Jobs

Jobs is essentially a remake of The Fountainhead complete with bland dialogue and the glorification of a petulant, backstabbing jackass who paints himself as the victim when businessmen disagree with his uncompromisable vision. Steve Jobs was one of the most important and influential people of the past 30 years, to say otherwise would be a lie. But he was an awful, lying asshole who turned a blind eye to his Chinese laborers killing themselves and screwed over everyone he came into contact with.

They made a movie based on Steve Jobs' Wikipedia-site.

Josh Gad was pretty good as Wozniak. And Kutcher did a good job as Jobs? But this movie wasn't enjoyable at all. It's both too quickly paced and too long, and it pays lip service to any sort of deeper investigation of Steve Jobs's flaws before recasting him as the Randian superman being crushed by the small-minded bureaucrats and businessmen that just can't understand his genius, while simultaneous trying to portray him as a champion of the people, making computers for the working man.

OK, I don't really get why this is getting such poor ratings. I thought it was great, and no, it wasn't really political either way. And the best part was Kutcher's performance. He did his homework in prepping himself for it, and I'm not talking about his mannerisms, I wouldn't even know if he got those right or not. He was just immersed in the role so well. Two things that probably pissed people off is that is didn't go into enough detail for some, and the rest were probably upset that i

"Why don't I just strap on my job helmet, and squeeze down into a job cannon, and fire off into job land. Where jobs grow on jobies."

Well if this movies mission was to convince me that Jobs was an unbearable tosspot, with absolutely no real world skills that aren't possesed by a tenured carnie, then I say mission a-fucking-complished. Also apparantly noone in his social circle has any psycopath-detecting skills. Either that or they're convinced that Jobs is the late-2000s sitcom friend they are to play straight man to. "Steve Jobs: self-fellating conman" coming to a content-locked platform near you!

No no no! Is it movie or document? Half of everything, half of nothing. Half of story and value.

Not as bad as everyone makes it out to be and this is coming from a non Apple fan. It's pretty straightforward and doesn't have the heart it should have had. However, it's far from bad, as it does give a good insight into the creation of Apple and the persona of Steve Jobs. Decent, no more no less.

film about such a soul can strive to address a complex individual. It can contain believable-looking performances and tell you it's weaving a compelling tale about someone standing on the shadowed crossroads of ambition and failure, unwavering belief and brilliance. But it can simultaneously be little more than cinematic Photoshopping, a barely perfunctory, just-scratch-the-surface gimcrack. (pluggedin.com)

I feel like this movie's badness has become over meme-ified at this point, probably mostly by people who've never ever seen it. Christ, I thought I was hitting play on some Manos: The Hand of Fate-level atrocity based on the online anti-hype for this thing. Turns out it's neither notably good nor notably bad, a slick (and largely well-acted) but mostly surface-level biopic from a director who probably set out to make the next Social Network but instead made more of a glorified TV movie.

Kutcher is way better than I expected, though mostly in glimpse. The real problem isn't the acting though - the narrative's total lack of focus and pure ignorance towards the details which Jobs so famously loved is what derails it

Hippy garbage. You can't set sweeping dramatic music to fat nerds writing computer code or walking around a computer convention. Kutcher would probably play Hitler the same way.

What Ofterdingen says...

come see kutcher switch awkwardly between hissy fit and trying too hard to look inspired.

Wow...I mean, I wasn't board, but was it a good movie? No, not really. I think most people kinda know on some level about Steve Jobs so its fun seeing what they chose to include and focus on. Ashton Kutcher was hit and miss. The big surprise was Josh Gad. He was great. Other than that it was your standard paint by numbers tortured genius Biopic.

Yawn... nothing seems to be happening in this one. Utterly unnecessary.

About as fascinating as the latest iPhone 5 upgrades.

Aston Kutcher got his posture, looks and moves right, but still too much Kutcherism in the acting. But the plot and movie itself, not so interesting. Just pure facts.

It was kind of a job getting through this one. It wasn't bad, really. It just felt a tad too long. It also felt a lot like a watered down version of The Social Network...

A pretty boring take on a boring guy. This movie really needed some sharper dialogue and memorable characters. Every time the actors try to set up a punchy line or cool soundbite, it just comes across as incredibly corny. The lasting impression is just of Jobs going from project to project, acting vaguely leader-like, and slowly but surely the Apple Computer we know today takes shape. The screenwriters could really have used a bit more creative license, this feels like writing by committee.

It actually did some things right and I had no really big complaints. Obviously it took it's creative inspiration where it did. It certainly glorifies Jobs for some of the shitty actions, but Ashton Kutcher's performance was on point. Gad was equally good as Wozniak. Overall the film was enjoyable, but did have it's flaws that caused it to suffer. Not as bad as the critics say.

Jobs is an overly dramatic biopic that fails to depict Steve Jobs' personal journey in any meaningful way. It has its moments, but the storytelling here is poor, overall.

So sorry to see that this great story and performance of a lifetime from Kuthcher ruined by poor script and lousy, incoherent directing/editing

Shallow, Superficial movie. No real writing.

Pretty standard fare for a Hollywood biopic. As a film this is nothing special, but not terrible to watch either. It over-glorifies some moments in a typical Hollywood fashion, but at other times it also shows some of the bad sides of Jobs. As a documentary or informative film it fails though, we get snippets out of his life but there is no real conclusion and a lot of stuff is left unexplored. I didn't know that much about Jobs prior to watching and I still felt I hardly learned anything new.

It's hard to call it self-indulgent -- well, it exists only to deliver a bland, likable homage for the fans --, but, in a post-Social Network era, its both inspirational, me-against-the-world, freaks-misfits-weirdos-assemble! and corporate attitude feels just too naive to swallow.

It is obviously glorifying Steve Jobs and Apple quite a bit. It probably would have been more interesting as a documentary, but still worth a watch if you are a Mac fanboy like me. Kutcher imitates the old Steve Jobs quite impressively in the start of the film (did he lose weight?). Unfortunately this film only had time to cover his younger days.

Just when movie came out I've seen it. In spite of a "bad critic" I've found this movie a real descendant of "VHS era" of american movies... but in it's best sense: as a "VHS" movie where somewhat characteristic for that time this movie where not a copy of something but in the real spirit of one another time. As "The Chase" marked a second half of 90's and maybe "Driven" or "Swordfish" marked an immediate beginning of 2000's so I'm sure "Jobs" is on a good path of marking 2010's... Actor well ch

Bit boring...

Ill lead off by saying this wasnt all bad. However, for a lot of the time this kind of felt like one of those "we'll make a movie like the Social Network but with Steve Jobs." This sort of feels like the type of make believe project you'd hear Ari Gold talk about on Entourage. That being said, I think none of this is the fault of the cast all of whom not only looked the part, but played the material they were given admirably. Unfortunately, the movie doesnt pick up until the last 20-30 minutes.

This film wasnt good after the book.

"But should a revolution break out, businessmen, clever men, who seemed to be giants, are now nothing but dwarves; any reality that is no longer proportional to the new events collapses and vanishes; material facts crumble and ideas grow to meet the sky." Victor Hugo

As a movie it was ok... maybe. But as a biography is does a very poor job, they don't show Jobs childhood and later life with the cancer, also as an apple's story they don't show how they got the idea for the GUI and mouse from Xerox and how the Apple Lisa was a horrible mistake. After this you don't go out with an idea of how Job was.

A worth while watch although an opportunity has been missed. It didn't feel dramatic enough and stories I would have liked to have seen quickly skipped over. Job's relationship with Bill Gates for example, all you got was a 30 second phone call. Kutcher is not bad but he almost, almost overacts his part.

Not only perfectly illustrating what a narcissistic, parasitic, unskilled, overambitious yuppy Jobs was, but also stating that this is perfectly alright.

Doesn't glass over Jobs foibles and dickishness, which is good. Focuses on too big a time period which isn't. Kutcher turns in a very good drawn in performance, and Gad is fantastic as Woz. A good look at some history, but at times a bit patchy because there's too much ground to cover.

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Not really bad but not what it could have been.

Steve Wozniak who designed the first Apple computers is reduced to a sniveling lackey, and the roles of Jony Ives in designing the company's later products and of Tim Cook in reviving it financially are severely downplayed. Jobs' own brilliance is announced, but his character doesn't give us any sense of it - his only standout quality is his cockiness. Hollywood biopics have always portrayed self-confidence as the only key to success, and they're wrong. An entertaining but unimpressive film.

really bad. slow, long, boring.

This is the story of Santa Claus that stops just as Santa is loading the sleigh. Kutcher did a great job [Jobs], but this script hit what it thought were the high points at medium low. They never fully unleashed Jobs, keeping him barely simmering. The lows were never low enough, the highs nowhere near high. The angry, pushing Jobs, was more a slightly suggesting Jobs. I hope one day they make a real movie.

Yep. It's about Jobs. And just when it gets interesting it stops. Weird.

7- recommended, good :: People love to hate on Kutcher, but I liked this film. Plus, the filmmakers used the quote I found: http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/What-are-the-best-Steve-Jobs-quotations/answer/Nick-Manteris

Historically inaccurate, badly developed characters, big gaps in development of the plot. Two hours of your life you never get back! If you want to know this guy's life it's better to watch some documentaries about him which by the way are far more compelling and also case studies.

An inspirational and simultaneously harsh look at the entrepreneur Steve Jobs in a compelling motion picture that plays like an indie drama almost like something Edward Burns would have made.

So this is what it looks like when Ashton Kutcher tries to play a real person and not a cartoon caricature. Apart from the terrible lead performance, everything else is a series of been-there, done-that feel to it.

Unlike Social Network, Jobs doesn't transcend its subject matter, but that's okay, because it doesn't want to. The budget constraints are slightly distracting, but don't let that stop you from seeing it, because it's far better than "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and a sprightly take on the business life of a controversial, brilliant, lonely man.

They did an incomplete job with "jOBS" ;) More reviews here : http://movie-freak.be

Unless you know more from other sources, you have to chose weather or not to believe this version of the story. The "walk" seemed pretty authentic though. *Okay

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The corporate growth story and related business drama here are engaging (despite the big time jumps), but they're broken up by character sub-plots that are too inconsistent and riddled with contrived dialogue to resonate much, even with Kutcher's strong lead turn. And when you consider the oft-unpleasant colouring and bad editing full of try-hard montages of spastic camerawork, vague inspirational voiceovers, and meaningless scene splices, the good plot points become hard to hold onto.