And yet in the art of motion pictures and theater that kind of thing has been working just fine for ages (down to one gender playing another, etc.).That guy has zero resemblance to Steve Jobs. Zero.
A great actor miscast because he doesn't physically resemble his character enough to please you? Please. That's just embarrassing.Who is judging the movie? The talk is about the miscast main character...
It was.Looks great. Really makes that ashton kutcher one look like a second rate made for TV film.
Well sorry that my standards are higher than yours in regards to how I spend my money in the theater.And yet in the art of motion pictures and theater that kind of thing has been working just fine for ages (down to one gender playing another, etc.).
That's no problem, everyone has their own hangups about all kinds of things. I was just saying that as a concept and as a general thing it's not something that's seen as a negative or anything like that when it comes to theater/movies/TV/etc.Well sorry that my standards are higher than yours in regards to how I spend my money in the theater.
not sure I get the first comment, but the second I can agree with.
I thought it was going to be called: Steve Jobs 2: Electric Boogaloo
What changed?![]()
No. I'm saying that Kutcher would have sold more tickets with the younger generation. The cast is wrong and the era they are focusing on is wrong. It should celebrate the golden years of his life.
While the depth of the movie is important too the lead character NEEDS to highly resemble Jobs or most people won't be able to relate to him or easily identify him. I've seen a few actors doing a story of a high profile person's life and they either didn't sound like that person or look like that person and it really brought down the value of the movie.
As far as I was aware it was the Mac, the iMac, and then the iPod?
Well sorry that my standards are higher than yours in regards to how I spend my money in the theater.
Some people lack they ability to look beyond the physical appearance of the actor to see the character being portrayed.
Tim Cook isn't a huge fan of this movie according to comments he made to Colbert.. He felt the characterization was unfair.
Oh, and Fassbender as Jobs is a fail
I agree. Whilst the Ashton Kutcher movie was further away from the facts, this movie hasn't got the cast to make it a global success. Why couldn't they make the movie more about the latter years? Jobs became a superstar because of the iPod, iPhone and iPad. I would have liked to have seen the movie about how he developed and battled the critics with these products. Kids these days have no idea about the old iMacs. This is an older generation movie.
Tim Cook isn't a huge fan of this movie according to comments he made to Colbert.. He felt the characterization was unfair.
Oh, and Fassbender as Jobs is a fail
Whatever my preferences are in terms of how I spend my money are none of your concern.Actually your standards look more superficial.
Yeah you know in any good biopic being a celebrity impersonator is not very important?It's like casting gw bush for the role of Thomas Jefferson.. It just doesn't work
But that's not when the movie takes place. In fact did cook even know jobs during their earlier parts depicted in the movie?"Steve Wozniak himself noting its accuracy to real life events."
Wozniak also said that the conversations with him that were depicted in the movie never took place. Hmmmm. Not sure what to think when Woz comments about Apple and Jobs. I'm starting to think that Cook knows Jobs better than Woz, at least what Jobs became in his final years.
Never understood this logic in watching a biopic. Have you seen Gandhi? Looks nothing like Gandhi. How about Selma? Looks nothing like MLK. To me, it's about the PERFORMANCE and nothing else.
You can have a look alike do a biopic, but it won't matter if his/her performance isn't there at all.
Performance > Looks any day of the week.
Agreed. Most people and even most apple fans don't have an ingrained image of jobs talking and moving. It is a minuscule percentage of people who do who this movie is not even targeting.Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace, in Lovelace
Angelina Jolie as Mariance Pearl, in A Mighty Heart
Channing Tatum as Mark Shultz, in Foxcatcher
Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, in Kill Your Darlings
James Franco as Aron Ralston, in 127 Hours
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr, in Catch Me If You Can
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, in The Wolf of Wall Street
Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash, in Walk The Line
What links all those castings in biopics?
..The actor looks nothing like the real-life person they are playing.
But acting is not impersonating. If it was, movies would be very different indeed. And a lot less enjoyable.
I guess there is a subjective difference when the real-life character is so much more well known, as is the case here, with Steve Jobs. And I would predict that that will create a barrier of some kind with all of us when watching this film, even those of us defending the casting of a quality actor like Fassbender.
But take a look at those movies listed above again.. and if you've seen a few of them, how do you feel about them?
Did you enjoy them? Did you not enjoy them?
And was your enjoyment based upon how much the character looked like their real-life counterpart... or was it based upon the quality of the acting, the script, the plot, the cinematography, the style, the story, the tension, the supporting cast, the locations, the visual effects, etc etc etc.
Finally, it is foolish to judge a movie that you have not yet seen.