Aaron Sorkin signs on to make Steve Jobs movie

Am I the only person who doesn't much rate Aaron Sorkin?

The West Wing is very enjoyable, but it's basically sentimental soap-opera pap. The quick-fire dialogue is fun but it's not exactly His Girl Friday.

The Facebook film was really boring. Which set of smug millionaires will get to become billionaires? Watch them bicker round a table, with flashbacks to them bickering at other tables over the years, to find out.
 
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The Facebook and the baseball film were boring indeed, I had an theory that he had a dare to make good scripts/films without stories. He cant. I dont think the Apple one will be very different.

But all his TV-series were fantastic and I cannot wait for Newsroom.
 
It might be a good movie if Jobs is portrayed as a right cnut.

Forgot he did the Social Network. Didn't like that movie at all.
 
I hated Social Network. It wasn't that bad on it's own but relative to the hype and reviews it got it was hugely disappointing. I didn't think there was enough of a story to tell to make a movie about, really. But that didn't matter for many people because at the back of their minds it being about Facebook made up for the story being drab and pointless. The same will probably happen on this one. People will, in their heads, find the story fulfilling on the basis of it being Steve Jobs. Although, to be fair, his life story is probably a lot more interesting than Mark fecking Zuckerberg (the "Nerd who stole an idea", oooh the twists and turns).
 
Plechazunga said:
Am I the only person who doesn't much rate Aaron Sorkin?

The West Wing is very enjoyable, but it's basically sentimental soap-opera pap. The quick-fire dialogue is fun but it's not exactly His Girl Friday.

The Facebook film was really boring. Which set of smug millionaires will get to become billionaires? Watch them bicker round a table, with flashbacks to them bickering at other tables over the years, to find out.
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Same for me.
 
I like Sorkin, but I didn't get the Social Network. Part of it's problem seemed to be it was based on a book by - and thus based around sympathising with - the Garfield character, who didn't actually seem do anything at all. He was portrayed as the sort of wronged good guy of the piece, yet even the film couldn't quite convince us he'd done anything to deserve half of facebook besides 'being a good fried' and swanning in every now and then from the rain, so it had to resort to making everyone else look like a flying cnut to justify it.

I can't imagine this being any more riveting. Though it'll probably be better than the one with Ashton Kutcher in it.
 
Mockney said:
I like Sorkin, but I didn't get the Social Network. Part of it's problem seemed to be it was based on a book by, and thus based around sympathising with, the Garfield character, who didn't actually seem do anything at all. He was portrayed as the sort of wronged good guy of the piece, yet even the film couldn't quite convince us he'd done anything to deserve half of facebook besides "being a good fried", so it had to resort to making everyone else look like a flying cnut to justify it.

I can't imagine this being any more riveting. Though it'll probably be better than the one with Ashton Kutcher in it.
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Hang on, what? Is that real?
 
Jesus cnuting Christ. People know he can't actually act, right? He's good at Twitter and high profile divorces, but acting really isn't his strong suit.
 
I like how that link implores us to "wait and watch whether he will be able to meet people's expectations or not."....I'm fairly sure people's expectations of Ashton Kutcher in a Steve Jobs biopic are pretty low, so I'm quite certain he can meet them.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
I hated Social Network. It wasn't that bad on it's own but relative to the hype and reviews it got it was hugely disappointing. I didn't think there was enough of a story to tell to make a movie about, really. But that didn't matter for many people because at the back of their minds it being about Facebook made up for the story being drab and pointless. The same will probably happen on this one. People will, in their heads, find the story fulfilling on the basis of it being Steve Jobs. Although, to be fair, his life story is probably a lot more interesting than Mark fecking Zuckerberg (the "Nerd who stole an idea", oooh the twists and turns).
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Steve Jobs is a far more interesting character than Mark Zuckerberg though. It was John Sculley I think who noted that he thought Jobs' temper and mood-swings bordered on bipolarity. His life is perfect for movies, and there's hardly any need for creative writing: The charming and yet obnoxious adopted boy with a Messiah complex who ended up changing the world, dropping acid and searching for enlightment on the way.
 
The Kutcher one is a different film......just fyi. Thats an indie, Sony have the rights to the book that was released last year.

And agreed on Noah Wyle, good performance and solid film, though it does feel cheap and tacky now, because well it is a 90's made for TV film. A biopic is a new thing to Sorkin, but I'm sure he'll handle it just fine, I mean it's not like he was an expert in deep baseball stats either, but he turned that into a pretty solid film.
 
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