade. It looks great, sounds great (music by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails) and David Fincher makes some smart decisions in terms of directing.

So... yeah. Go see it.

BenPanced said:

Saw an interesting article about how the advance reviews are beyond glowing for this one, and what the backlash is going to be like once it gets out to the general public.

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I don't know; maybe. But everyone I know who has seen it (general public and people in the biz, alike) really enjoyed it.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Yeah. I don't get the buzz about it. The promos look boring. The story of Facebook. Really? *yawn*

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There's a lot of talk about Facebook, but it's less about the site itself and how a 20-year-old guy became the youngest billionaire in the space of a few years. It also simultaneously (and nicely) addresses the world we live in now, thanks to the Internet.

xitomatl said:

That's pretty much what I think too. At first I thought Zuckerberg had something to do with it and REALLY had no interest in it, but when I heard he had nothing to do with it, and it's not necessarily the best light he's painted in (so I've heard...), that piqued my interest.

Like Facebook or not, it's really culturally significant.

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He was supposed to be involved. But supposedly he wanted too much control and Sorkin/Fincher/Spacey moved on without him.