Sunday, August 28, 2011

Social Network

Ironically...my myspace page is open right now while watching Social Network but I can't let that throw me. Time to report. Aaron Sorkin wrote the script for this awesome "life story" of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg plays the genius, cocky, future multi-millionaire. While attending Harvard University, Zuckerberg comes up with a social network that stemmed from an idea that fellow students came to him with. Young kid with BIG dreams. I can't believe I've gone this far into the blog and not mentioned Justin Timberlake. JT plays Sean Parker, the creator of Napster. He meets with Zuckerberg and convinces him to make his already successful network an actually business. I feel like anybody can start watching this movie a hour in and will be caught up to speed in minutes which is a good thing and a bad thing. Good thing is you get caught up very quickly, Bad thing about it is it kind of defeats the purpose of movies but who am I to say anything about that lol. (The movie won 3 oscars and Sorkin is no slouch) Even the movie poster saying makes the movie easy to understand...You don't get 500 million friends without making a few enemies. When the end credits roll...I am very happy I just watched this film. I am deleting my Myspace account and jumping on the Mark Zuckerberg band wagon. Hello Facebook, nice to meet you and thank you in advance for taking over my life. The Social Network gets a 7.5/10.

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