The Social Network Review Thread (Spoilers)

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Originally Posted by nolfoc

just got back from seeing this and ill round up the vote to a 4. but i would really give it a 3.5... this movie is not for everyone.. people taht love facebook will probably enjoy this a lot more then people that dont.. one thing that did surprise me was Andrew Garfield's performance, i thought he stole the show and this is very promising news for the new spiderman movie

The film is about so much more than facebook. Most people I know who couldn't give a rat's ass about the site and think it's dumb loved the film. It's a film about greed, ambition, betrayal, loyalty, and that desperate desire to connect with each other that drives us all. This film could have been about the founding of any billion dollar company that exploded with popularity and the themes and ideas would have remained.

In any case, I thought the film was a brilliant character study within a even more brilliant study of the times we live in. It examines human frailty while simultaneously saying something about our time in cultural history, and overall it's just a fantastic film that is masterfully shot, brilliantly written, impeccably acted, and gorgeously rendered. Modern filmmaking at it's finest. I can't think of a better film I've seen this year (Inception comes a very close second for me)