Even my parents are on Facebook. They haven't heard of those other things. I believe the makers of this film are interested in a wider audience than just geeks.

While there might be more interesting stories in the internet world, they didn't interest A-list talent like Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher.

I still use it.

That is true. I'd love to know the backstory of how the producers convinced Sorkin and Fincher to come onboard.

This also further reiterates that Tom from MySpace was an idiot.

Is that why there's no panel for it at Comic Con this year?

Cause only geeks go to Comic Con?

The movie itself looks good, but the cinematography gives the whole thing a low saturated, colorless look. Not a fan. Seems pointless and if it really turns out to be 190 minutes (although I doubt it), I will have a hard time watching those lifeless images.

You haven't seen Fincher's other films? For better or worse, this is the look he wants.

Yeah just by looking at it I can tell it's fincher. From Panic Room to now...I can easily tell a Fincher Film. Se7en and Fight Club look nothing like Panic Room to this film.

Yup.

Nothing wrong with it either. The cinematography is always great.

Se7en, and Fight Club are two of my favorite films. His films don't always look the same. Fight Club is nice and colorful, Se7en has a gloomy but definitely not colorless look. Same with Panic Room. Fincher chooses the best look for each story, and just from the trailer I'm not digging this look at all.

I don't think there's a comparison to him making facebook compared to the other websites mentioned. Except maybe Google. Facebook is part of nearly everyone's daily life. That definitely cannot be said for match.com or myspace.

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I disagree about Se7en, that film could almost be black and white. Except for the ending.

This looks alot like the cinematography from Panic Room and Zodiac. Very low lighting. A very 'brown' feel. Especially the college scenes.

'Social Network' altered at Facebook's request
Scott Rudin gave Facebook execs preview of script, film
Aug 21, 2010, 04:22 PM ET

Facebook executives requested changes to the upcoming film "The Social Network," some of which were granted.

Producer Scott Rudin told The New York Times that he made unspecified tweaks after giving Facebook execs early glimpses of the script and edit of the film.

But don't go thinking "Social" is corporate propaganda just yet; Rudin said he refused bigger changes Facebook demanded (also unspecified).

One scene in particular is described as a possible deletion from the film's final cut: A speech made by the character of Napster co-founder Sean Parker while in the background teenage girls offer lines of cocaine for partygoers to snort off their bared breasts.

"Social" producers have already acknowledged that the film takes liberties with the facts of the company's history. The film is expected to give a particularly unflattering portrait of Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg.

Zuckerberg isn't quoted in the article, which reports that Rudin was talking directly to Elliot Schrage, vp of communications at Facebook, and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Rudin describes Schrage urging him to incorporate details from a book about the company by David Kirkpatrick, but the arrangement never materialized.

"Social" creators were allowed to take liberties with the truth of Facebook's story without having to buy life rights to the people depicted because much of the story they told is based on depositions given by those depicted. Other source material includes the book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich and interviews with Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook who went on to sue Zuckerberg.

From a Film Comment review:

"This is very rich material for a movie on such timeless subjects as power and privilege, 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. It is nominally the story of the founding of Facebook, yes, and how something that began among friends quickly descended into acrimony and litigation once billions of dollars were at stake. But just as All the President’s Men—a seminal film for Fincher and a huge influence on his Zodiac—was less interested by the Watergate case than by its zeitgeist-altering ripples, so too is The Social Network devoted to larger patterns of meaning.

...

Lest I seem to suggest otherwise, I hasten to add that The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances (not least from Justin Timberlake as Napster founder Sean Parker, who’s like Zuckerberg’s flamboyant, West Coast id). It is a movie of people typing in front of computer screens and talking in rooms that is as suspenseful as any more obvious thriller. But this is also social commentary so perceptive that it may be regarded by future generations the way we now look to Gatsby for its acute distillation of Jazz Age decadence."

I was hoping that this movie was going to be more social commentary than the actual creation of FB. I hope I like it as much as this guy.

Cocaine and nudity get to stay in 'Social Network'


http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08...work/?hpt=Sbin


I am shocked this is going to be rated PG-13.

Who's Sean Parker? Didn't Shawn Fanning create Napster?

A quick search seems to say they were co-creators.

meh, not to sound like a certain ex board member, but that rating really bothers me. I was hoping for an R.

Now everyone is going to have to watch their language.

^Agreed. I trust Fincher, but would have much preferred to have an R.

Real life isn't PG-13

There is a lot of swearing in the book that the movie is based on, so its surprising they're trying to go for a PG-13

I guess that rating means that they are hoping to get a lot of teens into the theater to see a movie about Facebook. That's pretty disappointing since they will undoubtably end up cutting out a lot of the language that was in the book.

Nothing so far has suggested it was anything but a movie about the founding of Facebook.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it a 4/4 - David Fincher’s Social Network is the 1st film I've given **** in 2010. It’s the movie of the year that also brilliantly defines the decade
9:40 AM Aug 20th via web

it's Rolling Stone....let me see some DVDtalk reviews and then I can gauge it for myself...