the social network on rottentomatoes

[Agent Richard07]

I saw it today as well and quite enjoyed it. Jesse Eisenberg's performance was excellent. Delivering all those lines like someone who thinks a million miles a minute couldn't be easy. Another thing that hit me was when Zuckerberg first put Facebook online in that dorm room. We knew that he launched something big and he knew it too.

When I got home, I looked up Zuckerberg's "enemies" and they all have Facebook pages.

I also looked up the actress who played the hottie that Sean Parker slept with and she's the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.

 

[Saga]

glad to see i'm not the only one without a facebook. i think people are too connected. facebook, myspace...heck even cellphones. really though, i'm just not that thrilled to log in and see my 45ish aunt is 'about to get down and dirty tonight'.

 

[Trekker4747]

glad to see i'm not the only one without a facebook. i think people are too connected. facebook, myspace...heck even cellphones. really though, i'm just not that thrilled to log in and see my 45ish aunt is 'about to get down and dirty tonight'.

Agreed on the "too connected" thing. I do have a Facebook page but I go to about once every other week and I update it less often than that. I've re-connected with some highschool friends through but that's about it. I've just no need to be on it constantly.

People react in amazement when I tell them I don't even have my cell-phone with me at all times. As if it's just not human to walk around connected to the rest of the planet constantly.

I don't need to be on the phone all of the time, heck I rarely use the damn thing as it is, not do I need a phone that'll let me text, instant message, tweet and update Facebook. Sorry, just doesn't fascinate me.

I've got a tweet for all of them: Get off my lawn!

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I hate hyped up films. One reason I didn't see Titanic in theaters...and wasn't too jazzed about Inception when I DID see it in theaters.

The Social Network is no different. (I might catch it on DVD); and I'm not too particularly fond of the trailer or that pop-up that takes up majority of my screen when I visit my movie news sites.



Aside from that, Facebook is awesome. I get to keep in touch with friends who are living in other cities (and who are busy just as I) and friends who have gone back to their countries; and even current friends I meet.

Just the other day, I was asking a friend who attends UC Davis about Singapore; something I wouldn't be able to do if I didn't have Facebook. (Okay, there is email and the phone...but who actually picks up the phone(I don't, especially if I'm enjoying a nice dream; and if I do answer my phone I'm pissed)...and who actually checks email all the time?)

It works for some, and doesn't work for others...

I deleted my MySpace. It's so passe now... (Also, there was too much going on with some pages; and the applications weren't always visible...and, majority of the people I knew were already on Facebook. Also, I like the updates, which I do from my phone....something one cannot do--at least to my knowledge--on MySpace).

 

[FordSVT]

I like how people think Facebook isn't in their prime anymore, that's funny.

Yeah, seriously guys, facebook has more users than there are people in the U.S. 1 in every 14 people on the planet is a member.

That 1 in 14 people number isn't remotely accurate, given the number of pages that exist for corporations, causes, fake people, celebrity clone pages... I know a DOG (the four legged kind) that has his own Facebook page.

500 million users does not mean 500 million different human beings use it.

That said, the notion that Facebook is no longer popular or past its prime is patently idiotic.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Good god, I can't believe I forgot about this for so long:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1761982

This movie has already been made!

 

[Tulin]

For the record, everyone I know loves Facebook, and it's still finding its way into the mainstream. I don't know anybody that's "sick of facebook."

Yeah really.

I personally do not use it and just ignore my account but every second day I am getting email notifications from yet anothe shady personnage from my past who wants me to add him as a friend, indicating that there are MANY people who DO still use it.

The person who said "everyone is sick of it and nobody uses it anymore" is talking out of his arse.

 

[Tulin]

I didn't realize there was so much facebook hate... or facebook refusal.

With everything that peaks there is ALWAYS some kind of backlash. FB reached a kind of frenzy a while back and that means the backlash is going to be bigger.

Frankly I am surprised at people who are shocked that there is an inevitable hate.

For me personally, anybody that wants to contact me can do so via email. It's clean, simple and I do not have to be bombarded by your ridiculous, pathetic and petty fantasy mobster league invitations, asking me to join a FB group against cruelty to Afghanistan kittens or other such time wasting trivialities.

 

[FordSVT]

^You can turn off those notifications, you know.

 

[Checkmate]

Doesn't change the fact that it's a useless piece of annoying drivel. Email and instant messages work just fine for communicating online. And if you really need to see a little text message saying you have 50,000 "friends," well, I can't imagine being a bigger loser than that myself.

 

[Tulin]

Check AND mate.

 

[JarodRussell]

When is there going to be a movie about Windows and the iPhone?

Sigh. Fincher and Stone, two directors who have completely lost it.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

How come when I observe Facebook is on one of the last stages of website demise, people jump on me for being a pretentious ass, but when everyone else says the same or worse people agree with them?

Story of my life. I wasn't even projecting my opinion onto other people; the fact is all my friends have jumped ship from Facebook because they were fucking sick of it. To me that's everyone is sick of facebook. Sorry if I can't actually know everyone and sorry if I speak in generalizations like every other human being.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I'll probably see it when it gets released here later in the month.

For the record, everyone I know loves Facebook, and it's still finding its way into the mainstream. I don't know anybody that's "sick of facebook."

Agreed. My entire family is now on Facebook, including the horrifically computer illiterate ones. Facebook is everywhere and getting bigger, and a good sign of that? A movie about Facebook.

Same here. But my view on facebook has changed over the past month or so. Only really use two games apps, as I have been ignoring all others. I'll probably block or delete other game apps soon, as they have become boring.

Been able to get in contract with loads of old high school friends, including having a reunion last weekend, where I hadn't see anyone in 20 years. Plus allowed me to know what family and old friends are up too.

 

[Timby]

When is there going to be a movie about Windows and the iPhone?

Sigh. Fincher and Stone, two directors who have completely lost it.

Oh, good grief.

The Social Network is not a movie about Facebook. It's a movie about the creator of Facebook and how he screwed people over to get where he is and basically build up an empire. The whole movie isn't people going on the internet and liking each other's statuses, contrary to what some people are throwing out there without any basis.

I was blown away by this, personally. The acting is incredible (Eisenberg was great as an unlikable -- and yet, ultimately, sympathetic -- goony asshole, while Timberlake was pitch-perfect as Sean Parker, and I'm now much more comfortable with Andrew Garfield in the Spider-Man reboot), the score was a huge surprise, and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall are a lock to take home the Oscar for Best Editing.

It's been a long time since I've seen a movie come together this well. It's easily in my top three of the year, with Toy Story 3 and Inception.

 

[JarodRussell]

When is there going to be a movie about Windows and the iPhone?

Sigh. Fincher and Stone, two directors who have completely lost it.

Oh, good grief.

The Social Network is not a movie about Facebook. It's a movie about the creator of Facebook and how he screwed people over to get where he is and basically build up an empire. The whole movie isn't people going on the internet and liking each other's statuses, contrary to what some people are throwing out there without any basis.

I was blown away by this, personally. The acting is incredible (Eisenberg was great as an unlikable -- and yet, ultimately, sympathetic -- goony asshole, while Timberlake was pitch-perfect as Sean Parker, and I'm now much more comfortable with Andrew Garfield in the Spider-Man reboot), the score was a huge surprise, and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall are a lock to take home the Oscar for Best Editing.

It's been a long time since I've seen a movie come together this well. It's easily in my top three of the year, with Toy Story 3 and Inception.

So when is there going to be a movie about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?

 

[Timby]

When is there going to be a movie about Windows and the iPhone?

Sigh. Fincher and Stone, two directors who have completely lost it.

Oh, good grief.

The Social Network is not a movie about Facebook. It's a movie about the creator of Facebook and how he screwed people over to get where he is and basically build up an empire. The whole movie isn't people going on the internet and liking each other's statuses, contrary to what some people are throwing out there without any basis.

I was blown away by this, personally. The acting is incredible (Eisenberg was great as an unlikable -- and yet, ultimately, sympathetic -- goony asshole, while Timberlake was pitch-perfect as Sean Parker, and I'm now much more comfortable with Andrew Garfield in the Spider-Man reboot), the score was a huge surprise, and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall are a lock to take home the Oscar for Best Editing.

It's been a long time since I've seen a movie come together this well. It's easily in my top three of the year, with Toy Story 3 and Inception.

So when is there going to be a movie about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?

 

[JarodRussell]

Haha, oh lord.

 

[Kail]

I like Facebook. I recently reconnected with an old friend I haven't seen since the Fall of 1988. I'm really not interested in the movie...at least not seeing it in theaters. I'll catch it on cable maybe.

Which is a main reason I like it too. I've connected with a lot of old friends via Facebook, and it helps me keep in touch with family across the country.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Comparing this movie to a movie about Bill Gates or the Anti-Christ isn't fair because Windows and Apple are operating systems. They can, you know, do anything. Facebook is more esoteric. A better comparison would be making a movie about Eric Bauman or Seanbaby.