criterionforum.org

The hating the characters part is something I find interesting in hindsight, as it's now pretty much official Fincher does hate them, while Sorkin kinda adulate them. It's thus a bit tough, in termes of on-screen results, to precisely assess what's what (and who this is coming from). I do think part of the movie is showing people managing to launch a succesful brand and going through the obstacles of it, the pettiness when big money is involved, the misplaced loyalty, the people it can attract but making it big anyway. From a commercial/industrial point of view, the movie still shows people managing to go through the hoops and turn a very small thing into a huge and lasting one. But from a human point of view, yeah, it shows how many of those people are petty and nasty and jealous and whatnot, and how in the center of it all, Zuckerberg is a heartless out-of-touch heart of stone. Or, more precisely, someone who can't relate, can't connect to people. He's depicted as a hard worker, but he never really does hard things when it comes to human relations. It's Parker who fire Saverin, it's Erica who breaks up with him, he's a slippery eel with the Vinklevoss and Narendra. Zuck always watches from the back, cowardly letting other people do the dirty work, cause he's not there anyway when it comes to humans.

As for the movie in itself, it's one of those rare movies that I'll get stuck in front of if I happen to stumble upon a showing of it. No matter if it only started or if I missed the first hour.

Murdoch wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:48 pm Social Network sequel in production, written and directed by Sorkin

The Social Reckoning teaser.

Oscar nominee Bill Burr

He's literally the only reason I'd even watch this.

It was kind of a silly setup, but I thought he showed he had acting chops in that one Mandalorian episode (a show I gave up on shortly after).

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 2:50 pm

Murdoch wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:48 pm Social Network sequel in production, written and directed by Sorkin

The Social Reckoning teaser.

From the first shot of this trailer, Aaron Sorkin's visuals and staging look empty in comparison to any single frame out of Fincher's movie.

It feels very prestige TV, from the actors (no matter what they've done since they were featured there) on out.

Feels like a big stretch to get people who liked "a movie about the founding of Facebook" to care about "a movie about, well, you see, there were some shady regulatory things going on at Facebook that this lady found out about and then talked to the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament and then founded a non-profit you've never heard of that focuses on 'litigation and investor-based strategies in order to provide legal and economic incentives for mitigating harms' and then she moved to Puerto Rico and started investing in cryptocurrency."

This is decidedly not A Few Good Men or The Trial of the Chicago 7 (but at least it's not Being the Ricardos).

Hmm.

The Social Network is Exhibit A for me, for films that on paper seemed like a stupid, boring, uninteresting idea, but which fucking blew me away when I was forced to watch.

Is this part Deux of that?

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to feel that way, and I was already an eager fan of Fincher’s stuff. It mirrored a bit earlier how I felt about Zodiac sight unseen, but going off an A&E special I watched on the case that left no lasting impression on my memory.

The Social Network's pitch always was surprising ("let's make a movie about how Facebook was created"), but it ended up being one of the rare movie I can't put down each time I stumbled into it, even if means going to bed at 1am.