Facebook Rules

Rating: 9/10 (2 October 2010)

As an avid Facebook user, I took the liberties in going to see this film. I really didn't know what to expect with this one. I actually thought since this was directed by David Fincher that it would be some kind of thriller. It's not. It's more of a history lesson of how Facebook came to be.
Really, it's about the youngest billionaire in the world, how he got there, and the people he screwed over to get there. They want blood. Or at least his money. So the film takes you through a series of events that starts out with our protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg having a conversation with this attractive girl. He screws it up with his mouth and the girl doesn't want anything with him anymore. So Mark gets mad, literally runs home to write a blog about her and creates a forum that has people rating girls in his school, which is Harvard.
At this point, it feels like his motivations are over this girl. It's like he wants to succeed just to show her up or something. He gets a little help from the Moskovitz brothers (one played by Joseph Mazzello, the little boy in Jurassic Park) who want him to create a Harvard Facebook. Mark agrees but doesn't include them in this idea and chooses his own people to help him through this endeavor. The Moskovitz boys get angry as Mark gets big with the a new website simply called The Facebook.
The best part of this movie has got to be Justin Timberlake as Napster genius Sean Parker. He steals every scene and he's chalk full of great performances. In fact, most of the performances in this movie is well done with some slick writing to boot. I especially love the scene with the Moskovitz brothers in the board room with the Dean. The dialogue exchange there is masterful and it felt like a real conversation between people. There's a lot of this in this movie and special care is given to every scene. This is a pure Oscar contender if I ever saw one.
The only true flaw that I've seen might has to be the ending. The film just had to wrap itself up, and it just wasn't as satisfying as I hoped. Almost sort of anti-climatic. It's not distracting and won't ruin the overall enjoyment of the film.
If you are a Facebook person, you owe it to yourself to see this movie. You might feel dumb afterwords like I had. Now if you excuse me, I have to go invent something.