I have no interest in seeing any of these Steve Jobs movies. But I did watch the hell out of Pirates of Silicon Valley over the years.
— XMASTIME (@XMASTIMEblog) October 9, 2015
At Salon today some guy agrees:
The greatness of “Pirates of Silicon Valley” lies in the fact that it manages to brilliantly balance all of these elements into a single hour-and-a-half long narrative, paying tribute to the achievements of its subjects without excessively glorifying or vilifying them. While audiences will need to decide whether “Steve Jobs” performs a comparable feat (Wozniak has praised the new film — not as effusively as he did “Pirates,” perhaps, but at least he didn’t dismiss it as “crap” like he did the Ashton Kutcher vehicle “Jobs”), it’s fair to say that “Pirates of Silicon Valley” established the standard that all worthy movies about the computer revolution will need to follow. Its themes are the themes not only of these particular stories, but of our era in history as a whole. To understand our time, we need to understand the feats and foibles that helped create it, and so far no work of art has done this better than “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”
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