First Impressions of 'Steve Jobs' Film: 'Thrilling... an Action Movie Driven Almost Exclusively by Words'

[freediverx]

There's no such thing as perfect. It's subjective.

The Social Network was neither perfect nor a bad film. It was classic Aaron Sorkin - highly dramatized, reality-based fiction featuring brilliant, rapid-fire dialog but often straying far from reality for the sake of entertainment and artistic value.

For instance, anyone who's experienced Mark Zuckerberg speaking in person knows all too well what an exaggeration his character was in The Social Network. In real life he's a smiling and relatively gregarious fellow whose speech patterns are more akin to a nervous Valley girl than to that of the brooding, eloquent, and quick-witted savant portrayed in the film.

 

[JCrz]

Looks like it'll be a great action movie.

 

[teslo]

I'm guessing it's going to be his standard obnoxious writing like Newsroom or the Social Network.

He always has characters talking three times as fast, firing off tons of witty responses, manifestos and jargon all to sound "intelligent" and "important". Worse the lines are always delivered with that flat sarcasm of a depressed teenage girl who wears a lot of black.

The review that says this is an action movie with words makes me confident in my guess even more.

the Social Network had almost nothing in common with the pace or tension in Newsroom. TV shows and features get written in highly different ways - though admittedly Sorkin seems more adept at getting his ideas across in features where he has more time to work with, imo.

no need to pigeonhole the man, he's just got a (successful) personal style.

 

[Tech198]

no wonder it got 100% on Rotten Tomato...

This beats Gravity (2013)?

 

[atlatnesiti]

I don't get it... Who is Steve Jobs...?

 

[Daws001]

I want to see it because of Fassbender. He's one of those actors that I don't think could perform poorly if he wanted to.

 

[slagathor001]

Yeah, "for the sake of entertainment"... What BS... Just make a documentary so there can be no fabrication!

 

[Porco]

There's no such thing as perfect. It's subjective.

You are 100% right (in my opinion)!

 

[BornAgainMac]

I don't get it... Who is Steve Jobs...?

The Magneto character. Perhaps they will show him moving metal objects with only his mind during Act 3 and Phil Schiller will be Wolverine.

 

[Lankyman]

It's a movie about some guy who ran a technology company? We are not talking statesman, war hero, or some other great figure in history.

The worlds gone totally mad - personally I would rather watch an episode of the Simpsons.

 

[samcraig]

"a kind of "Birdman" for the tech sector,"

God help us if it was. Birdman is one of the worst piles of crap to ever have been projected on a screen.

And that's your one opinion. Conversely, I loved Birdman and thought it (although flawed) was fantastic.

 

[jasonklee]

Reading just the screenplay was enthralling. Sorkin has outdone himself again.

 

[Roller]

I hate fiction and don't usually watch movies. I would prefer a documentary on the subject - not an "acted" recreation of events. I guess I'll wait for something more accurate to appear in the future.

I've found there are already many YouTube videos of Steve Jobs speaking and doin keynotes. I'm not sure a movie is even needed if you can go back and watch it from the man himself.

Couldn't you say the same about other movies based on real events that were made in the era of film and.or television? It's true that filmmakers can and do sometimes take considerable liberty with facts, but their work can be entertaining and insightful nonetheless.

As for this one, I'm more interested now than I was when I first heard about the concept.

 

[flat five]

It's a movie about some guy who ran a technology company? We are not talking statesman, war hero, or some other great figure in history.

The worlds gone totally mad - personally I would rather watch an episode of the Simpsons.

huh? lots of movies about al Capone or Jesse James etc

or are they to be considered a 'great figure in history'?

how do you judge a movie like Nixon? (statesman but questionable greatness)

how about The Aviator (ldc as Howard Hughes)?

what are you talking about?

 

[thedeske]

Comparing Sorkin to Kubrick is the most retarded thing I've read in years.
You can't get on that bandwagon with a few blogs in the modern world.
Nope! Doesn't happen IMO. People are not that stupid are they?

 

[Keirasplace]

I hate fiction and don't usually watch movies. I would prefer a documentary on the subject - not an "acted" recreation of events. I guess I'll wait for something more accurate to appear in the future.

I've found there are already many YouTube videos of Steve Jobs speaking and doin keynotes. I'm not sure a movie is even needed if you can go back and watch it from the man himself.

Docs have a point of view, camera angles, an editing process.
You only get "true" views if you get random clips from people who filmed someone for their own enjoyment without any ulterior motives. Doesn't mean those random clips are interesting to look at for 2h, or insightful in any way though.

 

[freediverx]

There's a great article about the film in The Guardian...

Sorkin said he’d felt a great deal of anxiety embarking on the project. “[Jobs] is someone a lot of people have a lot of very strong feelings about. It’s a bit like setting out to write about the Beatles.”

His intention, he said, was akin to creating a painting rather than taking a photograph. “I didn’t want it to be a cradle-to-grave biopic or a piece of journalism. Art isn’t about what happened.”

http://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ny-boyle-kate-winslet-seth-rogen-aaron-sorkin

 

[MikePLP]

Doesn't matter how good the film is, all the Apple haters will give it 0/10 on IMDB and others....just like they do it with any new Apple product.

 

[ctdonath]

'Action Movie...' You keep using those words. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Precedent: Reservoir Dogs was one of the most pervasively violent movies I've ever seen (and I like violent movies), and it was little more than guys standing around in a warehouse arguing.

 

[imnotarobot]

If Woz thinks its perfect since he was there and knew Steve like none of us ever did, who are we to complain ... other than we like to complain.

 

[dazed]

Still a rental for me. Enjoyed social network but saw it way after all the buzz had died down.

 

[C DM]

Does anyone here think this movie will be good and not cliche Hollywood BS. Was not a fan of the social network.

I would WAY rather an in depth documentary over a movie like this. Same goes for Straight Outta Compton movie. Would've way rather a documentary so we can get some accurate info

I hate fiction and don't usually watch movies. I would prefer a documentary on the subject - not an "acted" recreation of events. I guess I'll wait for something more accurate to appear in the future.

I've found there are already many YouTube videos of Steve Jobs speaking and doin keynotes. I'm not sure a movie is even needed if you can go back and watch it from the man himself.

Sounds like you don't like fiction motion pictures. That's totally fine--to each his/her own. That said, it pretty much makes the commentary about such things essentially moot given the automatic and ever-present bias.

 

[C DM]

Comparing Sorkin to Kubrick is the most retarded thing I've read in years.
You can't get on that bandwagon with a few blogs in the modern world.
Nope! Doesn't happen IMO. People are not that stupid are they?

People can differ in their feelings (without being right or wrong or good or bad) when it something that is completely subjective? What a concept!

 

[C DM]

It's a movie about some guy who ran a technology company? We are not talking statesman, war hero, or some other great figure in history.

The worlds gone totally mad - personally I would rather watch an episode of the Simpsons.

There are movies about made up tornadoes or made up planets with blue people...so what's the point there again?

 

[pat500000]

Does anyone here think this movie will be good and not cliche Hollywood BS. Was not a fan of the social network.

I would WAY rather an in depth documentary over a movie like this. Same goes for Straight Outta Compton movie. Would've way rather a documentary so we can get some accurate info

Steve Job + NWA= Straight out of Cupertino...now that's the movie i like to see

Preview: Steve job: "You don't like my ways? You're FIRED!"