The Social Network

The Social Network

Year: 2010

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake

Directed By: David Fincher

Rating: PG-13

Run Time: 120 Minutes

     First and foremost, I am not a fan of facebook, the actual page.  I liked it better back when it was limited to just school email addresses.  However, that is neither here nor there, since this blog is about movies and not about my personal feelings toward a website that is actually a great networking site.  I was never really interested in seeing this film until I watched the Golden Globes and saw how many awards it received and the hype it was receiving from people around.  I told myself to wait until it got on Blu-Ray, and that is what I did. Truth be told, I was more excited to see Justin Timberlake in this movie then anything, because I have come to enjoy him as an actor.

     This movie revolves around the creation of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and all the situations that lead him to create Facebook and all the people that we involved in the process.  The way this film is done goes back and forth between the future and the past.  Jesse Eisenberg portrays Mark Zuckerberg, and he is in two different court hearings being sued for his creation of Facebook.  It is an interesting story about how a genius can create something and turn it into a billion dollar company.  It was actually a very enjoyable movie and I liked it.  Jesse Eisenberg was great in this role and before this movie, I really thought that he was like Michael Cera and couldn't really pull off another role, but I was pleasantly surprised.  Justin Timberlake was also very good in this role.  He played Sean Parker who was the co-creator of Napster.  Justin Timberlake is a surprisingly very good actor as well.  Great all around supporting cast as well.  Not to mention the music was done by the front man of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor.

     It was a great movie but in the beginning or middle I got a little confused, because initially I was unaware that it was jumping back and forth between his two suing mediations, so I was a little unhappy with the editing.  However, once I figured that out, and I am not sure if that was my fault or the movie, it was easy getting into the movie again.

     I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5 relationship status updates.  Do I think this could win best picture?  Yes.  Do I want it to?  No, but I wouldn't be upset if it did.  The acting was great but it didn't take much to act the way that they did.  To act like a smart person is not that hard when you are reading a script.  Jesse Eisenberg played his character well but I still didn't see anything that really made this movie stand out to me in relation to Best Picture or Best Actor.

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Fun Facts:  

The Winklevoss twins, are not actually twins.  Armie Hammer played them both, but Josh Pence played Tyler from the neck down, and the digital added Armie's face to give them the identical twin look. 

Actor's were also told not to meet with their real life portrayals as soon as the filming started. 

Reznor is also the name of the 4 fire blowing triceratops enemies in Super Mario World fortresses.