Danny Boyles best movie that I've seen!

Rating: 9/10 (13 August 2016)

"Steve Jobs" is about, obviously, Steve Jobs. In this movie we don't get to see his whole life, just three parts of it. But these three parts were career defining for him.
The director of this movie is also known from other Oscar winning films e.g.: "127 Hours" and "Slumdog Millionaire". The director is of course Danny Boyle. I liked his previous films very much, "127 Hours" more than "Slumdog Millionaire". He is a very good director with his own special style, which he didn't really let shine in this movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because I think that this might have otherwise ruined the movie. Well Imight be exaggerating a bit, but it still wouldn't have the same quality as it has now. At some points his style can be seen, like when there is a conversation between two people and some of their text is shown projected. This was very nicely done, and made the movie stand up more, from a cinematographic standpoint. I don't know if Danny Boyle had any influence in what I'm going to say next, but I think he had. I very much liked the fact that they used different camera's in each time-period. This was something very subtle, and only really noticeable if you were paying attention. This just fitted in right with the theme of the movie and showed the progression of electronics, also something that the movie is based around. You might have enough about me talking about Danny Boyle so let's move on a bit. The cinematography was done well. The editing too, but the pacing was a bit to fast for my taste. The scenes were always on a rapid tempo, which I believe was done to show how tense it was behind the curtain, but making it some fast paced also made it difficult to follow sometimes. Even though this isn't a big issue, I still would like to mention it, because that is really my only complaint. At times the movie was cleverly edited, by showing bits of a dialogue in the past, and one from in the current present. This was complex, but gave a beautiful end result.
The acting is the thing this movie got praised for. So was it that good? Yes. It was really good. Let's start of with the main actor, the one who played Steve Jobs, Micheal Fassbender. Fassbender is a very good actor and he shows it in this movie as well. He portrayed Steve Jobs really good, he didn't look anything like him, but he surely did a good job at portraying him. I don't think he deserved the Oscar-nomination for this movie. I think he deserved it for the movie "Macbeth". In that movie I found him to be way better than he was in this one. Kate Winslett is also in the movie, and she too did get nominated for an Oscar. Winslett played Joanna Hoffman. She was also very good, just sometimes I think her accent went away, but it was just barely noticeable. I think she did deserve the Oscar nomination, because I think that she was a tad better than Fassbender. The last actor I want to mention is Seth Rogen. Rogen played Wozniak, the person with whom Steve Jobs created Apple. Rogen normally plays in dumb comedies, but he has also played in some more serious movies like "50/50" for example. In that movie he proved that he can act in serious films, and in this one he does it again. In fact, I found him to be better in this movie than in "50/50"
The writing of the movie was really the star. I can't understand why Aaron Sorkin, the scriptwriter, didn't win, or at least get nominated for best screenplay. It was so well written. How Sorkin portrayed Steve Jobs as an asshole reminded me of "The Social Network", where he did the same with Mark Zuckerberk. But he just doesn't portray them as assholes, he does it with such care, that you somehow kind of feel for them. Such a brilliant Screenplay writer. His dialogue was very interesting, which was very important with a movie like this: it is a dialogue driven movie. There are no fight scenes, as you would expect. The story is about Steve Jobs life, but mainly focuses on his relationship with his daughter, or at least with the girls who is not sure of is his daughter or not. This was handled beautifully and showed the more human side of Steve Jobs. Maybe the best part of the movie was the ending. The part the whole movie was building up to. The last couple of scenes were so well crafted that the ending was so satisfying to watch. It showed the love that Steve Jobs had for his daughter, but also his future success.
To wrap this review up I'll quickly summarize what I've mentioned in the review. The movie was well directed and acted, but Micheal Fassbender didn't really deserve the Oscar nomination, even though he did a good job. The screenplay was written wonderfully, and this is the thing that díd deserve an Oscar. "Steve Jobs" is my favorite Danny Boyle film and that's why I'm giving it an 9.4/10.