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User Reviews for: Steve Jobs

abetancort
9/10  8 years ago
This movie have been grossly misunderstood by some of the critics and in particular by Apple's and Steve Jobs' followers. Aaron Sorkin never intended to make a "BioPic" on Steve Jobs or a factual account of Apple Inc. history.

You have to take a step back to realize that film is not only good from a pure point of view of a movie and its real goal to be entertaining, believable and keep you wondering what would happen next even if you know the end; it is also a skillful exploitation of one of Steve's most brilliant and perfected talents, the art of storytelling.

What Sorking is doing with the script and in the movie is using Jobs own tool to tell us how Steve was and why he was that way, and using not facts but distorting reality to tell us how he was beyond what most people got to see of him. Aaron successfully [IMHO] conveys to the audience, who went to the theater to see something beyond another Valley it story, the character, the charisma, the troubled personality, the strategist, the salesman, the pragmatic leader, the tumbling learner, the resilient, the solitary, the perfectionist, the story teller, the selective amnesiac that was Steve Jobs and unique blend of traits that made him the unique leader, visionary that enabled him to thrive where most would simply would have failed.

Steve Jobs was all that, a Genius and an Asshole, an one could not have been without the other. And here it is where the movie (all the cast, director and everyone else) and Aaron Sorkin are simply brilliantly succeeded in transmitting us, through a simple story, that Jobs could not have been his best without his worse. His worse simply made him be his best and the other way around, both at the same time most of the time.
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Reno
/10  6 years ago
> Pretty impressive narration, a better version out there for now.

US film or UK film is not an issue, but the real question was the second movie required? Plenty of films are made in a short period of gap about the same person like 'Infamous' and 'Capote', themes like 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'White House Down', and sometimes remakes like 'Deaths at a Funeral' from other film industries. So the history says audience accepts only they are different from each other and so this film was, but very very sad it bombed at the box office.

Like everybody I was not interested in this, even though it was from a renowned filmmaker. But after watching it now, I felt I was terribly wrong. Actually, this is the best version so far about the Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs. It was entirely a different narration than the previous one, everything was like the backstage drama that takes place before every product launch. That means most of the film was shot in the auditoriums and its corridor, parking lot, rooftop, and other surround places.

All the affairs like family, friends, co-founders, business, troubles et cetera are brought into one place and dealt there itself. Surely a very cleverly written screenplay and display by the actors, especially the two Oscars nominee Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslate. Once again Danny Boyle proved his directional skill with this beautiful biopic. I did not LIKE the end scene, but LOVED it. In fact, this film's end and Ashton Kutcher film's opening scenes has a clean follow. I also felt the movie was very honest, but I don't how much since I'm not into the books to learn about the famous personalities. It's not a must see, but definitely worth a try.

8/10
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