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First Trailer for Ashton Kutcher's 'Jobs' Released

VulchR said:
Whoever did the casting for the film should be par-boiled, covered in honey, and staked to an ant hill (proverbially speaking, of course). Compare this drivel to Pirates of Silicone Valley or The Social Network, and even those movies are only so-so. What a disappointment....
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A movie that was nominated for 8 oscars and won 3 is not so-so....

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compute said:
Jobs (Apple) way back: ....here's to the crazy ones, the misfits...the rebels.

Apple now: After exploiting poor people some more in foreign country's, Now can we take your money please for overpriced designer Itoys for hipsters and cocky rich kids...we give you outdated hardware and tell you its great and twice as fast as the previous version...

What i hate about these so called biographical movies is the straight up lies and painting the picture perfect, sure he was a great guy but people tend to forget that it was always about the money. These guys would have literally drove you over with a truck if you was to block their road to success.
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You're talking about the Apple of maybe 2005. Now everyone owns at least one apple product, not just rich kids or hipsters. This is A CORPORATION. THEIR ONLY PURPOSE IS TO MAKE MONEY, deal with it. With your logic, I guess you don't own any electronic at all.
 
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"Looks like a great movie!"
 
Why, Why, Why do they have to put rap music in every film irregardless if the action takes place in the middle ages, the 1920's, or in the 1970's....

Otherwise, I thought it looked pretty good for a trailer....
 
appleisking said:
This is A CORPORATION. THEIR ONLY PURPOSE IS TO MAKE MONEY, deal with it.
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That is a completely false assumption. PEOPLE run and are employed at companies. Some people have heart and compassion, some people step all over people to get ahead. Companies are as different as people.

Plenty of companies (Apple and Google are prime examples) get into business because the founders are excited about some technology. They want to help the world. They just end up making money in the process. They could go to the dark side and go all-in for money, or they could keep the ideals that they started the company with.

I think you have too much of a black-and-white version of the world. There are greys in everything.
 
eternlgladiator said:
This movie looks terrible. It feels like they're just trying to make some money off of apple's success instead of make a good movie. Based on true story is just Hollywood BS at this point.
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For these guys it's not even about money. It's about credits on a resume. They need some and since they can't seem to get any from other jobs they trumped up one of their own.

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thekev said:
Any actors you would have preferred?
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Anyone with talent, regardless of whether he looks 'just like' Steve. For all the roles.

There are tons of very talent actors out there, especially if you look at TV (American, English and Canadian). I'm sure had they really looked they would have found someone. Rather than going for the 'bank' of someone like Ashton.

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duskyyouth said:
I was worried about this film when I saw the one clip in the garage. This seems pretty good....the trailer at least.
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Folks said the same thing about the trailer to Phantom Menace.

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BrianMojo said:
Come on people this is hilariously bad. It's like a parody.
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I wish it was. ISteve was certainly meant to be that way and did it very very well

But alas this is a serious movie.
 
Didn't expect too much but actually liked the trailer


The crazy ones... speech gave me goosebumps, when he says "change the world, are the ones who probably do" sounds eerily like jobs
 
bbeagle said:
That is a completely false assumption. PEOPLE run and are employed at companies. Some people have heart and compassion, some people step all over people to get ahead. Companies are as different as people.

Plenty of companies (Apple and Google are prime examples) get into business because the founders are excited about some technology. They want to help the world. They just end up making money in the process. They could go to the dark side and go all-in for money, or they could keep the ideals that they started the company with.

I think you have too much of a black-and-white version of the world. There are greys in everything.
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Perhaps Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Page wanted to help the world with tech but don't go pretending that the corporation itself is interested in anything else but money. If you need proof look at all of their less than attractive business practices.
 
bluush said:
Wow in some scenes the resemblance between Kutcher and Jobs is really stunning, I had no idea they looked so similar.

Looks like a great movie based on this trailer, almost like the Apple version of The Social Network
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Right, it's obviously a dramatization*, but with any luck, it should be good.

*Or will it be? Based on reading the biography, I get the sense that Jobs was actually that dramatic.
 
charlituna said:
Folks said the same thing about the trailer to Phantom Menace.
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Which pushed everyone's expectations sky-high to a point where nothing George Lucas did would have made anyone happy. I went in to The Phantom Menace with no expectations or preconceived ideas about what it should be and enjoyed it immensely. I will do the same with this film.

Never understood people who make up their minds about a film based on the trailers.
 
compute said:
What i hate about these so called biographical movies is the straight up lies and painting the picture perfect, sure he was a great guy
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Yeah you must be new, really really new.

Cause 'great guy' is not a term anyone uses about Steve. Brilliant, yes. Possible genius, certainly. Eccentric, of course. Nonconformist, yep.

But the words most often used would be egomaniacal and a**hole.
 
Well same song being used as the song in MS Windows commercials.

Yes it is a popular song right now.
 
compute said:
Apple now: After exploiting poor people some more in foreign country's, Now can we take your money please for overpriced designer Itoys for hipsters and cocky rich kids...
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yes, because out of all the millions and millions and millions and millions of apple devices sold, theyre ALL to hipsters. never mind all the millions and millions and millions of non-techie people like my parents. nope, theyre hipsters. boy will dad be excited to learn that.

we give you outdated hardware and tell you its great and twice as fast as the previous version...
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what on earth are you talking about?

What i hate about these so called biographical movies is the straight up lies and painting the picture perfect, sure he was a great guy but people tend to forget that it was always about the money. These guys would have literally drove you over with a truck if you was to block their road to success.
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ah so you were there? oh, no, thats right. regardless, any of the numerous biographies such as Issacson's or Hertzfeld's www.folklore.org do indeed paint a rich picture -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. i dont think anyone whos bothered to read them would pretend as you that its all rosey.

get edjamacated.
 
Lestdog said:
He looks like Steve.. Got to hand it to the make up artists.
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Well if you squint really hard and put aside any memory of what Jobs actually looked like maybe . . . nah he looks nothing like Jobs.

I won't be watching this movie. I think it's a disgrace to Jobs legacy.
 
VulchR said:
Whoever did the casting for the film should be par-boiled, covered in honey, and staked to an ant hill (proverbially speaking, of course). Compare this drivel to Pirates of Silicone Valley or The Social Network, and even those movies are only so-so. What a disappointment....
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oh, so youve seen the full feature and can comment on it? or are you just making a quick judgement based on a 2-minute trailer like the rest of us?
 
appleisking said:
Perhaps Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Page wanted to help the world with tech but don't go pretending that the corporation itself is interested in anything else but money. If you need proof look at all of their less than attractive business practices.
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how do you separate the corporation from its people? the people at a corporation believe in their work and do it with pride and love, then whos not to say the corporation does their work with pride & love?
 
filmantopia said:
It's capturing the twinkle in his eye, the rage in his voice, his innate ability to charm anyone into anything. While maybe he could have nailed the voice with more practice, it's doubtful that Kutcher could ever mimic these qualities.
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I agree. Check out this performance at 1:48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i3InPa3Bzdg#t=108s

I highly doubt the filmmakers went so deep in discovering his REAL personality that the film could portray any of these little things that you mentioned. But as a matter of fact, I don't think it was intended at all. This movie was not planned to be an art film, but a usual hoolywood thing that anyone can enjoy.
 
mdelvecchio said:
so youve seen the full feature film? if not, how can you possibly assert that conclusion?
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The whole principle of it is. Getting 2nd rate actors to rush rush to make a movie right after Jobs death. I've read a lot about this movie and I don't like any of it. Sure I have not seen it, but what I have read (just stuff everyone knows already) turns me off watching this movie.

If I want to honour Jobs legacy I'll watch the service they had at Apple HQ. I recorded that video. Or watch Pirates of Silicon Valley. Yes Pirates was a B-grade movie. But at least everyone knew it and it didn't try to be something it was not.
 
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