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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780650404
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780650409
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 3060
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 1999
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The revolution came when we weren't looking. It happened in a garage. In a dorm room. In countless hours of effort imagining and intrigue. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were changing the way the world works lives and communicates. The event-packed saga of the quirky visionaries who jump-started the future unfolds with exhilarating cutting-edge style in Pirates of Silicon Valley. Noah Wyle (ER) portrays Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) portrays Gates in this chronicle of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire. "The story is almost Shakespearean... it's a tale of lust greed ambition love and hate" writer/director Martyn Burke reflects. And it's a success story unlike any other.Running Time: 97 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 053939699623
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This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, hits enough of the right notes to make its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths of Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates with a pointed sense of the cultural divide between the hip, self-absorbed Apple cofounder and the brilliant alpha geek behind Microsoft's eventual software empire, contrasting the Mac's countercultural underpinnings with the PC's more strait-laced origins. But Pirates of Silicon Valley seemingly can't decide whether it wants to be a serious-minded history of these key figures in the personal computer revolution or a trashy wallow in the more ignoble foibles of its principals. As a result, it falls short of exacting history while never achieving the guilty pleasure it might have.
If Gates has become synonymous with corporate conquest at its most striking, Pirates' interest lies more with Jobs, given a nervous energy and flashes of adolescent selfishness by Noah Wyle, who benefits from a reasonable physical resemblance to the Apple chief. Eyewear and a comb-over do nearly as well for Anthony Michael Hall, who also grafts some of Bill Gates's better-known mannerisms onto his performance and renders Gates as a smart if socially maladroit entrepreneur who, like Jobs, provides the ambition and business savvy to exploit his partner's computing talents. There are a few fanciful touches (Ballmer and Wozniak become Greek choruses, addressing the viewer as they comment on the principals), but the story plays out in straightforward fashion. It's tantalizing to consider how the Apple/PC melodrama might have fared with an edgier, more openly satirical script. --Sam Sutherland
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For nerds, these two led interesting lives. Steve Jobs may make for a more believable rebel but once you see this documentary you'll see he had his own wild side. Very accurate and keeps a good pace.
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I made a mistake and I ordered two Items of the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley".Can I sent it back?.
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When I first saw this film (borrowed it from a friend), I loved it! It helped that I was not aware of the details mentioned in the film about Microsoft and Apple. Its an amazing story of how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates revolutionized the PC industry.
When I came across this on Amazon, I had to buy it!!! If you use a PC, this is a must watch!
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While not completely accurate, according to Woz, it is very informative, and a good film to watch. To see how we got all the computer info we have, and those responsible for it. Worth the cost.
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This dramatization about Apple and Microsoft and focusing primarily on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates is an excellent peek into the early PC industry. Gates is the marketing genius. Jobs it the visionary genius.
Pirates of Silicon Valley does an excellent job of capturing some of the feelings, emotions and personalities of these two driven men who helped to change the world in the last quarter of the century and are still changing it today.
This movie is a good start to understanding ... Read More
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