Re: The Silk Road Film has been released - shows what happened on this forum 2 catch
I already watched the movie and I talked about it few days ago in other SilkRoad topic, that means imdb release date is wrong 
Not a bad movie to watch especially if you are interested in Bitcoin history, but I think they added to many fantasy elements and they presented Ross character as some kind of lunatic.
Release date was not wrong, as always movie leaked few days before that on torrents, but official release was indeed February 19th.Not a bad movie to watch especially if you are interested in Bitcoin history, but I think they added to many fantasy elements and they presented Ross character as some kind of lunatic.
I watched it too, and it's kinda meh. As you said, too many fictional things added, but that was kinda expected since this is not documentary. The only good thing about the movie is that some people may dig deeper and check what really happened. Imho, this whole subject deserves much better film, with bigger budget and more serious director. Someone like David Fincher would do much better job, and would fit this perfectly. What we got is essentially made-for-TV low budget film with zero character development.
If it shows the main character in a badlight, then surely it has to show Bitcoin in a bad light? You can't be talking about one guy and make him the sort of villain but who uses good tools;)
They didn't really mention bitcoin much so I don't think that will have any impact on people's perception. Maybe if movie was released 5 years ago, but not now when everyone and their grandma knows about bitcoin. There is a documentary about SilkRoad called Deep Web (2015). I do enjoyed that one.