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Anyone else feel like the movie "Jobs" with Ashton Kutcher seems more realistic?

I know this is only 2 min, but still.

Yup. Though the Kutcher movie could have been much better, I thought he played the role well and looked the part quite convincingly. This dude doesn't seem like Steve Jobs at all.
 
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"tell me something else I don't know."

maybe they meant

"tell me something I don't know." or "tell me something else I know."

I think korean news Steve Jobs would be a more accurate depiction.
 
I'm going to see it eventually because I try to watch every film I can get my hands on. I'm sure it's a good film, good acting, writing, excellent quality.

As a film about a person that lived and made a profound impact on our world along with thousands of other Apple Employees deserves much more than a 90 minute 3-parter from Hollywood.

I've watched / read every major work about Steve's life but having followed Apple and loved Apple and the people that made it happen for the last 20 years, everyone has done the story a major disservice.

That's just how this goes though. No biographer can capture everything.


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I attended every Steve Jobs announcement / major appearance since 2003 until his passing in 2011 sometimes on my own dime and sometimes w/ a media badge. I feel so incredibly lucky to be there at MWSF 2007 for the iPhone announcement. Everyone was there. Old friends, family and his extended family of colleagues for which Steve spent his life with. After the announcement, I usually walk up and just snap photos of various Apple employees and hang out for a bit before departing Moscone West Hall and there's Steve with his wife and John Lasseter and a few others. He hugs his wife for close to a minute and asks, "How did I do?" Another older woman was there and he's asking her, "Are they going to buy this thing? Do you think they get it? I really hope I captured it"

A few people were crying, lots of hugs, it was this moment I never thought I'd see. Steve, one of my heroes growing up asking for validation from his closest family..their acceptance that this cellular phone that he and his friends spent 10 years developing was good enough for them.

No one has captured that realness. I'll keep waiting for that to show up in a book.
 
How much more could possibly be explored/ revealed about the man? Hasn't this all kind of run its course already?
 
If this clip is indicative of the mood and feel of the entire movie, then I will go out of my way to insure that I don't see it.

That scene was horrible. If I were watching it in a darkened theater I think I would have dozed off before it was over.
 
Wow that was terrible. It illustrates how boring the material is. Rogen gives it a good try, but the only role he can act with skill is himself. Fassbender is really not the right guy for this part IMO, he just doesn't capture Jobs. Although from this scene I can tell the movie is out to skewer Jobs, so just for that reason I'll definitely check it out when it hits Netflix.
 
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 2: The Early Years (Prequel)
Steve Jobs 3: One Last Thing

REBOOT

Steve Jobs (Played by Jaden Smith)
 
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This is obviously made up.

Woz would never say anything like that. If the roles are reversed, Woz is trying to launch the first fully OOP operating system, Steve Jobs would probably show up and tell him there is no market for it, and it will completely fail.

Hollywood needs to stop making stuff up in movies.
 
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God, not the Xerox bullcrap again...

No kidding. As I understand it, Apple ponied up $1 million in pre-IPO Apple stock.

Does anyone have any idea what that stock is worth today?

I wish somebody would "steal" from me on such terms.
 
Wow that was terrible. It illustrates how boring the material is. Rogen gives it a good try, but the only role he can act with skill is himself. Fassbender is really not the right guy for this part IMO, he just doesn't capture Jobs. Although from this scene I can tell the movie is out to skewer Jobs, so just for that reason I'll definitely check it out when it hits Netflix.
So a 2 minute scene tells the story of the movie? I guess the same movie can be about a lot of different things based on different 2 minute scenes that someone watches.
 
If this clip is indicative of the mood and feel of the entire movie, then I will go out of my way to insure that I don't see it.

That scene was horrible. If I were watching it in a darkened theater I think I would have dozed off before it was over.
I guess same would apply to The Social Network it would seem, which many people enjoyed just fine.
 
Cue the Jobs fanboys that complain about how it makes him look so nasty instead of being the perfect genius whose farts smell like roses and is a virtual God.
There is nothing wrong with him being nasty, most Applle fans know his is not a nice person.
The problem is how surreal this scene is. Maybe it's one of the many made up scenes, but passing it off as a "biography" is wrong.
 
So a 2 minute scene tells the story of the movie? I guess the same movie can be about a lot of different things based on different 2 minute scenes that someone watches.

It can provide insights into the movie by seeing some of the acting, casting, dialogue, etc. But I think its abundantly obvious you can't tell the entire movie from a 2 minute scene.
 
It can provide insights into the movie by seeing some of the acting, casting, dialogue, etc. But I think its abundantly obvious you can't tell the entire movie from a 2 minute scene.
If it's a randomly picked 2 mins, then I would agree that you can't judge the entire movie based on a 2 min clip.
But this is a 2 min clip picked to sell the movie, so yes I think it's a good representation of the movie.
 
I'm going to see it eventually because I try to watch every film I can get my hands on. I'm sure it's a good film, good acting, writing, excellent quality.

As a film about a person that lived and made a profound impact on our world along with thousands of other Apple Employees deserves much more than a 90 minute 3-parter from Hollywood.

I've watched / read every major work about Steve's life but having followed Apple and loved Apple and the people that made it happen for the last 20 years, everyone has done the story a major disservice.

That's just how this goes though. No biographer can capture everything.


Edit:
I attended every Steve Jobs announcement / major appearance since 2003 until his passing in 2011 sometimes on my own dime and sometimes w/ a media badge. I feel so incredibly lucky to be there at MWSF 2007 for the iPhone announcement. Everyone was there. Old friends, family and his extended family of colleagues for which Steve spent his life with. After the announcement, I usually walk up and just snap photos of various Apple employees and hang out for a bit before departing Moscone West Hall and there's Steve with his wife and John Lasseter and a few others. He hugs his wife for close to a minute and asks, "How did I do?" Another older woman was there and he's asking her, "Are they going to buy this thing? Do you think they get it? I really hope I captured it"

A few people were crying, lots of hugs, it was this moment I never thought I'd see. Steve, one of my heroes growing up asking for validation from his closest family..their acceptance that this cellular phone that he and his friends spent 10 years developing was good enough for them.

No one has captured that realness. I'll keep waiting for that to show up in a book.


Wow pretty amazing story... Never read about that side - thanks a lot for sharing ...
 
Of the two Steves, it angers and annoys me that Steve Wozniak is such a humble and generous, giving and warm person, and yet Jobs got most of the credit. He may have been good at controlling people, but the man was vindictive and arrogant. Wozniak comes across as sincere, earnest and giving, and yet people appear to "worship" Steve Jobs?

I'd rather have worked with Woz than Jobs; he's kind and affable, and not a selfish arse. He STILL gives his time and equipment away to encourage and inspire young people; how much more admirable attributes in a person, can one want to see?!
 
Of the two Steves, it angers and annoys me that Steve Wozniak is such a humble and generous, giving and warm person, and yet Jobs got most of the credit. He may have been good at controlling people, but the man was vindictive and arrogant. Wozniak comes across as sincere, earnest and giving, and yet people appear to "worship" Steve Jobs?

I'd rather have worked with Woz than Jobs; he's kind and affable, and not a selfish arse. He STILL gives his time and equipment away to encourage and inspire young people; how much more admirable attributes in a person, can one want to see?!
Woz would have never in a billion years created the Mac.

To Woz if you can't use a computer, that because you are not 1337 enough. He is very much like the Linux crowd.
 
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Woz would have never in a billion years created the Mac.

To Woz if you can't use a computer, that because you are not 1337 enough. He is very much like the Linux crowd.

The kind of answer I was expecting, and no doubt will see a deluge of, before this thread runs out of steam.

Next...
 
Run its course where?
Everywhere. Print - books, magazines. Online - articles, websites. On the big screen - movies. Would you like me to continue? How much more do we need on Steve at this point? What else is there left to explore about the man before it starts becoming complete rehash or total fiction?
 
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