All About Another Steve

Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2016)

I guess it helps I never saw the other panned JOBS movie. But, it hurt the world and I didn't care about the man or mac.
See, I've never been an Apple guy. I *had* to use them in the newsroom in college because that's what they had and before that, I do recall using the Apple IIe in Grammar School. When I was able to purchase, or have purchased/made for me, I chose the IBM or anything-but an Apple product. Today is no different.
So, when the first JOBS movie opened, I didn't care to see it. And when it was severely panned, all the more reason to avoid it. I heard about the second attempt at a film about Jobs and rolled my eyes, as most of America did. Yes, I heard it was praised and then became part of history with a couple of Oscar nods. Since I watch all the Oscar main nominations, finally I had to see it.
I think we were all wrong. This is a very good movie with two fantastic and well-deserved nominee performances.
Completely original and tight, the great director, Danny Boyle takes only three aspects of Jobs' life to spin his tale of "always being right." Minutes before three of his huge presentation/launches from the 80s to 90s are shown to give us most of what happened in between.
Michael Fassbender has always been great and here, he really shines once again. Sadly, I never knew the real Steve Jobs, or seen him in any video other than ones that parodied him. And at first, I didn't recognize Kate Winslet and she was good as always. Not her best, but damn well had me rooting for her. All the supporting cast was good as well.
Too bad this movie was overlooked because of the hate on the fairly recent JOBS fiasco. Boyle did an excellent, ah-hem, job here and it really should be seen. Even if you're not a fan like I'm not, the screenplay alone is fast and fun. Totally worth it.
***
Final thoughts: I'm probably gonna get sued by the Jobs estate, but when I was a kid and we couldn't afford either an IBM or Mac, I was gifted a Radio Shack 16k Color Computer II where I programmed my own AppleWorks software we used in school. See, we couldn't afford software either, so it was up to me to make my own and I *loved* the AppleWorks program. So, I learned basic programming and created: CocoWorks (Coco being the nickname for the Color Computer from Radio Shack.) It had the three main components from AppleWorks: a word processor, a database and a spreadsheet. Or, what we call today: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. It was fully functional and I was thoroughly proud of it. Maybe someday I can find that program I made or at least a print out from it. I miss doing those programs.