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Genre | Drama |
Format | Color, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, NTSC |
Contributor | Jonathan Lisco |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 3 |
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Product Description
At the dawn of the PC era, 3 unlikely “cowboys,” Joe MacMillan, Gordon Clark and Cameron Howe, take personal and professional risks in the race to build a breakthrough computer. Tensions build within the group as they tread the line between visionary and fraud, genius and delusion, as their drive to do something that matters runs up against their ability to truly innovate. The series begins in the early 80s in Dallas, aka The Silicon Prairie, during the boom of the computer industry. IBM has released the first PC and is seemingly dominating the cutthroat field. MacMillan, Gordon and Cameron form an alliance at the smaller (fictional) tech company, Cardiff Giant, infiltrating it from within and using its people and resources to revolutionize the computer, shake up the competition and redeem their past personal failures. The show is not just about the ruthless rise of the computer business, or the obsessive striving for competitive advantage in the marketplace. Rather, it’s about people at war with themselves as they search for something bigger. During their search, they’ll struggle with the dark side of the human ego, the destructive power of ambition, and the often thin line separating genius from delusion.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 5.4 x 7.6 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 33744737
- Director : Jonathan Lisco
- Media Format : Color, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- Run time : 7 hours and 15 minutes
- Release date : May 5, 2015
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : ANCHOR BAY
- ASIN : B00KJ1CKOE
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,352 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,145 in Drama DVDs
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Is it accurate? Well, I was there coding away lit by the glow of green screens and stitched-together hardware and, yes, the look of the program is absolutely spot-on. Some of the characters prick my memory but the extremes we see in Halt and Catch Fire are surely inflated to make a better story...or were they?
If you're a computer freak this film has some moments of "oh really, they would never do that" which set my teeth on edge a little but overall there's a lot of fun trips down memory lane with monochrome color monitors, portable computers that double as training weights and whiteboards with endless scribbles of assembly language and CPU op codes.
For the rest there is the shocking Lothario character of Joe MacMillian (played by Lee Pace) who flexes his sexuality at all and sundry. The other main protagonists include the slightly-out-of-his-depth Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and the buffoonish Texan Dale Butler (David Wilson Barnes) who add touches of humaity and a back story of what went on away from the computer screens and late-night coding sessions.
By far the most tempting character is the alluringly lithe uber coder Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) who 'dresses like a boy' but drips with animalistic anger and sexual tension, rocking out to hard core punk, bristling with get-out-of-my-face attitude whilst banging out computer code with just the right levels of intensity and vehement frustration in a fairly convincing portrayal of a stellar coder, although this jars a little with the reality of many real system developers of the era who, if contemporary documentaries and interviews of the time can be believed, where rather nerdy unkempt and bedraggled men - almost exclusively - industry-wide misogynism ruled supreme.
A full-on Cameron would have scared the living daylights out of Steve Jobs mid-charge; however, allowing for some poetic licence Cameron puts depth into the episodes and the focus of the show shifts from edge to edge between her, Joe's struggle to become some kind of metaphor for early silicon age CEOs, combining all the more angsty bits of Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments and the others into a boiling pot of no-notice no-warning redundancies, business warfare scheming and conniving venture capital greed and maneuvering which makes the plot hubble and bubble along so that you're left on the edge of your seat wanting the next episode to start...right...now.
Awesome stuff.
I chanced across an episode while clicking through channels one night and within a couple of days, had watched all of the episodes. The early ones (1 through 5, I think) I streamed off of Amazon.
It is about three insiders in the Silicon Prairie in Texas in the early 80s when everyone was trying to make computers smaller, faster, cheaper and more exciting. The computer engineer is Gordon Clark (played by Scott (Scooter?) McNairy). The code writer is Cameron Howe (MacKenzie Davis may be the actress's name). The salesman is Scott MacMillon (Lee Pace).
All of the computer stuff is presented in a way that is very edge-of-the-seat exciting. Seriously. I don't know how they did this, but they did. Or at least to me. Maybe I'm just really nerdy. But I actually don't even know that much about computers. So maybe if you actually know a lot about computers, it won't seem exciting. I don't know. But the characters are reverse engineering computers and writing code and figuring out how to add more memory and stuff and it all somehow seems very exciting.
There is the throwback element with the 80s music and hair and clothes. There are the huge, clunky computers and mouse pads and those old printers that took FOREVER to print a single page. In one scene, someone turns on a Mac and it says "Hello, I am Macintosh" and Lee Pace's character goes weak-in-the-knees because he is so overwhelmed. :-)
And then there are all of the interpersonal issues. Gordon Clark has a wife that is also pretty brilliant when it comes to computers and they have issues in their marriage that are presented with nuance and realism and subtlety that makes for pretty compelling television. Cameron and Scott are having an affair that is different and interesting and sometimes sweet. The company they work for has bankrupted itself pursing their personal computer plan--only because Scott managed to put the company in a position where it had no choice. People lose their jobs and in every episode, hard decisions and sacrifices have to be made to keep moving forward.
And maybe that is the most compelling element. There is a running them about what it means to dream something and then have to fight over and over and over again to create it. It is about what it does to the characters--and in Gordon's case, his family--when they fail and about how much they are willing to sacrifice--including each other--to try to get things back on track.
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Großartige Authoren, fantastische Schauspieler. Klare Empfehlung!
Each episode is a collaborative effort and there's not a mediocre one in the bunch. Yet creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers' scripts -- the premiere, second episode, and season finale -- are the weakest. It's remarkable that show runner Jonathan Lisco elevated the rest of season's writing quality from merely very good to excellent by leading a team of gifted writers that includes 'Mad Men' alumnus Dahvi Waller. So, while the first two episodes may be slightly melodramatic, it's an incredibly satisfying storyline, as things pick up to a wowing consistency only from Episode 3 onward, climaxing in Episodes 8 and 9.
Like myself, you may know or care little about computers. Rest assured, your enjoyment doesn't rely upon such familiarity; reference to them is intelligible as far as the dramatic stakes are concerned.
The four lead characters wonderfully complement and oppose one another. What's rare, even unprecedentedly carried out to this degree in TV and film, is how the female characters are equally important and engaging as the male ones. The story's themes are serious, too. They range from a sense of self, the search for professional and personal fulfillment, sexual and identity politics, and relationships ' from lovers to family to friendship. Yet the great writing ensures that all this unravels with subtlety, moral complexity, occasional humor, realism, and, most importantly, genuine surprise for the viewer.
It's all facilitated with superb acting of very relatable characters. Lee Pace plays Joe MacMillan, the public face of the enterprise with marketing savvy. A combustible personality, he gambles big, thrilled by teetering between success and failure. Mackenzie Davis plays Cameron Howe, the brilliant programmer Joe recruits out of college. Opposites in so many ways, they are simultaneously at odds and drawn to each other, ambitious to do great work in the field. Both have an arrogance that would be off-putting were it not complemented by a desperation rooted in vulnerability that results in this passionate dedication to finding purpose by making a lasting mark ' something we all desire.
Where Cameron's talents lay in software, Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) has a genius for hardware design, as does his wife, Donna (Kerry Bishé). Contrasting Joe and Cameron's tumultuous pairing is their more stable marriage. They have their own baggage after Gordon's failure to strike it big in the tech world yielded a financial and commensurate emotional toll on them. Seemingly less passionate, their relationship is more equal and intellectually validating; yet, frustration at work and complacency at home have led both to feel stuck, as each wants more out of life ' and possibly their marriage. Lastly, Toby Huss rounds out the cast as John Bosworth, giving the best performance of all; it's a shame he gets such little screen time.
Finally, 'Halt and Catch Fire' has the best theme music of any TV show since that of Barrington Pheloung for the UK series 'Inspector Morse.' This is no mean feat, as it excitingly punctuates each episode's teaser.
I can't praise it enough. There's not a program to which I've looked forward more in these last two years. Watch 'Halt and Catch Fire' and you'll feel the same!