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Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2015)

At some point in the movie I smiled and thought I wasn't going to hate The Social Network. At that moment I had the rating at 7 stars. It's down to 6 because I found the manipulative herding by the movie annoying. As things got more mundane and people got richer, the story was about making Sean Parker the bad guy and Mark Zuckerberg not a good guy, but someone trying hard to be an a-hole. Rashida Jones' character tells us what to take away from the movie and that's not cool.
In the beginning I thought being exposed to Zuckerberg's mouthpiece and seeing the inner workings of Harvard was going to be intimidating. Zuckerberg seems to disappear from his own movie after some time. The power politics of Harvard were glossed over. For the success story of the youngest billionaire currently, there was not much debauchery on show. Now I'm not someone who watches movies for the sex scenes - I think not one sex scene looks credible, hot, or believable in films - but not one aspect of the film is focused on. The blame for this lies firmly at the director's door. Give me something to remember the movie, to make it stand out from other, sometimes better ones. Where's the guy who directed Se7en?
Now I don't use facebook. I'm intimidated by the games online and I'm disappointed by the interface whenever I happen to view a facebook home page. I didn't know who the founder of the company was before this film came out. The film's best asset was trying to make things ambiguous. It's a vehicular product that does not inspire me to write a good review of it. You know what, having rethought about what I've seen, I'll just downgrade the rating to a 5. Sorry for the awful review. Ta.