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

[bluespark]

Doesn't surprise me. Aaron Sorkin knows what he's doing, and I'm glad to say I've graduated from the same high school as him

I'm a huge admirer of Aaron Sorkin. I've always found his films to be not only smart and tightly-written but also able to evoke surprisingly nuanced emotion, much of which flows from the script itself. If I had to be stranded on a desert island with one screenwriter, it would be him.

 

[Nunyabinez]

A movie can take considerable dramatic license and still be very accurate to the overall truth. I read Silvia Nasir's "A Beautiful Mind" and then saw the movie of the same name. The portrayal of John Nash's schizophrenia had zero resemblance to what he actually experienced. However, the film did a marvelous job of conveying the experience of living in a world where you have trouble separating fantasy from reality. I am completely confident that when Wozniac says that it's accurate, he is not meaning, "yeah, that's exactly what I said to Steve right then", what he is saying is that the arc of the events reflects the reality of what was going on.

 

[Lankyman]

What defines a myriad?

As for the last question, the complete absurdity of it clearly shows the inherent bias, and with a bias that strong and obvious pretty much anything that might be said is moot.

It's a movie for people who get off in reflected glory for goodness sake. Most people would be just as embarrassed being seen outside the cinema where this film was showing as they would be outside a porn cinema.

 

[C DM]

It's a movie for people who get off in reflected glory for goodness sake. Most people would be just as embarrassed being seen outside the cinema where this film was showing as they would be outside a porn cinema.

Yeah...except in the reality that most people live in it's nothing like that at all.

 

[MattBP]

Surprised by the amount of hate in this thread. Movie looks excellent, a classic Sorkin masterpiece. If you want to watch a documentary on Jobs please do so, there are already plenty out there. I for one look forward to an exciting dramatisation of the events and company that have shaped the tech world. Of course we are not all as witty as Tyrion Lannister, but who the heck wants to watch someone walk around and talk like we all do in real life? I do that all day long thank you very much. I'm sure Zuckerberg is much more level headed and boring in real life, but that would have been an average movie to watch.

End of rant.

 

[Lankyman]

Yeah...except in the reality that most people live in it's nothing like that at all.

Yes well you enjoy and remember, try to keep the Genuflection to just one knee.

 

[s2mikey]

I still don't think the Steve Jobs story is that intriguing but whatever. Dude took some risks and made a boatload of cash. Pissed a lot of people off along the way. Came up with some good stuff too. It's the "canned" billionaire story as far as I can tell. Yawn.

Isn't this like the 57th attempt at a Steve Jobs film? They may have got this one right then? LOL.

 

[C DM]

I still don't think the Steve Jobs story is that intriguing but whatever. Dude took some risks and made a boatload of cash. Pissed a lot of people off along the way. Came up with some good stuff too. It's the "canned" billionaire story as far as I can tell. Yawn.

Isn't this like the 57th attempt at a Steve Jobs film? They may have got this one right then? LOL.

If we are just going to make up numbers for the fun of it, it might as well be the 1535th "attempt".

 

[thevofl]

Birdman was genius. And the one-shot editing was a masterstroke.

The one shot editing was nausiating at best. The actors moved around their blocking in a very artificial manner. The editing was laughable.

Gravity, with the same cinematographer, was far superior in its use of long take shots.

 

[SchneiderMan]

He looks nothing like him, which ruins it for me a little. I think Kutcher looked the part a lot more. And I don't think this would be categorized as an action movie, more like drama.

 

[zooby]

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[thevofl]

ATTENTION: This user thinks Birdman is "one of the worst piles of crap to have ever been projected on a screen"!!! Better try harder, studios.

Yes, a movie about a Velveeta grilled cheese sandwich molding would be better. So studios, the bar is exceptionally low.

 

[zooby]

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[Mac 128]

I'm mostly looking forward to see how accurately the depict the details of the legacy equipment -- can't wait to see an original 128K Mac depicted beautifully on the big screen.