{"id":8175,"date":"2004-11-08T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/08\/the-first-20-million-is-always-the-hardest\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T17:44:05","slug":"the-first-20-million-is-always-the-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/08\/the-first-20-million-is-always-the-hardest\/","title":{"rendered":"The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"\/I watched “The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest<\/a>” on DVD. It is a nice comedy about computer geeks at the time of dotcom bubble.<\/p>\n

There is a part in this film, when one of the guys says something along the lines of “It is not tomorrow’s computer, it is yesterday’s prototype.”. Meanwhile a group of geeks was fighting to produce something genius AND usable by regular people. Well, this movie is not a movie, it is a prototype. It has a good idea and a number of good scenes and jokes. But it has a number of rough edges too. I would really love to see this movie redone, fixed, and polished. It will have a chance to become my favourite computer humour movie.<\/p>\n

I really liked how computer guys were shown, how Silicon Valley was shown (although I never was in Silicon Valley and I am not planning to, but this kind of what I imagine it to be), how corporations tricked startups and non-business people, and a few other things. Relationships were a little bit underdeveloped and … naive. Acting was a bit sucky too.<\/p>\n

Anyways, film had enough pace and jokes to keep me entertained and for that I give it 6 out of 10. It has much more potential than that though.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I watched “The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest” on DVD. It is a nice comedy about computer geeks at the time of dotcom bubble. There is a part in this film, when one of the guys says something along the lines of “It is not tomorrow’s computer, it is yesterday’s prototype.”. Meanwhile a … Continue reading The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9313,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/07\/pirates-of-silicon-valley\/","url_meta":{"origin":8175,"position":0},"title":"Pirates of Silicon Valley","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"There aren't that many films about the world of information technologies, so the title of \"Pirates of Silicon Valley\" caught my attention. 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