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Well of course they got stuff wrong...this is a work of fiction. If it wasn't, it'd be some documentary on History Channel, instead of a Hollywood film.
That's why I've disliked the marketing for this film. They put it out there like this is THE story of Facebook, when it's made purely for entertainment (and based off of a book). Certain facts have to be changed in order to provide more drama and tension in a film.
I can't believe how much they are bashing this movie, its like they got ripped off in a deal or something. I know for a fact they had to give rights to the studio for everything. Facebooks name, the people, the history, and they probably even helped the studio by telling them certain things.
They got all upset that hollywood decided to be hollywood and change it up a bit to make it entertaining. You guys are still too young to have a documentary made about you. Facebook is massive, but its not brilliant yet. If it somehow died tomorrow no one would care, look at Myspace. Remember when that was just as big and now its nothing. They were smart business men, but Hollywood wanted to make a movie which is entertainment, Facebook was nothing more than a marketing strategy to sell this story of a businessman getting screwed like most young business men.
Look I'd be mad a little bit too if my life story and hard work wasn't being portrayed correctly by the biggest industry their is. However at the same time I gave that industry permission to do it, and I learn to expect that from them. I rather have people be entertained and say "wow that was a good movie" about something with my name on it, than otherwise. Let alone this is most likely going to help Facebook grow even further, so why dont they just stop it already.
Yup, it got a lot of stuff wrong, like i heard they did not mention Facebook being a CIA project.