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A million likes isnt cool. You know whats cool? Abillion likes.

Honest Trailers takes onThe Social Network, that one movie that the world couldnt seem to get enough of, just like the social network that liesat the heart of the movie: Facebook. Interestingly enough, Honest Trailers seems to take it fairly easy on the movie, mostly dishing out jokes aboutJesse Eisenberg playing Jesse Eisenberg in seriously every moviein which hes starred.

So I mean, Ill say its not thefunniest Honest Trailer out there, but its one that certainly feels really overdue. When the film came out, it made a lot of waves as a really interesting cinematic look at the creation of a global phenomenon. Like the Honest Trailer says, it was a film that was able to take something like court proceedings and lawsuits and make them seem excitingly dramatic. Hell, Istill think about that internship application scene that had all those students coding next to each other while playing a drinking game. Like, ofcourse tech interviews should be like hazing.Why not?

The debut of this Honest Trailer is especially topical becauseThe Circle, based on the Dave Eggers novel, premieres today. That film doesnt seem to be faring too well on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb, so the less said about that, the better, I suppose. But anyway, I digress.

Director David Fincher took something that could have been wildly boring (the birth of a social networkingwebsite) and made it into a drama that still stands the test of timeeven if more than a few bits are, shall we sayembellished. Oh, and you better believe they didnt let Finchers iconic film style go by unnoticed. This thing reeks ofFight Club-esque visuals, and they totally nail it in their alternate title for the movie.

Anyway, this is making me want to watch the movie again. So good on you, Honest Trailers.

(via Boing Boing, image: Columbia Pictures)

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