The Social Network (2010) IS SO TENSE! | *First Time Watching* Movie Reaction & Commentary

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My first time watching The Social Network (2010). This one was filled with tension, drama and intrigue as the intelligent and the wealthy fight for ownership of one of the biggest IPs in history. I hope you enjoyed my The Social Network movie reaction & commentary
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[@CasualNerdReactions]

Let me know YOUR thoughts on The Social Network! Be sure to subscribe for upcoming reactions to Whiplash, The Way Way Back, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next, Alien Vs. Predator, and Dawn of the Dead!

[@allanrose3661]

Zuckerberg is a psycho.

[@neotheone04]

Can't wait for Whiplash!!!

[@geraldmcboingboing7401]

I never wanted to watch this film, and now I'm glad that I didn't. Your reactions were great and gave me just the right amount of exposure, for me to know that. Thank you, Chris!!!

[@TheAshMcG]

The movie is amazing the editing, soundtrack and acting. Loved it!!!

[@solezeta1314]

If you pay even more attention, you'll notice that the only times Mark ever comes to Eduardo for anything is when it's about the company or when he needs his signature. THAT is their "friendship" in a nutshell.

[@kenshinhimura8133]

Its a fictional movie. Mark had to go to Eduardo for everything because he didn't have sole control. Eduardo didn't do/failed at what he was supposed to do. He was rightfully fired. Saverin ended up with a huge check even thought he didn't deserve it.

[@WUStLBear82]

A lot of people tell me that they don't like a particular movie or TV show because none of the characters are "likable". I have always maintained that the characters don't have to be likable as long as they and the story are interesting. This movie is a perfect example of a story that is very interesting where absolutely no one is likable. The movie does seem most sympathetic to Eduardo--I haven't read the book that it's based on--but outside of Andrew Garfield's charisma, he isn't much less arrogant and conceited than everyone else. When Facebook came on the scene I thought the entire concept was dumb, and everything it's done since then makes me glad I avoided it personally, although the damage it's done to the world is unavoidable. If Meta's "metaverse" plans actually come to fruition I may have to go off-grid if I'm still alive.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Well explained all around. 👏

[@BananaRama1312]

wow dude u just discovered nuance lmao

[@Rmlohner]

If you're wondering about the movie star they mention as being at Harvard during this time, it was Natalie Portman, who actually was a consultant on the movie.

[@willierose4720]

Easily one of the biggest mistakes in Oscars history was David Fincher not winning Best Director and Social Network not winning Best Picture! The King's Speech was a good movie, but entirely forgettable. The Social Network is a masterpiece that will be remembered forever! It's up there with Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare In Love and Citizen Kane losing to How Green Was My Valley! Just a complete masterpiece!!!!!! Love your reaction, keep up the amazing work!!!!

[@shainewhite2781]

Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.

[@jeffrym9625]

6:44 I just realized that his reaction is similar to his ex with saying "You would do that for me", and yet he didn't understand when she took offense to him stating what he can get done for her; was easier for me to see that edited with less time between

[@xCenturion183]

Eduardo Saverin is currently worth roughly $8.8B so its pretty fair to say his settlement was pretty large, though not nearly the 34% of the company he once had

[@CasualNerdReactions]

I’m sure he’s not too broken up about it these days.

[@Finians_Mancave]

For anyone who's interested, the film's writer, Aaron Sorkin, makes a cameo appearance @ 14:22.

[@veronicaquintanatorres2473]

Fincher is such an amazing director, he has this great way of telling stories. I would recommend other of his films if you haven´t seen them like Gone Girl, or The Game or Zodiac

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Definitely want to watch them all one day.

[@Rmlohner]

Even Alien 3, which he's completely disowned, is worth a look to see the birth of a great talent struggling through all the studio interference the film suffered.

[@leonh.kalayjian6556]

Seven?

[@Rmlohner]

The actress in the opening scene is Rooney Mara, the sister of Kate Mara. David Fincher loved working with her so much in this one scene that he gave her the female lead role of his next film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

[@DaringDasher]

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for this film is ICONIC. Well deserved Oscar for best original score.

[@Rmlohner]

They're now just a Tony away from an EGOT.

[@docsavage8640]

Maybe learn what "iconic" means

[@DaringDasher]

@@docsavage8640 Maybe ask the Academy 😀

[@artizek]

I remember when this movie came out and people were saying it was unnecessarily mean to Mark Zuckerberg. Fun times.

[@joshy3747]

fun fact, the actor playing Dustin Moskovitz is the grandkid in Jurassic Park

[@BubbaCoop]

Survived dinosaurs, helped invent Facebook, then played bass for Queen

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

If this was another movie it might have slow, draggy and boring. But Fincher had a way of getting us intrigued and get sucked into the storyline. Coupled with Aaron Sorkin's sharp and witty script this made for an exciting movie. And along with the performances, this movie is engaging as heck. The sad thing is this movie should've won more Oscars over The King's Speech.

[@jimmy2k4o]

14:20 Aaron Sorkin cameo!!!!!!

[@becksimilian2955]

I also had a Xanga lol... I remember the days when Facebook was exclusively for college kids (or you had to be invited by someone that was on it already). Luckily I had older friends so I joined in high school

[@dizzynikki5912]

Shattered Glass is another awesome true story..

[@debbiewilson8157]

The score was amazing

[@reservoirdude92]

God damn, what a film. So remarkably directed, shot, acted, composed, just everything about this is unreasonably great.

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

The most regrettable thing about this movie is that it lost to The King's Speech for Best Picture and Colin Firth for Best Actor instead of Jesse Eisenberg. And they should've have nominated Andrew Garfield for Supporting.

[@realSimoneCherie]

When this movie was conceived and released FB was very much riding high as the coolest company on planet earth - the “disrupters” that turned the comms and tech industries upside down …. So i think they almost saw Mark’s portrayal as kind of edgy and cool. If they had any idea what his reputation would be 10 years later I think they’d have been MUCH more controlling over how he’s portrayed

[@susanbotwinski5584]

I'm glad you picked this. I almost forgot. I always remember Jesse in that fantastic role.

[@noviembre.rz1]

Aaron Sorkin writes his screenplays using a lot of musical variables like metric, rhythm, tempo.. its really good

[@CasualNerdReactions]

That’s a cool detail!

[@jillfromatlanta427]

This is my LEAST favorite Aaron Sorkin-based movie. I think the total kick-him-to-the-curb and then shit on him that one best friend did to his 'best friend's was reprehensible in the extreme. Much prefer A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Newsroom, and other Sorkin films.

[@jillfromatlanta427]

And The King's Speech was a great film and Firth deserved his Oscar for it.

[@TTM9691]

I love that you just decided to check this one out! I really like this movie......and yet never thought to suggest it, and if it was on a poll, it probably wouldn't win! Your reaction to it was fantastic, and it reminded me how well-done it was. Jason Timberlake is great in it (as he usually is!).

[@CasualNerdReactions]

It’s definitely not a film I thought to do prior, but I’m glad I did. The other film i did on a whim was Whiplash and it made me feel I should do whim choices more often 😅🤣

[@TTM9691]

@@CasualNerdReactions I completely am behind whim choices 100%! 1000%, in fact! That said, as someone who has taught jazz drums in NYC schools, I HATE Whiplash! LOL. (I may watch your reaction to it though! ) Love J.K. Simmons (in anything! including those insurance commercials he's been making since before "Whiplash"! An Academy Award didn't save him from having to do commercials, evidently! :P )

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Haha I imagine the more involved you are in a field the more difficult it is to enjoy a cinematic representation- especially when it’s kind of insane. I look forward to hearing your reasons.

[@TTM9691]

@@CasualNerdReactions Oh no, I would not (and should not!) spoil anyone's enjoyment of such a movie......I already feel guilty I confessed to my true feelings! The REAL takeaway is: by all means go on whims. PS: Still haven't seen your Gosford Park reaction, it's on my list. Been working a lot lately!

[@Rmlohner]

Of course, these days the movie is quite ironic as all the scandals it covers feel like quite small potatoes compared to some of the stuff Facebook has been involved with since 2010. Aaron Sorkin has even said he'd like to do a sequel about that.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

I’d watch the sequel lol

[@burnikshrapnel]

Trent Reznor did the music. Just Google the guy if you're not familiar with him.

[@duanevp]

Aaron Sorkin is the most BRILLIANT writer. He could write a screenplay about selling auto insurance and make it RIVETING. Almost no need to mention that Fincher's direction is magnificent as always, and I think the masterful score has to be mentioned. Oh, and top performances from all the actors... Is there anything about this movie that isn't fantastic? Other than the fact that it leaves me depressed at the idea of people so manipulative, entitled and petty existing at the forefront of so much of the modern world.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

There’s elements in his writing I don’t always love, but darn it’s always so compelling.

[@spiritscar]

Great seeing you react to this. An extraordinary and fascinating drama. A character study of a horrible person, LOL. Based on your reaction to this movie, I would also highly recommend the movie “Jobs” from 2013 It’s a biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs. I’ll say straight out, I’m not a hard core Apple guy or someone who holds Steve Jobs in particular reverence. But this movie and this story is incredible! Steve Jobs and his story are fascinating. Definitely worth seeing.

[@dlweiss]

LOVE this film. It takes a story that could easily have made for a dry, boring film and manages to capture everything exciting and dramatic about it. And yeah, it's far from 100% accurate (in reality the character of Erica never even existed, and in 2003 Mark was already dating the woman that would eventually become his wife), but it's accurate enough. :)

[@gutspraygore]

The combination of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher can make the mundane fascinating.

[@JoePlett]

Have you seen "Art School Confidential"? 🤔🤨 Not an Andrew Garfield film - but Max Minghella from The Social Network is in it. You might enjoy it. Like Ghost World, it's based on a Daniel Clowes graphic novel.

[@jamesandthefatcat9464]

ty for this vid. i have to watch this movie, i know it goes over my head.. but still. Awesome reaction. ty. 😊

[@nooneofconsequence1251]

Most of the stuff happening outside of the legal setting is made up and heavily fictionalized, especially the romantic stuff. But inside... a hefty portion of the dialogue was copied directly from the deposition transcripts. Heightened a bit, of course, by Sorkin. And also they combined some of the cases to put multiple characters in the same room at the same time which is not what happened. But overall the deposition scenes are probably some of the most realistic legal drama scenes in any film.

[@jimmy2k4o]

Please think about going through Aaron Sorkins other works. His work is criminally under reacted too. Steve Jobs, mollys game, trial of chigago 7, doesn’t have a single reaction video

[@kenshinhimura8133]

Its a great movie. Though it is still fictional in a way. Saverin was screwed over because he failed/didn't do what he was supposed to do, ran ads on facebook for his own separate company which could have been a potential competitor to some of facebook's platform. Its not just Mark, everyone was involved with facebook including Peter Thiel wanted to fire Saverin. This movie is based on a book called Accidental Billionaires which was written by a writer approached by Saverin to smear Mark. Saverin was basically a bad egg which had to be replaced. Although, Mark truly was narcissistic from what I have heard. Mark and Saverin weren't really great friends or something too.

[@willlockler9433]

Modern robber baron. The meek are meat and the strong will eat.

[@rmh258]

A few suggestions I'd like to make... Star trek 2009 To Wong Foo thanks for everything Julie Newmar. Starship troopers

[@AthenaLentz]

Basically the way most of us see it is he ended up with no friends at the end that was the root of it all at the end just a nobody sitting there alone who stupidly ended up with no friends because of what he had done. Which was a shitty move to be honest.

[@nooneofconsequence1251]

You mention the talent behind this film and dont mention Trent Reznor?? the most brilliant musician of the past 35 years hands down.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

The music of the film is incredible. I hadn’t heard of him prior to this film and they don’t have the composer highlighted on the IMDb pages (you have to look). Clearly, he should be included on that list along with many others. 🙃

[@nooneofconsequence1251]

@@CasualNerdReactions he's the genius behind the band Nine Inch Nails. But has also done a lot of work more recently scoring films and other things. For my money, The Fragile (1999) is the greatest album ever recorded. But all his stuff is good.

[@jamesjay6642]

If you enjoyed the firecracker script of this try Sorkins 'Steve Jobs', it's a wonderful 'biopic'...

[@CasualNerdReactions]

oh yea! I wanted to see that one, but I never got around to it.

[@shainewhite2781]

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😁

[@t0dd000]

Shocked that a casual nerd hasn't seen this. Heh.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Me too!

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

The treatment of women by most of the male characters in this movie is appalling (and, no, I'm not saying that the movie treats women badly). This movie is really not about a single social network, but about the old-school social network of the elites vs. a new disruptive social network made possible by technology. The Winklevoss twins represent the old school. They think they're entitled to what Zuckerberg created not just because they had the initial idea, but because of who they are. They did no work to create Facebook. I have a certain amount of sympathy for them, and Zuckerberg could have at least given them a little bit of credit, but basically, they wanted to get richer than they already were just from having the bare bones of an idea. It's like someone in the 1930s telling Picasso that someone should make a painting about the horrors of war, and then suing him for Guernica. It's important to remember that this movie is fiction. Mark Zuckerberg is a deeply flawed person, in my opinion, but not in the ways depicted in the movie. He's still with the same girlfriend he had in college. He's not a hyper-aggressive, obnoxious jerk, at least not in public. What he is, is a cold-eyed manipulator who can lie to people without breaking a sweat. How many times have we seen him testify to congress after Facebook has violated the public trust. Every time, he gives them his bland, dewy-eyed stare and promises not to do it again, and every time he (or his company) keeps doing whatever they've been caught doing.

[@finite187]

The irony being, the Winklevoss brothers took that $65m and invested it into Bitcoin..

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Dang.

[@dmwalker24]

Zuckerberg's behavior is sociopathic. He's almost solipsistic in the way he acts as though everyone else are props on a set that he occupies by himself. It's similar for the rest of the Ivy League crowd, just less obvious. It's the kind of weirdness that comes from a culture of narcissism, and extreme ambition. But that's what is effective, and rewarded in an economy which is almost entirely a ponzi scheme. Huge quantities of marketing, branding, and PR, but with very little actual substance. Plus there's the fact that social media has turned about 35% of this country into gibbering lunatics. A great contribution to society.

[@t0dd000]

This film underscores that the bad guys so often win.

[@ianbrewster8934]

They are all unreliable narrators. So you have to take everything you see with a grain of salt... The Winklvos twins took that 65 million and became billionaires by being early adopters of Bitcoin.... Funny thing is everyone has a film from Eduardo to the winklevoss twins to Divian Neranda, to Chris Hughes all made out fine in the end.... Btw the guy who plays Dustin Moskovitz is the kid from the original Jurassic Park.

[@fizz9476]

I suggest you watch "lions for lambs" with Andrew Garfield, very good movie. And continue the good work..

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Definitely will have to watch someday!

[@kelly9876]

and watch the Eyes of Tammy Faye and most definitely Tick Tick Boom (which he should have won the Oscar)

[@CasualNerdReactions]

@@kelly9876 tick tick boom was great! He become Jonathan Larson.

[@sjdover69]

You are right. I have been ignoring this film. No interest in that person. But you gave me a reason. So let's go.

[@sjdover69]

Nope. Sorry made half way. Z is just too obnoxious. And he's neither interesting enough nor important enough for me to put up with him. Good movie and acting just not for me.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Super fair.