nickdouglas:

caro:

A trailer for “The Social Network,” the upcoming movie about the origins of Facebook, is online now.

The heartwarming story of a boy who overcame a lazy eye to get 500 million friends.

All the lines in this teaser were in the script I read, which doesn’t bode well for this being a fun film.

I don’t understand the target audience for this film.  Anyone nerdy enough to care is probably hanging onto their account begrudgingly at this point.  I don’t think Facebook’s base user cares a lot about the legal issues Zuckerberg encountered while creating his empire.  So Hollywood has to be thinking that the social marketing industry is large enough that its members can support an entire movie.  Based on the number of promotional e-mails that find themselves in my inbox I’m not going to call the notion absurd, but I still predict that this will be a failure.