Saw 'The Social Network'.....

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.....and thought it was informative, very entertaining and quite well-made.

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I've never used or even seen Facebook, know little to nothing of computer programing and basically I'm only familiar with business finance stuff through osmosis.

But, thankfully, with the aid of this flick's subtitled dialog, I could follow right along with all that well enough to understand and enjoy both the substance and the nuance what happened in this movie.

I'll appreciatively give the rest of the credit to a really good screenplay from Aaron Sorkin and the fine direction of David Fincher.

Plus, Jesse Eisenberg gave a believable performance as the main character.

All three are deservedly nominated for Academy Awards.

And it's up for Best Picture.

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I would characterize this film's vibe for me as a mash up of the first "Wall Street" with "Good Will Hunting" and, maybe, "Almost Famous."

Or imagine, if you can be weird enough to do so, the "Revenge of the Nerds" meeting with the lawyers in "Michael Clayton."

Heck, I was just glad the makers of this movie did such a good storytelling job that I, at age 67, found my watching it so relevant, so clear and so interesting.

I'll bet that many younger viewers, more contemporary with the people portrayed in this film and themselves users of social networking technology, dug it even more than I did.

Perhaps, feeling something akin to how I felt back when I watched movies like "All the President's Men," "The Graduate" and "The Conversation."

Can a motion picture about Wikipedia or YouTube be far behind?

Al Gore should be so proud.

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Yes, loved it. It's a testament to Sorkin and Fincher (and Eisenberg) that they could make a film about the creation of Facebook so compelling.

You have good taste, sir.
 
It's not acting when a nervous uptight nerd is the only role that Eisenberg plays. Perfect casting, but, that's about all I've ever seen Eisenberg be.

Facebook would be a lot cooler if all these damn old people hadn't been allowed on. I remember as a senior in high school in the fall of '04 my best friend who was a year ahead of me who went to school in Boston came back over Christmas and the first thing he did was show us facebook. We spent all night learning what the hell this was and looking stuff up and started counting down to when we would finally get .edu address from Texas and when they would add Texas to the roster of schools allowed to be on FB. Finally, in like April or May UT gave us our emails and we were finally let on and from there on out at school everyday it was, did you get your edu account yet, add me, or, sucks that your going to "insert school here" since they aren't on facebook yet. Good times, then parents and 10 year olds got on and it's all gone to ****.
 
The scene (or should I say 'seen' Mr. Pot hater?) I enjoyed the most was him grabbing a piece of paper and checking the lawyers numbers on something inane like 16,000+2,000...then saying "yep, that's what I got too."
 
It was interesting even for an old geezer who doesn't "get" what facebook or twitter are about even though I've seen them. However it made me want to join facebook just so I could quit it to show my distaste for those guys who are making money off of it. Well made and a bit of history I can now know something about. I give it 3.5 stars.
 
The film portrays college nerds as conscienceless, greedy and totally self absorbed. Nobody in the film except Albrecht seems anchored to anything but the self.

Based on the ones I have met through my sons, that seems about right.
 
It was very good, imo.

Eisenberg deftly played an Asperger's-like character and I think he (the character) planted the chicken story and called the cops on Phillips.
 
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