After years of planning and polarizing hype, HBO’s “Paterno” is here. Thanks to modern technology, Twitter serves as an open forum of opinions, especially during controversial premieres of films.

We won’t be live tweeting the biopic tonight, but instead compiling your Twitter reactions here as they stream in. We’re in for a wild ride, folks.

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Hot take from this blue and white partisan: That wasn’t nearly as bad/damaging as I thought it would be. Not even close.

— Kevin Horne (@KevinHornePSU) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/kentoyyy14/status/982798648521060352

The fact that this Joe Paterno movie is not trending at all is an indictment of HBO ‘s marketing department. This scandal rocked the nation and the release of this movie should have been the #1 trending event that happened in entertainment this weekend

— último hombre (@Johngotit_) April 8, 2018

#Paterno movie was well done. Great job by Al Pacino and @RileyKeough. Hope to see more of her.

— mmmmm (@poppykulture) April 8, 2018

Just watched #Paterno on HBO wild wild stuff. This was me the whole time:

— Jessica Miles (@jessicamilez) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/JeffDLowe/status/982797953147527168

"Paterno" was hardcore, watch it if you can. Al Pacino was on point.

— Kenneth George (@KenGeor) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/kbpud8/status/982797523327778816

https://twitter.com/Dan_Carroll88/status/982796551423741952

I'll watch the Paterno movie again. Pacino did pretty well. Lot of eerie stuff.

— Wlat Harris (@pantherrants) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/Gammons00/status/982796353523867648

The Paterno HBO film was pretty good! I thought Al Pacino was excellent.

— Laurence Clinton (@SpaceGoat11) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/speckryan/status/982796047410802688

I felt like I wanted #Paterno to be more. To go deeper. I think it was trying to hard to protect him as much as anything.

— John Zeleznik (@john_zeleznik) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/Dane4mayor/status/982795565195915264

#Paterno disappointed in HBO movie. Not worthy of their usual high standards.

— J.M. Fields (@jffmick) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/bcuban/status/982794487821979648

I don’t know how accurate it was at the time, but this movie makes it look like Paterno wandered away from a mental hospital.

— Chris Dokish (@ChrisDokish) April 8, 2018

Pretty cool they are using real media logos that actually covered the Paterno events instead of creating fake logos like a lot of movies do.

— Ian Smith (@ismithKDKA) April 8, 2018

This is like watching a cult. Joe Paterno was a cult leader. #Paterno

— Alexandra Gail (@AlexandraGail45) April 8, 2018

I know this movie is focused on head coach but what about everyone else who turned a blind eye?! The police officers, other staff members, other law enforcement professionals?! All they asses need to be lit up!! #paterno #HBO

— Mivida_bella (@trfoster) April 8, 2018

This #Paterno movie is deep…and so devastating

— DeeDee Merritt (@Deidre927) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/aripaminuddin/status/982792387117309953

No way Paterno's house was that contemporary

— I'm tall (@feeexins) April 8, 2018

Imagine college students in 2018 chanting "Fuck the media" and clapping #Paterno #PaternoHBO #JoeKnew

— TikTok Sex House (@TikTokSexHouse) April 8, 2018

This Paterno documentary makes it so much easier to hate penn state. Absolutely sickening. Every penn state fan and joe Paterno supporter should be ashamed.

— Pitt Fanatic (@h2ppanthers) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/jaistreet1/status/982790579049426944

https://twitter.com/WhiteStanSmiths/status/982790522149490688

this is shot the exact same way that pensieve scenes are shot in harry potter

— Bill DiFilippo (@billdifilippo) April 8, 2018

Still mad @HBO didn’t perform the greatest troll of all time and release the Paterno movie on 4/09.

— Greg (@GMZ5034) April 8, 2018

Every Al Pacino movie is Al Pacino playing Al Pacino playing a character #Paterno

— AL (@MissSchliez) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/jsearsy215/status/982788154200641538

https://twitter.com/PattyWhite_NYM/status/982788133128409089

https://twitter.com/MissSchliez/status/982787626305499137

Nailing the jacket Sara Ganim wore on one of her first CNN hits but not the Paterno statue is… interesting. #Paterno pic.twitter.com/h5VU69Wc7l

— Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) April 8, 2018

They totally twisted that Scott Paterno speech. The students didn’t interrupt him throughout.

— DylanCallaghanCroley (@RivalsDylanCC) April 8, 2018

They totally twisted that Scott Paterno speech. The students didn’t interrupt him throughout.

— DylanCallaghanCroley (@RivalsDylanCC) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/claaky23/status/982785263289106432

Well at least the #paterno #hbo film makes the two Paterno sons look like rumbling bumbling idiots #pennstate

— DreamBackfield.com (@IntoPitt) April 8, 2018

@directv just sat on hold for 23 minutes after my hbo Order didn’t work using my remote, even tho I got an email confirm – missed #paterno

— Sally (@Sally20698654) April 8, 2018

Watching HBO's "Paterno" as if it's a fictional tale…MF this happened! Shit is real. #WTF #Paterno pic.twitter.com/Qh8BGNdjqb

— kharismatickid (@kharismatickid) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/JamesIV1978/status/982783456819187712

Pacino doing a great job as the doddering out-of-it Paterno. https://t.co/D0U2we4kgs

— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) April 8, 2018

#SaraGanim is the real hero of this #paterno #pennstate – there should be a statue of her – not freakin a guy who won 300+ games against cupcakes and turned a blind eye to child rape

— DreamBackfield.com (@IntoPitt) April 8, 2018

Is this dialogue coming from court transcripts or something?#Paterno

— Mike Fly (@mfly1971) April 8, 2018

This paterno movie is going to cost me a lot of old grandad.

— Brad Vasko (@BradVasko) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/stefmcguire/status/982781627461001219

https://twitter.com/newgar/status/982781501229088768

#Paterno tries to make Scott Paterno the moral compass of the family but the fact is none of them were moral when it came to this.

Also I just learned I’m blocked on Twitter by Scott Paterno.

— Corey Cohen (@CoreyECohen) April 8, 2018

The casting of "Paterno" is outstanding. Jim Johnson as Sandusky is dead-on. Riley Keough is fantastic. #HBO #Paterno

— Doug Russell (@DougRussell) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/CubsAndPizza/status/982780714117722113

“Who pulls off a turtle neck better — Sue or me?”

How @sammiearcieri and I are watching #Paterno.

— Lauren Ingeno (@laureningeno) April 8, 2018

I’m so ready for this Paterno movie to drop tonight just to see old people Penn State twitter explode

— Ron (@RonReddenJr) April 7, 2018

#HBO couldn't get joe cool 1960's mod frames of his glasses right for this movie #Paterno

— vincent o conway (@vincentconway) April 8, 2018

I have no comment on how accurate the Penn State library is in the #Paterno movie or if it is even the real library. Only ever stepped foot in there to avoid the cold.

— Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) April 8, 2018

Oh wow they actually did cast Guido d'Elia.

Please, please, please tell me they cast the Willard Preacher. #Paterno

— Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/smariedowning/status/982779029710393344

PATERNO is making use of a dramatic device known as a "flashback" and I wish it wouldn't, at least not the way it's currently doing it. When did Barry Levinson become such an over-director?

— BILL RYAN (@faceyouhate) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/NamelessRanger/status/982778814605471744

https://twitter.com/jtylerconway/status/982778476620115968

Paterno should be playing on CNN it is that fake. #Fakenews #hbopaterno

— popcountrysucks (@Ironlion2000) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/bmichaelantler/status/982777546042257409

The actor who played Scott Paterno absolutely nailed the role. Unreal

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) April 8, 2018

Haha oh man a Guido d'Elia shout-out. Inventor of "The Great Show Squad" and the man who allegedly brought 'Seven Nation Army' into American sports stadiums/arenas years ago. #Paterno

— Jeff D. Lowe (@JeffDLowe) April 8, 2018

Early issues with "Paterno" on HBO. Sara Ganim would never be openly rooting for Penn State, wearing a PSU hat on the sidelines. Also, you can't confiscate a credentialed photographer's camera in the sidelines.

— Doug Russell (@DougRussell) April 8, 2018

Philly.com talked to Penn State leaders past and present about whether they planned to watch “Paterno.” 

https://twitter.com/quinticfunction/status/982775486559338496

Al Pacino sounds like Al Pacino, not Joe Paterno..I thought he would of at least tried to pull off the accent

— g. (@99point1percent) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/Hicks89Jay/status/982774818457047045

Who did they get to play me at the riots in this Paterno movie?!

— (@__amira_) April 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/Hicks89Jay/status/982774818457047045

Watching PATERNO. The guy who plays Jerry Sandusky looks so much like him that I bet he really wishes he looked a lot less like him.

— BILL RYAN (@faceyouhate) April 8, 2018

Fact check on #PaternoHBO – @PennLive reporter would not wear PSU hat on the job.

— Cate Barron (@catebarron) April 8, 2018

"Numerous scenes, events, and dialogue bear no resemblance to what actually transpired."

The Paternos released a statement prior to the premiere of the HBO biopic on Joe Paterno. https://t.co/KQoSuK5iUx

— Onward State (@OnwardState) April 7, 2018