Steve Jobs Movie (The "GOOD" version)

So filming for this started a few days ago, with the director Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender being cast as the iMan himself.

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As a Bay Area resident and someone who grew up in Apple Land, I'm excited. Given that they actually got Woz involved in the project and that it's an adaptation of Isaacson's biography, hopefully this will make up for that godawful Kutcher ShamelessSelfPromotional fluff.

edited 19th Jan '15 1:48:08 PM by Mattonymy

I actually liked the Kutcher movie myself.

I don't really picture Fassbender as Jobs, personally.

I like Fassbender in everything I've seen him in and Wozniak's involvement is interesting.

Was the Ashton Kutcher movie bad? Personally I liked that it didn't present Jobs as a saint, like so many biopics are wont to do.

It was So Okay, It's Average.

Without getting too much into detail, neither Steve Wozniak nor Andy Hertzfeldt liked the movie or thought it was an accurate portrayal of the man they worked with or the company they created.

It's also got 27% on RT so yeah.

edited 20th Jan '15 7:38:16 AM by Mattonymy

On one hand, the talent involved is vaguely interesting.

On the other hand, another Steve Jobs biopic makes the Amazing Spider-Man reboot sound like something necessary that everyone's been clamoring for. Seriously, this has to be the most unnecessary film I've heard of.

TBH, a lot of the confusion comes down to Kutcher ignoring that another studio already had the rights to the Issacson book and decided to usurp them and release his own.

Although your comparison to Maguire's Spidey is apt.

Finally got a trailer!

That's the first teaser that was out a few weeks ago. This is the one that came out today.

Pretty funny how Jobs has been thrown into the memory hole.

Or in PIXAR terminology, The Memory Dump.

Anyway, new trailer looks sick. In those first short few seconds, I immediately bought Michael Fassbender was Steve as opposed to Ashton whom I never bought throughout the entire film.

I think Kutcher did a fine performance (his appearance, speech patterns and body movement is spot on), but the movie was structured so that he had to CARRY the movie rather than be at its center. Who knows how intentionally it was since he was also a producer, but almost every scene in Jobs was framed as "Let's watch Ashton Kutcher play an asshole genius." The final speech parading the genius of his early crew fell flat because excepting Wozniak (who's almost equally famous on his own) their names and roles in the story were glossed over.

This movie looks interesting. Sorkin is right at home with the material, and it looks to have a truly theatrical view of the material instead of the paint by numbers approach of the Kutcher version.

I'm sold on this film by this trailer alone. Michael Fassbender may not look the part, but like Tom Hank's Walt Disney I can buy into his Jobs persona.