Wonderful Movie

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Funny Or Die releases what they call "the first biopic" of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.They pride themselves of "being the first" and presents an unlikely tribute to the Apple Chief wherein it presents lots of fun and laughter as Jobs provides an examination of the events of his life from his childhood until his return to Apple Computer more than a decade after he got fired from the company by John Sculley.The 80-minute film stars Justin Long as Steve Jobs who provides narration in the events of his life together with Jorge Garcia,James Urbaniak and Michaela Watkins.It presents many events of his life like his student days at Reed,his friendship with Steve Wozniak,the presentation of the first Apple computer at Homebrew Computer Club,his firing from Apple and many others.Aside from real events of Jobs' life,we also get to see unlikely events of his life such as his friendship with Bill Gates,his love affair with Melinda Gates,his partnership with Commodore Computer,his love for soda drinks and many others.Apparently,this film is a combination of both accuracy and inaccuracy to provide funny moments to the viewer.While people who probably saw this film would somehow dislike it due to the inaccurate events,one must realize that it intends to be a parody of the life of an tech icon who gave the world products that people love.

This past week, August 16, 2013, the Steven Jobs movie with Ashton Kutcher was released. I haven't seen it yet but it is supposed to be a serious look at the life of Jobs.This movie, cleverly titled "iSteve", came out first and is just the opposite. In fact in the closing credits it states plainly that although some of the names used were real people, that "literally everything that happened in this story was totally fake." And further, "Point is this story is fictional. Phoney baloney."If that had not been clear as the movie unfolded, a certain scene where Jobs is speaking in his trademark turtleneck shirt of his later life, against a totally black background, and his voice grinds to a halt. Then we see him bent over at the waist and a technician comes over, takes a circuit board out of Jobs' back and works on it to get Jobs back to life should have erased all doubt.Justin Long is iSteve, Steve Jobs, a force of nature in computing starting in the 1970s through virtually the present, although he died in 2011. iSteve gave us such things as the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, things that we can hardly understand how we did without before them.As a comedy of fake events it takes great liberties with real people and real events and twisting them until they bear no resemblance to the truth. Jobs meeting the guru in India, getting the three LSD dots for when he needed inspiration. Bill Gates meeting his eventual wife in Jobs' garage, then riding off with her, sitting behind her on the bicycle. Jobs' inspiration for Pixar coming from his white desk lamp he almost sold when he needed money. And many more.Those looking for a serious movie will be disappointed and should not see this. But for those who enjoy the occasional diversion, in what resembles a 75-minute pseudo-SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit, this movie is a lot of fun. Fun just to see how you can take real events and real people and turn it into a twisted, funny story.SPOILERS: The movie is mostly flashback as Steve Jobs is practicing his talk. As the movie ends he says to us, "You guessed it, this room I am in is actually Heaven."

I don't really know how these comments would constitute a spoiler, but I checked the box just to be sure.I don't understand why anyone would want to take the subject of a famous person about whose life and work much is known and make a movie that is full of false information. What is the point? Was it humor? The movie was not funny. It was embarrassing.They made Bill Gates look stupid. He didn't deserve that. They made Wozniak look stupid. He didn't deserve that. They made Jobs look like he got all his ideas from other people, usually while stoned. He didn't deserve that. They showed Steve's father yelling and acting mean and crazy. He didn't deserve that. They made that Dell guy look like an idiot. He didn't deserve that either.Anyone who knows the history knows that most everything in the movie was false. Anyone who doesn't know the history will be learning lies. Also, if you didn't know the history, then you wouldn't be able to make any sense of this movie, because there's no telling of a story. It's just random bits thrown together, most of which are completely made up. It seems to be based on people knowing a few bits and pieces but not knowing anything well, so that when they show, for example, Steve being ejected from Apple, people will say to themselves, "Oh, yeah." Maybe you have to be stoned to watch it, and then it's just an experience, rather than presuming to have any intellectual content.What was that about the commencement speech at Stanford, trying to make Steve look stupid there? This commencement speech was very inspiring. Listen to the Steve Jobs Stanford commencement speech and judge for yourself.When Steve left Apple, he was not poor. He had tons of money, and with it he started a new company. As another viewer pointed out, John Sculley was indeed with Pepsico, and none of that stuff happened that way. (They did not meet at a urinal, and Sculley was not a spy.) I've never heard of Bill and Melinda being separated or of Steve having a thing for her. She wasn't even around in the early days. Read the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. There you will find the real information about Steve Jobs' life and career.By the way, I thought it was amusing that the actor from the I'm a Mac / I'm a PC commercials played Steve Jobs in the movie. (Those are some funny commercials.) This movie was very stupid and a complete waste of time.

Apparently written in 3 days, and filmed in 5 this movie is so funny. So many memorable moments including the virtual Melinda gates sex scene. The acting is bang on, and the writing is great. Better then most box office comedies in the past few years. Hopefully there will be more and more of these low budget but awesomely written movies produced in the future, though Funny or Die's follow up 'Coffee Town' looks pretty lame. Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak is an endless source of laughs, I'm still laughing just thinking about the way they wrote the relationship between him and Jobs. Check it out, it is ridiculous but amazing.