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It Can't Be More Boring Than Benjamin Button

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We’ve hit you with just about every factoid of David Fincher’s new film The Social Network. Jesse Eisenberg is the lead. Aaron Sorkin wrote the script. Trent Reznor is doing the soundtrack.

You’ve seen posters and you’ve been titillated with teasers. But now Pajiba presents an actual look at the film. A meaty trailer that’ll tell you exactly what we’re in for and make you say “Oh that’s right. Justin Timberlake is in this.”

There seems to be a lot of conflict and young angry Hah-vahd kids. Eisenberg seems to continue his schtick as the Rich Man’s Michael Cera. I’m not sure how much will be asked of Justin Timberlake in this. He doesn’t seem to get in the way. I don’t expect much out of him but he will be playing Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and at one point the President of Facebook Inc.

One last interesting tidbit, casting wise- Andrew Garfield, a.k.a Peter Parker, will have a large role in this as Eduardo Saverin. He actually has top billing on IMDB. Very Interesting.

I think this has all the ingredients to be a really superb film. I’m hoping David Fincher will give me another Zodiac, not another Benjamin Button. If I wanted to waste another three hours I’d just go on Facebook.









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Comments

I don't know if you can hold any weight to the actors order on imdb since "Fraternity Guy" is listed fourth. Unless he gives one helluva performance.

Posted by: C. C. Devine at July 15, 2010 6:08 PM

I just don't care. Then again, I'm not on Facebook, because I just don't care.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 15, 2010 6:16 PM

What the headline said.

Posted by: Reina at July 15, 2010 6:17 PM

WHAT IS THAT SONG? I mean, I know it's "Creep" but I WANT THIS TRACK ON MY COMPUTER, STAT.

Posted by: kate the great at July 15, 2010 6:19 PM

someone explain to me, why this is news?

Posted by: LordNinja at July 15, 2010 6:20 PM

Does anyone think that maybe this movie is targeted to all of the people who don't understand Facebook. And this movie will appeal to all of those holdouts who are still trying to figure our that new fangled website the kids are talking about? Because I think they won't get the point at all. The point of Facebook: to stalk anyone and everyone you've ever met.

I do love the version of Creep. Maybe this will be good. I find myself apathetic to the whole shebang though. Something has to make me care.

Posted by: Kayanne at July 15, 2010 6:30 PM

@Kate the great - I read that it's Creep as interpreted by a Belgium girls choir called Scala.

Posted by: griffimx at July 15, 2010 6:31 PM

Kate: Here is a Youtube video of the Scala cover of "Creep" in the trailer.

Posted by: Rykker at July 15, 2010 6:42 PM

It can be found on Scala's album On the Rocks.
You can buy the mp3 from Rhapsody.

Posted by: Rykker at July 15, 2010 6:47 PM

I actually didn't realize there was this much controversy around Facebook. Though I can't say I'm really looking forward to watching a movie about Harvard since I have a cousin who goes there and has been drinking the hey-I'm-the-shit-cause-I-go-to-Hahvard-koolaid for the last two years. Yuck.

I do quite like that Creep cover though.

Posted by: grace b at July 15, 2010 7:10 PM

I wish I was special.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at July 15, 2010 7:14 PM

I just think it's funny that in Zombieland Eisenberg's character said that the best thing about Z-land was that there was no more Facebook....and now he's in a movie that's all ABOUT Facebook.

Posted by: camila at July 15, 2010 7:43 PM

Look Jesse Eisenberg is a likable fella, I'll give him that. Then again, here he is yet AGAIN, playing the same "aw shucks" hipster nerd with the same delivery, same expressions, same whathaveyou that he unenthusiastically brings to all his movies. We all know he's just "playing" himself and that shit's just lazy and tiresome. I bet you that if you walked out of any of his films, switched it for another and came back to the room you wouldn't miss a beat until another character made you realize there was a switch. Then people are complaining about Timberlake but at least he's trying to act and develop a from of craft and with quite a bit of enthusiasm I might add.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 15, 2010 7:47 PM

I’m not sure how much will be asked of Justin Timberlake in this. He doesn’t seem to get in the way. I don’t expect much out of him but he will be playing Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and at one point the President of Facebook Inc.

I don't care about Timberlake one way or the other, but he did a pretty damn good job in "Alpha Dog". Most critics thought he was one of the film's highlights. Most critics are also full of shit, of course, but in this case I had to agree with them.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 15, 2010 9:14 PM

Who gives two wags of a dog's dick on the belly of a dead bloated rat floating in sour milk for a movie about Facebook.

Oooooh, the drama! They invented the "Like" button! Quick, queue up the 1812 Overture!

Woah, Harvard blowhards exercising their right to feel over-privileged and litigious! (ps but not our resident Harvardian, of course)! Oooh, he said a number with lots of zeroes on the end!

Damn it all to hell on a wave of killer 3-D piranhas.

Posted by: D-Day at July 15, 2010 11:42 PM

Um. This just looks...fake. Like a CollegeHumor or FunnyorDie movie. It seems like a parody. I think it's the music plus the "IT IS SERIOUS!" tone and I don't know. Weird.

Plus it just looks very boring.

Posted by: figgy at July 15, 2010 11:43 PM

I really don't understand the love of Eisenberg ad the hatred toward Cera. What did Cera do to you and what did Eisenberg do for you? Stop the unnecessary hate.

Posted by: Coco at July 15, 2010 11:47 PM

"Why is this getting attention?" Really?

David Fincher is an A-list director.

Tag-a-longs don't know how to admit that a director such as Scorsese is irrelevant (The Deaprted, really? I mean really?) but can't see the weight that Fincher brings with his social/mortal(ity) choices of films to make. His choice, by the way.

I am less and less surprised by people who sit on their ass and comment on how they "will never do this" or "this looks like..." what? Something different than the thing you just looked at a finger flick away? No investment, no fore or afterthought. Simple wisps of words.

Please give me more insight into your opinions; clearly formulated by deductive reasoning within your own justification without an edit.

Fincher is a competent director (usually) making a statement. Because of his level of quality, I think he deserves more than pithy comments as to predictions of this work. It's not the movie. Pre-judgeing it seems more like your desire to be heard 'cuz your brain has things to say. To be as dismissive as most of the comments in this thread are and the article is (the Zodiac reference aside), is plain ignorant.

I suppose it won't be until Wall-E comes true that we (might) look back and see how quickly we sludged ourselves into the sea of toxic opinions and shoot from the hip judgment.

This site has become more tabloid and less, Stand Up and Humiliate as a Cry (read: Demand) for Quality. A comedians best-when-sharpened tool.

So if I'm so "less and less surprised" by people who even state it? Or for that matter, why even join in the debate that I hold in such low regard as dismissive speculation by drive by opinionhaters? I guess if you want to go on the record of saying something is "this", I want to go on the record saying I think it's a bad habit start and an even harder one to break. I would think.

And Pajiba, I love you, but some of your (newer) readers, I believe, are stinking up the place. And you cheapen yourself to keep the smell around.

I'm just saying, (maybe) you know who you are.

Fincher, Bird and PTA. Then there's everyone else.

Posted by: John at July 16, 2010 8:53 AM

I really don't understand the love of Eisenberg ad the hatred toward Cera. What did Cera do to you and what did Eisenberg do for you? Stop the unnecessary hate.

Juno. That's what he did.

Posted by: DoctorControversy at July 16, 2010 10:02 AM

Eh, you're either excited or you're not. I can't imagine a reader on here not being a fan of either Fincher or Sorkin, plus the trailer looked good to me.

If you don't like it because your hands are too sore from patting yourself on the back for not being one of the sheeple on Facebook... good for you! I trust the classic literature you'll be devouring instead will prove most enlightening.

Posted by: A-Train at July 17, 2010 8:57 PM