How did Facebook get started? This movie will tell you.

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2011)

I have been a Jesse Eisenberg fan since I saw him in Zombieland two years ago and pretty much instantly fell in love.
He was half of the reason I ended up watching Adventure Land – the other half being that it was filmed at Kennywood Park, my personal little slice of heaven. The only reason I didn't want to see it was because of Kristen Stewart, and she was ultimately why I never saw the end of that film.
But that's not the focus here, is it?
I have to admit – I was not disappointed by his performance when I watched The Social Network; he played the part of a douche bag nerd spectacularly. He made me hate Zuckerberg and feel bad for him (but only slightly) at the same time, which is quite impressive in my opinion.
I definitely thought that the movie was confusing in the beginning. They didn't explain things – which I actually prefer most of the time – but the competing lawsuits thing was difficult to follow at first. I thought that all of the actors did an awesome job, and I really, really liked the character Eduardo; he was the one I felt the most sympathy for throughout the movie. I did, however, get a lot of the characters confused. I felt like they weren't introduced properly, and I had to keep asking my friends who certain people were. I thought Eduardo and the twins' friend were the same person for a really long time, and by the time I realized that they were not, in fact, the same person, too much of the movie had gone by for me to figure out what was happening.
I pretty much left the movie thinking, "Mark Zuckerberg is a total dickhead; I would never be friends with him because of what he did." I'm actually surprised that Zuckerberg okayed this movie because it casts him in a really, really bad light, in my opinion. I absolutely love nerds, and this is the first time ever that I have watched a movie about a nerd and not fallen in love with the character, which was really disappointing.
I didn't actually think that this movie was as great as everyone else made it out to be. I'm not impressed by movies that seemingly go nowhere, and I don't like endings that kind of leave the audience hanging. Yes, they put up some text to "clear everything up," but I kind of think that's like the cheater's way of ending a movie. I also think that putting pictures of the "real people" should be mandatory during the credits of a movie that's based on "real life," if that makes sense. I like to be able to connect actors to people, and I don't want to have to Google them to do it.
I give The Social Network a seven out of ten. It wasn't awesome, but the acting was really good and I liked the way that the film was structured. It was way, way too long, though, and I thought the ending was kind of dumb. I suppose I would recommend it, but only if you're looking for something so real-lifey that it's annoying. I felt like the whole thing was building up to something big that they just forgot to put into the film. I hope, though, that if Facebook ever crashes, someone somewhere writes a story about its downfall, because that would make a really cool sequel.