'Steve Jobs' Debuts in Select Theaters as First Full Scene Debuts Online

[Benjamin Frost]

Sentiments??

Perhaps he was looking at the dregs of his wine glass when he typed.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

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?!

One man's arrogant is another man's confident.

Regardless of personality, we all know that the iPhone, iPad and Mac would not have existed without Jobs.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

11 Things That Aren't True in the Movie. The article makes an interesting read. Some of the points just shock me. Why misrepresent reality in a way that damages individual character.

11 Things That Aren't True in the Movie

My opinion of Aaron Sorkin is much lower now. How can you rewrite the facts to create drama and in the process damage peoples reputations. Many attending the movie will see this as true. Danny Boyle and Walter Isaacson are guilty by association. If Laurene and Steve's friends saw this script I can now understand why they are upset. Making stuff up and peddling it as a movie about Steve Jobs is just mean.

I will still wait to pass final judgement. Actually I may just give it a miss. There seems to be a bit of an assassination of character going on.
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It's like Ben Affleck and his Argo movie rescuing six Americans during the US hostage crisis in Iran. In the movie Ben decided to show the New Zealand Embassy refusing to help the Americans. That is just not true. It was artistic licence to make the story more dramatic. Thanks for nothing Ben. People see the movie and assume it's fact.

TV3 News Story New Zealand

The Guardian Story

The Telegraph Story

Seems Ben Affleck chose to misrepresent the facts and rewrite history solely because it fitted his story better. If you are making a movie based on historical events it should be true. My opinion of Ben Affleck went way down after this. I see he managed to upset the British, New Zealanders and Canadians.

This sort of rewriting is appalling and the movie studios should be held to account for their negligence.

Thanks for the links.

I find this kind of lying by film-makers despicable. Truly evil.

 

[DVDRAMMER]

A hefty guy with a beard is spot on as much as a thinner tall guy would be for Jobs.

Seems disingenuous on your part. Jobs had a very distinct appearance, yet not overly uncommon. Jaime Fox is also a "thinner tall guy", yet I doubt he was considered for the part. Why?

 

[Arndroid]

I did not like that clip either, but not because it was boring. I did not like it because it seems improbable. the last line "tell me something else I don't already know," cannot be true. Steve, whatever anyone believes about him, always believed in his products. That he would knowingly and willfully debut a product he fully expected to fail seems way off.

Lol

 

[Arndroid]

Well I can certainly guarantee Kutcher and Josh Gad look more like Jobs and Woz than these guys

Of course the only important factor in a biopic

 

[Arndroid]

Sure, but if you can't relate to any of the characters then what's the point?

You are certainly misusing the phrase "relate to the characters" when it comes to movies.

 

[Arndroid]

The only way to accurately portray Steve Jobs is to show him as an egotistical d-bag. The guy was as much of a monster as he was a marketing genius.

This movie, I might actually watch as opposed to the others that glorified him to prop up the apple $brand$.

I am a Steve jobs fan but yeah the guy had many issues. I doubt this movie is a hatchet job and I doubt it exposes all his warts but it is also not a halo to glorify the cult of jobs.

 

[Arndroid]

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Safe to say Kutcher was the perfect Jobs

For deaf people without subtitles yes?

 

[mikealmquist]

Good to see that Sorkin continues to plagiarize himself -- I recognized at least three snippets of dialogue from "The West Wing" and "Sports Night".

Don't talk to me like I'm other people.

 

[C DM]

Seems disingenuous on your part. Jobs had a very distinct appearance, yet not overly uncommon. Jaime Fox is also a "thinner tall guy", yet I doubt he was considered for the part. Why?

The point is that given the originally provided reasoning, Seth Rogen as Woz is not some sort of a doppelganger situation and is closer to Fassbander as Jobs.