The Social Network (2010)

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Adapted Screenplay  This movie sucked. Seriously, it sucked balls. Big, hairy, rank, feral animal balls.

I hated every single character.  There wasn't a single person who wasn't a pretentious douchebag in some way or another.  I totally understand why Mark Zuckerberg didn't want his name on this.  I would have felt fucking slandered. 

So this is based on a book called The Accidental Billionaires and I have no idea if it sucks as much as the movie, but I plan to avoid it just in case. 

Basically, the story is that Zuckerberg created a website at Harvard called FaceSmash (where you could compare two randomly picked co-eds for hotness) after he got dumped by his girlfriend.  This gains the attention of two future Olympians, the Winklevoss twins, who want Zuckerberg to make a dating site exclusive to Harvard.  Instead, Zuckerberg gets his friend Eduardo to bankroll the creation of Facebook.  This gets him sued by the Winklevoss'. 

Meanwhile, he meets the guy who founded Napster, an unemployed perpetually-partying entrepreneur who talks him into relocating to the Silicon Valley over Eduardo's misgivings.  As their personal relationship falls apart, Facebook takes off.  Unknowingly, Eduardo signs a contract that allows his shares of stock to be diluted to allow for more investors.  Then, after being broadsided with the fact that his investment is effectively worthless, he also sues Zuckerberg.

It's about the pettiest story I've ever seen enacted on a screen.  I serioulsy hope it gets shut out at the Oscars, but it's nominated for too many things for that to happen.  At the very least, it'll probably get Best Score, which is fine because that's Trent Reznor and I love Nine Inch Nails.  Everything else, though, no.  Just no.