Steve Jobs

2015 "Can a great man be a good man?"
7.2| 2h2m| R| en
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Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
l-47915 This movie, this movie is about the founder of the Empire of Apple and the creator of the device which I was using to watch the movie itself. Not knowing pretty much about this great guy, Steve Jobs, might in a way help you enjoy this movie to tell you his life and story in a very remarkable way. Truly, it was a remarkable way to tell you Jobs' life by showing the audience what happened before his 3 famous speeches. No critic can deny that it was a new way to learn a well-known person. Of course, some might like the movie very much while others blamed the filmmakers for this terrible idea. This movie might be able to be turned into a play since one's life is a play .However, I guess few people (especially the Apple fans) would see it.Apart from this new way, the relationship between Steve and Lisa was also an attraction. In the movie, the chemistry worked to me. The movie showed how Steve changed his attitude towards her daughter (whether true or not). He began to like Lisa when he found out that she drew a picture on a Mac, which Jobs later told Lisa that he still remembered closing to the end of the movie. And Joanna Hoffman (played by Kate Winslet) in this movie was also a key to this relationship, who was truly a good helper to Jobs.Finally, although most of my friends actually don't use a Mac, I could still feel the hard working of Mr. Jobs' pushing himself to perform better upon his beautiful and sufficient products in this movie. There is no denying that such IT leaders' perseverance allowed most people in this world able to sit comfortably in front of a computer to type a movie review or just watch a movie called Steve Jobs.
Kaustubh Rajnish Steve Jobs is a biographical film with a unique narrative. It showcases 3 moments of Jobs life. The Macintosh launch, the Next black cube launch and the imac launch. At each launch he interacts with 5 key characters. His partner in crime the genius Steve Wozniak, his work wife Joahanna Hoffman, his Father figure / Apple CEO John Sculley, his technician Andy (dont know which one) and his daughter Lisa. While this narrative is able to showcase the trials and tribulations of his personal and professional life, it also reduces his life to 15 conversations which most probably did not really happen. Some of these are really hard to care about particularly if you are not a Steve jobs or Apple fan. While the acting by each actor is brilliant particularly Seth Rogen (maybe a career best and the only scenes worth remembering) and Kate Winslet (amazing as always), there are some conversations where I found myself laughing at the seriousness at which they were taken. Such as John sculley and jobs arguing about whether they should have put in the hard disk in a computer or not. I mean seriously who cares. The narrative also handicaps Danny Boyle's trade mark style of quick action punctuated by an awesome OST and background. Its as if the entire weight of the film rests on the chemistry, the dialogue of those 15 conversations which are well as I said nothing really exciting. This film is a perfect example of how bringing the best in the business may not be enough to create magic. Arguably the best screenplay writer in Hollywood, an Oscar winning director and a stellar cast about an ultra dramatic real life genius of our times still cannot make a great movie. If you want to catch the making of a tech giant. Might as well re-watch The Social Network (ironically a superb script by the same Aaron Sorkin) also showcasing a rude, egoistical, selfish genius of our times. Final recommendation : Skip this iBore and watch this only good scene of the movie KR PS On a personal note, I have never understood the charm of the apple products. I have always found them too much show and too little use. Further, they seem fuelled by blatant capitalism which makes people pay for things that can be got for cheaper and most probably not needed in life. But then that's my POV and i tried hard to not let it come in the way of the movie but maybe it did...
kasperbudde No one looks like the real people?Micheal Fassbender as jobs? it like having Will Smith playing Steve HawkinsJobs from 2013, is the real deal, its the best! and the cast looks like the real thing manpeace outkasper budde
iNickR Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, in reference to this movie, was once quoted as saying, "(Steve Jobs) is not a photograph it's a painting."After reading the book and then recently seeing the movie, I would agree. Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs is a favorite of mine and the movie is pretty good, but no where near as detailed.The movie is not really 'Steve Jobs'; he was so much more than the asshole portrayed in the movie. Yes, true (as Isaacson's bluntly objective book confirms) Jobs was a massive jerk; a sometimes mean, vicious, sarcastic person who believed he was God's gift to computers, and a ruthless businessman. He wasn't a code-writer or an engineer. He was a visionary. He knew what we wanted before we wanted it. His mind was years ahead of technology. Kurt Cobain changed the face of music; Steve Jobs changed the face of computing forever (I don't own a single iThing) and he did it his way.Writer Sorkin did an excellent job adapting Isaacson's book for the screen, doing it in three acts that coincide with three of Jobs' biggest business 'accomplishments': The introduction of the Macintosh (1984), NeXT (1988), and the iMac (1998). (The NeXT was a disaster. A $13,000 - in today's dollars - perfectly square useless brick. But, fun-fact, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, used a NeXTcube to run the world's first webserver!). There was so much to Jobs' life and so many more people in his life detailed in the book, that it must have been a difficult adaptation for Sorkin. However, the point was taken – Jobs was a brilliant, albeit flawed person.It's fun to watch the movie, and it's faced-paced so you won't be looking for the 'NeXT' scene button. Take it for what it is, a subjective portrait.