The Amazing tale of FACEBOOK..well a tale anyway

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2010)

This film was without a doubt genius. I am an avid user of Facebook and really enjoyed knowing the history about something that I use pretty much every day. Although with the way he was portrayed in the film it made me HATE MARK ZUCKERBERG and not even want to use his product. But since I make movies myself I know that even when telling the truth about something it can be ENHANCED shall we say.
So it starts off with probably the worst date I have ever witnessed. He basically calls his girlfriend an idiot and not pretty and that he is better then her. She politely dumps him and tries to leave before he gets things heated enough that she has to be nasty.
He then goes back to his dorm, gets drunk, writes a horrible blog about her and then creates a facemash site with his roommates. It got tons of hits and he felt better about himself. Kinda douchey way to go but hey, he got out of an expulsion.
So then these rich twins and their friend find out about what he designed and they have an idea. They want him to be the program writer for it and approach him. Well because he always seemed to feel like an outsider, they were part of the exclusive clubs he wanted to be in, so he says yes. To top it off, his BFF Eduardo had been approached by one of those "CLUBS" so he wanted to be part of the IN CROWD too.
So he gets going on this and then begins to think he can do it even better and WITHOUT THEM. After dodging them for a while he makes.....FACEBOOK.
So things are going good til they decide to sue him, but he is so into thinking he is the best he ignores all that and gets involved with the NAPSTER guy Sean Parker (Played by Justin Timberlake, who I can say gave a fantastic performance.)
So it all goes badly, and the lawsuit goes on. He screws people over left and right and then has to pay through the nose.
While we have all heard tales like this a million times, the performances of everyone and the way the story just flowed so fast it was a fantastic film! Go see it, and then in the words of my friend Mike, GO INVENT SOMETHING!!