“Steve Jobs has been many things to many people,” Ken Segall reports for Observatory.
“But until I made it to the theater yesterday to see ‘Jobs,’ I never really thought of him as entertainment,” Segall reports. “I actually mean this in a positive way. Unless we’re talking about documentaries playing in art houses, movies aren’t expected to lay out the facts. They’re designed to keep us amused or engrossed for a couple of hours. For me, this one did that.”
Segall reports, “Admittedly, I took my seat with a few biases and preconceptions — some of which hit me when the project was first announced. Lightweight actor. Director with short resume. Screenwriter with no resume. An absurd title (originally called ‘jOBS’). And a horribly written website to boot. It all seemed amateurish, being rushed into production upon Steve’s death… I’m not saying it’s a classic. The screenwriting felt weak at points. I certainly wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the Best Picture nod. But if you’ve followed Steve’s story over the years, it’s interesting to see his decades-long journey compressed into a two-hour ride.”
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MacDailyNews Take: If you go in with low expectations, you might be entertained. We were unable to lower ours enough.
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Jobs’s death is becoming an industry, gettin’ a little ghoulish.
As the artist Salvador Dali said “If they stop talking about you, then you are truly dead”!!!
Finally, a review from someone that really knew Steve.
It is going to be hard, particularly from those who haven’t or won’t see the movie to comment further.
Again, I saw and enjoyed Jobs. If anything it was a way short.
You must be new here. Commenting on things you haven’t seen or read is what this forum is all about.
and you are the unquestioned authority on that.
I’m gonna wait until the Daniel Day Lewis version…. 😉
I really miss Steve! What a gift to have seen him change the world!
I will go in with high expectations and Mac Daily News is wrong.