Gizmodo
Bill and Steve go on stage in about 30 minutes or so. And before they start pulling each other's hair, and before Walt starts dancing around these two with tough questions, I'd like to take this moment to remind you of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the made-for-TV, unauthorized 1999 "docudrama" of how Steve got rich and cool, and Bill got so rich he doesn't even care how cool he is. (Only $7.49 on Amazon, btw.)
Anthony Michael Hall, who played a perverted panty-sniffing geek in both Weird Science and Sixteen Candles plays Bill Gates. Noah Wyle, pretty boy doctor from ER, plays a young Jobs. This movie was made far too early, if you ask me. Someone needs to do a proper sequel.
Pirates of Silicon Valley [IMDB]
Pirates of Silicon Valley [Wikipedia]
Pirates of Silicon Valley [Amazon]
Comments
Wonder if its available on iTunes. Not cause I'd buy it from there, but just for the irony.
The best thing Joe Slotnick ever did was playing Da Woz! Everything else was so very "Flower Guy # 1". Love that flick! Thx for the reminder!
very entertaining movie. i even know non-geeks that enjoyed it. (yeah. i'm surprised that i know non-geeks, too.)
Triumph of the Nerds is a brilliant show as well, that's what I thought of when I heard about this joint discussion thing with the 2 of them.
I dunno. That plot of the movie went like this:
Steve Jobs is a genius
The Woz is genius-er
Steve Jobs is genius-er
Bill Gates is a nerd. But a genius too. (evil music plays)
Steve Jobs innovates
Steve Ballmer STEAL!1
Steve Jobs gets angry.
Steve Jobs gets nice.
Bill Gates is a backstabber.
Steve Jobs is still a genius.
Just a bit biased.
great movie.
I remember when Wyle opened up Macworld as Jobs. Was quite entertaining. He really got 80's-90's era Jobs down pat.
Gosh! Steven and Bill are good looking in docudramas!
The guy in the brown suit looks like Balki from Perfect Strangers.
I loved this movie, but I had forgotten the name of it over the years. Thanks for the reminder.
Great flick. I think I saw it on PBS once. Anyhow it's really entertaining, even for non-nerds.
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