'Steve Jobs' Earns $2.6 Million in Limited Release, Opens Wide Today

[MH01]

Your logic makes sense. Someone is making a movie about someone. That person is not biased, while the people who did know the person that the movie is about are... biased. Wow.

Okay. Is the concept of an individual seeing something themselves to pass judgement a difficult one?

The point I was making, stop bashing something, even if you can drop names, if you have not seen it. Read the original post I replied to.

 

[FightOnMac]

Check out our @MovieBitches review of the film!

 

[Tech198]

I just relisted there is a shot in that video the same hall as the Illusionist.

 

[bobob]

Here's my review from the What Movie Are You Watching? thread:

I finally watched the new Steve Jobs movie and I was decidely underwhelmed. It's stilted and overtly precious style sucks the life out of it's subject. It also didn't help that Michael Fassbender doesn't look a bit like Jobs, which mightn't be so bad if the script had given him more than a caricature to portray. This movie is just plain awful.

F

 

[scaramoosh]

Come on. How many people would go see "Steve Jobs Sleeps All Night" or "Steve Jobs Makes a Sandwich for Himself After Watering the Grass"

It's the extraordinary that DRAWS people to movies.

Having said that...I'll wait until it hits Netflix or something..

I want to see Steve Jobs, the man who can also be a complete **** when he isn't in front of a camera. I'm not saying he was a horrible person, I'm just saying that we all have many moments where we are ****s.

 

[FieldingMellish]

Peter Dinklage would have made an outstanding Steve Jobs.

 

[997440]

Welcome to the forums :-D

Thank you =)

Till recently, I didn't realize how active this board is. Wow.

 

[bobob]

I want to see Steve Jobs, the man who can also be a complete **** when he isn't in front of a camera. I'm not saying he was a horrible person, I'm just saying that we all have many moments where we are ****s.

Sure, anyone can have moments, but it is the man who can sustain the **** that attains greatness.

 

[997440]

If you are wanting to do a serious study, I recommend you begin with a very good book from Steven Levy: "Hackers - Heroes of the Digital Age". That will give you a great background on what it took to build Silicon Valley, starting at MIT in the 1950-1960s.
Next, read Levy's book "Insanely Great", which is the story of the Macintosh. "Apple Confidential" by Owen Linzmayer is a must read. I enjoyed Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs", though many people felt it maligned Steve and focused primarily on his strong-willed business acumen. The recent "Becoming Steve Jobs" was quite an excellent book, and filled in a lot of gaps in the public knowledge of his persona.

If you just want some good stories directly from the people who worked with him, stop at Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org and start reading!

Thank you, thank you for taking the time to compile and explain your list. I did a quick visit to folklore.org. This is gonna be fun.
Cheers

 

[darcyf]

That's how I feel about Steve. I just don't care to see a movie about him.

Well then you're in luck since by most accounts it's not actually about him.

 

[tgwaste]

Because everyone in the world doesn't love Steve Jobs like you? Or enough to pony up $14 for a movie ticket, plus another $20 for popcorn and a soda?

If anything, it's a Redbox rental to me, but I don't bother much with theaters anyways.

no, because movies like Paranormal Activity are really lame.

 

[momofrg]

Better than the previous one with Ashton Kutcher?

 

[Duane Martin]

Really?

I find that hard to believe.[/QUOTE

same here, the apple fanboys here thinks he is God...ya know he didn't really make any of the products, it's all the engineers behind him who created it. To each their own God I guess

Ignorance is bliss, and apparently leads to the need to post about it.

 

[Duane Martin]

Really?

I find that hard to believe.

Funniest post in ages! Now that's humour the way I like my martini.

 

[kironin]

Agree. Would have loved it to have gone the distance and covered the epic iPod and iPhone launches and perhaps the iPad launch.

Steve Jobs 2

 

[bobob]

Steve Jobs 2 lol.

That would have been funny, if the "lol" hadn't been appended.

 

[kylepro88]

Looks like it's not doing well given Friday's numbers. Probably going to land at 1/2 the predicted gross for this weekend. I loved the film. It might be a bit too artsy for the typical adult mainstream crowd. It definitely won't be what a lot of people are expecting. Unconventional approach to the storytelling.

 

[Ray mr]

Looks like it's not doing well given Friday's numbers. Probably going to land at 1/2 the predicted gross for this weekend. I loved the film. It might be a bit too artsy for the typical adult mainstream crowd. It definitely won't be what a lot of people are expecting. Unconventional approach to the storytelling.

They teased the film too far in advance. People got tired of waiting a month before wide release. By waiting it cost them millions. People want to see a film when the buzz first starts so they can talk about it at work. "Strike when the iron is hot" is a truism. Don't wait until the playoffs and world series are being talked about at the water-cooler.

 

[stars_fan]

What a flop

 

[FelixDerKater]

What a flop

Outside of the older Apple fans, no one really cares or cared about Steve...

People like their gadgets, but don't give a d*** about the history.

 

[bobob]

It might be a bit too artsy for the typical adult mainstream crowd.

The Steve Jobs movie was too artsy alright - - too artsy for it's own good.

 

[Qbnkelt]

Reading all these comments about the movie not portraying the truth of Steve Jobs, I am reminded of a little film called Braveheart.
Since I'm a fan of history, I'm a pain to go with to watch historical films. That while film was fantasy except for Stirling, Falkirk, and Wallace's death. When I pointed out to friends that long spears or pikes/sarissa had been used in antiquity, by the Greeks who employed sarissa formations, he yelled at me to SHUT THE F UP!!!!
Why am I saying this? To show off that I'm a historical snob? No. To illustrate that films are, even if using historical facts, works of fiction. Any film with any dialogue is inherently fiction. Because dialogue is nothing more than a dramatisation of what film makers see as being necessary to move the film along. Otherwise it's a documentary. And even then, it can be skewed one way or the other. Example, a documentary titled Hearts and Minds in the 80s.
If it's a film it's a fictionalised accounting of what the filmmaker believes to be worthy of being displayed.
I was planning to see this movie Friday but got stuck working late. So I'm hoping to go today. I don't expect to see *THE TRUTH OF STEVE JOBS.*. I know that I'll be watching a filmmaker's *interpretation* of certain events surrounding Steve Jobs.

 

[bobob]

I'm hoping to go today.

Let us know what you think.

 

[Qbnkelt]

Yup. After church so it will be in the afternoon if I get a chance.

 

[bobob]

Yup. After church so it will be in the afternoon if I get a chance.

It will be interesting to see how your theorizing above compares to your experience of the movie itself.