The trailer for David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network, is dipped in awesome and sprinkled with little bits of gold Oscar flakes. It’s a long way to go until February 2011, but I have a hard time believing this tale about the rise of Facebook and its founders, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, won’t have its due consideration come awards season. There’s just too much of the fantastic orbiting this picture, starting with director David Fincher (Zodiac), screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War), and actors Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland), Andrew Garfield (who was just cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Marc Webb’s franchise reboot) and Max Minghella (Art School Confidential).
Still, I do have to be somewhat leery of a finally wrought trailer giving me goosebumps and the actual film becoming a depantsing and spanking of the highest order. This has happened to me several times. Pay it Forward and Vanilla Sky are two that come to mind almost immediately, as do all of George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels. Put quite simply: These were cases of cinematic blue balls – exciting trailers that pushed the promise of critical and box office success, but then crapped out in hefty fashion.
Let’s hope that’s not the case here. Check out the trailer and give me your thoughts. Also, if you have any blue-ball-trailer experiences, please, speak up and vent your anguish in the comments.
3 comments On Trailer Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer Smells of Oscar and Awesome
This looks very interesting! Can’t wait to see it!
Agreed. Here’s to hoping the movie is greater than the fantastic trailer.
I think it looks great. Saw it for the first time before “The Other Guys” and I agree it definitely looks very promising, hopefully it doesn’t become a crapfest when it comes out.
The potential for it to be shittastic is increased a little bit by the fact that the source material (“The Accidental Billionaire”) by Ben Mezrich is a pile of dung. Mezrich hit the ball out of the park with his book “Bringing Down the House” which “21” was based off of (and “21” sucked and wasn’t true to the book at all) but Mezrich has followed the same formula for all of his other books, and he embellishes a lot.
That said, Aaron Sorkin being involved is a good thing, because everything he touches (well, “The West Wing,” since “Sports Night” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” failed) is gold.
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