The Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher. SPOILERS.
One of the big questions I had going into the movie was what time period it covered.
Other than an initial framing scene set in 2001, it basically covered 1974–1997 (skipping most of 1985–1996) so roughly the same time period as Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Two years ago I said:
you know what would rock? if they did a Pirates of Silicon Valley sequel covering 1997-2011
— James Tauber (@jtauber) August 25, 2011
I still think that's true because JOBS is definitely not that.
Ashton (or is that Chris?) did a great job. Many of the other actors were great likenesses. Josh Gad didn't look enough like Woz for me but captured a lot of the personality.
Giles Matthey did a perfect job of playing the Jony Ive you see in the Apple promotional videos.
Gil Amelio's "the ship is leaking and it's my job to point it in the right direction" gets in there, as does the "here's a dopey idea" that Jony Ive said Steve would sometimes say to him.
Pixar gets ignored entirely. And the movie seemed to suggest Gil Amelio replaced John Sculley. NeXT only gets a brief mention in the montage showing passage of time from 1985 to 1996.
Unless I misheard, there was a goof (not just artistic license as it didn't fit the chronology of the film) in saying Sculley left in 1983 instead of 1993.
In Pirates of Silicon Valley the demo at the Homebrew Club was portrayed as a success rather than the (mostly a) failure it was in JOBS.
It was the start of the story in Pirates but JOBS skipped the whole Blue Box phase.
JOBS focused way more on the other personalities at Apple. Pirates of Silicon Valley gave Markkula a decent role but Sculley and Kottke very minor roles. All the other early people that JOBS gave decent screen time were completely missing in Pirates.
Pirates of Silicon Valley ends the main story in 1985 with the 1997 Macworld announcement being the framing story.
JOBS ends with Steve's return to Apple in 1997 (no mention of the Microsoft investment) with the framing story being the internal announcement of the iPod.