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'Steve Jobs' Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD in February

AFEPPL said:
Its just more the subject matter than the movie!!
This is old news, move on. we don't need any more jobs movies...
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I was being sarcastic, because the OP was making some proclamation about a movie that they likely never even watched. Like somehow they're invested in whether a movie gets made about Steve Jobs, or that someone is forcing them to watch it. And honestly you sound even worse.

It's a movie about Steve Jobs. I could care less if they make 100 of them. Nobody is forcing me (or you) to watch it. You can walk by any theater in which it's playing and keep walking. You don't have to pick up the DVD in the store, or press rent, buy or play on your streaming device.

This obsessive insistence that "there shouldn't be any more Steve Jobs movies made" is pretty strange and unhealthy, IMO. Are there any other historical or public figures that you think we should proclaim are off limits for future movies? Is there a list somewhere to which we can refer?
 
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sov33 said:
the film was mean spirited and i think that's why it failed. The version of steve jobs in this film is a complete jerk who doesn't have any redeeming qualities. i don't honestly know why it got good reviews. structurally, it was boring and all i could think of was that aaron sorkin clearly hated the guy and worse, had no respect for him.
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I haven't watched the movie yet, but from what I've read it seems like the movie portrayed him as a very flawed individual (Who could argue that not to be true) and that his character actually came to peace with some of his demons. The one criticism that I have heard is how much of the story is "fictionalized" for drama's sake. For instance the old myth about the GUI being "stolen" from PARC.

I believe that, in order to give the complexity of Jobs' professional and personal evolution any justice a movie about him would likely need to be twice as long, if not a mini-series. It's an interesting story, to be sure. But not one that can be told accurately in less than two hours.
 
rdlink said:
I was being sarcastic, because the OP was making some proclamation about a movie that they likely never even watched. Like somehow they're invested in whether a movie gets made about Steve Jobs, or that someone is forcing them to watch it. And honestly you sound even worse.

It's a movie about Steve Jobs. I could care less if they make 100 of them. Nobody is forcing me (or you) to watch it. You can walk by any theater in which it's playing and keep walking. You don't have to pick up the DVD in the store, or press rent, buy or play on your streaming device.

This obsessive insistence that "there shouldn't be any more Steve Jobs movies made" is pretty strange and unhealthy, IMO. Are there any other historical or public figures that you think we should proclaim are off limits for future movies? Is there a list somewhere to which we can refer?
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Just terrorists and Donald Trump (no link) Oh and of the reality TV stars..
Maybe a list needs to be created? Thats the issue..!
 
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CreatorCode said:
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace." - Steve Jobs, 2008

"Well, this is awkward." - Blu-Ray Disc, 2015
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Blu-ray lives and Jobs doesn't. Who knew?
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Just watched it online. As I suspected, Sorkin writes a movie based on Jobs the myth, rather than the person. Almost no dialog out of his mouth is anything a normal person would ever say. Everything, and I mean everything sounds like deep thought went into the response, even for simple questions where a "yes" or "no" would suffice. No one talks like that except, well, in movies. The main theme involves his daughter, rather than computers. You feel like you are watching highlights of a multi-part made for tv movie. Not much time is spent on anything, and when time is spent, it's often some vocal dueling. I cringed when some lines had to inject common myths/truths of Apple lore. They seemed so forced and fake.

I now know why no actor would take the lead and why no studio wanted to be involved. Not the worst movie I ever saw, but far from what a Jobs feature should have been. "Pirates" is still my fave. Hell, Ashton's movie I liked more!
 
rdlink said:
I'm pissed off that people are still making Abraham Lincoln movies. It's annoying, he's dead, everyone's over the fact that he's dead, making movies about him won't make him less dead, jeez.

I'm pissed off that people are still making Martin Luther King movies. It's annoying, he's dead, everyone's over the fact that he's dead, making movies about him won't make him less dead, jeez.

I'm pissed off that people are still making John F. Kennedy movies. It's annoying, he's dead, everyone's over the fact that he's dead, making movies about him won't make him less dead, jeez.

I'm pissed off that people are still making Wyatt Earp movies. It's annoying, he's dead, everyone's over the fact that he's dead, making movies about him won't make him less dead, jeez.
I'm pissed off that people are still making George Patton movies. It's annoying, he's dead, everyone's over the fact that he's dead, making movies about him won't make him less dead, jeez.
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No reason to get pissed off unless it's your money that is being invested in producing these films. Producers make the investment on a film they think people want to see. I think there is pent up demand for a good Steve Jobs film, but it appears that neither film has met those expectations. Either way, your anger should be directed at what content news organizations chose to produce rather than what commercial films that movie studios decided to sink their money into...
Prioritizing your social and commercial outrage will help you deal with life in a better manner.
 
Fastnl2929 said:
No reason to get pissed off unless it's your money that is being invested in producing these films. Producers make the investment on a film they think people want to see. I think there is pent up demand for a good Steve Jobs film, but it appears that neither film has met those expectations. Either way, your anger should be directed at what content news organizations chose to produce rather than what commercial films that movie studios decided to sink their money into...
Prioritizing your social and commercial outrage will help you deal with life in a better manner.
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Seems like you missed the point in all of that (and brought up a thread from over half a year ago to do that too).
 
Fastnl2929 said:
No reason to get pissed off unless it's your money that is being invested in producing these films. Producers make the investment on a film they think people want to see. I think there is pent up demand for a good Steve Jobs film, but it appears that neither film has met those expectations. Either way, your anger should be directed at what content news organizations chose to produce rather than what commercial films that movie studios decided to sink their money into...
Prioritizing your social and commercial outrage will help you deal with life in a better manner.
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Wow. Did you just bring up an 8 month old thread to comment, and then miss the fact that my post was sarcasm?
 
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