The_Social_Network_Review

Review By colesmithey

Excitable boy-tech-geeks won’t be able to contain themselves from outbursts of clapping, laughter, and bladder leaks at David Fincher’s fast-paced drama about Mark Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise via his creation of Facebook. A large dose of irony derives from Mark Zuckerberg’s highly publicized dismissal of the quasi-biopic as more a piece of fiction than fact. Napster co-founder Sean Parker (dynamically played by Justin Timberlake) comes across as a much bigger genius-idiot-douchebag than Zuckerberg does in the film. Jesse Eisenberg does a better job than expected of fulfilling Zuckerberg’s identity with an acid-tongued, fast-twitch cyberpunk attitude that wilts every lesser intellect around him.

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Review By blog.moviefone

They’ll call it a film that defines a generation, and it’s hard to tell whether or not that’s a good thing. With The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin turn some fairly dry, nerdy content about fairly dry, nerdy characters into one of the must-see films of the year, and they don’t waste any time getting right to it. The film opens with what will go down as one of the great break-up scenes of all time, and from there Fincher rides Sorkin’s hilariously addictive script like a wild bull at a rodeo. It moves fast like a manic internet surfer, and it never really lets you catch your breath. It’s a film about connecting, except you won’t really connect with anyone. After all, this is a generation that has more virtual friends than real-life friends. You know … on Facebook.

This is an emotionless generation; one taught that it’s much better to sue than get your cry on. It’s a generation that wants to make more money than its neighbor; to think with numbers rather than emotion. A generation that needs it all right now at their fingertips, and anything less just isn’t good enough. They’re spoiled and they’re hard to sympathize with, but they’re changing the world one megabyte at a time and it’s kinda fun to watch. So is The Social Network.

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Review by emanuellevy

Sure to win some critics kudos and to sweep the Oscar nominations, “Social Network” should get at least ten nods from the Academy, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and then several acting (both lead and supporting) and technical awards.

Seven may be the lucky number in the career of the brilliant Fincher for a number of reasons. Made in 1995, his film “Seven” is still the scariest horror-serial killer picture I have ever seen. “Social Network” also happens to be the seventh feature in a career that began in 1992 with “Alien3,” his installment in the popular franchise starring Sigourney Weaver (and his only disappointing film).

For some reason, Fincher has been (unfairly, I think) labeled as a visual stylist and genre director, though a case could be made that at least three of his movies have defied this categorization: “The Fight Club,” “Zodiac,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

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