Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.
I’ve just seen Jobs (2013).
The good parts:
- If you read the book Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson) prior to seeing the movie, it is a good reminder on what was good & nice & inspirational in the book.
- The me, it also cleared some misunderstandings. Seeing everything systematized made me understand things better.
- I like the fact that they only showed the most interesting & fighting part of his life – not the pre-Apple part, not the after-returning to Apple part. They focused on the struggles of building the company and returning. That was it.
The not-so-good parts:
- It missed major points. Pixar. Xerox. Gates. The wife. Spiritual part.
- It focused so much on parts, that it missed others. He was vegetarian – we’ll only pick the carrots. He had some relationships – we’ll pick the most intriguing.
- It was hard to understand in the movie that he liked to take walks. Or how bad he really could be at times. Or that he used to focus intensely and then not focus at all.
- It was too fake for my taste. I don’t want a documentary, but it was way too commercial.
- Not deep enough. They tried to pick lots of things and only narrowly present them, no time for building something deep.
- In the book, he seemed to do some mistakes, and have some faults. In the movie, he’s glorified.
- There’s solid truth, there’s so and so and there’s the movie. At times, it was plain false.
- There’s a big difference on what real life is and what the movie showed as real life. People don’t constantly talk like they are trying to say something great.
- By focusing on making Jobs look good, they deliberately made everyone else look bad. Un-OK-ish.
- In the movie there’s a sequence when Jobs is amazed by a computer terminal which displays a random set of numbers and letters. They even have this in the trailer. Disappointing.
The un-related parts:
- I understood by seeing the movie that the book was commercial by itself. It wasn’t a documentary, it wasn’t trying to find interesting things, it was, to me, just trying to say to people what they wanted to hear.
- The book was a much better experience than the movie, but this was also due to the time required to read it.
I didn’t like the movie that much.