The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

[ayaa1977]

That is a great trailer indeed. You know the film was screened for some critics and I heard they were impressed. I hope it will prove the cynics wrong about Fincher making it for the money.

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since this is a Sony release i expect it to be released on October 1st everywhere,right? 

[fizz]

Very impressive trailer. They are going for the super serious feel/look. Reminds me of Robert Redford's brilliant Quiz Show.

[theoddball]

Very impressive trailer. They are going for the super serious feel/look. Reminds me of Robert Redford's brilliant Quiz Show.

Spot on! That was an awesome film. Very underrated.

[fizz]

Very impressive trailer. They are going for the super serious feel/look. Reminds me of Robert Redford's brilliant Quiz Show.

Spot on! That was an awesome film. Very underrated.

Yes, very underrated, almost unseen. Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro were on fire.

[X.]

I just saw the trailer, and can't say I am thrilled by it. I was expecting a film about Facebook to be...I don't know...more fun. This feels dour. And Radiohead? Seriously, Radiohead?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/rL9ufNvhRxI&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/rL9ufNvhRxI&rel=1</a>

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sssssh it's already the best movie of the year.

i can't get over the "coolness" of this movie i just can't...it's going to have this haunting quality of Zodiac i know it.looking at this fall line up,there's nothing THAT special,if SONY campaigned for Oscars,it will win but Fincher doesn't want to campaign as usual..

i know Brad Pitt+Cate Blanchett+Fincher turned out to be shockingly poop but you would be really really mad to think Fincher+Facebook+Eisenberg+Trent would be less than badass,it's a masterpiece!

[X.]

Well, let's hope you are right!

[fizz]

Facebook Doesn't "Like" 'The Social Network' Movie

by Mike Ryan · August 24, 2010

Don't expect Sony, the studio behind "The Social Network," to receive a friend request from Facebook anytime soon.

The new David Fincher-directed quasi-fictional movie about the famed social networking site isn't exactly being met with open arms (or even a poke) by the company's top brass. Facebook's take on the matter could be summed up by paraphrasing a quote from one Fincher's best-known films: You don't talk about "The Social Network."

Or, to elaborate on the "Fight Club" phrase: don't talk about "The Social Network" publicly. Behind the scenes, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg -- portrayed by Jessie Eisenberg in the film-- claims many of the scenes in the movie are pure fiction.

In July, Zuckerberg participated in an interview in front of an audience at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Zuckerberg made it clear that he doesn't want the film to be seen as a true biopic.

"Honestly," Zuckerberg told the Silicon Valley crowd, "I wish that when people try to do journalism or write stuff about Facebook, that they at least try to get it right."

Zuckerberg was also asked why he didn't allow himself to be interviewed for the book that the film was based on ("The Accidental Billionaires," which, incidentally, is filed in the business and biographies sections at Amazon.com).

"The reason why we didn't participate is because it was very clear that it was fiction from the beginning," the 26-year-old social networking wunderkind said. "I mean, he [author Ben Mezrich] basically told us, 'you know, what I'm most interested is in telling the most interesting story, right? 'And we want to make sure that we're never -- that we never participate in something like that so then someone can take something that's really fictional and say, and 'we talked to Mark Zuckerberg for this.'"

Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder, agrees with Zuckerberg's assessment, telling the New York Times, "It's crazy because all of a sudden Mark becomes this person who created Facebook to get girls or to gain power." Adding: "That's not what was going on. It was a little more boring and quotidian than that."

In response to various Facebook executives' complaints about the film, "The Social Network" producer Scott Rudin told The Times the movie is about the differing stories told in two court cases, saying, "There is no such thing as the truth." He also admitted that the filmmakers had made small changes based on Facebook feedback, but refused to make bigger ones the company asked for.

Regardless of what Facebook thinks of "The Social Network" (at least two Facebook executives who saw the film claim not to like it), an early review is quite glowing.

"This is very rich material for a movie on such timeless subjects as power and privilege," writes the New York Film Festival's Scott Foundas. "And such intrinsically 21st-century ones as the migration of society itself from the real to the virtual sphere-and David Fincher's 'The Social Network' is big and brash and brilliant enough to encompass them all."

"The Social Network," directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, premieres first at the New York Film Festival on September 24. It opens nationwide on October 1.

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There's no such thing as bad publicity

[X.]

I'm going to cut Zuckerberg some slack here because the author of book Ben Mezrich is a fucking hack. I've read his stuff (his book on Dubai called RIGGED is a hoot) and let's just say the *rich* in his last name is there for a reason.

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http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/09/you_know_youre_1.php

i told you it's going to have the same Zodiac quality..

[X.]

It's less of a review and more of an award speculation.

"This guy will be nominated for this...that person will get that...they will celebrate a win for..."

[ayaa1977]

I think I've read somewhere that Fincher made a bold statement that his film will win the Oscar this next year.

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oh come on Fincher would never say such thing