When I first saw the theatrical trailer for this my immediate reaction was THUMBS DOWN ALL THE WAY DOWN. And for so many reasons-the main character, played by the dude in the Squid and The Whale, seriously BUGS. Although, if one must cast this nerd in a movie, I suppose this would be the one.
But then I found out that this new flick about facebook was directed by David Fincher.
This guy is a total cynicist. His filmmaking style is inherently dark, but lately he's really going for something with serious mass appeal. Not that his other movies weren't fairly massive, but I think he really wants to be in the big alpha ranks a la James Cameron. I like to believe he is moving in this direction not so much for the money, but for the artistic freedom he can acquire once he's truly working his medium into a masterpiece. Then, BAM!, I swear to god he's gonna manipulate audiences so hard that they won't even know what hit them. Rad. So if he must make a movie about facebook, so be it. He's pretty much already gained my unconditioning approval since Zodiac.
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