Post by StevePulaski on Oct 5, 2010 19:17:17 GMT -5
NOTICE: This is NOT the review I would recommend everyone read, it's not elaborated to the fullest degree. View the one in the thread "The Perfect Four" if you want the true review. This is the revised review for the school newspaper. If anymore edits need to be made (hopefully not because I really want to leave everything as is, I had a hard time taking a lot of things out), I will edit this thread as needed.
"A True Story About Passion and Betrayal".
The Social Network has a quality in movies that isn't utilized enough. It captures the feeling of "living it while watching it". After I watched the film I felt I had lived the frustration, hardships, and everything in between dealt with by the film's protagonist Mark Zuckerberg. Few movies have that unique quality and since many movies that are released now are poor, rushed, CGI messes, The Social Network proves good films still exist out there.
The plot is about the geeky, sophisticated man himself Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and the troubles that were ran into trying to build the biggest social networking engines of all time. He faces the mean spirited, money hungry Winklevoss twins after they claim Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social website. Zuckerberg now has to confirm his friends and ignore his enemies.
The film flashes back and forth from 2003 where Facebook started to when the lawsuit coincides with the part in the story. Its a unique action, the problem is it makes the film choppy. My only complaint was I could see where Fincher was going trying to go back and forth between the birth/lawsuit, though it makes the film choppy and almost slows things down. The Social Network runs for two hours when it could be cut back at least twenty minutes. Although the choppiness doesn't deteriorate much from the premise of overall idea of the film.
I like this movie for many reasons, mainly the script written perfectly by Aaron Sorkin which is one of the many things Oscar worthy about this film. Not only does the screenplay satisfy having heavy technical jargon and amazing dialog scenes, it's director David Fincher does an amazing job holding the movie together and the effort amounts in this film are overall amazing. Jesse Eisenberg, like stated before, deserves an Oscar for his profound performance in this film. No one can portray Zuckerberg better.
The Social Network could have easily been a poor, lifeless retelling of the founding of one of the biggest social networking sites nowadays, but it chose to be as good as it did. Being this movie is near one of a kind focusing on a plot that's rarely touched on, the potential was uncertain. Now if Skype, Myspace, or Twitter ever get a movie made about them they have one film to look up to.
"A True Story About Passion and Betrayal".
The Social Network has a quality in movies that isn't utilized enough. It captures the feeling of "living it while watching it". After I watched the film I felt I had lived the frustration, hardships, and everything in between dealt with by the film's protagonist Mark Zuckerberg. Few movies have that unique quality and since many movies that are released now are poor, rushed, CGI messes, The Social Network proves good films still exist out there.
The plot is about the geeky, sophisticated man himself Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and the troubles that were ran into trying to build the biggest social networking engines of all time. He faces the mean spirited, money hungry Winklevoss twins after they claim Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social website. Zuckerberg now has to confirm his friends and ignore his enemies.
The film flashes back and forth from 2003 where Facebook started to when the lawsuit coincides with the part in the story. Its a unique action, the problem is it makes the film choppy. My only complaint was I could see where Fincher was going trying to go back and forth between the birth/lawsuit, though it makes the film choppy and almost slows things down. The Social Network runs for two hours when it could be cut back at least twenty minutes. Although the choppiness doesn't deteriorate much from the premise of overall idea of the film.
I like this movie for many reasons, mainly the script written perfectly by Aaron Sorkin which is one of the many things Oscar worthy about this film. Not only does the screenplay satisfy having heavy technical jargon and amazing dialog scenes, it's director David Fincher does an amazing job holding the movie together and the effort amounts in this film are overall amazing. Jesse Eisenberg, like stated before, deserves an Oscar for his profound performance in this film. No one can portray Zuckerberg better.
The Social Network could have easily been a poor, lifeless retelling of the founding of one of the biggest social networking sites nowadays, but it chose to be as good as it did. Being this movie is near one of a kind focusing on a plot that's rarely touched on, the potential was uncertain. Now if Skype, Myspace, or Twitter ever get a movie made about them they have one film to look up to.