{"id":553485,"date":"2023-02-18T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-blackberry-review-glenn-howerton-steals-this-rowdy-tech-satire\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T21:45:00","slug":"watch-blackberry-review-glenn-howerton-steals-this-rowdy-tech-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-blackberry-review-glenn-howerton-steals-this-rowdy-tech-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;BlackBerry&#8217; Review: Glenn Howerton Steals This Rowdy Tech Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be6dc5ada3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be6dc5ada3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-blackberry-review-glenn-howerton-steals-this-rowdy-tech-satire\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98BlackBerry_Review_Glenn_Howerton_Steals_This_Rowdy_Tech_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;BlackBerry&#8217; Review: Glenn Howerton Steals This Rowdy Tech Satire&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-blackberry-review-glenn-howerton-steals-this-rowdy-tech-satire\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98BlackBerry_Review_Glenn_Howerton_Steals_This_Rowdy_Tech_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;BlackBerry&#8217; Review: Glenn Howerton Steals This Rowdy Tech Satire&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98BlackBerry_Review_Glenn_Howerton_Steals_This_Rowdy_Tech_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;BlackBerry&#8217; Review: Glenn Howerton Steals This Rowdy Tech Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98BlackBerry_Review_Glenn_Howerton_Steals_This_Rowdy_Tech_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;BlackBerry&#8217; Review: Glenn Howerton Steals This Rowdy Tech Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For a hot minute, it looked like BlackBerry might control the smartphone market. They got there first, figuring out how to use the existing data network to put email in users\u2019 hands. Sure, it all came packaged in a device as thick and unwieldy as a slice of French toast \u2014 too big for most people\u2019s pockets, not at all comfortable to hold up to one\u2019s ear. Still, Canada-based electronics company Research in Motion revolutionized how mobile phones worked and what they could do, making billionaires of its co-founders. So what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Frantic, irreverent and endearingly scrappy, \u201cBlackBerry\u201d spins comedy from the seat-of-their-pants launch and subsequent flame-out of \u201cthat phone that people had before they bought an iPhone,\u201d as one character puts it. Directed by Matt Johnson \u2014 the renegade mock-doc helmer responsible for 2013 Slamdance winner \u201cThe Dirties\u201d and moon-landing hoax \u201cProject Avalanche\u201d \u2014 from a script he co-wrote with longtime collaborator Matthew Miller, this sly tech-world satire freely extrapolates from journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff\u2019s book \u201cLosing the Signal,\u201d refashioning that wild ride into something that approximates their favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The outrageous, often quotable dialogue draws inspiration from Aaron Sorkin and David Mamet (whose \u201cGlengarry Glen Ross\u201d is actually name-dropped by the characters). \u201cI\u2019ll keep firing until this room is not full of little children playing with their little penises,\u201d Michael Ironside growls at one point, playing the company\u2019s bulldog COO, seemingly the only adult in the room. Later, forced to use a pay phone after BlackBerry overloads the network, Glenn Howerton smashes the receiver to pieces while screaming, \u201cThere are three reasons people buy our phones. \u2026 They. Fucking. Work!\u201d Lines like that fit well with DP Jared Raab\u2019s grody, handheld style, which suggests a cross between \u201cThe Office\u201d and \u201cIn the Loop,\u201d shot from across parking lots and the far side of cluttered workspaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    No one would mistake this for a documentary, and yet, Johnson adopts the voyeuristic cues that give audiences a you-are-there feel. If the cast that Johnson has assembled hardly looks old enough to remember the BlackBerry, that perversely winds up working to the film\u2019s advantage. Canadian actor Jay Baruchel still has the soft-chinned face of a teenager, which makes him an odd choice to play BlackBerry superbrain Mike Lazaridis, with his silver-toned, Julian Assange hair. Johnson opts to play RIM co-founder Douglas Fregin as a headband-wearing slob, a brilliant \u201cgoof\u201d (and reliably grating comic foil) who seems to care more about getting to work with his friends than becoming a billionaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And then there\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d star Howerton, the MVP in an all-around terrific ensemble, who shaved the top of his head to play balding, no-nonsense Jim Balsillie. Like a shark in the kiddie pool, Howerton delivers the kind of performance that can make a career, or force audiences to totally reconsider an actor\u2019s potential. Jim\u2019s ruthless business instincts run directly counter to the nerds\u2019 undisciplined approach. He agrees to leave his job (technically, he\u2019s already been fired and has no other options) and steer RIM to delivering on its promise \u2014 the one Mike and Doug fumbled to articulate in the film\u2019s haphazard opening pitch session, quoting their high school shop teacher: \u201cThe person who puts a computer inside a phone will change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cruising around in a beat-up Honda hatchback, the duo \u2014 and the rest of the RIM team \u2014 come across as overgrown toddlers, incapable of cleaning their own rooms. They\u2019re far too rowdy and immature to focus on the task at hand, wasting valuable time playing Command &amp; Conquer at the office, where stacks of defective modems line the walls and someone stuck a toilet plunger on top of a computer monitor. Rarely has a film captured the spirit of creative chaos that characterizes so much of Silicon Valley \u2014 although it\u2019s important to note that RIM\u2019s rise-and-fall trajectory took place half a continent away in Waterloo, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This is a Canadian story, told by Canadian filmmakers, who treat the whole loony affair as a matter of national pride. Sure, it\u2019s full of hubris, from Mike\u2019s incredulity at the notion that consumers would prefer a keyboard-free device (one of the iPhone\u2019s many design improvements) to Jim\u2019s illegal strategy of backdating stock options to lure engineers from rival companies like Google. But \u201cBlackBerry\u201d is surprisingly charitable to the parties involved, acknowledging that these visionaries, while making it up as they go along, still managed to change the way the world communicates. Taking a page from \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> Network,\u201d it follows these two altogether-too-polite besties through the ringer, as they try to maintain their friendship amid the financial pressure that running a successful tech company imposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Avoiding the pitfalls of getting dry or technical, Johnson juices up moments when the company was under intense pressure to deliver, like the all-night session to develop a prototype it could present to Bell Atlantic. \u201cBlackBerry\u201d shows Mike and his RIM team raiding an electronics store, buying pocket calculators and Speak &amp; Spell toys to mock up a clumsy demo model \u2014 which Mike subsequently forgets in the back of the taxi. Saul Rubinek patiently listens to Jim\u2019s pitch and then replies, \u201cYou are not a tech guy, are you?\u201d Even more satisfying is the stretch that comes right after Palm honcho Carl Yankowski (Cary Elwes) threatens a hostile takeover, as Jim scrambles to boost the stock price so that can\u2019t happen. The mad-hustle montage feels like something out of \u201cWall Street,\u201d or better yet, Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There are some who look back fondly on the BlackBerry and the way it let them hammer out emails with their thumbs. It\u2019s a wistfulness on par with how Blockbuster has made a minor comeback for those who claim nostalgia for late fees and the obligation of having to rewind VHS tapes. For most, the BlackBerry was a primitive product that served its purpose until something better came along \u2014 namely, the Apple iPhone. And though Johnson\u2019s movie suggests other factors may have contributed to its demise, it\u2019s hard to ignore that the company got out-innovated in the end. The film, at least, feels fresh, making geek history more entertaining than it has any right to be.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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