For some reason this is one my all time favorite movies. I'm usually a sci-fi, action or fantasy movie fanatic. However, this movie just does just gets me every time, and I watch it whenever it come on TV.
*Surprisingly Enjoyable.*
Really good documentary, notionally about Compaq, but also about managing companies through growth, changing corporate cultures, and the development of the PC industry generally.
Really good research before they filmed. LOTS of footage of the facilities, company gatherings, the factory, ads, and more. And interviewed simply everyone.
Then edited together very well. Hardly any infographics, no voiceover, told very seamlessly by the voices of the interviewees.
I always love these documentaries about tech companies and the Internet and so forth. Having grown up in the 1980s, this feels like such an integral part of my life. I was more computer literate at 14 than I am now at 36...
And Compaq is an important part of that story. Doors were opened for other companies (such as Dell) and really ended the way we think about PCs. I do not equate IBM and PC, and almost never have, due in part to Compaq. Whereas we have never seen this same thing happen to Apple... which strategy works best?
My Score 7/10.
The things we do for Alexandra Daddario
Serviceable film, but the female lead is pretty unlikeable and unrelateable, even to the point of scoffing at herself when she learns she had decided to become a vegetarian. And she somehow needs proof that she married her husband on purpose? (She's still sceptical even after said proof is provided.) She is constantly undermining her "future self" and yet I'm supposed to believe that all it took is for her to learn that her dad cheated on her mum for a complete character change and again for history to somehow start repeating itself.
