First pic of Ashton Kutcher as the great Steve 'jOBS' The first official pic of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in the Apply-titled jOBS has been unveiled by Sundance. First official pic of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs The Aaron Sorkin-scripted biopic will be premiering at the Sundance Festival next year, when legions of fanbois will be prepared to vilify any and all attempts to …
No matter how good/bad the story it, I fully expect that a good section of those who post here will villify the movie and even pelt the screen with rotten tomatoes/eggs/whatever just because it is about Apple.
This post will be downvoted into oblivion but there is no disguising that some people hate Apple/Jobs with a vengance or blindness which is a shame.
I will probably give the movie a miss as anything with Mr Kutcher in makes me cringe.
No matter how good/bad the story it, I fully expect that a good section of those who post here will claim the movie to be the Best Ever Movie and pelt the none believers with verbal diarrhoea and downvotes just because they don't adulate a company.
This post will be downvoted into oblivion but there is no disguising that some people worship a company/businessman with a worryingly frenzied obsessiveness which is completely unhealthy.
I will probably give the movie a miss as anything where people are undoubtedly going to woop, holla and cheer at a screen - and they will, they did when Apple announced places on a map! - will make me want to be sick in my mouth a little.
There, fixed that for you.
No matter how good/bad the story it, I fully expect that a good section of those who post here will villify the movie and even pelt the screen with rotten tomatoes/eggs/whatever just because it has Ashton Kutcher in it.
This post will be downvoted into oblivion but there is no disguising that some people hate Ashton Kutcher with a vengance or blindness which is a shame.
I will probably give the movie a miss as anything with Apple in makes me cringe.
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Nah I'm just kidding, everyone hates Ashton Kutcher.
I'll give it a miss as it's scripted by Sorkin.
Any sycophant who's had their tongue that far up Zuckerbitch's tradesman's entrance makes me cringe.
"….some people hate Apple/Jobs with a vengance or blindness which is a shame"
…..some people love Apple/Jobs vehemently, which is a shame… Fixed it for you.
It’s just a bloody crappy tech co. He’s just a man. Nothing special.
What is a shame is that retarded people want to place more kudos to the man/company than deserves.
Yep must admit that was the first thing I thought. I can never detatch Ashton Kutcher from that role in my mind, so will be very strange seeing him playing the part of a genius (whether you like him/Apple or not, he WAS a very smart man).
Whatever way they go in the film there will be critical people. Anti Jobs/Apple people will accuse the film makers of treating him too gently, and Jobs/Apple Fans will accuse them of doing a hatchet job on the memory of their saint - no win situation. I won't spend money seeing this in the cinema, just wait for it to come round on Sky
"(whether you like him/Apple or not, he WAS a very smart man)"
There are smart people, then there are people dumb enough to try to beat cancer by refusing their doctors' medications, instead relying on alternative "treatment" including juice diets and consulting a psychic.
I think the writer has either his/her Jobs films mixed up or simply didn't make the following more clear in the original article;
There are two different Steve Jobs Bio-films being made and released -
One is the lower budget independent film starring Kutcher (which is where this photo is obviously from) and another more high profile/bigger budget studio film being scripted by Sorkin.
Then there's also the existing, older, made for tv HBO one 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' which while pretty cheaply made and over acted is actually surprisingly watchable and good for a laugh.
In true Jobsian/Apple style, you will be able to see the Kutcher one first and then several months later be required to upgrade to the newer (and likely better) higher budgeted Sorkin scripted film.
I'm not an Apple fan (I own no Apple devices at all) nor an Ashton Kutcher fan. Saying that I think this might be quite interesting.
Jobs was quite an innovator in the field and had an undeniable presence in the IT industry, over a far greater remit than just Apple. A film that examines his personality and method of approaching a task / problem could be quite a cinematic treat. (...and I love cinema)
Oh you cynic.
This film will be a revolution. It will be released in iMMersion - the patented novel all-sensory media format whereby iPhotons are propelled at extraordinary velocity until they dramatically collide with a screen coated in purest iSilver resulting in a pan-spectral iPicture that quite literally reflects into your puny mortal eyeballs.
"This film will be a revolution. It will be released in iMMersion - the patented novel all-sensory media format whereby iPhotons are propelled at extraordinary velocity until they dramatically collide with a screen coated in purest iSilver resulting in a pan-spectral iPicture that quite literally reflects into your puny mortal eyeballs."
iBalls, surely?
Steve Jobs is in the garden of Apple, praying... Schmidt appears and tries to tempt him to endorse Android. Steve resists, his eyes bleed. "Father, why do they steal my IP?"
Wozniak betrays him by appearing in the press extolling the virtues of Android and pleading with Apple to innovate and compete in the market. Steve enters the market, turns over the tables "I am going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go full crucifixion on this."
Android captures Steve's marketshare, he is beaten and bruised in the overnight court of public opinion. So he appeals to Pontius Patent. Meanwhile a fanboi offers to carry his crucifix for him, but Steve rebukes him "You're holding it wrong."
Finally they nail Steve to the cross, and put a sign above his head "The Creator of the Smartphone". He ascends to fanbois wet dreams. Mary Magdemedia-Correspondent weeps for the messiah.
No point on commenting on the actor playing the most holy Saint of modern computing. It's a comparison that writes itself.
But I would like to see some kind of biopic that actually doesn't just glamourize either Bill Gates or Jobs. How about Woz for a change? Dennis Ritchie? Jay Miner? Jack "Scorched Earth" Tramiel? Nolan freaking Bushnell? Naah..let's just continue genuflecting to Steve Jobs and continue his ascendancy to Christ-like proportions. I guess I should look forward to the scene where Ashton Jobs personally solders together the first iphone prototoype in his underground garage.
I really don't know why this film is being made. The guy was just a "difficult" CEO of a company that has made millions by conning folk that their kit is better than anybody else's. So much spin and high-grade cattle excrement, it's unbelievable. Still, if the fanbois really want their wallets made considerably lighter by buying Apple when there is a whole lot of stuff around that will do just as good a job, if not better, than I suppose that's up to them. As far as I'm concerned, Jobs was no icon, to be worshipped like some religious deity. He just wanted tight control over the products in order to milk even more for servicing and the like. In my opinion, the world would be a lot better without the arrogance of Apple.
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