First Social Network Review is a Rave
Scott Foundas has the first review of David Fincher's Social Network, and not surprisingly (considering Foundas is on the New York Film Festival programming committee that made the film its opening-night selection), it's a big, huge rave.
Like, really big. Take it away, Scott:
This is very rich material for a movie on such timeless subjects as power and privilege, and such intrinsically 21st-century ones as the migration of society itself from the real to the virtual sphere--and David Fincher's The Social Network is big and brash and brilliant enough to encompass them all. [...]
The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances (not least from Justin Timberlake as Napster founder Sean Parker, who's like [Mark] Zuckerberg's flamboyant, West Coast id). It is a movie of people typing in front of computer screens and talking in rooms that is as suspenseful as any more obvious thriller. But this is also social commentary so perceptive that it may be regarded by future generations the way we now look to Gatsby for its acute distillation of Jazz Age decadence."
And much, much more. That "bang" you just heard was the pistol officially starting the Oscar race.
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The second he called Fincher a master storyteller is where I stopped reading. Still can't get over watching half of Benjamin Button, a clone copy of Gump except slowed down 500%.
His movies tend to be on the dull side.
If we all just agree it's terrific now, can we stop running the trailer before every goddamn movie I see and move on?
I like Fincher for the most part, but I agree that Ben Button was terrible.
I hope this movie makes this horrible phenomenon - disgusting in its effect on people's behavior, encouraging our worst narcissistic tendencies, and so on - jump that shark for good. FOREVER
This film is going to be brilliant. All the naysayers can go back to watching "The Expendables" or "Vampires Suck". It's obvious America wants stupidity in there movies.
Everyone knows about Facebook. And people are turning out in droves to see "The Social Network." But not everyone has heard about The Poet Laureate of Facebook...
http://www.prlog.org/10953090-san-diego-man-anointed-first-poet-laureate-of-facebook.html
Word Is Born
http://www.wordisborn.net
I really wanna see the social network, but I'm worried my extreme jealousy for that geek will make my head explode. lol.
This movie was entertaining and it was also a great work of fiction. Not very close to reality in my opinion. This is another review of "The Social Network" http://www.fuchsiamac.com/the-social-network-and-why-fiction-is-more-entertaining/ movie from Fuchsia McInerney a famous CEO in the social media industry.