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I was genuinely surprised. Everyone in it is superb, really. I think it's the first time Eisenberg doesn't come across as a budget Michael Cera.

I proper enjoyed it. The dialogue is as sharp as you expect, the narrative manages to jump around without being a total mess, the music is great, an all round class film.

"I like this" or proclaim to everyone that they are now friends or no longer in a relationship? I really feel this would add to the film and wouldn't make it in anyway farcical or become tired at all.

but like Fincher and Timberlake

hmm

As I said in the previous fred http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4268288 ...the critics spaffing themselves over it made me want to watch this rather than the shockingly bad trailer.

It schlepped along at a fair pace. People said Scott Pilgrim was a fast film but I was fine with it, whereas this demanded much more of your close attention if you want to keep up - sometimes the dialogue was spat out so fast I had trouble catching it all.

It pretty much did what it set out to do as well it could've. i.e turn a story based around computer coding and a legal wrangle into an engaging human story. The lead is shown as a not particularly appealing person, but you find yourself rooting for him in the face of some pretty gash personalities.

Eisenberg does a really really great job of playing the flawed Zuckerberg. But looks a bit too much (but not really) like Simon Amstell.

Timberlake does a decent job of playing a dual-edged character.

The villainous twins are particularly tragi-comic. Can't believe that SPOILER-BUT-NOT-REALLY they were both played by the same person.

There were quite a few proper laugh out loud moments that I didn't see coming.

Can't quite sign up to the 90+% view of the critics, but I can go along with the mid 80s% viewer rating average.

There's a chance I might even go and see it again, which is something I've barely ever done.

Mainly because of the obscene jealousy I feel knowing this is about a 26yr old guy who is now worth $6.9 billion just for starting some stupid website.

Was a bit worried about the critical response but it lived up to it as well as it could - brilliantly scripted, Eisenberg was fantastic, there is no way (as much as I like him) that Michael Cera is capable of a turn like that so hopefully all references to him will be dropped from now on. I sat there with a pretty much permanent smile on my face, some of it was really laugh-out-loud funny, but it was pretty witty and incredibly engaging throughout. I'd happily give it a 9/10, can't think of a better film this year. And I thought the trailer was rubbish.

But i decided to look after my farm instead

I love the way Fincher shoots his movies - you can tell when you're watching one of his movies. They henley regatta scene is beautiful to watch - shame it only lasts a few minutes.

The script is incredible, but that's what you've come to expect from sorkin. The "Winkle-vie" comment had me in stitches..

Not sure if Timberlake deserves an oscar nod or Eisenberg for that matter but both played their parts to perfection.

The main performances were all great, the dialogue was strong, and I liked the jumpy narrative as Zuckerberg fends off people with (rightful) grudges against him. I had no idea Sean Parker was so involved with facebook (or at least, the film paints it that way).

A few points though:

Eduardo at the start was showing Mark the algorithim to make facemash, but near the end he was saying he couldn't even update his status profile - so was he intergral to the facebook idea, or was he just a clueless money man funding the tech genius?

Also, we see Mark throughout resisting monetarising facebook to try and keep it cool - at what point did he give in, and what persuaded him? It would have been interesting to see that in the film.

On a very similar note, he founded facebook on the premise of exclusivity (I remember being on it when it was only at Oxbridge and LSE) - at what stage did he feel it was suitable to roll it out to anyone?

Good film though, the Vinklevoss were a good comic relief, I thought it exposed the central premises of facebook - envy, jealousy, social climbing - very well.

I am not qualified enough to offer an opinion any more deep than 'I enjoyed it quite a bit'.

so we ducked in to catch a film until it passed. As it turned out, this was the only thing on in that timeslot. I knew nothing about any of the hype and the only thing I had any prior knowledge of was the really shitty trailer I'd seen before some other film a few weeks ago. Also, I've never used Facebook. So it's fair to say I wasn't overly enthusiastic.

I LOVED it. Hardly any fat on it. I can't back this up with any sort of examples or, you know, logic, but the film it most reminded me of was Almost Famous. Weird

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it was an unexpectedly gripping story and the 3 main actors were all amazingly believable, especially Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberger. (Eisenberger really is a bizarre Cera/Amstell hybrid looks-wise though!)

While it was rarely laugh-out-loud funny it simmered at a really nice level of dry wit all the way through - classic Sorkin, really. It's also refreshing that while almost all the characters bar Eduardo were a shower of bastards to some extent or the other, it still felt like an incredibly human, positive film.

excellent in parts

reminded me a lot of the book Masters of Doom about the creation of id software too which was nice

then again i watched it in french so the more snappier dialogue was lost on me.

excellent writing, maybe a little let down by 'eaten by the monster he created' symbolism at the end - the makers really don't like facebook very much! - all the characters really well written. No bagginess at all. Incredibly funny, am desperate to know how much is true/isn't true.

I kind of liked it.

Was interesting to see that (based on the film) the missus thought he blatantly stole the Winklevoss' idea whereas I wasn't really sold on that.

and I was surprised how much I liked it as in theory it sounded like quite a dull film. It was very entertaining and really interesting.

The dialouge was too clinical, too precise. Not at all believable.

That said, I really believed Justin Timberlake's character was an abominable arsehole. Can't think why ...