Add me to the "two-minute" list.
When Kutcher is giving the "corporate speech," before he pulls out the MP3 player, and everyone starts applauding as if he discovered alternating current, it just set the tone that this film is going to be poorly directed (I can just imagine the script saying "Queue: overwhelming applause," and the director not being able to predict that this was going to be super corny, over-the-top, and highly unrealistic/inaccurate was indicative of his skill, or lack thereof).
MP3 players were not new technology in 2001. Samsung had actually released a cell phone with MP3 capabilities that year, called the "Uproar." And if I saw correctly, Kutcher pulls out an iPod Touch (not released until six years later)?!
And in the next scene, Jobs is walking around campus barefoot, as a dropout, and a professor goes out of his way to offer advice to Jobs, as if he knew out of the thousands of students walking around on campus, this was the guy to cater to.
Bad writing, bad directing, and bad acting from Kutcher, who can only play himself.
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