Me lady has some way of getting free tickets to movies, and she surprised me with a ticket. I didn't have the heart to tell her I wasn't interested, so I just went out for a couple hours and said, the movie was pretty good.
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'Steve Jobs' Disappoints in First Full Weekend With 7th-Place Box Office Showing
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Does anyone actually rent from the iTunes Store unless they're snowed in? Hah. Way too expensive when there's always a Redbox around somewhere with cheap Blu-Rays.
It was certainly not intended as a time-saver in Steve Jobs - - it was a deliberate artistic style choice. Whether that choice was successful or not is up to each viewer to decide.
Sure they are connected, unless of course you think you are much much smarter than the average person. I see your way of thinking, most really dumb people will spend their money on any piece of crap movie, it is only us smart people that know how to appreciate the real art.
Yes, my theater classes tried to convince me and my wife that we should consider ourselves smarter than others to appreciate the real value in uninspired uninteresting performance art, but we never bought it. We do see some plays that are really good, love to go to the theater or movies, but we have found a solid correlation between empty seats and lack of enjoyment, in spite of what the marketing people try to sell.
Why are there so many Steve Jobs movies and books? Have people had enough money out of the guys death yet?
it was disappointing because
maybe because we get same movie for last few years?
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the movie is far far away from reality of Steve jobs
i am personally will go for both
maybe because we get same movie for last few years?
or
the movie is far far away from reality of Steve jobs
i am personally will go for both
but there's a difference in a portraying events in past history with limited sources and doing the same for a man who died just 4 years ago, and has family members and co workers that could give a more accurate portrayal of facts. Thats the part I dont understand. -_-Uh, wasn't me who repeated the meme you disliked
Unfortunately, I'd bet good money that most (but not all) of the movies we've ever seen for decades about historical figures (and events) have been ridiculously inaccurate in one way or another.
Mashing together timelines and making composite characters are common shortcuts, but I guess understandable. Otherwise they'd have to make a mini-series to pack it all in.
Not that I like it. For instance, I cringed in disbelief when that Pearl Harbor movie with Affleck portrayed American leaders listening in real time to the Doolittle Raiders flying over Japan, half a world away. The actual reality back then of NOT being able to know immediately how the attack was going, is actually more dramatic and tense to me.
Saw it last night in Bakersfield, CA at 8:45 pm in an empty theater. I had my own private viewing. Not surprised as this town is pretty rural. I liked the movie and thought Fassbender and particulary Rogen did an excellent job. However, I actually thought the Ashton Kutcher movie was more entertaining. Thought this movie was kinda weird where it was literally just showing Jobs’ intro’s of the Mac, Next, and iMac whereas in the Ashton Kutcher movie it showed how he founded Apple.
Lol, I am so happy this failed. They only managed to make a measly 1 million more opening weekend than the Ashton kutcher version.
Good riddance Steve jobs movies. No one gives a crap.
Good riddance Steve jobs movies. No one gives a crap.
I would have preferred it if they had shown those intro's, instead of the 10 minutes just before those intro's began - - 10 minutes where people from his past just happened to show up to yell at him, guilt him, or belittle him. It almost seems like Aaron Sorkin borrowed a lot from Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the structure of this movie.
Fact is: nobody really cares about Steve Jobs, apart from family, and nobody ever has.
As the first full weekend in theaters for Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs film comes to a close, early box office results have been disappointing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Estimates put the film's take at $7.3 million from nearly 2,500 theaters, well below expectations and only good enough for seventh place on the weekend.
The film has generally received a positive reception from critics, particularly for Michael Fassbender's portrayal of Jobs. Those more familiar with Jobs' history and those closest to him have, however, been less satisfied with the film, in many cases taking issue with the way Jobs is portrayed and some of the artistic license that deviates significantly from actual events.
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak in 'Steve Jobs'
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Not surprising - it's about a guy only hard-core Apple fans have any interest in, and he's been dead five years already. Average movie goer: meh.
For sure, I just think it really missed the soul of the person. Like
I sort of wish I hadn't seen it. It is just off. It wasn't even remotely like Steve.
That isn't what I said, neither implied in any way. The products introduced in the film were important, but most of the population doesn't care about a computer from three decades ago. To most of the population, a NeXT computer they likely have never seen from a company that no longer exists, doesn't matter to them either. Do you see people in the public with original Mac, NeXT and first iMac. Or do you see them with iPods, iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs and Pros? That is the point: The product launches in the film are not relevant to overwhelmingly majority of the public. Plus, practically everyone knows what Steve actually looked like, especially in his latter years. Fassenbender does not resemble. Comprende?
I haven't seen the film, it might be great. But for the reasons I listed, it was practically set up to fail.
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Of course the Woz liked it, he was paid $200K as a consultant.