Product: Startup.Com (2001)
Rating: 2.0
Overrated
After "The War Room", this documentary is especially disappointing. It suffers from a lack of distance between subject and film maker, and bestows affection on two immature posers who deserve little more than contempt. It focuses almost entirely on these two annoying people for no reason except that they are young and temporarily in control of big bucks.This is a bogus depiction of a dot-com, unless you believe that people flying around and grubbing money is the entire story. In fact, the internet phenomenon was a vast, complex drama, one which is shortchanged in this unfortunate mistake.Anyone familiar with the internals of the dot-com world knows that these "pioneers" never were the heroes portrayed in the popular media; they're simply jerks. The hambone buddy love scenes provide first class examples of myopic documentarians buying into the hocus-pocus of a couple of phonies. Their audience deserved an honest depiction of their empty souls and their pointless company. Instead, we got "gee whiz, they're young and going to be rich!"