The Social Network

Yes, I caved. The mom wanted to rent another movie and when browsing, we found The Social Network. I wanted to know what the heck made this movie win so many awards. It's not because the movie caused an honest need to see it with riveting trailers or anything...

And I have to admit, the movie was pretty good. It's a little hard to follow at first because we jump from past to present. The past is basically where "Mark Zuckerberg" [Jesse Eisenberg] is dumped by his then girlfriend, and ultimately causes him to create a site where girls at Harvard are ranked based on their physical appearance. He creates this site from scratch... While blogging [on livejournal which makes me laugh]... While drunk. That's pretty awesome and it's pretty awesome to watch actually... Even though it's only an actor. Anyway, the entire setting up of "Zuckerberg's" life as he creates the Facebook is the past.

The present is where "Zuckerberg" is fighting two financial battles. One is against his former [?] best friend, Eduardo and the guy who plays him, Andrew Garfield, is insanely attractive in my book. Right now, he'd be my one time celebrity pass. If you don't know what that means, you're too young to know. The second battle is against the Winklevoss twins and their business partner [not particular important], who claim that "Zuckerberg" stole their idea [the HarvardConnection which later became ConnectU].

In the past, we follow "Zuckerberg" as he becomes heavily invested in his creation, the strain of his relationship friendship and working partnership with Eduardo [who becomes involved with crazy bitch Wendy Wu Brenda Song], his blooming bromance relationship partnership with J.T. Dance Party Sean Parker [dude of original Napster] and how much he kind of sucks at normal life. Also, him and Eduardo break up go their separate ways when "Zuckerberg" and J.T. Dance Party Parker somewhat trick Eduardo into letting his shares into being diluted while everyone elses' shares remained intact.

In the present, we find "Zuckerberg" is even more invested in his project than the beginning. Even while he is being sued, he doesn't have much time to devote any of his attention to these cases. The Facebook is numero uno. Ultimately, settlements were reached for both and the one amateur junior lawyer tells "Zuckerberg" that they are settling because... Basically, "Zuckerberg"'s personality would get him no sympathy from a jury and the story is just... "Zuckerberg" would not win.

Oh and J.T. Dance Party Sean Parker was caught with some interns and some coke [and not the cola kind]. He wandered off to jail or something... We don't see anything else about him really. But again, outside of kind of turning "Zuckerberg" away from his relationship with Eduardo, he had no purpose.

Overall, while my summary here doesn't really do the movie justice, I wouldn't consider it to be completely awesomely great. The acting was superb and the storyline moving but I just... The transitioning could definitely have used some work. And some of the scenes could have used work. There is one in particular that comes to mind: "Zuckerberg" and J.T. Dance Party Parker are in a club and the music is absolutely blasting... And I get it but... We can barely hear what the characters are saying. I can't even tell if that was the entire purpose of the scene. This happens somewhere else in the movie but I can't remember when.

I'd say see it. It's worth the time in my opinion but I can't decide if it's worth buying or even renting again. Maybe one day in the upcoming snowy weeks. Cause we all know that damn groundhog is gonna see his shadow.