After all of the wild craze of people saying this was the best movie of the year as well as it winning the Golden Globe for best picture I decided to watch The Social Network.
The Social Network is about the people and controversies that occurred during the creation of Facebook (or TheFacebook).
The acting was good, but nothing that stood out to me as an amazing performance. I thought the best actor in the movie was Justin Timberlake. He played the only character that I really found entertaining. The twins were pretty good too.
I felt that if you are not into facebook you will have trouble getting into the movie. Technically I thought the movie was awful. There were a lot of scenes where the music or sound effects drowned out the lines of what the main characters were saying. The most noticeable was the scene where Eisenberg and Timberlake are talking in a club about the future of facebook. Well I could barely hear what they were saying over the music that I had to put the subtitles on. Also the opening scene where he gets dumped by his girlfriend is really hard to hear. This goes on all through the whole movie.
I will say that the most redeeming thing about the movie was the soundtrack by Trent Reznor. (I am a NIN fan) The music was perfect, but also way too loud that it downed out important things that the audience needed to hear to understand what was going on. As my brother says this goes on with all David Fincher films.
Lastly the ending. The movie shows the figuring of who created facebook and who deserves money through lawyers and such. They show you what everyone has to say and it ends with you not finding out what the results were. I felt a little gipped as it was an actual event and has an ending that doesn't need to be left up to the viewer...
Overall I was super disappointed and I pray that it doesn't win anything other then musical score at the oscars.
5/10
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