Hi, I'm Dana Steven Slate's movie critic here with the Slate Spoiler Special Podcast on the social network, the new David Fincher movie.

I'm here in the studio talking to Mr. Dan Koyce. Hi, Dan.

Hi, Dana.

Who is in D.C. Slate Studio and who writes about film for The Washington Post, the village voice. Where else, Dan?

Slate sometimes.

Yes, on occasion.

And slideshows for Slate.

Yeah, and whoever else will pay me, honestly.

Well, we are paying you today to talk to us about the social network, and I'm really

curious because we haven't really pre-talked this one at all.

And this is, I would say, sort of the first really big, really hyped major fall release, which people are talking about or we're talking

about before I stepped into the screening yesterday as, you know, the Citizen Kane of our generation

and all kinds of big words are flying around about social networks. So I'm really curious to hear

what you thought. Yeah, well, it's, I saw it here in D.C. a couple of nights ago, and it was pretty rapturously received down here, and the reviews have already been pretty fantastic.

So, Dan, as I mentioned, Citizen Kane is being mentioned as a reference for this movie, which obviously is an overblown and overhyped statement going in.

Although it does have a certain thematic relation to the movie, like Citizen Kane, this is the story of, you know, a crazy tycoon

and his progressive isolation as his empire grows, right? But I'm just wondering, Citizen Kane aside,

did you like, love this movie? How did you fall on the social network spectrum?

I really enjoyed the hell out of it while I was watching it.

While still, as I was walking out of the theater, I did still think.

So why did we make a whole movie about this again?

Which is to say, I think it is an extremely entertaining movie about Facebook,

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