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'Jobs' Makes $6.7 Million in Opening Weekend, Below Distributor Projections
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I saw it this afternoon and thought it was great. Sure they took quite a bit of creative license and left out some major parts but overall it was a joy to watch and relive some fond Steve memories.
Couldn't disagree more. A good Jobs movie will captivate. This was just an abortion of a movie with bad writing, poor direction, and actors more suited for flipping burgers than acting.
Yeah, and just skipping over NeXT and Pixar completely? That's what could have made an ARC out of this film. Instead, yeah, it just stops.
I mean, no ending could have made the rest of that film good. The script and direction were amateurish. Most of the cast was serviceable at best. But it would have helped.
Except that he doesn't.
Yup, I agree. I guess they tried to personify him as someone glorious and make money off it, but they failed badly. Thank goodness.
Way to stand up to biopics that glorify their subjects.
I was listening to KFI-640am on Saturday and The Tech Guy (Leo Laporte) basically said it was the second worst movie he has ever seen.
Am radio still exists?... I'm mean, for stuff other than crazy right wing ranting...
And they barley mentioned the iPod at all and no mention of the iPhone or iPad by far his greatest accomplishments. It just left you very unsatisfied with the ending.
Pirates has been done. The early days of Apple has been done. I want details on what the heck was going on in the last couple years. The botched launch of FCP X. That's a book unto itself. Antennagate. What the hell was going on there? MobileMe? I think the sicker that Jobs got, the more Apple was slipping off the rails. But it had a pipeline of stuff enough to hold it up until Cook took over. Poor guy has been trying to dig Apple out of a hole ever since. Now we've got Ive telling cook what is good. Cook is gambling on I've for software and I think he might shoot himself in the foot. Clean simple elegant hardware was the perfect minimalist background to show off Apples iOS. I thought how it treated the screen as a physical piece that could be opened up to show the inside (folders) or out of the way up to show what was running beneath (app switching) was genius. But now, the simple zooms and clean lines of ios7 is really just boring and simplistic. It's like Ive has gone back to art school 101 with the circles (poor use of space in a square world)
Not so sure of Apples near future.
Not so sure of Apples near future.
I really don't care much for Ashton but I thought it was an okay movie. I really didn't like how they portrayed Woz or the fact that the movie just stopped with no mention of Pixar. He gets Apple back and the end.
Your average consumer just cares about the iPod, iPhone and iPad. They don't care about the person behind it. Does the average person know the CEO of Pepsi, Honda, McDonald or Google? No, they just care about the product; not the person behind the product. And Apple never had any original ideas. The mp3 player, computer, smart phone and tablet were already on the market. He took other peoples inventions and made better.
Thanks for the excellent review of the Sorkin movie. I don't know how you managed to get to screen a movie that won't be released until next year, but I'm sure your summary is 100% accurate.
You'd think they'd have taken the time to draw a Venn diagram of people who like Steve Jobs and people who like Ashton Kutcher.
Best I can tell, that revenue is due to people clicking on the wrong movie in Fandango.
Best I can tell, that revenue is due to people clicking on the wrong movie in Fandango.
Captivate who? It's not like more people would see it. Sorry but most people just don't care.
"Made for TV biopic" is a good description. I'll like watch this on my iPod some months from now.
Actually, I'm more interested on Jobs' psychologic aspects than on the products and services he created. On this respect, only a non-authorized biography would give a dense, rich portrait that Jobs deserves with mistakes and successes, not just a cool guy that brought the personal computing to the masses.
I certainly didn't have high expectations from this movie but it's not as bad as everyone thinks. It's just not as good as PoSV.
A few things that should've been improved:
1. His voice. Not sure exactly what it is but the way he ends his lines seems off.
2. Get the facts straight. If your portraying a man that cares about "the little things" then the director should have made a bigger effort to get it right.
3. People like Hertz and Ive were treated like minor characters. It's sickening.
4. It's called JOBS, so it wouldn't hurt to show his relationship with Bill Gates a little more.
I applaud Ashton for mimicking his body language. But certain things like his RDF should have been more subtle then having everyone just say "Yes" to him the whole time.
A few things that should've been improved:
1. His voice. Not sure exactly what it is but the way he ends his lines seems off.
2. Get the facts straight. If your portraying a man that cares about "the little things" then the director should have made a bigger effort to get it right.
3. People like Hertz and Ive were treated like minor characters. It's sickening.
4. It's called JOBS, so it wouldn't hurt to show his relationship with Bill Gates a little more.
I applaud Ashton for mimicking his body language. But certain things like his RDF should have been more subtle then having everyone just say "Yes" to him the whole time.
A flimsy script...
....with about 3/4 hour worth of story stretched in a long 2 1/2 hours. I read the biography which I loved. But this was ridiculous. After showing that Jobs was a visionary, brilliant, creative, bombastic, insulting and often nuts, the script went on to repeat this in about 10 slow and boring scenes. What a disappointment. Suggestion for the scriptwriter....don't write another script!
....with about 3/4 hour worth of story stretched in a long 2 1/2 hours. I read the biography which I loved. But this was ridiculous. After showing that Jobs was a visionary, brilliant, creative, bombastic, insulting and often nuts, the script went on to repeat this in about 10 slow and boring scenes. What a disappointment. Suggestion for the scriptwriter....don't write another script!
I think the main problem, especially here on a Apple related forum is that its too soon. It wasn't that long ago when we videos of Steve himself at keynotes, news agencies playing old clips of him constantly after his passing. There is no shortage of real life clips of Steve Jobs and in a community such as I.T we are able to see all these videos easily on youtube.
Suddenly seeing Kutcher portray Steve when we only saw the original Steve in video form on another browser tab makes it very hard for one to really get into the movie.
Suddenly seeing Kutcher portray Steve when we only saw the original Steve in video form on another browser tab makes it very hard for one to really get into the movie.
I get Kutcher was trying to really sell his concept of Jobs, but it didn't work. The walking was so forced it just felt awkward to watch. I'll admit there were a couple of moments I was like "wow, that's a pretty good Steve", there were so many other moments where Kelso came out that it just took me right out.
Also have a problem with the "here's to the crazy ones" scene. Anybody can look up the Steve Jobs version on YouTube and hear that it wasn't spoken with a shaky voice like Kutcher did. Dramatization or not, I think that was a pretty silly move.
Also have a problem with the "here's to the crazy ones" scene. Anybody can look up the Steve Jobs version on YouTube and hear that it wasn't spoken with a shaky voice like Kutcher did. Dramatization or not, I think that was a pretty silly move.