Go watch The Social Network next week

By on Sep 25, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Featured September 25, 2010

I attended the world premiere of The Social Network yesterday evening to kick off the New York Film Festival, and while I had reservations about the movie, I was still admittedly excited. After the movie finished, I heard one of the loudest applauses I have heard in a while. The writing was impeccably sharp, hilariously funny at times, and the movie was probably the best I have seen all year. Yes, there was a scene where Mark Zuckerberg got his business cards that said, “I’m CEO, Bitch!”, and no, Justin Timberlake didn’t suck — he gave an incredible performance. But Jesse Eisenberg. Man, that kid completely encapsulated Mark Zuckerberg’s persona and identity complete with quirks, speech patterns, and even twitches. Every character was thoroughly enjoyable and memorable; the plot, while obviously predictable, was brilliantly sliced up to run concurrently with the legal drama surrounding the Facebook CEO and his company. Every scene had a purpose, and every scene had you drawn in. For a movie we all panned from the beginning as soon as we heard about it, it turned out to be one of the best viewings that I have been to.

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  • Bryant

    it wasn’t the ‘world’ premiere, It’s been screened in San Diego for the past month or so

    • John

      What a useful comment. Thanks for your contribution!

  • PAPINYC

    And to think, how many boy toys zuckerberg has at his beck and call. All because he thought of a web site. This guy probably has hung stud after hung stud morning and night… JEALOUS

  • counsel

    What i want is everyone to get a wordoress blog and fir soneone ti write a php script to grab entries fron their wordpress/happening section and aggregate those from multiple blogs to a singke page on my blog. This would connect us without giving up privacy rights… Hopefully i won’t gave to be the person that writes it…

  • Anthony

    ummm pass

  • Mohammad

    no. not watching it. I don’t have to do what you say.

  • http://www.watchthesocialnetwork.info Jack Hummer

    I became a big fan of the fanpage of the movie with gives me good updates. look at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Social-Network/160904557254408 and join it.

  • MRomeo

    I scored a ticket to a screening and I must say it’s now one of my favorite movies.

  • Jarrett

    <3 balls

  • Jarrett

    Balls on my chin

  • iRgoer eFrat

    How can you be credible if your first sentence is a contradiction? You are not/are a hater? How can you hate Jobs or Gates? Have you met them personally? Have they fired you from Apple or Microsoft for unspecified reasons? Did they steal your lollipop?

    I will not contribute $ to anything about Zuckerberg. This film will be watched, but not at my expense.

  • Luke

    and I’m sure that by “ate” you mean ______ and by “popcorn” you mean ______

  • Luke

    well done =)

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