Facebook Film - Thumbs up or Thumbs down?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2010/tc20100826_187353.htm

For my first blog post, I am glad to be writing about this upcoming movie The Social Network.  I enjoy watching movies a great deal and I have been quite curious about this one in particular.  This article discusses how the hype surrounding the new "Facebook" movie may not be all that it is cracked up to be.  On one side, The Rolling Stone magazine critic gave the movie a top four star rating, while the movies Facebook fan page has a meager 13,550 number of followers on its own website. 

Facebook being what it is today, I am interested to see how the movie portrays the events that occurred leading up to the websites inception.  As the article puts it, there is a challenge in marketing a movie where people type on computers and give legal depositions.  Translating this onto the screen seems difficult, but the trailer seemed convincing enough to me. 

Another aspect of the movie that is unclear, is how closely the movie sticks to what really happened.  In the article, Zuckerberg claims that he originally created "Facebook to improve the world and make it a more transparent place. This movie portrays me as someone who built Facebook so I could meet girls."  It is surprising to me to hear that kind of explanation.  I think creating the site originally to meet girls seems more plausible, but who knows, maybe his original aspirations were indeed that lofty.

This article ultimately made me think about how interesting it is to see such immediate reactions to movies and events and it's all made so easy through the thousands of connections we make online.  One thing is clear, that once the movie is released the feeling of the majority will be "heard" quickly through the social media on which the movie is based.