I'll skip this. Kutcher cannot act.
How can you judge it if you don't watch it? Bizarre logic.
Because I don't want to watch it. Just like I don't want to watch Dirty Dancing or Grease or Saw III or the rest of the movies I haven't seen that I have no desire to watch.
You stated he cannot act but don't actually watch him, so it just doesn't make sense.
He has been in plenty of other movies I've seen you know. And TV shows. And I don't think he can act. Get over it, what you gonna do, nail me down and force me to watch it?
No, I don't care if you watch it or not. But it's like a person saying they hate Mac's but then stating they have never used or owned one. Just makes the person look a bit daft.
But I have seen Kucther's attempts at acting.
What serious roles have you seen him in then? I.e non-comedy roles. I'm assuming it'll be The Butterfly Effect?
I'll skip this. Kutcher cannot act.
I finally sat down to watch it and had to turn it off about an hour in. The character portrayals are absolutely embarrassing. It seems the filmmakers and writers were just handed bullet points about Jobs life and they filled in the rest with dialogue and actions which were made from thin air by people with no grasp of the actual people they were portraying.
Woz really has to hate his character. He comes off as a cliché nerd and geek who is shy and has low self esteem. From the on screen relationship, you would think Woz was 5 years younger than Jobs, when it's the exact opposite in real life. I'm guessing they heard he was an "introvert" and didn't bother to research what that term actually means, because it's easier to just go with the stereotypical and uninformed take on it.
The prophetizing and hero worshiping of Jobs was ridiculous from the start. There is no depth in Jobs' personality, just uninformed clichés one after another. It's only made worse by the fact that it's nearly impossible to not to see it as Ashton Kutcher pretending to be Steve Jobs. The very first scene with the iPod introduction is so inauthentic that is seems like an SNL or MadTV skit. The writing is awful and has a movie of the week feel throughout.
The editing is decently done, nothing great, but not terrible compared to the writing and acting. It seems like they did a rushed job on the pre-production and production in order to take advantage of the hype following Jobs death. Hopefully the Sony film in the works is able to give the Jobs and Apple story the film it deserves.
I might try to finish it later today just to see where it goes, but I have no hope of it somehow redeeming itself with the second half.
He does a good job in this movie. No pun intended.
How can you judge it if you don't watch it? Bizarre logic.
never seen it. probably never will. because it shows no understanding of the subject matter.
why you would celebrate the life of a man, who despised mediocrity, by putting out a mediocre hasty, unthought out film.
Because:
" In theaters the movie, which had a budget of $12 million, has earned $16.1 million in the U.S. and $19.8 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $35.9 million. "
That's ~$24 million dollars of profit.(although distribution and ads probably cut that a bit). Still not bad.
Yeah, because nothing would better encapsulate Steve Jobs' life than intense dialog and no discernible sense of humor.
If the choice is between this lightweight, Hollywood-ized retelling or some self-important, overwrought Aaron Sorkin thing, I'll pass.
Or maybe I'll just go re-watch The Pirates of Silicon Valley.