A Movie The Proves One Should Never Look Under Rocks for FEAR of what might CRAWL OUT! This movie was confused it seemed to be conflicted as if it did not know for sure if it wanted to be a documentary on the rise of the micro-computer or if it was a tale about the personalities behind the scenes of the major software companies versus BIG BLUE/ IBM the once computer mainframe juggernaught.
The movie is a good one but rather schizo in its story telling. Also the ending seems sort of mechanically placed such that you do not really feel any sense of closure. Watching this movie is like trusting someone to take you for a boat ride across a river safely to the other bank and they force you to swim the last ten feet to the shore with no prior warning. I mean the movie was good and very informative loaded with lovely info.
I most love the way it made the young Bill Gates look like a plain grungy old geek who was not all together into cleanliness. Now Bill Gates is just a so stuck up old rich man who lives in a world where so plastic he can do no wrong ever. In this movie its very nice to see Bill Gates portrayed as something that was at one time a feeling human with beings real frailties, shortcomings and real human joys. It was nice to see Bill Gates portrayed as human and not god made me like him a little.
This movie makes one of the Apple founders look like a serious druggie fruitcake. The Apple computer business model showed some early flaws in this movie too which made me feel sorry for them. the movie had one seriously funny moment where Bill Gates offered the DOS Disk Operating System Developer stock in Microsoft or $50,000 and the jerk took the $50,000. Dude could have been a billionaire ga-zillions of times over had he chosen to join the early Microsoft team. I almost cried for that poor dear heart who threw away all that good money in what has to be the dumbest business decision in modern history.
The movie as I say was nice. It taught me a lot and for that I was thankful. I liked the movie but the way it ended left me feeling cheated. They should have played up the AND THE WAR CONTINUES TO THIS DAY ANGLE! which would have been a more fitting end in my most humble opinion. All this movies flaws taken into consideration it is still a fine movie worth buying if you want a history of computers with a little human touch thrown in. There are better histories of the micro computer videos out there done by PBS but this is ok so I gave it a 7 rating. Fair but no big deal.
The movie is a good one but rather schizo in its story telling. Also the ending seems sort of mechanically placed such that you do not really feel any sense of closure. Watching this movie is like trusting someone to take you for a boat ride across a river safely to the other bank and they force you to swim the last ten feet to the shore with no prior warning. I mean the movie was good and very informative loaded with lovely info.
I most love the way it made the young Bill Gates look like a plain grungy old geek who was not all together into cleanliness. Now Bill Gates is just a so stuck up old rich man who lives in a world where so plastic he can do no wrong ever. In this movie its very nice to see Bill Gates portrayed as something that was at one time a feeling human with beings real frailties, shortcomings and real human joys. It was nice to see Bill Gates portrayed as human and not god made me like him a little.
This movie makes one of the Apple founders look like a serious druggie fruitcake. The Apple computer business model showed some early flaws in this movie too which made me feel sorry for them. the movie had one seriously funny moment where Bill Gates offered the DOS Disk Operating System Developer stock in Microsoft or $50,000 and the jerk took the $50,000. Dude could have been a billionaire ga-zillions of times over had he chosen to join the early Microsoft team. I almost cried for that poor dear heart who threw away all that good money in what has to be the dumbest business decision in modern history.
The movie as I say was nice. It taught me a lot and for that I was thankful. I liked the movie but the way it ended left me feeling cheated. They should have played up the AND THE WAR CONTINUES TO THIS DAY ANGLE! which would have been a more fitting end in my most humble opinion. All this movies flaws taken into consideration it is still a fine movie worth buying if you want a history of computers with a little human touch thrown in. There are better histories of the micro computer videos out there done by PBS but this is ok so I gave it a 7 rating. Fair but no big deal.