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'JOBS' Biography Starring Ashton Kutcher Hits Theaters to Mixed Reviews

My interest level in seeing this is 0. Pirates of Silicon Valley told the story just fine. We do not need a rehash for cash. Also the Woz casting, WTF were they thinking?
 
Is anyone really surprised by this? It's Ashton Kutcher playing... well, Ashton Kutcher. Nothing about his acting is even remotely reminiscent of Jobs.
 
Kottke, who collaborated on the film, says that Kutcher was "very good," but that Wozniak was depicted inaccurately. "It portrays Woz as not having the same vision as Steve Jobs, which is really unfair," he says.
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What. I think I'll stick with Pirates of the Silicon Valley here. Woz was at least as brilliant as Steve Jobs back in these days. There are times inaccuracies should be punished, and I think this is one such time. Yes, of course I'm curious, but I refuse.
 
Anyone know when the UK release is due?

I can't find a cinema around here that has listings for it, present or future.
 
Seems like a movie that I will watch if it happens to be on, while I have nothing else to do.

ot something I would plan a night around.
 
I have a feeling that having observed the tech world for several years, especially Apple, would change your interpretation of the movie. Can anyone whose watched the movie weigh in on it without talking too much about the story?
 
Northgrove said:
What. I think I'll stick with Pirates of the Silicon Valley here. Woz was at least as brilliant as Steve Jobs back in these days. There are times inaccuracies should be punished, and I think this is one such time. Yes, of course I'm curious, but I refuse.
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"Pirates" was pretty close to fictional too. If you're talking about the history of Apple until around 1980, Woz figures in prominently. After that, essentially not at all.
 
I do wish that they could have at least got

1. woz's hair right.
2. less over acting
3. less over acting
4. woz's hair right

The sad thing is that I have no doubt in my mind that this is how Steve Jobs saw himself.
 
I find it funny that so many on here have this expectation that a bio-film of any character (or situation) is usually accurate.

Riiiiight.

If you want to see this film, go see it, but like so many other bio-films (e.g. Social Network, Pirates of Silicon Valley, etc. etc.) in the end are always more "movie" than "bio."

w00master
 
Perhaps they should have opted for Stevenado?

A tornado sucks up famous Steves (Hawking, Jobs, Ballmer ) dumping them over the city of LA.

The quantifying scene of the movie is when a profusely sweating Ballmer is chainsawed in half as the tornado ejects him in a torrent of sweat and "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS".

Instant cult classic.
 
ChazUK said:
Perhaps they should have opted for Stevenado?

A tornado sucks up famous Steves (Hawking, Jobs, Ballmer ) dumping them over the city of LA.

The quantifying scene of the movie is when a profusely sweating Ballmer is chainsawed in half as the tornado ejects him in a torrent of sweat and "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS".

Instant cult classic.
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Now that's a movie I would watch.

Just add some zombies please. Maybe some Linux fanboy zombies.
 
I'll pass on this. I think it's amazing how many people who have owned iPhones/iPads in the past have no idea who Steve even is. Still, I would never watch a movie about him or even read a book about him.
 
x13gamer said:
Steve Jobs is/was Apple
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Not until 1999.

He was a lot more than just "Apple" before then.

Ironic that this movie doesn't even include his most Apple-centric decade.

Where is the NeXT and Pixar stuff that dominated his attention during much of the 1980s and 1990s?
 
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