After all, it was done by Hollywood pros director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, who have apparently transformed the appalling badly penned and very fictional book ?Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal? by Ben Mezrich into some bit of cinematic art.
But that?s not BoomTown talking, so here is a rundown of five reviews by top critics, as collected by the terrific Rotten Tomaties site (you can click on the links below for the full reviews):
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times:
?Smartly written by Aaron Sorkin, directed to within an inch of its life by David Fincher and anchored by a perfectly pitched performance by Jesse Eisenberg, ?The Social Network? is a barn-burner of a tale that unfolds at a splendid clip.?
Owen Glelbermann, Entertainment Weekly:
??The Social Network? has everything you want in a thriller for the brain: Huge doses of ego and duplicity, corporate backstabbing, and some very layered performances.?
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal:
?This account of Facebook?s founder, and of the website?s explosive growth, quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration, and pretty much keeps you there for two hours.?
Bob Mondello, NPR:
??The Social Network? is terrific entertainment?an unlikely thriller that makes business ethics, class distinctions and intellectual-property arguments sexy.?
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News:
?Weeks after seeing it, moments from it will haunt you.?
Hauntingly sexy is simply not the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that I know or what most think of the powerful social networking site, but it seems to go on and on like that in the reviews, with every critic using the film to wax poetic about life in the digital age.
(Personally, I find all my life lessons in ?The Terminator? series, but no one seems to grok my profound insight here.)
On Rotten Tomatoes, which you can see above, the movie got a 97 percent critics rating, although only an 81 percent audience vote. Still, only Ben Affleck?s ?The Town? is as close.
In other words, Mark, even if it is trashing you as a person, what you represent seems to have inspired analog ecstasy and movie magic.
And for most film critics, it seems, a very happy ending.
I will be seeing ?The Social Network? later today at a special screening in Silicon Valley, sponsored by Eastwick Communications, which will be followed by a panel discussion titled: ?Trust, Privacy, and Ethics in the Facebook Age.?
I am the moderator, and the interviewees include M. Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at Stanford Law School; Matt Cohler, one of Facebook?s earliest execs (where he remains a special advisor) and now a VC at Benchmark Capital; FutureWorks? Brian Solis; and ReputationDefender CEO Michael Fertik.
Video TK, natch, although I am going more for wobbly, rather than exhilarating.
I certainly could not do much better than another genius version by Next Media Animation from Taiwan. While only in CGI, there is bathroom sex, beatings, peepholes and?say what??a gay love triangle.
Really and truly?enjoy:
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