Review of Steve Jobs (2015) by Leaveit — 06 Nov 2015

If you like people walking down halls, reciting lines that can only be delivered like in a high school play or a reading of Green Eggs and Ham even by the best actors, and passive-aggressive slam pieces about celebrity figures, go ahead and see this and every Aaron Sorkin thing ever made. If you either didn't see Jobs or Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine or need to contribute more to overblowing this mildly intelligent, morally gray and overcredited computer engineer's popularity, just go for a Sunday matinee.

If this thing is even nominated for an Oscar I'm going to feel like eating my own head. So unoriginal, so overwrought (as another reviewer commented), such a throwaway subject. Should Sorkin do a movie about Kim Kardashian next because she is popular? What other scenarios can we have characters unrealistically spouting cringeworthy dialogue in fast foward that sounds like an English major put it through 10 drafts before the actor delivered it? Will Danny Boyle ever stop doing that slightly tilted camera shot? Will Jeff Daniels ever stop playing a guy in a suit in a boardroom? Answering these questions should be about as thought provoking as considering Steve Jobs's life.