Mike here. So I watched the The Social Network movie this week. As someone who doesn't especially like Facebook, I was mostly interested in the fact that the movie had a score of 97% fresh on www.rottentomatoes.com, my favorite website for checking if movies are any good or not. Basically the website collects reviews from critics and everyday folks from around the world and assigns them a FRESH or ROTTEN label. The fresher the collective percentage, in theory, the better the film. To earn a 97%, the movie has to be pretty darn good.
And it was.
Jesse Eisenberg (actor in such acclaimed films as Zombieland and Adventureland) plays a picture-perfect representation of the socially-challenged @$$hole, Mark Zuckerberg, the genius/thief who wrote the code for Facebook. Oddly, the protagonist's relationship with Justin Timberlake's character, the other young genius who invented Napster (remember that awesome P2P program?), is as strange in the movie as it is in print. I was waiting for the movie to morph into Brokeback Mountain, and then the cops busted into the room and arrested Timberlake for illegal drugs. Sort of like real life? I digress.
Anyway, The Social Network really is worth watching. The actors are good, the story is entertaining (even if it is admittedly Hollywoodized), and the content is more user-friendly than the website on which the movie is centered. Check out the movie trailer below!
I went to see this Wednesday. I was surprised at how good it was. Zuckerberg's rapid pace with his thoughts and speech was really intoxicating. I remember when Facebook started. My daughter was fourteen or fifteen and wanted to sign up and I wouldn't let her. I remember her saying it is very safe because you have to be invited by your school. It was just this strange new thing for kids that no one really understood. I finally let her sign up when she was sixteen but by that point it was open to all and not school specific. I thought the movie did a fantastic job of navigating through the different aspects of Facebook.
ReplyDeleteLike you I am not a big Facebook fan but also enjoyed the movie. Rotten Tomatoes is a great site for movie lovers. Although the movie was good some of the praise for it has been over the top. I don't even think it was the best movie I saw this year. I would have to give that to Inception.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Inception yet, but I'm sure it's as good as I've heard!
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