To me, this movie is perfection.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film is a good first step in chronicling the rise and fall of a hot dot.com business. Left unrevealed, as many other viewers have commented, is a more insightful look at what the business was all about, what the challenges were in marketing it, how the business expected to make money, and exactly how it rose and fell. Nothing is mentioned about the problems of recruiting talent, pitching prospects, or confronting competition which, apparently, was the cause of the govworks downfall. We also would like to know more about the backgrounds of the founders--where did they grow up? What did their parents do? And what's the story behind the daughter of Tom? (Other comments allude to his "gayness" but I didn't feel that was clearly implied...Is it relevant?)

If you are interested, this is what these boys are doing now.Not convinced they have ever actually achieved anything, but the film is nevertheless interesting for the first 2/3s of the show.It follows the team raising money, hiring people, firing some others and getting swept up in the bubble of 99-2000.It would have been better to see the new CEO takeover and the machinations involved here as the demise that is shown is a purely personal one, and I would be interested in see what they thought about it after the event. Clearly Tom and Khalil work together (see below)http://www.recognitiongroup.com/articles.php?post=74 http://www.recognitiongroup.com/about_us.php?sub=2

This movie shows the first hand downfall of a dot com. The movie shows what happened to most of the dot coms in an easy to view pacakge. At first you think that these guys could actually make it as a successful dot com and I think that a lot of people in the dot com world thought the same also. A interesting look at the inside of an .com from beginning to its eventual end.

Those who are commenting on the mediocrity of the craftmanship of this movie are missing the point. The rise and fall of the dot-coms have become a meaningful part of American history and lore. Stock tickers, balance sheets and bankruptcy sales tell part of the story, but there's a difference between arriving at the scene of a train wreck and actually watching it happen.The value of this movie is that, in spite of all of its flaws, you get to watch the train wreck knowing full well what's going to come, you can see why the principals didn't see the things that seem so obvious to us watching the film now, and you can see how their hubris, lack of technical understanding and lack of focus lead to their downfall.I'm sure that it could been a better movie, but it's the only behind the scenes account we have of what must have happened hundreds of times all over the country. Like the Zapruder film and Hanlon & Naudet's account of 9/11, it's value comes from the fact that the cameras were there, catching history as it happened.This movie should be required viewing for all B-School students, sort of like making student drivers watch Red Asphalt.