As good as it's hyped!

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2010)

As the summary says, The Social Network is just as good as it is hyped up to be! The acting is brilliant, as well as the screenplay and David Fincher's usual genius as a director. Now for starters, Jessie Eisenberg. Eisenberg gives his best performance since The Squid and the Whale, and it could quite possibly pass that to be his best performance ever, though at the beginning of the movie I found his character difficult to like because of how socially awkward he was but the character of Zuckerberg grew on me as the movie went on. This movie has been receiving quite a bit of Oscar buzz lately, and one of the categories it has been receiving much of is best supporting actor for Justin Timberlake, and rightfully so... He was simply wonderful, for me his performance really put the movie over the top from a pretty good movie to a great movie. Of course though the movie is not perfect by any means, despite the fact that it is about the youngest self made billionaire and how it's about facebook, the story is your typical rise and fall film. It's not all that original.
Oscar Buzz: This movie will certainly be nominated for a few Oscars. Here's the list of what I think it will be nominated for...
Best Actor- Jesse Eisenberg Best Supporting Actor- Justin Timberlake Best Director- David Fincher Best Adapted Screenplay- Aaron Sorkin Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Cinematography Best Picture Total: 9 nominations Of these 9 nominations, I believe it will win two. I believe Aaron Sorkin will win for best adapted screenplay, and Justin Timberlake will win for Best Supporting Actor... As for all the best director/picture/actor buzz... I think we all have forgotten about this little movie called Inception ;) which is my pick to take home all the big awards this year considering it's fantastic reviews and dominating box office performance, as well as the fact that the whole reason there are ten nominations for best picture is because The Dark Knight wasn't nominated for best picture, and Nolan wasn't nominated for director. The academy does have the tendency to hand out sorry we didn't give you this last time awards, which will probably happen with Inception because of how robbed Nolan was at the 2009 awards.