Thread: The Social Network

Release Date: October 1, 2010
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joe Mazzello, Rashida Jones
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary:

Writer/producer Aaron Sorkin announced on his Facebook page that he is going to be writing a movie about the popular social networking site. Mark Zuckerberg created the site in 2004 at Harvard during his sophomore year. It now has over 400 million members worldwide.

Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.

Looks like an average movie to me. When I heard that an facebook movie is going to be released I had some hope, that it would be more critical towards the current discussions. But this looks like the normal college drama between two partys.

some time ago there was the slumdog millionaire, now we get college billionaires, so whats next, the trillionaires (like the FED)?

as for the movie contents is does seem to resemble the usual college/teenage mixture, what would be more interesting is to depict this social network community, its groups, mechanisms, connections and so on, not just the top managerial level

an example how an interesting/inovative low budget series take on a group part of 'the scene' has been done see:

The Scene (miniseries, 2 seasons) available as free online download

Code:

http://www.welcometothescene.com/faq.html

Originally Posted by wikipedia

The story centers on Drosan (Brian Sandro), a member of a fictitious scene group called CPX. Drosan is forced by circumstances to sell the pre-release films to commercial pirates in Asia.

Each episode is filmed as a combination of a webcam video showing one of the actors superimposed on their desktop, showing e-mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and instant messaging conversations. Most of the action takes place on the computer screen.

How we hord all your data, everything you do on our site then sell it to the highest bidder would of been a better film lol
hate Facecrook with a passion

I watched this movie few days ago and all I can say is that the life and the way the currenty CEO of facebook create the pleace was really cool and interesting,altough there already was myspace and friendster his site success and become the phenomenon of these days,and what about he's the younger billionaire in the world wow.
Good movie!

Proof that any douche can be a billionaire.

Didn't like it. Even though they tried hard to make him seem like a victim in the end, the pretentious elitism of the Harvard elite is pervasive throughout the entire spectrum--it isn't exclusive to the silver-spoon jocks. Had no sympathy for him in the beginning, and even less in the end. Well made, but ultimately the subject and setting killed it for me.