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How Not to Make a Movie About Tech (theringer.com)
'The Circle' (a techno-thriller movie starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson) is a dated, far-fetched parable about an imaginary villain -- and far less scary than its television counterpart, says Alyssa Bereznak, a staff writer at The Ringer. An anonymous reader shares the article, removing the excerpts that could spoil the plot: Hollywood is keen on illustrating the awesome power of modern-day tech companies and the elite class of entrepreneurs who run them. But lately the most effective way to do that is not to focus on what's possible, but to illustrate the real-life personalities that control the near future of tech. Stylistically, a show like HBO's Silicon Valley couldn't be further from a production like The Circle, and yet it succeeds in threading together a host of issues in tech culture, including major corporations' monopoly-like power to squash competitors, manipulate the unwitting tech press, and bypass the interests of their employees and users for the sake of better stock prices. Now at the beginning of its fourth season, the show is lauded for its highly researched, accurate depictions of the Bay Area's power players -- so much so that it has spurred at least one Business Insider post dedicated to identifying each character's real-life inspiration. (The show has even featured a handful of cameos from the industry's power brokers, including Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt.) Even if it does take place in a comedy created by the man who gave us Beavis and Butt-Head, the show's researched interpretation of real life is a much more compelling way to display the tech world's flaws, rather than simply relying on imagined scaremongering.
The headline is a little misleading. The headline seems to be about the movie "The Circle", but the text about the tv show "Silicon Valley".
Although the summary is mostly about the TV show "Silicon Valley", the article is a movie review panning "The Circle" and offers up the TV show as a way to a better at
The headline is the same as the movie review title.
I find nothing in this article that is so damning as it is implied I should be led to believe.
Fucking seriously? This article should have never been written. This is a thinly veiled advertisement for a TV show at the expense of a movie. I call bullshit.
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I don't know, he pretty accurately predicted the future.
The linked article mostly describes the plot-line of the last episode of Silicon Valley, complete with spoilers coming at you without warning. Poor journalistic form.
NOTE: I've never heard of this website/web-zine before. I've already forgotten their name, actually (but I hit Ctrl-K to blacklist them, so don't need to remember).
Why did this "never heard of before" outlet have an article on the front-page of /.? Much less a bad article about nothing but spoiling your fun if you haven't seen the latest Silicon Valley episode?