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'Jobs' Makes $6.7 Million in Opening Weekend, Below Distributor Projections

I saw the movie, and felt that it came off flat. There was nothing to get emotionally involved in anyone to really hook people. The theatre had, by a rough estimate, only 15 to 20 people which is odd for a Friday night. Granted the movie is a niche product but it seemed better formatted and structured as a documentary than a movie.

The Woz character was too comical, and played off as being someone that just clung to Steve. Starting the movie too with the iPod introduction was really odd. There was no leadup, and no follow through as to exactly why the iPod was so monumental. The creators missed a fantastic chance to tie that into the body of the movie by reenacting some of the development that went into the iPod. Like the meeting where Steve trashed it, and then came back and praised it (as his idea). Which brings out that they totally missed the 'Reality Distortion Field' effect too.

They could have gone more into his corporate uniform (black turtleneck/jeans/Converse) than they did. They also missed the chance to portray Woz as more than a cling-on to Steve's early life. They portrayed Woz as more of a buffoon, or misfit than they should have.

Perhaps going into more detail on what was done to Apple before he was brought back would have been nice too. I mean, supposedly there are whole classes on how Steve turned Apple around, and the movie mentions the Newton? And in passing...

I guess they tried to show a very complicated man, and missed the mark. It was an interesting movie, but like I said 'flat'. Maybe it's because I knew so much that they were trying to portray...

Another thing, Ashton wouldn't have been my first choice to play Steve. He overplayed the walk. He just couldn't make me believe that he was Steve Jobs. Coupled with the way that Woz was portrayed, and some of the other Mac Team, it just jarred me...

They also could have gone into the whole 'Private Club' of the Mac team. The 'capture' of De Anza Three, with the hoisting of the pirate flag on the roof, they went to the lengths of showing it on the wall in several scenes... They could have touched on the incredible secrecy too...

The choices they made could have been better... Not a bad movie, I didn't walk out, and I don't think anyone else did either, but it was a daunting task, portraying an extremely complex man on the 'silver screen' in the time allotted for a movie... I mean The Ten Commandments movie was almost 4 hours ong. Maybe to do Steve justice, it would have to be at least that long...
 
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PinkyMacGodess said:
I saw the movie, and felt that it came off flat. There was nothing to get emotionally involved in anyone to really hook people. The theatre hod, by a rough estimate, only 15 to 20 people which is odd for a Friday night. Granted the movie is a niche product but it seemed better formatted and structured as a documentary than a movie.

The Woz character was too comical, and played off as being someone that just clung to Steve. Starting the movie too with the iPod introduction was really odd. There was no leadup, and no follow through as to exactly why the iPod was so monumental. The creators missed a fantastic chance to tie that into into the body of the movie by reenacting some of the development that went into the iPod. Like the meeting where Steve trashed it, and then came back and praised it (as his idea). Which brings out that they totally missed the 'Reality Distortion Field' effect too.

They could have gone more into his corporate uniform (black turtleneck/jeans/Converse than they did. They also missed the chance to portray Woz as more than a cling-on to Steve's early life. They portrayed Woz as more of a buffoon, or misfit than they should have.

Perhaps going into more detail on what was done to Apple before he was brought back would have been nice too. I mean, supposedly there are whole classes on how Steve turned Apple around, and the movie mentions the Newton? And in passing...

I guess they tried to show a very complicated man, and missed the mark. It was an interesting movie, but like I said 'flat'. Maybe it's because I knew so much that they were trying to portray...

Another thing, Ashton wouldn't have been my first choice to play Steve. He overplayed the walk. He just couldn't make me believe that he was Steve Jobs. Coupled with the way that Woz was portrayed, and some of the other Mac Team, it just jarred me...

They could have gone into the whole 'Private Club' of the Mac team. The 'capture' of De Anza Three, with the hoisting of the pirate flag on the roof... They could have touched on the incredible secrecy too...

The choices they made could have been better... Not a bad movie, I didn't walk out, and I don't think anyone else did either, but it was a daunting task, portraying an extremely complex man on the 'silver screen' in the time allotted for a movie... I mean The Ten Commandments movie was almost 4 hours ong. Maybe to do Steve justice, it would have to be at least that long...
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I concur. Well said. :)
 
Jessica Lares said:
When you have Wozniak pretty much panning this film on live TV and dozens of articles this week, how the hell did they expect it to make any money?
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Wozniak judges it from a different point of view. He asks whether it is true and accurate. Most viewers ask if it is entertaining. Maybe add a few aliens, Wozniak would like it even less, but there might be more viewers.
 
shootingrubber said:
Is this really that surprising?
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First time producer and writer and a director with maybe two credits. Shoestring budget.

Nope. Not shocked. Especially with the various comments pointing out how fictionalized it is and the scenes showing horrid camera work etc.

It's pretty clear around town that this was mainly about getting press than making a great movie about Jobs. If they had really wanted to make a great movie they wouldn't have rushed it and would have really researched etc and done a movie about Steve. Not the Steve parts of Apple. Perhaps even realized it would be better as a limited TV series, done a documentary etc
 
DrMotownMac said:
And does anyone think that movie is going to be able to capture Jobs' personality and everything he did in 3 scenes in real time?!?!

It would be one thing if he were taking the non-linear approach of using the product launches to have flashbacks to the 1970s, etc., thus actually showing Jobs' life.
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You presume that the producers want to do either thing. Perhaps they don't which is why they didn't ask Sorkin to write that script
 
Saw the movie and it sucked. Ashton is probably one of the worst actors in the industry so it's no surprise this movie didn't skyrocket this weekend.

In saying that I did like them showing certain principals Steve lived by and his interactions with people. He was a jerk plain and simple. His book uses a different term, but jerks seems acceptable for the forum. I wish they would have covered more than a 2 min screen on the iPod and shown more famous key-note speeches that most of us grew up on.

Storyline left out a lot of major details as well, one that Woz stated this weekend where he gave some of his stock to employees Jobs screwed over.

Overall worth renting, not buying or movie theatre.
 
charliex5 said:
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.
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A search of YouTube will do the same thing and way cheaper

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ChrisA said:
"Made for TV biopic" is a good description. I'll like watch this on my iPod some months from now.
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99 cent rental of the week on iTunes
 
1. The movie came out too soon. It hasn't been long since Jobs past away.

2. The lead actor portraying Jobs is too famous and not particularly good as a drama actor.

3. This movie was pushed too soon with little or no thought to character development or actor selection.
 
This movie was incredibly boring, I read the book, maybe thats why... but 'Pirates of the Silicon Valley' was much better. I'd like to see a second half to that story, 'Pirates of the Silicon Valley 2'.
 
Saw it. Actually felt Kutcher did a good job portraying Steve, he has more talent for dramatic roles than I was personally expecting (still firmly anchored on his Dude, Where's my Car character). But while Walt's book did paint a rather slanted picture of Jobs the minor deity, it at least also showed Jobs the asshat as well, particularly in his relationships with his daughter. The movie script took a decidedly stilted view of Jobs the "mastermind" for lack of better word. Made him out to be a tortured soul (mostly of his own making) and almost portrayed him as a victim of some kind...of what, I left totally unsure.

Kutcher was pretty good IMO. But bad script and directing and, as a result, totally forgettable movie for anyone OTHER than a fan of Pirates of Silicon Valley.
 
There are about 100 Steve Jobs documentaries out there, all of which don't have Aston in them, which makes them much more entertaining to watch. I like real documentaries, not a Hollywood-three-act crammed into someone's life.
 
JackieInCo said:
The average person would not be interested in this. Only people who knew who Steve Jobs was and even then, were die hard fans, would go see this movie.

There are many people who own Apple products who don't even know who he was.
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Exactly!

Also, the social network was advertised as the movie about "Facebook", not the story of Mark Zuckerberg. I think the results would have been different if the "JOBS" movies would have been advertised as the movie about Apple (keeping the same exact idea behind it).

Lots of people know facebook, less people know Mark Zukerberg and the same applies for Apple and Steve Jobs.
 
In all honestly, I felt like Kutcher didn't do TOO bad of a job. But the script, directing, etc, was horrible. If that part was better, I think the movie could have done a lot better.
 
I fail to see what's so surprising about this movie failing to live up to the insane hype.

Jobs didn't save children from a certain death, Jobs didn't build a base on Neptune, Jobs didn't cure cancer. There's nothing really uplifting about the man else than marketing great computers and electronic devices.

He was certainly great at his job, he changed computer history, but all things considered, it's not like we ought to build shrines to the guy or name our kids Steve for the next 1000 years.

Everybody is trying to cash in on his death and that's the truly surprising (and disgusting) thing.
 
This one just looked cheesy and that actor stinks!

I enjoyed watching Pirates of Silicon Valley.
The KGB, the Computer and Me.

Two movies I recommend and are interesting.
 
crsh1976 said:
I fail to see what's so surprising about this movie failing to live up to the insane hype.

Jobs didn't save children from a certain death, Jobs didn't build a base on Neptune, Jobs didn't cure cancer. There's nothing really uplifting about the man else than marketing great computers and electronic devices.

He was certainly great at his job, he changed computer history, but all things considered, it's not like we ought to build shrines to the guy or name our kids Steve for the next 1000 years.

Everybody is trying to cash in on his death and that's the truly surprising (and disgusting) thing.
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Ooh, what you said! And right here, on MacRumors!

I couldn't agree more...:D
 
If you think Jobs was bad, wait until they have the Aaron Sorkin version with the 3 product lunch scenes in real-time. I bet the the Jobs actor will not even look or sound like Steve Jobs. Woz is a consultant on that film and he left Apple before 2 of the scenes in the movie so it won't be accurate.

Can't Aaron Sorkin just resubmit this last Jobs movie but with increased accuracy, actor that people enjoy, and fix any petty issues?
 
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