A movie about Facebook? We have to admit we had our doubts, but we began to slowly turn around on it after the first couple of brief teasers, and now that the full-length trailer for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” has landed you can put this right at the top of our list of most anticipated movies this fall.
We positively had goosebumps over the first part of the trailer, which uses a rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep” by the Belgian girl’s choir Scala over a series of chats and status update screens on a Facebook page. The second half of the trailer finally puts faces to the dialogue we’ve been hearing in teaser spots, and wow, we’re impressed. Jesse Eisenberg looks like he has the part nailed, we’re loving the brown color palette Fincher is using in those early Harvard scenes and it looks like the cast is firing on all cylinders. There is an epic feeling about the proceedings that is definitely coming through, the rumored lengthy running time seems to make a lot more sense now, and we’re eager to see how this story about the founding of Facebook will play out. It looks like part-legal thriller, part-coming-of-age story. Really, we never thought the film was going to be this compelling, but wow, we are officially stoked.
“The Social Network” will make its premiere on the opening night of the New York Film Festival and then hit theaters on October 1st.
