It rules over you, always watching. It knows where you are, where you've been, where you're going. It knows your friends, your enemies. It knows your interests, your relationships, and it knows all about that totally awesome grilled cheese you just had.
I'm talking, of course, about Facebook.
Facebook has become an important facet of a person's social life in today's society. For some people it IS their social life. It is the #5 most popular website on the internet, according to mostpopularwebsites.net, behind only Google, Yahoo, YouTube, and MSN Live. How did this website get to where it is today? They're making a movie about that, dontcha know?
PUNK! GENIUS! PROPHET! TRAITOR! BILLIONAIRE! GAG!
However, the second trailer seems a little more promising, and a whole lot less pretentious. Either way, virtually nothing is told to us in either of these, besides the fact we get to kind of see the cast in the second, while in the first you're mostly reduced to listening to serious-sounding voices and it ending with you going "Hey! It's the other Michael Cera!"
Either way, the first trailer didn't hurt my anticipation of this movie too much, as the creative minds behind it are two people with work that I have written about in a very positive way. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, the man behind The West Wing. What does this tell me? The screenplay is very well-researched. The attention to detail and process will be impressive, and we might get to really know these characters. The dialogue will probably be zippy and witty, but hopefully Sorkin keeps that enough in check.
The director is one of the best going: David Fincher. I wrote a "My Favorite Movies" piece on Zodiac, and he has given us some other great films in the past two decades, including Se7en and Fight Club. He was nominated for an Oscar for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (a film I don't love as much as some, but visually it is still quite brilliant). I have no reason to believe he won't make The Social Network a compelling film. If Sorkin handles the script and Fincher takes care of the visuals and style, I don't see how this film isn't really good. We might even have an Oscar contender on our hands.
Just tone down the pretentiousness of the first trailer, and some actual footage in the next one would be nice.
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