Universal Releases First Trailer for 'Steve Jobs' Movie

[Alumeenium]

this looks like an awful film

the voice is all wrong

MFB looks nothing / NOTHING / like SJ

it will be filled with quirky Sorkinese dialog and everyone talking over each other

 

[Techpainter]

Where was the make up person?

Where was the make up person, couldn't they even get the hair color correct????? Yes, when a person's image this iconic (and this recent) is embedded in our mind, they MUST get the visuals correct. Sorry.

 

[jscooper22]

thanks

is this a famous line? i dont recall having heard about it or read about it before.

I never heard it, but I (and I know more than a few others) have thought it. Jobs was a brilliant salesman and pitch guy ... and he had a gift for knowing what people would sell their first-born to own. But Wozniak built the Apple ][, Xerox invented the GUI; Jobs just knew how to package them and make people want them more than air.

 

[lewdvig]

It looks so terrible. Physical resemblance and voices are so far off its distracting.

 

[Drag'nGT]

Ashton looks far more like Steve than Fassbender. The movie might not have been better... but he looked the part and was more similar and therefor more convincing as Steve.

 

[Saucesome2000]

Fassbender's appearance... OKish, if you disregard the blue eyes.
The voice, hardly.

Rogen as Woz... no. Why is it that they think they've nailed Woz as soon as they've put glasses on a random fat comedian?

On top of that, looking at early pics of Woz, he wasn't fat. THIS is not a fat man. Not that Rogan is what I'd call fat, either.

 

[ginkobiloba]

MFB looks nothing / NOTHING / like SJ

Yeah !! Why didn't they hire the real Steve Jobs instead ? Who wants to see a film about Steve Jobs without the real Steve Jobs in it ?

it will be filled with quirky Sorkinese dialog and everyone talking over each other

I HATE quirky dialog ! It makes movies too interesting ! Why can't they use boring ordinary lines instead ?

 

[Jacoblee23]

Why are they making a different Steve Jobs movie? What was so wrong with the Ashton Kutcher film?

 

[numlock]

I never heard it, but I (and I know more than a few others) have thought it. Jobs was a brilliant salesman and pitch guy ... and he had a gift for knowing what people would sell their first-born to own. But Wozniak built the Apple ][, Xerox invented the GUI; Jobs just knew how to package them and make people want them more than air.

i know i get the meaning and your point. but it seems like such an iconic line that i at least would not use if it were not 100% genuine.

 

[pipa]

7 pages in and still not one screen from the clip of a close up of fads bender playing jobs. Somebody get on this please.

 

[SirCheese]

Off topic but....

I purchased my first Apple product ever.... 6+.

So far.... I am liking it.

 

[ginkobiloba]

I purchased my first Apple product ever.... 6+.

So far.... I am liking it.

Sir, don't panic ! The Samsung troll crew is on its way to save you ! Hang in there ! Be strong !

 

[imanidiot]

HE DOESN'T NEED TO LOOK LIKE JOBS. Christ we've had films now where despite the actor "looking like Jobs" were terrible. It's about writing, directing, and performance. MF will knock it out.

I am stoked about this one!

+1.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Reading many of the comments, I would take a wild guess and say that aesthetic perception is not in great abundance here. "He doesn't look like..." christ. It reminds me of the film "Marathon Man", where Dustin Hoffman stayed up for several days to be convincing in a scene where his character was to be tortured by his tormentor, played by Sir Laurence Olivier, and Olivier, when he saw Hoffman's obviously distressed condition, and having been informed of why he (DH) was in that condition, was reported to have observed, "Why doesn't he try acting?".

 

[iZac]

I was one of seemingly the few people who were really excited at the three scene synopsis, but when they started throwing around 'a lister' cast like DiCaprio and Bale, I started getting worried. When Fassbenders name came up, I thought they had saved it but Seth Rogans casting just killed me. I don't want to watch Pineapple Express and this teaser trailer left me feeling really cold toward the film. Unless Fassbender can deliver a truly EXCEPTIONAL performance, this film is DOA, he's the only single thing that can save it, but this trailer shows nothing to convince me he will.

What it does make me excited for is the next season of Halt and Catch Fire, though!

 

[skellener]

Rogen - just no. Maybe the third Steve Jobs movie will be good.

 

[Mr-Stabby]

With a lot of historical biopics they can get away with casting someone who only has a passing resemblance to the character they're portraying. This movie has a problem however because Jobs only died under 5 years ago. Everyone remembers exactly what he looks like, how he spoke, acted, mannerisms etc. So seeing the trailer and seeing that Fassbender doesn't really have much of a resemblance to Jobs could be a problem. Even if he pulls off his mannerisms perfectly, it will distract a lot of people that he doesn't exactly look anything like him. Having said that, did anyone really think that Noah Wyle looked exactly like Jobs?

The actor Michael Sheen who plays many famous character in biopics (such as David Frost in Frost/Nixon) has said many times that you can suspend the audiences disbelief right at the beginning of the movie if you straight away do the thing that the real life character is most associated with, almost as an exaggerated impression. In the case of David Frost, it was his catchphrase 'Hello, Good Evening, and welcome!'. After you've done that, the audience buys into it enough, and you can then tone it down and just 'act'. It almost doesn't matter if they don't look anything like the character after that point. Sp maybe if Fassbender walks on in the first frame and says 'Insanely Great' or something, then we're sold

We'll see

 

[jasonklee]

I was one of seemingly the few people who were really excited at the three scene synopsis, but when they started throwing around 'a lister' cast like DiCaprio and Bale, I started getting worried. When Fassbenders name came up, I thought they had saved it but Seth Rogans casting just killed me. I don't want to watch Pineapple Express and this teaser trailer left me feeling really cold toward the film. Unless Fassbender can deliver a truly EXCEPTIONAL performance, this film is DOA, he's the only single thing that can save it, but this trailer shows nothing to convince me he will.

What it does make me excited for is the next season of Halt and Catch Fire, though!

An actor's life depends on the quality of the script. An actor can enhance the mere reading of a script but an actor can't save a inherently flawed script. Thankfully Sorkin wrote a powerful and meaningful drama rife with conflict. I generally have no faith in Rogen and his usual cohorts but the material here is very strong and based on the talented creators involved I'm optimistic that they can pull a worthy performance from Mr. Rogen.

 

[Alumeenium]

Sorkin is such a hack of a writer though

Who could forget the cringe worthy dialog of Newsroom

Whenever anything would happen, three characters would talk at the same time trying to explain it.

As much as we love the Social Networks soundtrack

The actual story had nothing to do with Privacy, Stalking, or reaming tons of cash off personal data all generated by the users. (The REAL story of Facebook)

Sorkin's understanding of the web is 1.0 while we're in Post 2.0/Mobile

The choice for Aryan Fassbender to play Syrian Jobs is just moronic, might as well give Jobs a British accent too, while you're at it ?! WTF

 

[ginkobiloba]

The choice for Aryan Fassbender to play Syrian Jobs is just moronic, might as well give Jobs a British accent too, while you're at it ?! WTF

Because Leonardo Di Caprio, Christian Bale and Tom Cruise ( all first choices before Fassbender ) look more syrian ? uh...

 

[Alumeenium]

Because Leonardo Di Caprio, Christian Bale and Tom Cruise ( all first choices before Fassbender ) look more syrian ? uh...

They are all brunettes instead of blondie MFB, so yeah they do...

 

[ginkobiloba]

They are all brunettes instead of blondie MFB, so yeah they do...

So..hum... how did you manage to check that Dicaprio, deep down, was actually really a brunette ?

 

[roland.g]

Ashton looks far more like Steve than Fassbender. The movie might not have been better... but he looked the part and was more similar and therefor more convincing as Steve.

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You're right. Ashton looks far more like Steve Jobs. Ashton looks nothing like Fassbender. Why are you comparing Ashton to Fassbender. Is Ashton playing Fassbender in an upcoming movie?

I personally think that Fassbender will be good, but I was bummed when Bale dropped out. I think he would have been fantastic. Bale is in some ways like the second coming of Gary Oldman.

 

[Keirasplace]

Sorkin is such a hack of a writer though

Who could forget the cringe worthy dialog of Newsroom

Whenever anything would happen, three characters would talk at the same time trying to explain it.

As much as we love the Social Networks soundtrack

The actual story had nothing to do with Privacy, Stalking, or reaming tons of cash off personal data all generated by the users. (The REAL story of Facebook)

Sorkin's understanding of the web is 1.0 while we're in Post 2.0/Mobile

The choice for Aryan Fassbender to play Syrian Jobs is just moronic, might as well give Jobs a British accent too, while you're at it ?! WTF

At the time FB started, they were not making money (they only started a few years ago), were not collecting data as systematically and the system was way way simpler and privacy settings also simpler. So, should they have told a story about how FB would turn out 10 years in the future? Makes no sense.

 

[Alumeenium]

So..hum... how did you manage to check that Dicaprio, deep down, was actually really a brunette ?
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look at the eyebrows, not the dye job....

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At the time FB started, they were not making money (they only started a few years ago), were not collecting data as systematically and the system was way way simpler and privacy settings also simpler. So, should they have told a story about how FB would turn out 10 years in the future? Makes no sense.

keep telling yourself that

FB's early investor was Peter Thiel who built Palantir, one of the first social data mining companies founded in 2004

 

[s2mikey]

The entire life of Steve Jobs reduced to "Then he died. Whatever."

From now on, I will never be surprised at the "meh" response new Apple products get. Sometimes, you just can't impress people, and this is a perfect example.

It has nothing to do with Apple products, some of which I own and enjoy. This has to do with them desperately trying to force a Steve Jobs movie onto the public when there isn't anyone clamoring for one. There isn't anything interesting about it. Just a nerd that struck gold. Yawn.