if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

steve jobs versus bill gates , absolute the movie didn't show the whole story behind them but over all it was fascinating and interesting . I feel like this is a war. that thing between companies I never knew it before but for now i realized it fully after thatthe best quote from this movie , good artists copy art , great artists steal it . from Picasso .what else I learned from steve jobs how he influence their employees and make them work harder and harder bill gates was like that baby that didn't know any thing but in the mean time he do the right thing and be as bad as bill gatesafter all i don't know how could steve jobs reach that amazing with his way of dealing with his employees s s s s

I remember watching this movie back in high school for a business class. While I paid good attention to this, everyone else couldn't give 2 shits about this movie. Now, I watched it again a few years later (as in this year), it still has a good story of how these 2 moguls rose to the top. Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall did phenomenal jobs, playing Bill Gates and Steve Jobs respectively. I also liked the fact that most of the story was told from Steve Wozniak's POV. The big mind blow for me was that John DiMaggio played Steve Ballmer! Who would've thunk that DiMaggio, one of the best voice actors in the world, played a minor role in the story of Bill Gates. Anyway, the movie had its ups and downs. It's no Oscar winner by any means but a worthwhile tale. There was a moment that just had me scratching my head for some reason. Just that aside, this movie gets my overall score of 7 out of 10.

Steve Jobs was a college radical, and Bill Gates was a Harvard bum who missed class to play poker. But each had certain friends. Jobs had Steve Wozniack, essentially a techie tinkerer who could invent small gizmos which could defraud the phone company. Gates had Paul Allen who knew something about computers. The Pirates of Silicon Valley chronicles the escapades and misadventures of the young upstarts who created the industry that the old guard couldn't really see yet alone understand. An industry which now permeates all aspects of modern life.These crazy young inexperienced radicals who began their careers in garages and motels would mold what would become the entire PC market. Jobs and Woz founded Apple and created the first personal computer, the Apple I and Apple II. Gates created Microsoft and licensed an operating for IBM which would become MS-DOS, bought from a small fledging software company in Seattle for $50,000, although Wikipedia's article on the subject states it was $75,000.Then Jobs and his colleagues are brought to the Xerox development center where technicians were creating a computer with graphical interface. The Xerox executives had been given a demonstration of their new technology, but the old-school executives couldn't understand its potential as benefiting their company. Ultimately, they reject the new innovations. Jobs is given full demonstrations of the computers and understands the potential behind the new technology. He then begins the creation of the Macintosh (MAC). Eventually, a rift occurs within Apple between those who worked on Apple II and those working on the MAC. At the same time, Bill Gates creates Windows to utilize the graphical interface being used by Jobs which was originally invented by Xerox technicians. Which then incites the war between Apple and Microsoft.An excellent portrayal of the strange and often unbelievable circumstances surrounding the creation and eventual marketing of personal computers. Anthony Michael Hall is perfectly cast as Bill Gates, and Joey Slotnick does well as Steve Wozniack. However, Noah Wyle steals the show as Steve Jobs. Wyle captures the subtlety of Jobs as the driven genius whose faith in his own vision often eclipses common sense in terms of personal relationships. Jobs was no question one of the great visionaries of the 20th century, but he did not understand how to motivate and empower those around him. In the end, he becomes a tragic figure when he is ousted from Apple by the Board of Directors.

As a made for TV movie, for cable no less, Many people perhaps had low expectations for Pirates of the Silicon Valley. Yet, right from the beginning , the film abandons the stigma of the made for TV movie and surely silenced many critics. (including the worst critics of all, computer nerds) For people unfamiliar with the history of the computer industry, this movie will be just as educational as it is entertaining, yet even for computer history buffs, this movie is still a must watch. The movie benefits from what is truly a remarkable story in real life. The viewer will be surprised to see the genesis of companies like Apple and Microsoft, and how humbly they began. The movie's portrayal of this is excellent, and features an easy to follow, yet engaging narrative throughout the film. No doubt, one will finish watching this movie with a much deeper understanding of the computer industry. However, what makes this movie so interesting is the human element it brings to these companies and more importantly, the people who started them. Most people don't know Bill Gates as anything more than the billionaire CEO of Microsoft, this film allows one to see him outside of that context somewhat. Steve Jobs gets a similar treatment, revealing him as a true personality amongst people most view as nerds. Unfortunately, the movie does suffer from certain weaknesses. Through it tries to avoid getting technical involving the computer aspects, when it does, it tends to play to the most common denomenator, which can be frustrating to people who already have a knowledge of computers. Additionally, the format of a TV movie easy easy to notice when one watches it (breaks for commercials, etc.) and hurts the pace of the movie. Yet overall, it's a very well acted, entertaining and informational film.