I wonder why that movie didn't worked at the box-office, it was one spectacular show by Boyle and Fassy. Direction seemed so creative at time, cinematography was top notch and I loved the way Boyle kept it pacy, sharp and brutal. It is an underrated gem.
The only thing in this world that gives orders...is balls
I love Danny Boyle but perhaps it was this films gross detours from the truth that undid it. His wife has slammed its inaccuracy also. With such a modern character where so much is known and written about it is shameful to use such creative license when basing a film on a real life story.
shareOh God no. Steve Jobs sucked! I had my doubts it was going to be a great movie, but I was surprised how bad it was. Completely pretentious. Basically the movie was getting someone that neither looked much like Steve Jobs or sounded like him (weird German accent when Jobs was from California) and follow this guy around watching him argue with everyone for two hours. The director somehow thought it would be more interesting if he did little quirky things like wash his feet in a toilet for no apparent reason, or bend over and go on all fours and talk with the camera focused between his legs. Weird as hell cinema.
Box office Bomb. Shocking? Not so much.
Pretentious: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. - Just so you're aware that you used the word incorrectly.
This movie is great, by the way.
I know what it means but thank you anyway. I think it was pretty pretentious IMO. Lots of rambling and random scenes of Jobbs doing doing things a normal person would not do. Rather than present a linear story this movie was just showcasing how quirky he was and what a scum bag he was, rather than go through the trouble of doing an actual biography. I think the directors efforts in making a artsy fartsy film qualified as pretentious.
IMO when a film is made, sometimes the director will try to 'affect greater importance' to the movie by presenting weird camera angles or trying to create an atmosphere to make the film seem more important than it actually is. An example would be Dark City, a craptastic film where the director made a great effort of creating a 'mood' or style rather than tell an interesting story. It possibly could have been decent if not for all those weird close ups or unrealistic moments where characters break out into long, rambling emotional speeches that absolutely no one would ever do in real life. IMO another case of adding style to make the film seen more important than it actually one. Pretentious IMO.
If you enjoyed it than that is fine. To each their own. I'm sure there are lots of films I love that you would feel were complete crapola.
But IMO Jobbs was a lousy movie.
Cool. I get that. I disagree, however. It's exhilarating from start to finish yet tells such a simple story. In fact, I see it as the absolute opposite of 'pretentious'. So many biopics tend to try to make something outstanding out of a person's life. This movie just gave us an insight into the crazy and harsh man that he was. It doesn't paint him as a god or anything of the sort; it simply shows us a few of his controversial actions and lets us judge.
The pace makes it thoroughly enjoyable, not once does the movie come to a halt. The scene between Jobs and Sculley (Jeff Daniels) where they are having a heated debate, was more exciting and engaging than most fight scenes in the common blockbuster these days, in my opinion.
Just rewatched it and in no way are those camera angles 'pretentious'. It's just a camera angle. It's a creative way to shoot something; out of the ordinary. I don't think Boyle was trying to affect greater importance to Jobs' excercises...
It's fiction (mostly) so I don't mind people having long emotional speeches because it's not real. Just like I don't mind explosions in space in Star Wars because, like Steve Jobs, it's just a movie.
It shouldn't be ficton if its supposed to be the biography of Steve Jobs. It's not just a movie like Star Wars, its supposedly a biography so you would expect it to be mostly all true.
There was a whole lot of very weird stuff in this movie. It's been quite a while since I saw it so exact details are hard, but I remember some crazy scene where he's having a conversation with someone, then suddenly decides to wash his feet in the toilet or something. WTF was up with that? There were more of those scenes, but I only saw the film one so I can't recall them. I do remember when I watched it it had me scratching my head by depicting Jobs as a lunatic.
It just struck me as an artsy fartsy pretentious piece of drivel. Rather than be a biography we'll just spend two hours in Jobbs world and watch him act crazy and be a dueche bag to people. They even cast a person with a noticeable German accent to play Jobs--who was not German. I would have at least expected the actor to make an effort to downplay his accept, but no.
But as I said different movies work for different audiences. I can appreciate a straight up drama as well as anyone. I consider my tastes in movies a little more advanced that the Transformers. Sadly I didn't enjoy Jobs at all. I actually preferred the Steve Jobs movie. At least it was a proper biography.