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The fairly hurt-feelings "this isn't close to accurate" reviews from people who were insiders or employees at Blackberry turned me off from wanting to watch thi
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
The fairly hurt-feelings "this isn't close to accurate" reviews from people who were insiders or employees at Blackberry turned me off from wanting to watch this film.
I never had good feelings about RIM/Blackberry the company. I worked at Google Waterloo with a lot of people I'd characterize as "refugees" from there. And by the time the 2010s rolled around they were clearly in a serious decline. But this movie doesn't sound like it has the finger on why.
Other people have linked to this article in the comments, but I'll call it up here into the root: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis-kavelman-i-was-a-longtime-senior-leader-at-blackberry-the-new-movie-is-not-our-story https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis-kavelman-i-was-a-lon...
In particular I think this is insightful and worth calling out: "It was also sad to see the easy knocks against Canada from Canadian movie writers — the movie Mike is quoted as saying “I didn’t say they were the best engineers in the world, I said they were the best engineers in Canada.” Do we really need to still talk about how the University of Waterloo is one of the top universities in the world?
It sounds entertaining, but wildly wildly inaccurate. And disparaging of various humans and efforts involved. Dramatizations often are, but maybe this is just too close to home?