Movie about dot-com entrepreneur struggling through 2001 trailer [video]
Josh Hartnett, David Bowie. It's gonna suck. Though props for the obscure reference to the first season of Saturday Night Live. Landshark?
Someone has already done the real thing,and everyone should watch that rather than give money to bullshit Hollywood movies:
Course, it's a really handsome actor, doing zillow, getting all kinds of girls, in New York, and (apparently) couldn't hack a square foot of rain forest. It's not the monomaniacal SV we all know and love, but hell, it's a little bit of exposure.
My prediction is that, with all the fortunes coming out of SV, this industry will become more glamorous, the way hedge funds became glamorous in the last ten years (had you heard about them before 2001?). This glamor will attract more gold diggers (partially bad) and more sleazebags (just plain bad) that try to cash in off other people's work.
I certainly wouldn't watch it for a realistic take. Actually, I probably wouldn't watch it at all, since so far it's ranked somewhere between Made of Honor and Meet Dave: http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/august
It's really not that great of a movie.
It was hard to watch all the way through. Mainly because the biggest conflicts were usually trivial things. Also how they ran their business was exactly why most start-ups died that year.