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Ashton Kutcher's 'Jobs' Movie Now Available on iTunes
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He does a good job in this movie. No pun intended.
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.
I personally think he nailed certain mannerisms of Jobs. I went into it with low expectations like you probably have but at the end I was very pleasantly surprised.
Can't find it in the UK store?
Do we know if Sony are still planning to produce their take on Steve's life?
Do we know if Sony are still planning to produce their take on Steve's life?
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.
What serious roles have you seen him in then? I.e non-comedy roles. I'm assuming it'll be The Butterfly Effect?
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That and The Guardian. And Dude Where's My Car (although that one might be comedy, wasn't sure).
Lots of critics that didn't see the movie. The iTunes ratings was 4 stars and with good reviews.
It was just a horrible movie. Over-acted and badly scripted.
Overhyped because it was about Steve, but very badly executed. I stuck it out to the end, and it's time I will never get back.
Overhyped because it was about Steve, but very badly executed. I stuck it out to the end, and it's time I will never get back.
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.
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.
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Absolutely agree with everything you say. Finish the movie, but be prepared that it doesn't get any better.
I prefer Pirates of Silicon Valley as it romanticizes the early days of the personal computer world. Not everything in the movie is accurate but they touch on enough crucial points to make it good.
As far as Jobs goes, they also touched on some good points but I agree that Ashton over did the acting and kind of messed up Steve. With the acting aside some of the historical points that were included in Jobs that weren't included in Pirates filled in some crucial time periods. I think if you were to take Pirates, redo it and fill in the gaps with some of the scenes from Jobs it would be amazing. I, of course, would leave Noah Wyle in as Steve Jobs. He did a pretty damn good job.
(PS - This is pure opinion. If you don't like it, that's ok.)
As far as Jobs goes, they also touched on some good points but I agree that Ashton over did the acting and kind of messed up Steve. With the acting aside some of the historical points that were included in Jobs that weren't included in Pirates filled in some crucial time periods. I think if you were to take Pirates, redo it and fill in the gaps with some of the scenes from Jobs it would be amazing. I, of course, would leave Noah Wyle in as Steve Jobs. He did a pretty damn good job.
(PS - This is pure opinion. If you don't like it, that's ok.)
I saw the movie last night. It was okay but I felt like the movie didn't flow very well in terms of some of the scenes. Like the NeXt computer part was merely just a flash. I would of also have liked a little more focus on the last few years of Steve's life as well. Overall I'd give the movie a 6/10.
A few points:
1.) Can we finally kill the "no pun intended" cliche in 2014? Please? And while we're at it, let's kill the "at end of the day" phrase too! ;-)
2.) ...as for the movie; I took my 11-year old son to it on opening weekend. We were the only ones in the theater --apart from a 90+ year old grandma who probably walked in by mistake. Very bad PR for Apple, methinks.
3.) My son quite enjoyed the film. Perhaps that is the demographic they were shooting for with this one?
-iamthinking
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.
That is very much not $24 million in profit. Not after theatre cuts + marketing. It needed to make approximately $50-65 million for the invested parties to truly profit.
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Considering that Sorkin wrote The Social Network, a film that's far better than Pirates of Silicon Valley and should have won Best Picture at the Oscars, I tend to think he will write a far more impressive character piece than a TV movie and Jobs.