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Funny or Die Releases Teaser Trailer for 'iSteve'
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Wow, condescension, I feel honoured.
I'm sure it's more likely to be nothing to do with starting with a lowercase letter to ape the product-naming strategy, and you haven't read too much into it so that's okay.
I agree with the other posters who said is not funny. Looks like a terrible made for TV drama. And I don't buy Long as Jobs for a second.
No commercials on iOS. You can access it via the desktop by changing your user agent:
http://tuaw.com/2010/11/22/safari-tip-force-html5-video-to-open-instead-of-flash/
I've gotten to watch 2 commercials whose combined length is longer than the trailer. Why are they using adobe flash? Why doesn't the trailer play after I've watched two freakin' commercials? Whatever it is, I doubt it's funny enough for me to watch any more commercials in the hope it will eventually play.
No commercials on iOS. You can access it via the desktop by changing your user agent:
http://tuaw.com/2010/11/22/safari-tip-force-html5-video-to-open-instead-of-flash/
I'm not sure you'd like any movie about Jobs. From your posts, your idolization would prevent you enjoying anything than seeing Jobs himself on screen talking about his life.
Except for the lengthy enumeration of descriptions for Jobs, where exactly are the funny parts supposed to be?
If the trailer is any indication, I'm expecting a few good jokes stretched with a lot of (self-conscious but still lame) melodrama.
If the trailer is any indication, I'm expecting a few good jokes stretched with a lot of (self-conscious but still lame) melodrama.
Yeah... the trailer comes across as over-the-top drama that takes itself too seriously. That's the point.
What this means is that.... if you (the reader) are unable to see where the parody is, the film is a parody of you.
Funny or Die is a Will Ferrell's project. His type of mentality, humor and style will be there. Be prepared of a real story ridiculed by the drama of the real story had become turning the reality of a company into a stupid decisions and realized that company at the end didn't needed to be so dramatic on a product development idea.
And it will funny. Smart funny. Will style
I don't consider myself to take Apple that seriously, but I just genuinely didn't think it was a funny trailer. I'm looking forward to seeing the entire film though.
No it isn't. Drop casing the first consonant? That's no leet speak dialect I've ever seen.
Nailed it. Gravitas oozing out of every pore. That's the Jobs mystique.
A hush falls as the lights dim. Steve Jobs takes the stage, set to unveil a newer, smaller (or maybe bigger) thing that plays music.
A hush falls as the lights dim. Steve Jobs takes the stage, set to unveil a newer, smaller (or maybe bigger) thing that plays music.
I expect this is going to be the joke. Looks like it's going to be a kind of mockumentary. Whether that will work or not remains to be seen, but it has before.
Even if it's insanely poor it'll be 100x (at least) better then the Ashton Kutcher Jobs Movie.
I didn't find anything particularly "funny" about the trailer. Is this going to be a serious offering? If they're going for soap-opera over-the-top dramatic funny, it's not present in the trailer.
The poster who said "made for TV movie" about nailed it.
The poster who said "made for TV movie" about nailed it.
In a computing context, it's a programmer thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase#Computer_programming
Also a play on the way iOS devices are named.
I wound up watching it on iOS. It appears the firewall at my job got in the way of the desktop version.
