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The Social Network (2010) https://letterboxd.com/smudgeefc1985...ocial-network/
I was a little bit undecided on how I felt going into this. On one side, you have an account of a recent period of time basically about business, which all sounds very dull...but then it's made by Fincher and Sorkin so this must be good right? In the end I guess I'm not really surprised I ended up somewhere in the middling 'meh' camp.
Overall, it just didn't feel like this story needed two hours to tell. There were a lot of periods where it felt like it was dragging, where more descriptions of writing code and needing more server bandwidth felt even duller than the last time.
And it's strange, because I think it is a very well put together film, and the performances are all rock solid (Eisenberg got the Oscar nom, but I think Garfield's performance is really good here too), it looks good, the time jumps between 2003/04 and the present day court cases are well used...it's just...not a very interesting story in all honesty. Unfortunately I think it uses up all it's best material in the first 15 minutes, with the date with Erica and the subsequent drunk blogging/ Facemash affair. That opening is really good and sets it up really well. The rest never hits the same heights though.
Oh, and Rooney Mara getting the two best lines in the whole film, "Good luck with your video game" and very eloquently calling Zuckerberg an ******* in the opening scene, are just everything.
I was a little bit undecided on how I felt going into this. On one side, you have an account of a recent period of time basically about business, which all sounds very dull...but then it's made by Fincher and Sorkin so this must be good right? In the end I guess I'm not really surprised I ended up somewhere in the middling 'meh' camp.
Overall, it just didn't feel like this story needed two hours to tell. There were a lot of periods where it felt like it was dragging, where more descriptions of writing code and needing more server bandwidth felt even duller than the last time.
And it's strange, because I think it is a very well put together film, and the performances are all rock solid (Eisenberg got the Oscar nom, but I think Garfield's performance is really good here too), it looks good, the time jumps between 2003/04 and the present day court cases are well used...it's just...not a very interesting story in all honesty. Unfortunately I think it uses up all it's best material in the first 15 minutes, with the date with Erica and the subsequent drunk blogging/ Facemash affair. That opening is really good and sets it up really well. The rest never hits the same heights though.
Oh, and Rooney Mara getting the two best lines in the whole film, "Good luck with your video game" and very eloquently calling Zuckerberg an ******* in the opening scene, are just everything.