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Universal Releases Official Full-Length Trailer for 'Steve Jobs' Movie
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you also have to consider you've been a member here for 13years so once you see the look of the movie (via the trailer), you can pretty much fill in the rest of the blanks.. amiright?
Hard to say that's what it will really be as a whole simply going by the trailer.
Geeez, they didn't even try to make him look like Jobs. Have they ever seen a photo of Steve Jobs from the early '80s? He looked like a Beatle, not some trendy corporate exec with slicked back hair. And I hope this trailer is the sum total of him shown wearing a tie.
I could accept the actor and the acting, but this visual representation is like doing Abraham Lincoln without a beard. This trailer makes Steve look like some corporate exec - as one commenter said, more like John Sculley. (And in the later scenes he looks more like Tim Cooke)
I could accept the actor and the acting, but this visual representation is like doing Abraham Lincoln without a beard. This trailer makes Steve look like some corporate exec - as one commenter said, more like John Sculley. (And in the later scenes he looks more like Tim Cooke)
Just can't get over the Irish accent. He just can't seem to do an American accent.
Nobody cares what Zuckerberg looks like. Generic geek surfices.
True, but isn't the trailer supposed to represent the movie and entice the audience?
If this isn't a fair representation of the entire film's portrayal of him, great, but that's a sign of a bad trailer, which could suggest a bad film. If not, reverse it
Trailers can represent one aspect of a film but not necessarily the whole thing. They are there to entice someone to see the film, do sometimes they will focus on more controversial or interesting parts to build up some of that interest even if the whole film overall isn't specifically about that or gives that impression as a whole.
Then why do people (especially the general public who has seen Jobs as much or as little as they have Zuckerberg) care about what Jobs looks like?
How so? Movies about all kinds of figures are done well after they have lived or have been popular/influential, just as they are done even while they are still alive.
Looks interesting as long as you aren't expecting a truthful portrayal.
Well, at the every least it's a dramatization, so not everything will be exactly as it was, as is the case with most movies (short of documentaries perhaps).
Sometimes the truth, properly presented, is far more interesting and entertaining than an over-the-top dramatization.
Sure. There's that too. Not everything in this movie is likely an over-the-top dramatization.
Probably not, but the Woz speech at the beginning set that sort of tone for me, which then lingered through the rest of the trailer.
This seems to be a common hangup on the forums that I don't get. I guess it would be nice if the actor looked like the guy, but the acting and directing and general production quality is of much greater concern to me.
Is it that we can't tell any of those things until the movie comes out, so we just go on what the actors look like?
Since he doesn't look like Steve Jobs, if he wants to play Steve Jobs he should sound like Steve Jobs and adopt Steve Jobs' mannerisms and physicality. None of this is evident from that trailer. So I think when people are hung up on the fact that he doesn't look like Steve Jobs what they are really saying is that his portrayal does not remind them of Steve Jobs.
I don't care if he doesn't look like Jobs, what I care about is that he doesn't act like Jobs! Did you feel at any moment you were watching Jobs on the trailer? Obviously not. He wasn't the right choice for the part.
Sorry, I've seen enough comments like this where I must speak up. So what if he's not a spitting image of Jobs? The point of an acting performance isn't mimicry–its to capture the essence and emotion of someone and convey that over 120 minutes. There have been hundreds of great biopics in Hollywood where the actor bore only a slight resemblance to the original person, and the movies were no worse for it. If you crave impersonations, watch Rich Little, Jim Carey or Frank Caliento. If you wanna see a performance that captures the essence of Jobs the man, not Jobs the body, then watch a movie made by people with a **** ton of Acedemy Award nominations who know what they're doing.
Yeah, people love to pile on about how "bad" Kucher was, but he wasn't the reason that movie underperformed. It was poorly directed and had a weak script. Kucher and whatshisname who played Woz actually did a decent job with the 1K worth of material they had to work with.
