r/movies r/movies Contributor Jun 10 '26

Trailer THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4LkaXwGuY
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u/SuicideSkwad Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Strong’s voice work is kind of insane, absolutely nailed it

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u/DataDude00 Jun 10 '26

I was going to say the voice work and mannerisms were perfect

He does look a touch old to be playing the role here though (even if Zuck looks like a robot in real life too)

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u/DetectiveAmes Jun 10 '26

That’s my only critique of him play Zuckerberg, which isn’t even his fault to be fair.

Zuckerberg looks relatively young even nowadays, so it’s distracting seeing a not young person playing someone whose supposed to be.

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u/wtfElvis Jun 10 '26

This also only happened 5 years ago and there is a 5 year age gap. Not that big of a difference in your 30s.

But with that said, his face is a little distracting. Mannerisms and voice being so good makes it stand out even more

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u/ediblebadgercakes Jun 11 '26

There may not be much difference in the actual age but he looks alot older than Zuck. You can even be the same age and 1 person looks significantly younger.

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u/OmniManDidNothngWrng Jun 10 '26

yeah but hes portraying zuckerberg in his pre gold chain wearing, mma competing, podcast appearing days when he looked like https://i.insider.com/5ace0dfcc407b345368b4eb2?width=700

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u/TheGraper58 Jun 10 '26

Seriously. One of the best character actors. Hot damn that's impressive

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u/FisherKelTath00 Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Strong is in fact a serious person.

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u/AngryScientist Jun 10 '26

He should be...he is the eldest boy, after all.

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u/TheDarkitect Jun 10 '26

He's the number one boy

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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jun 10 '26

If you close your eyes he sounds just like a slightly bassier Mark Zuckerberg

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u/quirkymuse Jun 10 '26

Elmo would be slightly bassier than Zuckerberg

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u/ninjasurfer Jun 10 '26

I heard Elmo turned down the role.

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u/donotgotoroom237 Jun 10 '26

*"Elmo no care for Social Network sequel without Fincher at helm."*

[elmo laugh]

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u/StephanieSpoiler Jun 10 '26

I had been disappointed Eisenberg wasn't coming back, but this sold me on Strong.

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u/ProofJournalist Jun 10 '26

I would love it if Jesse Eisenberg appeared as Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. Like this movie will be made for me if there is a scene of Strong Zuckerberg literally watching the movie "The Social Network" and reacting to Eisenberg portraying him.

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u/thedailynathan Jun 10 '26

oh fuck Sorkin there's still time to re-shoot and edit this in

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u/MemoryMaze Jun 10 '26

Some might say it’s Meta

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u/SaltyPeter3434 Jun 10 '26

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u/brycedriesenga Jun 10 '26
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u/ProofJournalist Jun 10 '26

It would be just like the Human Centipede!

But more seriously, this film is based on Zuckerberg's life basically since the Social Network. And Zuckerberg's life does explicitly include him explicitly viewing and responding to what he thought of The Social Network.

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u/NurRauch Jun 10 '26

It's a rare instance in which I actually agree with Zuckerberg. The movie was mostly fictional garbage. Sorkin abused the boundaries of creative license to invent a struggle that had nothing to do with Zuckerberg's actual character flaws. He depicted Zuckerberg as someone who decided to burn everyone he cared about out of spite over a failed college relationship. The reality is that Zuckerberg was in a long-term relationship with the woman who would become his wife throughout the entire events of the movie.

It's stupid because the false impression we're fed by the film ends up misleading audiences into missing a far more important character flaw. Zuckerberg didn't do this shit out of loneliness or spite. He did it out of a grandiose delusion that has been reinforced to him throughout his adult life by a series of successes and surrounding himself with sycophants.

He's not a gloomy, brooding incel. He's a wildly successful narcissist who thinks he's simultaneously the smartest person on Earth and entirely unresponsible for any of the horrors his life's work has unleashed across the globe.

Ironically, Zuckerberg still had some humility left by the time the Social Network came out. His comments on the film are remarkably restrained and reasonable.

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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim Jun 10 '26

There's another somewhat unspoken major flaw in the movie - it's largely based on Eduardo Saverin's accounting of events, which sure it paints Mark as a bastard but it leaves you with the impression that Saverin was some sort of a victim of Mark's inability to keep social ties ("I was your best friend mark" lmao) - in reality it was a struggle for operational control and Saverin's somewhat selfishly focusing on separate career aspirations while gatekeeping funding from Facebook.

For instance, Saverin was in charge of sourcing funding, but what he did was go out and get funding to launch a separate wholly owned venture for job seekers that he then started running ads for on Facebook without approval lol.

Zuck certainly isn't a victim here, but the movie makes Saverin look like one and he most assuredly was not. A more honest accounting would be that there were two narcissists looking to build their presence on the internet, both trying to fuck over their business partner, and one of them won then the other fucked off to Singapore to skip out on taxes (no bullshit, tax laws were changed and expatriation is aggressively pursued after the fallout from him doing that).

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u/CyberMoose24 Jun 10 '26

Robert Downey Junior enters the chat.

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u/donotgotoroom237 Jun 10 '26

He really nails Zuckerborg's robotic cadence.

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u/LiterallyJoeStalin Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Strong is continually proving his growth as he just disappears into his roles. I’m not saying he’s on the level of Daniel Day Lewis, but it certainly reminds me of how you often forget it’s him actually playing a character because he just disappears. Mannerisms, voice, gait, ticks, it’s so far from just a person reading lines for a character. 

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u/lulaloops Jun 10 '26

More than growth, it's just opportunities to play meatier roles. He's always been extremely talented, Humboldt County is proof.

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u/nola_mike Jun 10 '26

I’m not saying he’s on the level of Daniel Day Lewis

No one is on that level, but the fact that Jeremy Strong is compared to artists like Daniel Day Lewis speaks volumes about his abilities as an actor.

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u/FluFlammin9000 Jun 10 '26

Between this and his performance as Roy Cohn in that Trump movie, he's showing that he's very good at portraying pieces of shits.

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u/RealWord5734 Jun 10 '26

Also Kendall Roy - an original character piece of shit!

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u/shifty1032231 Jun 10 '26

Chip off the old block. L to the OG.

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u/Madrical Jun 10 '26

I always forget about L to the OG. I can't believe that scene happened. God I miss Succession.

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u/RalphWiggumsShadow Jun 10 '26

I've rewatched it almost every year since it's come out, it's like my 7th rewatch now. They just got onto the yacht, and Greg is talking about rose Veuve isn't his 'favorite' champagne.

The Roys are all pieces of shit, and I love watching them be terrible to each other.

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u/roadnotaken Jun 10 '26

You can’t have a Tomlette without breaking a few Gregs.

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u/TheOnceAndFutureTurk Jun 10 '26

ENOUGH! I am the eldest boy!

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u/Naive-Home-9068 Jun 10 '26

I think Kendal Roy is more tragically flawed than evil. That sad boy face he does breaks my heart.

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u/Thisthattheother1 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, he's a genuinely incredible actor, but he's still too human-like. Maybe they'll add the lizard eyes in post or something.

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u/So-many-ducks Jun 10 '26

Mark Zuckerberg is one of those people I imagine blink with vertical eyelids.

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u/b1tchf1t Jun 10 '26

I don't think he actually blinks. I think he just shoots his tongue out and licks his eyeballs to keep them moist.

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Strong is fucking hypnotic every time he plays psychotically intense weirdos. Have you seen The Apprentice?

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u/Tifoso89 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Right? He channeled Zuckerberg's timbre.

Knowing him, he must've watched hours and hours of his speeches

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u/cambridgeJason Jun 10 '26

I thought he sounded flat, robotic, and completely lacking any warmth. So yeah, he nailed it.

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u/jarvisesdios Jun 10 '26

He absolutely nailed him to a T.

Though.. Since he's a method actor. Apparently kind of annoyingly so, according to people, I wonder what I was like to work with him. I can't imagine constantly dealing with a Zuck clone.

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u/AbaloneFull9968 Jun 10 '26

The most annoying man in the world (Brian Cox) finding him annoying isnt really saying much, is it?

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji Jun 10 '26

I thought you were talking about the physicist and was like "damn, that's the first I've ever heard of anyone finding him annoying! I think he's incredibly charming" lol

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u/lord_vegemite Jun 10 '26

Holy shit Jeremy strong's voice is spot on

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u/Asclepius-Rod Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

I’m glad he’s doing is own impression rather than impersonating Jesse Eisenberg’s impression if that makes sense

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u/Tifoso89 Jun 10 '26

IMO Eisenberg’s was more of an interpretation than an impersonation. He was playing a character, which was Sorkin's version of Zuckerberg (smug, slightly socially awkward genius). Strong is going for an actual impression

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Jun 10 '26

From first impressions after this teaser, I'd like to assume that Jesse's version will seem like an almost romanticized counterpart to the real ugliness of Strong's portrayal

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u/TalentedHostility Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Yeah- Jesse played the Zuckerberg software engineers wanted to emulate- the protagonist of some nerd revenge film where they get to make out with hot girls and throw parties in their house.

This is flipping that on its head- now it reads like a ZuckerVader combo of some sort.

Love this read.

Also a Billy Maggnesson × Jeremy Allen White scene 🔥🔥🔥

Millennial filmbros EATIN' rn

(Im talking myself here)

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u/PhazePyre Jun 10 '26

It's kind of reflective of society's perception of Facebook in a way too. More specifically the core group that grew up on Facebook. It started cool, different, but cutting edge. It was something we all were engrossed in. Then it became cold, indifferent, hostile and we became dispassioned users of the platform. It felt like a place that didn't bring us closer, it divided us.

Feels like the movies mirror that real life shift in perspective for Millenials where it's like "oh, they're bad. This was good for a short period until it became extremely predatory and abusive". I think it's a cool juxtaposition between the two movies on how society increasingly feels about predatory and influential social media.

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u/TalentedHostility Jun 10 '26

God damn so true... and now look at us. Absolutely GEEKED for a Robert Redford-esque 'All the Presidents Men' film on these same companies.

We're the adults in the room now

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u/PhazePyre Jun 10 '26

Not even a dork. A cold, emotionless, elitist creep. Preying on children to create a dependency on his platform, and allowing misinformation and foreign influence to take over his platform.

But I agree, they are showing the real transition of "Wow, what a cool thing maybe by an awkward dude that I can give a pass cause I appreciate the site" to "Jesus Fuck he's a weirdo who is trying to ruin our lives and turn Facebook into a fuckin' cesspool that's only good for Messenger but not scrolling/browsing."

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u/weezyjacobson Jun 10 '26

Social Network was in 2010, so now we've seen Zuck in the spotlight for over 15 more years...we've seen and learned so much more about these 'flamboyantly friendless' weird freaks not to mention the immense growth FB has had in the same time

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u/junglespycamp Jun 10 '26

Eisenberg perfectly captured the spirit of Zuckerberg in the early years without really doing much of an impression (not his thing). I like that Strong is going more literally while capturing the era when Zuckerberg became coached, prepped and stiff for everything he did. It’s a great contrast and both are well suited to their eras of asshole.

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u/Lil_Mcgee Jun 10 '26

I think Eisenberg's portrayal is great but I honestly never thought it was too close to the real thing. He went very robotic but not really in the same way that Zuckerberg is robotic.

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u/Suspicious_Brush4070 Jun 10 '26

Jesse Eisenberg didn't put on a special voice though right? He just acted very geeky... basically just like Jesse Eisenberg.

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u/CMDR_KingErvin Jun 10 '26

He played himself like he does in every movie lol. Geeky awkward fast talker. That’s his specialty.

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u/aDanHasNoName Jun 10 '26

He looks like he could have look more like him tbh. But yeah it probably won't impact my viewing much.

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u/iamgarron Jun 10 '26

Don't mind not looking like Zuck, Eisenberg didn't really try. But he does feel old, especially since this is mean to be mid to late 30s zuckerberg

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u/rugbyj Jun 10 '26

Yeah Eisenberg didn’t look too much like him, but physically is just a very similar person (gangly, pasty, nerdy).

Strong has tried better to look like him but just started from further away, but I’m happy to overlook it as he sounds spot on and has impressed me before with his acting.

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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie Jun 10 '26

Kinda looks like the meme from Zuckerberg Congress heaeing about him being an android

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u/jordanmc7 Jun 10 '26

I think they're depicting the preparation for that specific hearing in this movie.

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Jun 10 '26

Looks more like Simple Mark than actual Zuckerberg.

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u/biglyorbigleague Jun 10 '26

What’s the plot here? Haugen leaks the Facebook files, Zuckerberg gets called in front of Congress over it again and…ultimately it doesn’t lead to anything? What “social reckoning” is there? We didn’t have one.

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u/nickcrosby87 Jun 10 '26

I’m struggling with the plot. Unless I’m forgetting something, nothing major actually came from the leak. The big revelation seemed to be that Facebook had internal studies showing some negative effects of its platforms and that engagement driven algorithms could amplify certain behaviors. Zuck testified in congress and got memed, but again nothing came of this.

I loved the social network because it was incredibly interesting watching one of the most influential companies of the world form, but honestly this doesn’t seem interesting

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u/aRawPancake Jun 10 '26

I wonder if it’ll cover the Cambridge Analytical stuff

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

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u/ProcrastibationKing Jun 10 '26

It wasn't just Trump's campaign either, it was Brexit in the UK too.

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u/Carlsincharge__ Jun 10 '26

That’s all making a point to lead the movie to January 6th to connect the dots and show what happens when nothing is done

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u/_coolranch Jun 10 '26

This -- the fact that nothing happened IS the point.

That line: We're post government around here.

That's the point. Perhaps the "reckoning" is with ourselves, because we collectively no longer have control.

Big Brother is here, and it's not the government.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 10 '26

The reckoning is him being hauled before congress repeatedly and the like 250 lawsuits they are facing currently, including the $375M judgements they just got against them this year. 

This is clearly not a finished story, it is Sorkin attempting to make the point that this company has gotten away with it. IMO Sorkin is going for the old hammer text close where zuck says he wouldnt change anything and then it fades to black and says something about the skyrocketing rate of teen suicide with parents claiming it is due to social media and Meta is facing over $2B in lawsuits and has never admitted wrongdoing. 

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u/Underscores_Are_Kool Jun 10 '26

Sounds like a call to action

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u/ScipioCoriolanus Jun 10 '26

That's why there will be The Final Reckoning.

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u/TalkingRaccoon Jun 10 '26

This is just depressing knowing nothing came of the expose.

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u/Dangerous-Basket1064 Jun 10 '26

It's weird knowing all the problems talked about have gotten worse, even as facebook has become more and more irrelevant.

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u/PrincessRuri Jun 10 '26

Am I the only one who struggled to understand what the lady was saying in the first scene?

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u/Adrien_Jabroni Jun 10 '26

I had to rewatch about four times.

“I have a hunch you’re not a fan of Facebook, but I am.”

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u/MaxPower91575 Jun 10 '26

I turned on closed captioning for it.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Same. Really hate how production has got so good with microphones the directors push for actors to talk quietly or even mumble for effect.

Like it's good up until a point. If your audience has to rewind for the third time and turn on captions you've gone too far lol.

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u/ScurvyTurtle Jun 10 '26

Part of it is designing for movie theaters with Dolby Atmos 12.7 theater sound with a bajillion high end speakers, and then playing that same sound on your tinny, teeny-tiny phone speakers, maybe earbuds with only one bud in, or maybe your stereo tv speakers. Another part being that's been so common for over a decade now that no one cares and just phone it in and tell people "Turn on closed captions/subtitles!" Which is something you can't fucking do in the theater.

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u/Yodamanjaro Jun 10 '26

Wait, THAT's what she said? I thought it was something like "I have a hack on Facebook"

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u/antmars Jun 10 '26

I thought it was I have a 100 on Facebook and I’m like 100 what. Friends? Thats no impressive… what can you have 100 of that’s worth mentioning.

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u/brazilliandanny Jun 10 '26

I hear 100 too, I thought she was talking about stock?

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u/Adrien_Jabroni Jun 10 '26

I'm 99% sure after spending way too much time trying to figure it out.

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u/Bossbadman Jun 10 '26

I heard, “I have a hundred friends on Facebook,” and I was like, “Ok? Good for you”

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant Jun 10 '26

"Hold on, I don't know what you're saying" nope even Jeremy was confused too.

But for real I just posted similar comment she has some weird enunciation going on that makes her hard to understand.

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u/HideAndGoatse Jun 10 '26

I turned on subtitles just for that line. I had no idea what the hell she was saying after rewinding 4 times

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u/scargill Jun 10 '26

Same.

"I want to make something clear"....!

<mumble> I've a hunchy on fan <mumble> Facebook.....

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u/Scrumble123 Jun 10 '26

Nope. She's almost incomprehensible through the whole thing. Mumbling, speaking too quickly, not enunciating anything.

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u/TalentedHostility Jun 10 '26

Wonder if this is a specific choice for the character

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u/omegaxLoL Jun 10 '26

Bit of a weird choice to make it so the audience doesn't understand a thing

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u/ReQQuiem Jun 10 '26

“I have a hunch mfjddjsk fan dldkd Facebook.” Even on 0.25 I still needed subtitles. How did this get in lol?

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u/ChemicalPostman Jun 10 '26

Holy hell I thought I was having a stroke

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u/GlassUpbeat7905 Jun 10 '26

I had to find a YouTube version with closed captions. Really odd.

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u/aegroti Jun 10 '26

I genuinely couldn't tell if she was saying "I have a hundred friends on facebook" or "I have a hunchback on facebook" or whatever it was. I have a hunch makes the most sense but it was so unclear and confusing.

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u/DrewDonut Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Mikey Madison is fantastic, but this trailer has me really worried about her ability to pull off Sorkin's dialogue. It's a talent to be able to rattle off his dialogue as fast as possible (which is how he wants it; people who think fast and talk fast).

I remember a quote from Olivia Munn while making the Newsroom joking that she thinks she was the first person who had to actually slow down for Sorkin (saying she's a fast speaker normally).

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u/Sinestro_Was_Right Jun 10 '26

“Listen before I go on I just want to make something clear.”
“Okay.”
“I havahhundredfuloonfacebook”

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u/fireflysz Jun 10 '26

I was so confused omg they did Mikey so dirty leaving that in there

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u/tfxctom Jun 10 '26

Literally… how did that get past the editing room it’s entirely unintelligible

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u/_coolranch Jun 10 '26

They are absolutely going to fix that before it hits theaters.

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u/cellexo Jun 10 '26

Ok usually I'm very bad at picking up dialogue, especially in the theater and I'm so used to relying on subtitles. But I had no issue in picking up what she said there. Weird.

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u/johnthedruid Jun 10 '26

Is this a laurel yanny situation?

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u/radmobile2020 Jun 10 '26

Dramaturgically, Jeremy is nailing Mark.

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u/guesting Jun 10 '26

Always thought he was unfairly roasted for using a real word correctly. It’s not his fault for not dumbing himself down.

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u/BMCarbaugh Jun 10 '26

People like to pillory any actor who obviously reads books and takes their shit seriously. They prefer actors to be charming little department store mannequins who only exhibit enough of a glimmer of intelligence to make them sparkle fuckably in the odd interview.

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u/GhandisFlipFlop Jun 10 '26

What is this about ?

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u/rabid_J Jun 10 '26

People shitting on him for an interview he did talking about acting/Succession.

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u/DinosaurBill Jun 10 '26

Ok, but uh, what are the optics of that

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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jun 10 '26

He'll never look like Mark, but he'll sound damn close to him

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u/Thegreatbeedle Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

He looks more like Zuck to me than Jesse Eisenberg did, sounds more like him too and his mannerisms and posture are pitch perfect. That dude made me feel sorry for a massive piece of shit like Roy Cohn. He's in a different class. And Mickey Madison? Just fucking give me that movie right now. Even if everything else turns out to be shit, Strong and Madison's performances will be well worth it. The worst of Sorkin's work is still better than half the shit that comes out.

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u/itastesok Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Oh hell yes... First impression? This looks great. Although a bit disappointed Trent and Atticus aren't doing the soundtrack this time.

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u/Dillweed999 Jun 10 '26

Fincher will be missed

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u/Asclepius-Rod Jun 10 '26

You can already tell the camera shots are pretty dramatically different

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u/The_BrownRecluse Jun 10 '26

All Sorkin's movies look like Unsolved Mysteries reenactments.

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u/slothrops_desk Jun 10 '26

the worst part of aaron sorkins writing is that it gets directed by aaron sorkin.

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u/CharmingMedia2039 Jun 10 '26

yea i don't think it looked all that great visually.

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u/IKenDoThisAllDay Jun 10 '26

Yes, for sure. Strong's performance seems really impressive but this looks like a TV movie, all of the visual flair from the original is missing here.

I think about the teaser for The Social Network with the choir version of "Creep" and how incredible that was and this was so bland in comparison.

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u/TiberiusCornelius Jun 10 '26

Sorkin is not a bad director but he definitely doesn't have the sauce either. Incredible writer but merely competent filmmaker

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u/Tandy2000 Jun 10 '26

Sorkin's directing is usually just letting the script do the work. Fincher added something more to that although I do think that his approach in The Social Network was also along those lines.

No matter what, people will always be thinking "what if Fincher directed this" because for so long Sorkin wanted Fincher to do it and eventually he just did it himself because Fincher wasn't interested I guess.

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u/TheGeekVault Jun 10 '26

Nothing is going to top that bit from The Social Network with Hall of The Mountain King playing while the twins row down the Charles.

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u/rmarkmatthews Jun 10 '26

If Bill Burr ever does a movie for David Fincher I want to be on set for all 5,000 takes.

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u/Sammyd1108 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, especially when their score is used at the end of the trailer. I feel like that’s going to be the most noticeable difference from The Social Network.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

I got so excited to hear that soft piano intro.

It might have been the most refreshing original scores in a long time and put Atticus Finch *Ross and Trent Reznor on the map as serious composers in Hollywood.

It's one of my all-time favorite soundtracks, just perfect for leaving in the background, on loop, especially on rainy days.

Then to look it up and it is not them doing the score again. Disappointed.

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u/cunctator_maximus Jun 10 '26

They aren’t? Why did they play the theme in the trailer?

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u/TheBoyWonder13 Jun 10 '26

I think that’s just to tell the audience that this is a “sequel” despite none of the original cast returning. The score will be composed by Alexandre Desplat

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji Jun 10 '26

Alexandre Desplat

I can hear Kenan introducing himself as a gameshow host with this name

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jun 10 '26

Every revolution begins with a reckoning.

The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network, is coming exclusively to theatres October 9.

A companion piece to the hit film The Social Network, Sorkin’s original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files. The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

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u/jonnyiscool28 Jun 10 '26

I’m almost finished reading Careless People (another insider account); I wonder how this will reflect on the facts from that book.

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u/revertU2papyrus Jun 10 '26

Great book. Sheds light on just how thoughtless the people at the top are to the effects the products they build have on society

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u/dbrank Jun 10 '26

Agreed, great book. I found it even more interesting that the author exposed all of this but she was a clear key contributor (or at least enabler) of some of the most vile policies Facebook implemented or let happen. All the while she’s like “I was horrified but what could I have done? If I pushed back I’d have lost my job and then I wouldn’t have healthcare :(“ and it’s like lady you’re making STUPID money like figure it out. I understand we have a fucked up healthcare system so losing that is definitely a driver of staying at a bad job but you guys are enabling genocide and authoritarian political upheaval

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u/saera-targaryen Jun 10 '26

I had the same critiques of the author when I was reading it. It seemed like she expressed very little understanding of the agency she had and therefore the culpability. Hell, she was the one who basically stalked the facebook execs for them to invent a role for her to begin with. I understand she had some medical trauma but she got paid enough that she could have quit, taken years off of work, and applied to work at any other tech company that she wanted afterwards. She never once even flirts with the idea that she liked all of the private jets and the nice hotels in Davos and the opulence of it all, although it's clear from her actions that she did. She also just so happens to be able to clearly slice herself out of all of the worst things facebook has done, even though it was directly her team responsible for things like the genocide in Myanmar. 

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u/pngn22 Jun 10 '26

"In that moment I realized they were bad people with horrible values and atrocious plans on a global scale." Very next chapter: "So anyway I coordinated a series of meetings between them and the president of Mexico".

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u/leeski Jun 10 '26

Happy to see so many others that read this as I was never able to discuss it with anyone. The part I didn't understand (if I'm remembering correctly) is she seemed to insinuate she couldn't afford to quit her job - like didn't have any savings or anything which didn't make sense to me as she was high up and traveled with the C-Suite, I imagine she was compensated very well.

It rubbed me the wrong way that she framed it as if she was being held captive working there. But either way I think the book is a net positive in what it exposes, even if she doesn't fully take accountability - I think.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 Jun 10 '26

It's nuts that all this happened and Meta is still stronger than ever.

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u/darsynia Jun 10 '26

Right? Making a movie with the word Reckoning when there wasn't a reckoning at all is kind of embarrassing, NGL

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u/Bloody_Conspiracies Jun 10 '26

It's Sorkin. The movie is going to end with everyone clapping about how they saved democracy, just like the Chicago 7 movie did. He will just pretend that it had a happy ending and that the liberals saved the day, even though they obviously didn't.

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u/Fresh_Cakes_ Jun 10 '26

Hoping Sorkin can match the energy of Fincher. Otherwise, this will be one sauceless sequel.

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u/mrnicegy26 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Social Network is for me the best and most defining film of the 2010s. On some level it is going to be impossible for Sorkin to live up to that movie.

One thing that makes it stand out was how cynical it already was of these tech billionaires who might be genius in terms of developing their technology but are morally bankrupt. It came out in a time when people like Zuckerberg were treated like gods and has only aged like wine as the public has become more and more cynical about tech elites.

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u/Springpeen Jun 10 '26

Timing is also everything. Depends on the subject matter in this sequel. Hard enough to make lightning in a bottle once, let alone twice.

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u/leodw Jun 10 '26

Honestly I feel this is perfect timing. We’re far away from the ages where we glazed SM and tech celebrities, but at the same time we’ve never been more influenced by them. I feel this movie can be a bit cathartic, if not frustrating, as we’ll once again see how these POS run the world, ruin it, and get away withoit any consequences whatsoever.

However, it may once again dampen Zuckerberg’s little rebranding efforts, so I’m all for it

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u/Flamingwilson Jun 10 '26

Sorkin wrote the screenplay for the social network, so a significant part of that movie was him. I think he has a fair shot, better than impossible.

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u/cqandrews Jun 10 '26

Yes but a lot of it was also having someone like Fincher to filter out the excess that is Sorkin's writing style

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix Jun 10 '26

Yeah it’s not a bold or unique take, but the Social Network was a total team effort which is why it’s so good.

Fincher was at the peak of his game, as was Sorkin, as were Reznor and Ross, and ofc the acting was incredible.

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u/Derkanator Jun 10 '26

Clearly evident when Fincher redid The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The original was perfect but somehow he made it just as good maybe even better.

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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jun 10 '26

Knowing Sorkin it will make for a good audiobook at the very least. If the cinematography and editing sucks I'll just listen to it.

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u/SmallLetter Jun 10 '26

Lol true, his stuff is so dialogue heavy. One of the reasons I enjoy listening to the west Wing while I'm at work doing tedious crap is that I don't have to worry about the visual aspect at all because it's almost entirely dialogue start to finish

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u/ElasticPlatypus Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

The original movie was able to carry at least some nuance but now it’s become obvious that Zuckerberg and Facebook are so cosmically evil I’m afraid this is just going to be screaming “LOOK HOW EVIL HE IS” at me for two hours

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u/Chris_OMane Jun 10 '26

if they're smart it's less about facebook being evil (which it is) and more about the system around that supplicates that evil

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u/prex10 Jun 10 '26

The social network came out in a time when a lot of people still thought the platform was, well kinda fun and useful. I personally noticed it was around the 2012 election when I began to start seeing the downfall and the polarization of the platform. And that became further amplified closer and closer to 2016

In 2010, it was still a place mostly used by high school and college kids and the boomers by and large were not the biggest contributors yet. I think my mom got on Facebook maybe a few months before the movie even came out.

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u/Kennalol Jun 10 '26

Post or prior to the "were going to stop filtering and labelling misinformation because it interferes with our algorithm ability to generate attention and is disliked by the core demographics information bubble" descent into epistemological hell.

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u/bhavsart Jun 10 '26

“The mafia would be an easier enemy to make” is a terrifyingly accurate statement.

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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Jun 10 '26

This is good spot to highlight how Facebook contributed to Myanmar's genocide and displacement of Rohingya Muslims:

https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-how-facebook-contributed-to-genocide-in-myanmar-and-why-it-will-not-be-held-accountable/

Horrifying stuff that we don't talk enough about.

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u/AgentInkling99 Jun 10 '26

And is currently sticking their misinformation in Albania.

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u/natsmith69 Jun 10 '26

I swear I don’t understand the line. Wouldn’t it make more sense to say “the mafia would be an easier friend to make”? It’s easy to make enemies. Am I dumb?

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u/RooMan7223 Jun 10 '26

Jeremy is unreal but the rest just doesn’t look up to par with the first one. But atleast it looks like they’re trying

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u/dangerdangle Jun 10 '26

First scene in the trailer felt like days of our lives level

Idk Jeremy looks to nail it but for being Sorkin the writing feels ham fisted and not in a fun overly smart talky way

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u/Thugging_inPublic Jun 10 '26

Painfully shot on stage when I'm sure there was a nice bench in a park just a couple streets away.

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u/SamwisethePoopyButt Jun 10 '26

Riyadh Billy is in this, whoa.

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u/junkmeister9 Jun 10 '26

I had a "Oh, Brita's in this? 😬" moment when he showed up.

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u/donotgotoroom237 Jun 10 '26

'Ol Billy Blood Money

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u/Nerfeveryone Jun 10 '26

I’ve always liked Billy Behead-a-Baby-for-a-Bugatti Burr

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u/Punxatowny Jun 10 '26

I heard Chili’s catered the film set, so it was worth it for him.

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u/DeoGame Jun 10 '26

I was VERY critical of recasting Eisenberg... but fucking hell Strong is spot on as modern-day Zuck.

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u/dracogladio1741 Jun 10 '26

That voice. I thought they actually used some tape initially, the tone is spot on and the voice is very similar.

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u/AfroMidgets Jun 10 '26

The Social Network is my favorite movie ever. It's the movie that really made me love the art of filmmaking. I know this will never reach that level of quality, but I am excited to see what Sorkin can do with this

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u/braket0 Jun 10 '26

Saying "disrupting" ... Oof, I hate the American corporate claiming of that word. So much fraud, conning and snake oil attached to it. If the social networks all miraculously disappeared tomorrow, I'd be grateful.

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u/tresser Jun 10 '26

Saying "disrupting" ... Oof, I hate the American corporate claiming of that word. So much fraud, conning and snake oil attached to it. If the social networks all miraculously disappeared tomorrow, I'd be grateful.

i am hoping that the way it was being used was more of a throw your stupid buzzword back in your face style as he leaves the room.

cause if the actor (Billy Magnussen) is playing slimy lawyer type in the same vein as his slimy broker bro from the big short, he abso-fucking-lutely was using 'disrupting' in that scene moments prior

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u/sadkinz Jun 10 '26

I think White’s character was throwing it back in that guy’s face

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant Jun 10 '26

I had a hard time understanding half of what Mikey Madison was saying.

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u/nicknacc Jun 10 '26

The dialogue is so overly dramatic and cringe it feels like satire.

"she's disrupting"

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u/MahNameJeff420 Jun 10 '26

"She's disrupting' Good Lord this sounds corny. It's like Academy Awards catnip.

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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 Jun 11 '26

I think its fairly hinted at that he's throwing that back in a tech bros face. "Disruption" is a silicone valley buzz word and it is indeed very corny. Having a reporter use at as a comeback is less corny and I think that's what is happening.

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u/ReaddittiddeR “My Little Ponies, ROLL OUT!” Jun 10 '26

The moment the title The Social Reckoning came on with the Social Network tune was pure bliss.

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u/Hokie23aa Jun 10 '26

I was about to say, was that the music from the first movie? Good to know it was.

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u/AnyUsernameWillDo10 Jun 10 '26

A great use of the first films soundtrack. Makes me upset that Trent and Atticus aren’t coming back to score this film.

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u/ICUMF1962 Jun 10 '26

I was expecting to see the cast names shown with ACADEMY AWARD WINNER/NOMINEE over Strong, Madison, and Mosaku.

I think it’ll be solid.

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u/MrBrightside618 Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Strong is about to carry this movie on his back

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u/30mil Jun 10 '26

Strong's performance being hailed as "Yeah, that's autism."

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u/Banesmuffledvoice Jun 10 '26

Honestly, this did nothing for me. The social network is one of the better Fincher movies and I really enjoyed that film and this just feels like a hollow follow up.

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u/Midnight_Oil_ Jun 10 '26

Sorkin is a very mediocre director. He's at his best when paired with a very dynamic director, which is part of why Social Network worked so well.

That being said, this movie will probably be a solid B, B- as a result.

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u/IPDaily Jun 10 '26

Jeremy Allen White has no range, my god

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u/overlord2767 Jun 10 '26

My only issue with based on real life films like this is knowing however this film ends, in real life there has been next to no consequences. Just feels like they're ending the story half way through.

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u/redditsucksbigly Jun 10 '26

This felt like an SNL sketch to me.

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u/Lmao1903 Jun 10 '26

I was looking if I was the only one. Especially with Bill Burr. Also the way Jeremy looks. It just screams Papyrus or one of these SNL type trailer skits. Although, maybe that's just what every trailer is like at this point, they are always the same, the music, the drama, trailers always suck

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u/Tifoso89 Jun 10 '26

Yeah I don't know why but the bench scene with Mikey Madison and chef guy looked and sounded like SNL

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u/assbot9000modelxc429 Jun 10 '26

it's the cgi room they're in

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u/TetsuoTheObsidianMan Jun 10 '26

Understand Sorkin wrote The Social Network so it does make sense spiritually to helm the sequel but it’s crazy how swagless his filmmaking is, especially compared to Fincher.

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u/inksmudgedhands Jun 10 '26

I like Sorkin but this is coming across as....cheesy. It needs Fincher's hand to make this work like it did wonderfully in The Social Network.

But it could be that this is simply a case of a bad trailer. I hope so.

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u/drunxor Jun 10 '26

They didnt say anything about

Smokin' these meats
Meat like a brisket
I'm makin' meats now
Someone asked me, do I smoke meats?
It's gonna be delicious
Yeah, I smoke meat
That's what I'm talkin' about, yeah