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For what it's worth, The Social Network as a movie was very well-received by critics [1]. Jobs, not so much [2].

[1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/

[2] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jobs/

The trailer for the social network was amazing and people were anticipating the movie.

I don't think anyone wanted to watch Jobs after seeing the trailer.

Often, anticipation is what ruins a movie. All of the best movies I've seen (The Matrix, Fifth Element spring to mind) had such obtuse trailers that I had no idea what was going on before I got in there.

yup. But I'm more talking about judging a movie from its Trailer. I can often have a good intuition about the movie just from the Trailer.

Holy shit, "not so much" is putting it really lightly.

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