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This movie is scoring well with 98% on rotten tomatoes and 7.9 on imdb. I loved it and while it's almost entirely a fictional work (in particular, none of the characters are even remotely similar to the people that led RIM)... it really hits on the feeling of a fast scaling startup challenging incumbents with innovative hardware.

1. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackberry 2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21867434/

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I like these shows/movies that chase something like:

- Jobs (2013)

- social network

- halt and catch fire

- silicon valley

- the internship

- Tetris

there's more can't think of right now

I'm looking forward to seeing this when it streams

Margin Call?

Yeah those are fun too eg. Wolf of Wallstreet, Big Short

But I was more looking at the tech ones eg. hardware/software I know HFT, I don't mean that

I'd throw The Aviator in there but again not tech, but that idea swimming in money, possibility, changing the future. One day a movie about EM ha.

Anyway I wish I had my thing I was chasing/something novel. Maybe one day.

The Circle is another that doesn't belong here but has that "cool tech company" vibe.

Micheal Lewis’ best book Flashboys is about the birth of HFT but it’s been in development hell for years. According to Lewis Hollywood wouldn’t green light it because the main character is an Asian man.

Flash of Genius!

people sleep on this movie. but I give it 2 windshield wiper blades. must watch

Pirates of Silicon Valley is the O.G.

Thanks I forgot about this one, will watch it

Micro Men (2009) with Martin Freeman and Alexander Armstrong is kinda like its British counterpart, I always watch those two in tandem.

Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs was so spot on, Apple had him give a WWDC keynote speech in character.

Less celebrated, but no less brilliant, is John DiMaggio (yes, the voice of Bender) as Steve Ballmer.

One of these is not like the others - social network is barely, barely about tech. Just a really good character study of a fictional person if you ask me. Back when it came we thought it showed a version of Mark that was maybe shittier. Turns out social network mark is 100x a better person than what the real one became.

The Social Network is a brilliant film, but it is in no way realistic. For example, he started dating Priscilla Chan in 2003, before Facebook even started, and married her in 2012. The way the movie presents him is some nerd who made Facebook to get laid, to some degree, even if that wasn't his prime motivation at all.

The soundtrack, though, is a banger.

It just goes to show that these kinds of movies should be taken with a heavy, heavy grain of salt, as nothing in them requires that they be truthful.

Points for them mentioning the LAMP stack though. And the college house facebook hacking scene is one for the ages.

Ha it was cool before I learned about web tech I didn't recognize some terms like PHP/wget, but later on with more rewatches I recognized/could read code.

But they got the tech that is being shown surprisingly accurate, for a movie. Like the software and blogging service "Mark" uses in the dorm room scenes are absolutely something he very likely would have used.

Moneyball has a little bit of this. Not sure how I feel about it cohesively but it has some excellent “people talking in conference rooms” scenes

“Thank you for smoking” is a great one about marketing and the lobby industry it. Definitely a movie that engineers should watch to learn how selling (dishonestly) works.

Coincidentally, Glenn Howerton's highest and lowest rated movies[0] on RT were released on the same day even though Charlie Day's movie was in the works for several years[1].

0: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/glenn_howerton

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0ZhILQs6s

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