Apple picker On Thursday, August 15, the first of the film biographies of Apple founder Steve Jobs is heading to cinemas. And make no mistake, even though a ticket to the cinema also means a discount on the bestseller Steve Jobs, the film is in no way connected to the book, nor is it based on it.
The little-known director Joshua Michael Stern (among others the film The Right Choice) focused primarily on the beginning of Jobs' professional story, roughly from 1976, when he and his friends founded Apple in a garage, until the triumphant introduction of the first iPod.
Those who want psychology and who are looking forward to intimate moments from Jobs' life will probably be disappointed. The story focuses on building Apple as such. On the philosophy of Jobs, on which it was built, on the corporate games that knocked Jobs out of the wheel.
You won't find out why Jobs went back to his wife (he was a redhead, by the way), but you will enjoy the subtleties of the American corporate world, and most of all, you will be there with Jobs in the moments when he was designing, inventing, working, pushing and losing his mind. "You're good, but you're an asshole" says one of the colleagues to Jobs, and this really shows.
In addition, Ashton Kutcher is a visually perfect Steve Jobs, perhaps even more Jobs than Jobs. He studied facial expressions, hand movements, walking and diction. He's a beauty to watch—the opening Keynote from 2001, with Jobs graying and emaciated as we all remember him, is particularly impressive. After all the comedies, this is Kutcher's role of a lifetime and you can tell he's enjoying it. And he really gives her everything. It has only one fault. He himself is not a personality comparable to Jobs. There is enthusiasm in him but no passion in him, he plays with rage but there is no rage inside him. On the other hand, there aren't many actors who can pull off a biographical film - it's a shame that Robert Downey Jr. isn't junior enough for the teenage Steve.
The movie Jobs will certainly not be the movie of the season and will be enjoyed most by those who use Apple, like it, but have avoided the whirlwind of book biographies or watching the famous Keynotes. There will be a lot of new things for them, and Jobs's thoughts sound natural in the film and without excessive American pathos. Even those who worked their way up to their first iPad this year will understand why Jobs believes that "technology is the extent of human being".
On the other hand, it's a movie you can't miss. Especially if you like Apple. Even if you've read all there is to read and seen all there is to see. In addition to the perfectly depicted company environment and culture, there are also small stories. Like, for example, Wozniak's Polish jokes for his joke machine (how long will a Pole keep a Polish woman happy on her wedding night?)*
Official information from the distributor in the Czech Republic states that Wozniak even collaborated on the film. According to the magazine Gizmodo but Wozniak is currently one of his biggest critics and points out a number of factual errors. Even for them, the film is worth seeing. After all, all good biopics are fiction (remember the Social Network movie about the creation of Facebook). If, after watching the movie, you want to enjoy the real Jobs, or compare Kutcher with his role model, I recommend returning to one of the keynotes, or even better - to one the lost interview.
The movie Jobs showed only a fraction of Jobs' personality, including his professional and personal life. But he did not disappoint. Two hours in the cinema go by really fast. Therefore, it is not surprising that another creative team is working on the same topic, which is preparing a film based on the book by Steve Jobs. Or it could be that we get a sequel to this - Jobs 2. A lot has happened since 2001 that is still worth processing. And maybe even Ashton Kutcher will grow a bit bigger.
Author Jasna Sýkorová, the author is a consultant and program director of the iCON festival
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Thanks for the review :)
I'll definitely go check it out =)
I was at the preview and I really liked it :)
google "jobs reviews" before you go to the movies. At least so that you won't be too disappointed :) The Pirates of Silicon Valley certainly remained undefeated. Not even close.
Pirates are good, so if this is worse, you wouldn't even be able to watch it.
I guess :)
Subpar movie starring Kelso.
I was at the movie. I even saw him with my own eyes. Shit, but it's damn good!
I'm just coming from the movie from Usti and I have conflicting feelings. Maybe because I have read the book and the book is really great, although I don't read much. Here it is taken for granted that the connections are missing and yet the movie ends too soon for my taste.
I finished the cinema a while ago and I must say it was interesting. Ashton Kutcher really had his gait and movements :) It's more about the beginnings of Apple and Jobs coming back from Next (of which there was only a small mention :). I was most surprised by Johny Ive, who also spoke in a very similar way to his real form. Overall it's interesting, but that's about all I can say.
BTW, there were some Android fans in the cinema who kept laughing and disturbing with their phones on, I would have preferred to kick them, but they were taller :D
I would do it in such a way that everyone would prove themselves with an iphone or ipad when buying a ticket :-DDD
He lists Woze as a co-author only because when the creators sent him the first script, he sent it to the toilet.. :) otherwise, nice article! The movie is waiting for me at the weekend.
Well, you were right about the review, I just came back from the cinema and the writer of the review quite successfully summarizes my personal feelings about this film. In my opinion, Ashton Kutcher's acting helped this film quite a bit. Since I read the biography of Steve Jobs, they really pissed me off a lot those missteps in the script, and I think that if someone who has minimal knowledge about Apple goes to the movie, they won't get much of it, they'll just confirm the most well-known facts - he founded Apple from a garage, they kicked him out, then he came back and got Apple to the top , but something new somehow doesn't appear there.
So today I finally got lucky and saw the movie jOBS and to be honest I expected a bit more from the movie, but maybe it's because I read the book about a year ago. A few essential facts in the film are practically missing, other facts are reduced to a few phrases from half a year's story, but I really liked Ashton as Steve, in my opinion no one could have played him better
So we just came from the cinema. The movie was a total disappointment for us and for people who haven't read the book (they were fascinating to us) it will be completely confusing, boring and incomprehensible. Mr. Jobs didn't deserve that (he must be turning in his grave)
According to us, 30%.