It seems like we’ve been seeing Ashton Kutcher play dress up since before Steve Jobs’ body was even cold, but apparently this is the first “official” picture of him as Jobs. Aaron Sorkin is reportedly writing a competing Steve Jobs biopic, but in the meantime, we have this one, which is apparently no longer called “jOBS,” but is still being financed by a guy who makes real estate textbooks, directed by the director of Swing Vote, and starring the guy who replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men. The new, non-creatively capitalized “Jobs” (at least according to Variety) has been selected to play closing night at Sundance. I expect at least a moderately disinterested bidding war between Lifetime and Syfy for distribution rights.
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I hope Syfy picks it up. Jobstopus vs Gates-a-saurus Rex
Even with all of those things going against it, right now I’m a million times more interested in this film than the turd Sorkin is going to shit out.
“There are two new movies coming out. One was written by Aaron Sorkin–”
“I prefer the other one.”
as cool as it is to hate Sorkin now, that’s a ridiculous statement. considering how good The Social Network and Moneyball are, my faith in his ability to write movies is still there.
Great, because you’re basically paying to see the same goddamn movie with (some) different actors. I’ve said it before, but Jobs himself laid out a pretty workable three-act play about his life in his Stanford speech, and Sorkin could even use the speech himself for the framing device.
Itself. Because the three acts of Sorkins’ are just ineffective and hollow storytelling devices.
I was wondering what all those baseballs were doing in The Social Network. Thanks for hipping me to that.
“Does anyone care about Ashton Kutcher’s dumb Steve Jobs movie?”
iDONT
*Slow clap*
He has a lot of practice pretending to be somebody who would have been in an age-appropriate relationship with an 80′s starlet.
Give him his due, Sorkin has really nailed Apple’s signature white square aesthetic.
Realized when I started watching The Butterfly Effect on TV yesterday, Kutcher’s highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes is No Strings Attached at 49%. Clearly, the dude objectively sucks.
Portman accounted for 39% of that RT meter reading. She almost convinced me Kutcher might have something going for him. Almost.
To the best of my knowledge, Ashton Kutcher has never been in anything worth watching. Except Mila Kunis (sorry).
I believe a certain TV character from the past would call that a BURN!
One annoying shit head playing another one, it’s a match made in heaven.
Jobsy Jormp-Jomp
When this two movies come out, it´ll be a christina APPLE-GATE.
Sorry
This implies that anyone cared about it coming out in the first place.
Not sure whether it should be iBomb or iFlop
iDirect-to-DVD.
You know who will care? Magazines. No reason. Magazines.
Oh, hey, look, it’s a colossal douchebag who is far more popular than he deserves to be, and there’s the actor playing him in a movie!
I thought you Republicans were pro free market, pro innovation and pro Jobs.
My problem with Jobs is completely apolitical. The guy was an asshole who took all the credit for the inventions his company made and people treat him like a saint.
That’s how these things work. Someone provides the environment for innovation, he gets the credit. Do you think that Edison actually invented the light bulb himself?
Joe-iPod inventor could not have done that in his garage (probably.)
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I have more of a problem with the deification of Jobs. People love to gloss over the fact that the guy was a douchebag and treat him as the Second Coming as they use their iWhatever.
Plus, all of their commercials have pretty much the same douchey message:
“Apple iProduct – Because if you don’t have it, your life sucks and we’re better than you. Go fuck yourself.”
Dial it back a bit, Kutcher – I don’t appreciate getting iFUCKED.
That cube looks like some kid from the 90′s designed what they think a cube from the 80′s looked like. So. Many. Pen. Holders.
To be fair, pens were all the rage in the 80s…
/should have been a dick joke
Exactly how are those photos any different than everyday Ashton Kutcher posing at Epcot Center’s “Workplace of the Future” exhibition?
It does seem odd that the sexier picture is the actual one of Steve Jobs and not Ashton Kutcher who started his career off as an modeling for a living.
You couldn’t pay me to see a biopic about Steve Jobs, no matter who was in it.
Great jorb, Ramrod.