iSteve
iSteve
| 14 April 2013 (USA)
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A comedic look at the life of Steve Jobs.

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Marian20

iSteve is the first biographical film about the late Steve Jobs.It stars John Long in the title role together with Jorge Garcia,James Urbaniak and Michaela Watkins.Former SNL writer Ryan Perez wrote and directed it.This parody starts with Steve Jobs rehearsing for a talk and later decides to take an view of his life from childhood until he returns to Apple the second time around.It pokes fun on his days on the garage,his rivalry with Bill Gates,the development of the personal computer,how he got fired at Apple by John Sculley,his personal life and many more.It apparently was far from the true facts and details as we get to see a love triangle between Bill Gates,Melinda Gates and Steve Jobs;the hiring of John Sculley by Jobs as Apple CEO due to the latter's love for soda drinks;the sexual relationship between Steve and Melinda through virtual reality; and a lot more.This 75- minute film concludes with Jobs stating that he is narrating the events in heaven.According to Ryan Perez,this film was written in three days and shot in five days.It definitely had its moments.Also,Perez stated about iSteve,"We might not be the best, but we will be the first".Apparently,he forgot to say that it maybe the first parody on the life of Jobs wherein the events were laughed at.With the release of other Steve Jobs films such as "Pirates Of Silicon Valley","Jobs" and the up-and-coming "steve jobs",this remains the funniest.

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loserdroid

I just pulled this movie out at random and thought it might be an interesting story about the ACTUAL life of Steve Jobs and the birth of home computing. To be frank, I don't know much about Steve Jobs, but apparently I know a hell of a lot more than the people who made this movie about Steve Jobs.The jokes are terrible enough that it isn't really even apparent in the beginning that this movie is even a parody. Eventually, you get to this scene where Woz and Jobs and Gates are banging on motherboards with hammers like 2-year-olds. not sure why.... But if the movie aims to appeal to computer nerds, maybe it should be somewhat authentic in its representation of them. They're banging on motherboards that wouldn't be invented for another 20 years (Pentiums with ZIF Sockets and Slot Processors). It is just crap. It's not even funny. If the filmmakers knew jack about computers, there would be an Altair in the scene somewhere. I kinda think that if you're going to parody something, you should parody something that's true. I don't think Bill and Melida gates met until maybe the late 90s? I don't know what I'm talking about, but I pretty much guarantee you she wasn't hanging out with them in the garage in the 70s.Also, D'arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins was never married to Billy Corgan and they never even dated. In the early days of the band, she dated James Iha. Also, Billy Corgan didn't start shaving his head until 1995 just after the release of the "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" single which was released in 1995... the music video for which features Billy Corgan with hair. Dumb Jokes, Dumb plot, not informative, not funny, not accurate, and unappealing to the demographic that would be most interested in watching a movie about Steve Jobs. I stopped watching about 2/3rds of the way through... I couldn't take it anymore... so I don't even know how it ends so I'll spare you any spoilers.

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jordan_heidendahl

Apparently written in 3 days, and filmed in 5 this movie is so funny. So many memorable moments including the virtual Melinda gates sex scene. The acting is bang on, and the writing is great. Better then most box office comedies in the past few years. Hopefully there will be more and more of these low budget but awesomely written movies produced in the future, though Funny or Die's follow up 'Coffee Town' looks pretty lame. Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak is an endless source of laughs, I'm still laughing just thinking about the way they wrote the relationship between him and Jobs. Check it out, it is ridiculous but amazing.

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ondrejrehacek

Nice internet movie. Great satyr aimed at Steve Jobs life and Apple history. Yes its inaccurate but TAKE the fact that this is a comedy and if you are interested in computer history you will have nice laugh. Justin Long and Jorge Garcia delivers great and funny acting, And its nice comedy driven tribute to a Steve Jobs and history of Apple computers. This comes from a proud mac user and admirer of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. And at the END you will find out that this is not to make fun of Steve Jobs, but to make him a tribute that is worth laugh and im sure if Steve himself can see it, he would smile at it too. So at the end Funny Or Die and whole team around this movie made pretty decent job.

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