Sometimes I wish there was a real-life 'like' button.

What's on your mind? Just saw an amazing movie...wait a minute...


Oops. Wrong website. Let me write myself a reminder: THIS IS NOT MY FACEBOOK PAGE.


Sorry, but after seeing The Social Network earlier this week, I have Facebook on the brain too much. I thought I was bad before seeing the movie, but it's somehow worse now.


And by the way, the movie's awesome. You should totally go see it. (Peter Travers of Rolling Stone did give it his first 4-star rating of the year in his recent review.) In case you haven't seen the trailer yet or just need your fix until you can go see the movie in theaters, here's the trailer:



Sadly, though, I already knew some of the storyline before I went to see the actual movie. Not just what I'd seen on the trailers and what I'd read on the Internet. No, I'd already read most of the story in this June 2008 article from Rolling Stone, which was published not long after all of the lawsuits involving Zuckerberg and Facebook were reconciled.


Even though I specifically try to avoid reviews for any movie I want to see, I must admit that I did read a couple for The Social Network (especially Peter Travers' in Rolling Stone, but that was his fault, not mine) as well as several articles about the cast.


For instance, this article on Yahoo! Movies discusses how two different bodies but the same face played the Winklevoss twins who sued Facebook founder Zuckerberg for ripping off their idea.  WorstPreviews.com has a story about Andrew Garfield's future stint as the starring role in the 2010 reboot of the Spider-Man franchise.


But the article that threw me for a loop is this one from Yahoo! Buzz. It doesn't help that it has no picture of Rooney Mara nor does it give any information of what movies the actress has acted in before. So I went into the movie with no idea of who she was or if I'd even seen her in another movie.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I finally recognized her, about ten minutes after her character's initial appearance and then abrupt departure from the opening scene, as Nancy from the 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street remake (which was actually pretty good, despite my dislike for remakes and the movie's lack of the original's Johnny Depp character Glen). So Rooney goes from the high school student Nancy terrorized by the infamous Freddy Kreuger to Zuckerberg's (most likely) fictional ex-girlfriend who was the ultimate catalyst in the founding of Facebook. Check out the picture below with her and Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg:

(Courtesy of heyuguys.co.uk)

I don't know about you guys, but I'm already dying to see it again. But I'm curious: Are you eager to see The Social Network? Or are you indifferent? (Either way, I make no judgments!)