If you do, make sure you listen to our interview with Matt Johnson, who directed the movie and also plays Doug, the headband-wearing sidekick. We talked about his favorite and least-favorite tech movies, why BlackBerry lost to the iPhone, and why the world might still want and need something like it.
If you’re not planning to see the movie? You should. It’s great.
As always, if you’re not a fan of The Always Sunny Podcast, it’s time to change that. This week’s a good one even if you’re not into It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, though, because the gang talks about BlackBerry, which stars Glenn Howerton as Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie, and comes out this Friday.
The BlackBerry stuff starts about 30 minutes in. It’s got lots of fun takes on the iPhone, and behind-the-scenes stories about the movie.
Not the new ones, whoever is making those now. I mean a new version of the old idea, about a phone that made you more productive but didn’t try to capture all your time and money. BlackBerry director Matt Johnson, who we interviewed on The Vergecast this week, thinks you might. I kind of think I would.
(This whole episode is really fun, by the way: we talked about computer-screen movies, directors commentary, and much more. Check it out!)
