Jobs Story

The film opens in 2001 with a middle-aged Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introducing the
iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting.[6] It then flashes back to Reed College in 1974. Jobs
had already dropped out due to the high expense of tuition, but was still attending
classes with the approval of Dean Jack Dudman (James Woods) who took him under his
wing. Jobs is particularly interested in a course on calligraphy. He meets up with his
friend Daniel Kottke (Lukas Haas) who is excited to see that Jobs is holding a copy of Be
Here Now by Baba Ram Dass. Influenced by this book and his experiences with LSD, Jobs
and Kottke spend time in India. Two years later, Jobs is back in Los Altos, California living
at home with his adoptive parents Paul (John Getz) and Clara (Lesley Ann Warren). He is
working for Atari and develops a partnership with his friend Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad)
after he sees that Wozniak has built a personal computer (the Apple I). They name their
new company Apple Computer, though there already is a company called Apple Records
that is owned by The Beatles (Wozniak then teases Jobs that this is symbolic of his
preference for Bob Dylan). Wozniak gives a demonstration of the Apple I at the
Homebrew Computer Club. Jobs is later approached by Paul Terrell (Brad William Henke)
who shows interest in the Apple I. Knowing that he and Wozniak will need a studio in
which to build them, Jobs convinces his father Paul to allow them to use the family
garage (set up as a carpentry/tool center) for his new company. Realizing that they
cannot build these computers alone, Jobs also recruits Kottke, Bill Fernandez (Victor
Rasuk), and Chris Espinosa (Eddie Hassell) to the Apple team..

Movie Review

It's a movie about a troubled hipster who wanted to learn and to achieve something, but
hated the system into which the young are thrown into. He dropped out of College but
still attended some classes, he got into fights at work because he would yell at his
coworkers that they were not doing their job, he took other peoples ideas, remade them
into a story and sold them with his speeches and he wanted all. He was stubborn, he
always wanted the impossible and here comes the part that made him a legend: he
always got the impossible out of people.

Eventually he was driven from his company, he made bad calls, bad decisions, bad
products, but later came back and dominated the computer scene again. He probably
had more bad moments than good, but it's the good ones that count...and it's the good
ones that changed the world.

The people didn't get what they wanted...they didn't get a people's hero nor the man
that was always right. And no one wants to see a movie about a man who nobody liked
half of the movie...but it is how he was and you have to accept that.

Other Review
The plot is OK, actors are fine too. In some sequences, you feel it is over-exaggerated by
Ashton's acting. He did his best to play Steve role, in my opinion, it's convincing. The
disadvantage of the movie is, to me, it is sort of Apple movie than Steve Jobs. It is about
how Apple formed, and how Steve created Apple in the first place, and how he
glamorously came back to his company after a while.

I highly recommend the movie for whom want to get inspirations, I believe its good
enough.

Other Review

Great opening has Steve Jobs emerge with a small presentation called the I-Pod. The
problem is that the film goes totally down hill from there. The story is fascinating but it
deserves a director that can assemble everything properly. The most interesting aspects
are where Jobs creates the Apple computer but the personal elements are way out of
whack. We witness his frustration for perfection and his outbursts against co-workers
and friends but other elements are pathetically touched upon. He gets someone
pregnant and he reacts with an outburst and it is barely addressed again. Later we see
him settle down with his own garden and he has a son. This time span happens out of
nowhere. There is very little in terms of emotional fronts and the ending is abrupt and
lacks payoff. It might have been interesting had it presented where the whole I-Pod idea
developed and have the awe that the film's opening contained. Ashton Kutcher does his
best with the role right down to the hasty walk. Other roles are acted out with appeal
including Dermot Mulroney as someone who chances on Jobs early on and throughout.
The characters are presented with believable portrayals but viewers will be locked on
how Jobs conducted himself around those in his space. The film is visually well made but
disjointed take on the creative mind that brought technology to the next level.