Wonderful Movie

The Worst Film Ever

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Absolutely brilliant

I've watched my share of movies, loved many of them, feel changed and awed by many of them; I look for reviews from the pros and amateurs alike, looking for other opinions to confirm or challenge my own. But this is my first ever review.My spouse just happened to find this gem on Netflix last evening, and once it got started, I was completely enthralled. An intimate interview like this gives those of us of only average aspiration a powerful glimpse into the workings of one truly great innovator. I have heard Mr Jobs had a reputation, among those who worked closest with him, as being extremely difficult to like. So I started watching this interview with a pre-jaundiced perspective. I am pretty sure you don't compete in the world in which Steve Jobs dominated without being hard to please sometimes, almost pathologically so.But it is important to put those impressions aside, and just listen to the man talk as if you didn't know who he was or what he was yet to do. He freely acknowledges the auspiciousness of his natural skills nurtured by the environment in which he grew up. He speaks candidly of his mistakes. He talks about his infatuation about computing machines, and the importance of learning a computer language because it forces you to learn how to think in new ways. He gets emotional about being forced to leave Apple (incredible and ironic that he hires the person that would lead the Board to oust him, and subsequently dismantle Apple). His ability to think back to formative experiences of his much younger self, and relate them to his leadership style and decisions is nothing less than profound. He can talk about old widowers from his childhood, a Scientific American article about living things and kilocalories/kilometer efficiency, ordering his first shipment of 100 printed circuit boards for the Apple I, Bill Gates, what he learned from two brief visits to Xerox (a lot!), what "diseases" infect large established companies, process versus content, what "taste" means, and why it's so important, and much more. He relates the story of his uninhibited 12-year-old self calling Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard!) to ask questions about computer technology. Back then, everyone was just in the phone book! He speaks off the top of his head in completely coherent logically formed paragraphs as if he had been reading from an essay he'd been working on for weeks.If you're at all curious why Steve Jobs was "Steve Jobs"; why his name is synonymous with edgy brilliance; why YOU almost certainly have an Apple product somewhere (and why you, even begrudgingly, appreciate it), do not wait to flip on this movie.

A conversation with Steve Jobs circa 1995 as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.Now, maybe it's just me, but it seems like Steve Jobs was a key figure for the second half of the 20th century. Maybe just even the last quarter. But such a big part of our world today. I am not a fan of Apple, but there is no denying the power they have. And having grown up in the 80s and 90s, I really appreciate how candid Jobs is when he speaks about the history of computing. This is the third or fourth Jobs film I've watched, and I feel like I learn something new each time.And I love how he believed that without blue box, there would be no Apple. I was never a hacker or a phreaker, but I was aware of it, and was involved in BBS culture. So I can completely understand how the computer revolution came out of hacking culture and from clever young people who were reverse engineering bigger technologies and finding their weak spots.

In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Steve Jobs.During that time of the interview,Jobs was running NeXT, the computer company he had founded when he got fired from Apple after a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he had brought into the company.The whole hour long interview was presented in it after it was found by the series director,Paul Sen.I enjoyed the interview thoroughly.In it,Jobs was at his charismatic best explaining his rise and fall as founder of Apple by narrating the early days when he and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I in a garage, and unknowingly invented cell phones by rigging it to send a telephone call around the world to ring the pay phone next door a minute later. As I quote him,"We realized we two could control billions of dollars in infrastructure!".He also remembers them and his one time experience of calling the Pope and hanging up when they realized they'd actually gotten through.Aside from that,he was frank about John Sculley,the CEO at Apple he hired from Pepsi especially after he drove him out of the company he started.Besides that,he was clearly a visionary as he stated of things to come in the computer industry after visiting Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1980's. He was simply witty and outspoken.Most of all,the was simply a visionary who proves himself to be ahead of his time when it comes to computer industry especially with things to come like the internet,mobile devices,computers,software,networking and many others that exist today after coming back as CEO of Apple in the late 90's when he mentioned them when the interview took place. Overall,this is one excellent interview that an Apple device owner should watch.

Although there is absolutely nothing "cinematic" about this film, I liked it way more than six stars; I was bowing to my rule of not over- rating (since I generally only rate films that I think were worthy of 8 or higher, because I rarely waste the time watching dogs!).How could there be a spoiler on this? He's dead; his life is a matter of public record and history. JUST AMAZING that this interview was located. It truly shows what a fascinating and dynamic fellow Jobs was. I have always admired him. I work in the computer field -- have done for 27 years -- so I am not just blowing smoke here.There's a story (there are so many) about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. There's also a film, depicting their mutual relationship when they were young, the name of which I can't recall. (unwilling to do the research right now) I started in 1984 or '86 working with computers, and started a business; I recognized that the money lay with the 88% (usually higher) of PC users; I built PCs from parts and taught people how to use them. It was a big business back in the late 80s and early 90s and I did very well. I have that master rip-off artist, Bill Gates, to thank for that. Steve Jobs was highly original. One only has to watch the major-production commercials he made for the Apple/Mac, using top directors and state-of-the-art graphics, to GET that he was about perfection and elegance. I DON'T have a Mac, but whenever clients asked me which they should buy, I would say, well, the Mac is better, if you can afford it. 9.9 times out of 10...well, what I can I say? Their market share was almost always under 9%.Having blathered on about all that, watching this was a real treat. He's over the Gates/PC thing and has even left Apple. He's smart, articulate, visionary, he's talking about the future. He doesn't know that he will become a huge cultural icon, that his standards of perfection will create a benchmark. Essentially, WOW. Thank you for making this available for viewing.