A movie about Facebook? We have to admit we had our doubts, but we began to slowly turn around on it after the first couple of brief teasers, and now that the full-length trailer for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” has landed you can put this right at the top of our list of most anticipated movies this fall.
We positively had goosebumps over the first part of the trailer, which uses a rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep” by the Belgian girl’s choir Scala over a series of chats and status update screens on a Facebook page. The second half of the trailer finally puts faces to the dialogue we’ve been hearing in teaser spots, and wow, we’re impressed. Jesse Eisenberg looks like he has the part nailed, we’re loving the brown color palette Fincher is using in those early Harvard scenes and it looks like the cast is firing on all cylinders. There is an epic feeling about the proceedings that is definitely coming through, the rumored lengthy running time seems to make a lot more sense now, and we’re eager to see how this story about the founding of Facebook will play out. It looks like part-legal thriller, part-coming-of-age story. Really, we never thought the film was going to be this compelling, but wow, we are officially stoked.
“The Social Network” will make its premiere on the opening night of the New York Film Festival and then hit theaters on October 1st.
Eat your hearts out, Jesse Eisenberg naysayers.Yeah!
This is just as bad as making a movie about Bush being president, while he is still in office. This movie is designed to do one thing and thats make money.
You dont get 60 million at the box office by not skewing a few trailers.
fantastic.
Really? Don't get me wrong, I love a good lawyer procedural, but this does not look more enticing than your average television movie.
You're all morons. This looks absolutely brilliant.
I'm not a Jesse Eisenberg naysayer, but he does act the same way in his movies much like Michael Cera. If the character fits that persona, perfect…but if not, he would be miscast. It seems the main character in this movie does fit his acting style, so i think it should work. Still don't know about Justin Timberlake.
That is some hot shit!
That rendition of Creep is actually by Scala – a Belgian girls' choir that has done a lot of cool pop song covers.
Sweet, thanks Michael.
Good trailer for a movie that looks like one step above an average biopic.
"There is an epic feeling about the proceedings that is definitely coming through…" Really? *yawn*
this film is going to surprise a lot of people. we all know Fincher is best when he gets his hands on good material, and the screenplay was fantastic.
Fincher, you have done it again!
WOW, Eisenberg has Mark Zuckerberg's accent down to the T. Especially when he says "Twenty-two thousand." That's crazy. Sure this could have easily been a Pirates of Silicon Valley TV movie, but Fincher is directing, so it obviously WILL NOT be that.
Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire on the planet, so a movie that details how he got to be that is worthy of a feature IMO. And it looks like the casting is solid. I'll check it out.
Hey, it's me again, the resident Facebook movie "hater"!
Maybe I'm biased because I was actually at Harvard while Zuckerberg was there, but this trailer and people's gushing over it really, really makes me laugh. Like I said before, this reminds of that classic Simpsons episode about sexual harassment: "HOMER S: PORTRAIT OF AN ASS-GRABBER…starring Dennis Franz"
Oh well, feel free to enjoy it. But please don't think this is what Harvard or Facebook or Zuckerberg is remotely like. Or that this gussied up Lifetime movie isn't 99% ridiculous, enjoyable or not.
Dang. And I had been rooting for this project, too. I enjoyed the script but I have to say the trailer is underwhelming. Eisenberg seems to play Zuckerberg like he is a complete humorless ass. Not an amusing ass. Not someone you want to spend some time with and root for. But someone you want to see get smacked down hard and crushed. And since we know where the story stands today, that leads me to believe that the whole film will feel rather unsatisfying. We already know that the smug, humorless guy wins. So where is the tension?
The "Creep" choice is inspired and very Fincher-esque but the body of the trailer is just a blur of red faced characters yelling at each other about money and lawsuits. And so while the characters make a lot of noise in the trailer and express a lot of loud emotion, the outline of a compelling, emotional story never really emerges. Whose side am I supposed to be on again? The jerky guy?
I am a big Fincher fan — have been since before he was ever a feature director. But I have to say I get the same sinking feeling from this trailer that I got when I saw the trailer for Alien 3 for the first time. Either the marketing people are completely flummoxed about how to explain this thing or the film is a miss. Whatever the case, the trailer definitely misses for me.
I'm less and less interested. Looks like my first Fincher-on-DVD.
This looks a zillion times better and more interesting than "Benjamin Button."
geha714 with all due respect, when was the last time Fincher did it? in 1999? may be.
BTW, can't wait for the snobbery of RH fans to come after this cover.
Social Networking will tear this site apart.
Didn't you guys read the script for this movie before you saw this? The script is great, and the themes of insecurity/dysfunctional social lives in the 21st century is hit harder than any movie's ever hit them before.
This movie can't red-line any harder on my meters.
I'm going to check my Facebook now…
I read the script and was very underwhelmed, but I guess i was really wrong.
Everyone loved it, it was at the top of the Blacklist, etc. (though i swear some seemed to just bandwagon love it, and Sorkin's "Moneyball" script is immensely more readable/enjoyable).
The point is moot, Fincher seems to have made something very dark and chewy out of this and thank god.
It did read like boring Law & Order on the page, but this seems like it found a deeper, darker new contour.
they REALLY shouldnt have gone for the drama/cheesy romance way. it looks like a lifetime movie now.
at least they didnt put a song like idioteque in the trailer…this cover of creep was actually ok. i never even was a big fan of creep in the first place, but this cover is neat.