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Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley on TNT Tonight

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TNT plans to reair its 1999 movie Pirates of Silicon Valley tonight at 8pm Eastern/Pacific and again at 10pm. The dramatization -- starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs, Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, and Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak -- follows the tech entrepreneurs from their college days, to the launch of the Macintosh and MS-DOS, through to Microsoft's investment in Apple as Steve Jobs returns to the company in 1997.
Pirates of Silicon Valley premiered on TNT in 1999 and went on to earn five Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie. The movie was written and directed by Martyn Burke, who adapted the script from the bestselling book Fire in the Valley by Paul Frieberger and Michael Swaine.
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Noah Wyle, who played Jobs in the movie, played a joke on the audience at Macworld NYC in 1999, coming on stage at the beginning of Steve's keynote pretending to be Jobs, complete with black turtleneck, jeans and over-the-top mannerisms -- before the real Steve Jobs good-naturedly interrupted saying "that's not me at all! You're blowing it!" and tried to show him how to impersonate him properly.

The movie isn't an exact retelling of what happened between Apple and Microsoft. Instead, it is a dramatic retelling to make the story more entertaining. Steve Wozniak, writing about the movie said:
The personal drives portrayed in the movie were amazingly accurate. So were the key personalities, but not some others. The incidents themselves were all a best try to represent events that really occurred but they often happened much differently or at different times or with different people.
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anyone know if this or any Steve Jobs documentaries are gonna be aired in the Uk, I have this on DVD mind, but i'm just curious about if they are gonna release anything to watch about his life and legacy.

i'll be honest the BBC news & Sky news has had abysmal coverage of Jobs passing. I spent all of the day watching CNN to find out about the tragic loss of our great leader

R.I.P Steve
 
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I remember seeing the preview for this movie when I was a kid. I scoffed it off but since I became a Mac I've tried furiously to remember the name. I'm pleased
 
I think it's a pretty unflattering portrayal of both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Also, it missed the best part of the story which is the last 10 years, in my opinion.

Noah Wyle did a FANTASTIC job.
 
I was actually watching this on my Apple TV last night. I love the ending because your just like, um, Gates retired and Jobs now rules the world, isn't there a sequel?
 
Great movie...seen it many times and will probably watch again.

If anyone hears about any other documentaries shown on TV, please post! I nipped cable for an :apple:TV several months ago and therefore I don't usually know about any of these specials that happen. Would like to catch a few.
 
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Great movie, you will enjoy it!
 
I was just telling someone about this movie today. It is really great, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it before.
 
Even if it wasn't totally accurate, its still a great movie. I've got it on DVD, but I will kill to get on Blu-Ray (unlikely) or as an HD iTunes purchase. Theres got to be some Mac guy at TNT with access to the source material who can get this ball rolling!
 
akm3 said:
I think it's a pretty unflattering portrayal of both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Also, it missed the best part of the story which is the last 10 years, in my opinion.

Noah Wyle did a FANTASTIC job.
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did you expect it to somehow tell the future? it came out in mid 1999. its a 12 year old movie. It was likely filmed in sometime in 1998, early 1999.
 
It is a good movie, a great move in fact. But i really don't think playing it now would be the fairest thing to do because it builds up to an ending where Steve is portrayed as a failure who had to beg for money from Microsoft to keep Apple afloat. While that was true at the time, had they made the same movie today, the ending would be totally different and would be more favourable to both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
 
Mr-Stabby said:
It is a good movie, a great move in fact. But i really don't think playing it now would be the fairest thing to do because it builds up to an ending where Steve is portrayed as a failure who had to beg for money from Microsoft to keep Apple afloat. While that was true at the time, had they made the same movie today, the ending would be totally different and would be more favourable to both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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But that's part of the fun, isn't it? We all KNOW how it went on, which makes the events portrayed in the movie, and Steve's life, even more impactful. We can say damn, there was a guy who had started big, got deflated, and for a while there, could have drifted into relative obscurity. But just LOOK what happened! :eek:

:)
 
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A lot of people aren't going to like the portrayal of SJ's personal life, nor his unacceptable office behavior... Even though they are pretty accurate. In terms of business and humanity, SJ was the ying to Woz's yang.

Great movie though, I think bothered do a great job in portraying SJ and BG.
 
Loved this movie! Saw it several times. Though of course I saw it around 2000-2002 or so when it was still kinda new. I am sure it will feel dated by now but still classics are good!
 
The funny thing is.. at the very end of the movie, it has Steve Jobs (Noah) on stage with Bill Gates on the screen behind him.. just his big head like the big head in the 1984 commercial and some text comes on screen and says "Microsoft now owns part of Apple Computer" or something like that.

I think they need to REDO the movie to have the new stuff... like Apple is now the most valuable company in the world.
 
ufwa said:
did you expect it to somehow tell the future? it came out in mid 1999. its a 12 year old movie. It was likely filmed in sometime in 1998, early 1999.
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haha no of course not. I just mean that now we 'know the rest of the story' it seems incomplete. I suppose it needs a sequel.
 
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