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First Trailer for Ashton Kutcher's 'Jobs' Released
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I'm sorry but Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs? Really? Ashton's roles have been too frivolous in the past compared to this. Not sure we can have someone who's so goofy playing one of the most serious figures of history. The voice alone puts me off. I'll prob rent it in a few months but no way am I seeing this in theaters.
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Still not great through. Makes me wonder if the trailer was cut by the same editors, which is not uncommon for indies.
And if so it speaks to the film editing which is not promising. Because someone thought it a keen idea to out anything after the whole 'crazy ones' quote. That was THE money shot of the trailer. And they had to blow it by adding another clip, and a joke at that.
Nope. It looks unbelievably patronising.
The first line 'Steve, it takes guts to drop out like you did' is incredibly awkward and blunt.
Steve flipping out about a 'blatant rip-off' (Windows?), when of course Apple's OS was stolen from Xerox. (But then the winners get to re-write history.)
It's riddled with every cliche in the book. (Angry drive after being fired. He suddenly realises how important his kids are. It's even got a tacky Eat, Pray, Love 'finding yourself in India' bit going on.)
It looks like an awful TV movie. If people could detach their feelings about Steve from their feelings about this trailer I think they'd be laughing at how bad it is!
I expect a lot of stick for this post - but just because Steve did some amazing things doesn't mean this isn't a terrible trailer!
This feels like "Pirates of Silicon Valley - New Director's Cut with additional footage!"
And that's not a complaint, by the way. It should be interesting.
But I can say, between those two films, I can definitely see why Aaron Sorkin has decided not to do another typical biopic film. I'm glad he's trying something different.
And that's not a complaint, by the way. It should be interesting.
But I can say, between those two films, I can definitely see why Aaron Sorkin has decided not to do another typical biopic film. I'm glad he's trying something different.
I'm going to love this. 
Of course, it may be a little far off the truth, but it's great to bring some of SJ's quirks & wisdom to the big screen. It will be my next movie I pay money for in the theatre.
Of course, it may be a little far off the truth, but it's great to bring some of SJ's quirks & wisdom to the big screen. It will be my next movie I pay money for in the theatre.
Good try at re-writing history yourself.
The truth, as always, is less sensational.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html
I hope it's just the trailer but why oh why do they have to use such cliched and awful music? It's almost insulting. We the audience are stupid - tell us when to be sad - tell us when to be happy - tell us when there's tension Jeez!
Jeez!Windows was a rip-off and he has every right to get angry. Steve was shown what Xerox was doing in their labs, he didn't go there at night and steal it. It was a deal between two companies. Apple and Microsoft didn't have such deal when Windows did rip off Mac OS.
It's based on Steve's life, so you are saying he did every cliche in the book during his life?
It doesn't look bad, and it certainly doesn't look anything better than your average summer flick.
Yep. Apparently it is full of stuff like that.
You might want to check that history. Because even Xerox says they gave Apple permission, without really thinking about the consequences which is not Apple's fault.
I said the same 'bad tv movie' comment about the clip we saw a few months ago. The camera work and directing were hideous IMHO. Very typical cheap and shot fast TV movie tripe.
Course I don't have a lot of faith in the Sony movie either. I think they are also taking the wrong tact with their story.
What we really need is a limited run tv series. Something done over at least 13 hours if not a whole 22. Something really solidly researched and written to be as true and 'tweaked' as possible. Read the bios, the articles, talk to the players. It would probably take a good 2-3 years to put it together but that would be better than a rush job to grab the hot topic of the day for your own benefit which is really what these boys (director, writer etc) are doing. They knew all things Steve and Apple would get press so they played it to try to make a name for themselves and with it careers. So we get this and not a finely done History or Biography Channel type thing that could have been the launch of a new series about major players in tech. Or world changers or whatever theme they want to use
Nope...you're not alone.
Credit to them for the "Based On A True Story"...which gives them all the room necessary to depart from reality in this apparent hagiography.
In the service of truth and self disclosure...it is likely that f it does not overlap with a Red Sox game, I will watch it when it comes to cable.
Me too!
But then I discovered it was just the onset of a bad stomach virus.
I work in the industry. I have worked in some of the biggest titles out there.
And based in my experience in making award winning movies (even if I am just in the VFX department) this movie does NOT look good. It looks okay.
