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Does Steve Jobs warrant two movies about him?

posted 9 years ago by d_henderson1810
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Many people had have been movies made about them (Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lincoln etc).

Yet Steve Jobs has now had TWO films made about his life? I doubt this guy deserves one movie about his life, let alone two.

Notice some of the people I listed in the first sentence. All are deserving of movies, because of the impact they have had on history and humanity.

All Steve Jobs did was invent some electronic devices that sold very well. He was a very successful businessman, but hardly someone who impacted society and humanity.

Jobs was some guy who had some good ideas, and implemented them. But he got kicked out of his own company and then got it back. He made products for materalistic millenials and then died from cancer, refusing to seek medical help and instead relying on hocus-pocus natural remedies (how did that work for him).

Tell me how some clever businessman deserves TWO films?

[–] sage2112 9 years ago

No. But I kinda liked this one. So, one is good enough.

[–] CountJohn 9 years ago

I don't know why people think like this. This movie wasn't made by the same creative team as the other Jobs movie. It's not like people sat down and said, "Let's make two movies about Steve Jobs". Coincidentally two different sets of writers/directors/producers decided to make a movie about him at around the same time. I'm pretty sure this one was even in development first.

But really, who cares if there was another movie about him? That has nothing to do with the quality of this one. The fact that most of this board is just people whining that there was more than one Steve Jobs movie, rather than saying anything substantive about this Steve Jobs movie is pretty pathetic. That and complaining that people "talk too much" because apparently a substantial portion of the audience were expecting Apple to fight a space battle against IBM and for Jobs and Scully to settle their differences with a mixed martial arts fight.