Time Bomb Y2K

2023

1 hr. 24 min.

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Rumors spread about a bug that will cause computers worldwide to reset as 1999 becomes 2000. Mass hysteria follows, changing the fabric of modern society.

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stephen b

Interesting watch. Not much of a movie though. It feels less like a film and more like going down a YouTube vortex on the subject.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/28/24

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Cody P

This movie is just a bunch of old footage meshed together. There is absolutely no narration or anything that resembles a documentary. I think they meant to hire a narrator and their budget ran out, that's all I can think of to explain quite possibly the worst documentary of the year.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/18/24

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D T

It is actually quite entertaining to see the ridiculousness of it all! Granted hindsight is 20/20 but even then I was thinking the insanity of all the doomsday-ers, religious zealots, and general absence of logic and critical thought was astonishing!! Of course, history continues to repeat itself, albeit in different ways, and we see the same idiocy, credulity, and ignorance today!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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Brent R

Waste of time. Lived through Y2K and learned nothing new. If I had NOT lived through Y2K I would have been confused, as the problem was very poorly explained.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/11/24

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Geronimo P

A timely and entirely original documentary on a critical moment in our histry

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/11/24

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Nick M

A bunch of old video footage pastiched together doesn't make a documentary. In chronological order it shows you two hours of TV clips. Which is a shame…Especially when there are so many questions to be answered: Was Y2K real? Was it an overreaction? Did those programmers make a difference by fixing what they did? Where are all the main characters in this story now…what are their thoughts looking back? Where are the Y2K preppers now - still on their farms and bunkers? Did they re-join society or just move onto another doomsday obsession? Do they feel foolish about their decisions? It goes on and on… Can you call yourself a documentary when you don't document anything? When you answer no questions and investigate nothing?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/19/24

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Jasper Rees

Daily Telegraph (UK)

The computers look clunky, the haircuts dorky and the Backstreet Boys are asked for a quote about imminent Armageddon. Hey, the past is a foreign country – they do things hilariously there.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 3, 2024

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Chris Vognar

Rolling Stone

Time Bomb Y2K works mostly because it keeps a straight face, acknowledging that, even if a lot of the hysteria seems silly now, the anxiety was quite real back then.

Jan 2, 2024

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Brian Lowry

CNN.com

“Time Bomb” makes a persuasive case that in a media culture where the squeakiest wheels get the grease, there seemed to be little caution about platforming those crying wolf in the most provocative terms, and no real penalty for being conspicuously wrong.

Jan 2, 2024

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Edward Frumkin

The Film Stage

McDonald and Maya Mumma’s editing parses this pandemonium’s ridiculous yet reasonably suspenseful, satirical, poignant sentiments gleaned from news media and fictional programs into a nostalgic study of searching for solace amidst unrest.

Rated: B

Apr 5, 2024

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

There are formidable challenges ahead for America and the global community. As a document of American Cultural Studies, Time Bomb Y2K delivers the goods.

Rated: 7/10

Jan 12, 2024

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Manuel Betancourt

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

A media study as a way of how we tried to think of the new millennium.

Jan 6, 2024

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Synopsis

Rumors spread about a bug that will cause computers worldwide to reset as 1999 becomes 2000. Mass hysteria follows, changing the fabric of modern society.

Director: Brian Becker, Marley Mcdonald
Executive Producer: Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Penny Lane, Gabriel Sedgwick
Distributor: Max
Production Co: HBO Documentary Films, Spinning Nancy
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 30, 2023

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