The good people of Americaland have decided that it’s worth watching The Social Network. This weekend it topped the box office charts. Is it any good? The consensus seems to be ‘who cares? It’s got Justin Timberlake in it.’
And how weird is it that someone has decided to make a film about something so current? It’s like Justin Bieber releasing an autobiography. Neither of these things, sadly, have died yet.
Anyway, there’s a trailer of the film which you can watch, which is embedded further into this article. Yep. You’ve guess it. This is the ‘filler’ bit of the article which we write so the formatting doesn’t go weird.
So what is The Social Network about? People ‘liking’ stuff and sodding Farmville?
Of course not. That would be rubbish.
Nope, we walk in on the action on an autumnal evening in 2003 where Harvard undergrad and computer programming geek Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.
In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. As well you know. You’ve probably used the bloody thing.
Six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history.
Of course, with power comes personal and legal complications. And women in bikinis.
From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. Or, pretty much anyone who has ever used Facebook has shouted so much that they’ve ruptured their brain thanks to constant fucking tinkering. Is there a bit in the film about that? Is there bollocks.
The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ce?n Chaffin and based on the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich.
Out soon or something.
Arthur ASCii says
I find this whole demonization of a genuine folk hero, someone who really made something out of nothing, a crying shame.
I’m certain this film will prove a flop and Marc Zuckerberg will be able to take the power back from the haters, the Twitter idiots who are so hell bent on seeing a genuine talent destroyed so they can feel better about themselves.
Cookie Monster says
“Folk hero”? Really, Arthur? Maybe “folk with a touch of Aspergers hero”.
This is picky, but the ‘youngest billionaire’ bit is tiresome. Youngest self-made billionaire, perhaps, but not simply youngest. The Christina Onasasis’ of the world would be offended, if they could be bothered to give two golden greek shits. If I could harness the golden greek shit gene, I would have the world in the palm off my golden hairy hand! Ah, woops, I just revealed the plot of Austin Powers 4.
Tom J says
So is the ‘spray just going to be a studio mouthpiece now Stu has left? A film like this would never have got an easy ride when Stu was around and rightly so because it’s a bunch of contrived bullshit. Just because you need to report on crap like this doesn’t mean you have to like it – that’s what used to make the ‘spray great. Consider this a black mark, Gimmers.
Mof Gimmers says
Did you actually read the words Tom? There’s a fair bit of bile in there. I wished death on Zuckerberg at the start and swore quite a lot at the end.
Tom J says
Sorry but it’s hard to finish a paragraph that begins with “From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don
Mof Gimmers says
“From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don
Tom J says
Free subscription? I’ll take it! Most sites stop displaying the adverts once you’ve subscribed so I assume that means I won’t see any more articles like this one?
All joking aside, I know you have responsibilities to your sponsors but you don’t have to make it so damn obvious.