Social Disease

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2010)

Wow. Where to begin? OK, The Social Network is a definite for the best picture nominees, and only due to the buzz and not just the "ten-nominees, let's get viewers" best pic award recent change.
Do I agree with that? Well, yes and no. Yes, because we have to fill 10 slots and 2010 was a horrid year for movies. No, because, sadly, it might win.
By all means, it wasn't a bad film; it was a very good film, indeed. But, it was not Best Picture caliber. And if they allow it to win, it can only mean: they're trying an outreach to the "younger" crowds. Quite frankly, despite the cast, premise and target audience, this is NOT geared to the college kids. In fact, anyone who lived in the era this is pertaining to is in my age group: mid 30s.
Anyways, I digress The Social Network show the BIRTH and (almost) downfall of the latest (and in my opinion, better) version of MySpace. It's enormously face-pacedand generally, that's a good thing. Here, you just better keep upbecause, it rarely slows down.
The main character is one Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) who's a nerd, a FAST talker and an arrogant asswipe who uses all around to amuse himself. In this case, he develops the now-popular Facebook, springing from judging women and his boredom. Lucky himit's proved quite profitable.
And that's the other part of the movie: the disposition of 2 lawsuits involving the frontrunners to the social site and their greed for their "rightful" cut.
Is the world ready for the background story of Facebook? Do we all need to know how the site we (well, 99.5% of the world) log in daily, if not hourly, came to be? Time will tell on those stories, but call me ignorantbut I could care less. I'm an American, just give it to me, make sure it works and I'm happy.
As for the movie, it does have good acting (I can surely see Eisenberg nominate, and not upset if he wins), good dialogue and again, the pace is as fast as the internet connection to keep Facebook a fun and social activity.
Is the movie great? No. It's moody enough to catch people's attention. Thanks (Director) Fincher, who rarely lets us down. I would recommend, but it's not something I would jump to see again. As I said, it's barely interesting enough to see the birth (and almost downfall) of Facebook.but not enough to rush to see how it came to be, again.
Just make sure it works, you I.T. nerds (no offenseI used to date one of you) and I will be happy.