Steve Jobs (not the Ashton Kutcher one...)
Didn't like it at all, it's Sorkinese at its worst. Every conversation is a singular train of thought, every exchange is fraught with tension and interruption regardless of whether it needs to be, every character has more or less the same voice (differentiated mainly by relative level of power), every sentence is spoken without the slightest hesitation regardless of its complexity, the lead character has to feel 100% in the right and beyond self-assured with every single word. It's grating and unnatural. There's very little stage direction too - unlike The Social Network, there's no escape from the dialogue here.
It touched on many of Jobs' various aspects, but I didn't feel it sufficiently managed to get under the skin. I didn't like the narrative conceit either - every section of the film takes place during a product presentation, it means that a lot of the key elements of the Apple story go unexplained. The film feels like it ends abruptly too, at a point which repeats earlier narrative. It could just as neatly have ended halfway through.
Fassbender makes a hell of a Jobs though, and Danny Boyle shoots him brilliantly. I just think they needed a better script to work with - but then again, maybe Boyle and his editing team aren't as good at taming Aaron Sorkin's prose as David Fincher's crew was.
