Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie Gets a Release Date

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So it's official.   The Aaron Sorkin penned, Danny Boyle directed Steve Jobs biopic that has gone through development hell finally has a release date.   October 9th, 2015.   Do I care?  Not so much.   There has been so much drama surrounding the casting and production of this movie that something smells off to me.   It seems like it's being made simply because it HAS to be at this point.   That being said, there is a lot of star power, and a lot of Academy Award winners involved, so who knows.   I just take it as a bad sign when Ashton Kutcher looks more like Jobs than Fassbender does.

Carnival's Super Bowl ad shows how sea travel is a magical experience

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While this may not have been technically-speaking the best ad of this year's Super Bowl,  it was certainly one of the most effective.   This is the first bit of advertising from any cruise line that actually captures the majesty and awe-inspiring nature of ocean travel.   This is about as far as you can get from the average waterslide, massage, dance club, broadway show laden cruise ad that wants to try as hard as possible to make you forget that you're at sea.  Great, great ad.

Rewatching Star Wars Episode I: The Beginning

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Found this blast from the past on Youtube earlier today.   Star Wars Episode I: The Beginning was a documentary that was bundled with the original DVD of Star Wars Episode I way back at it's original release.   Looking back at it with nearly 20 years of distance, it's interesting in almost the same way that it's interesting to watch a car crash in slow motion.

From the very beginning you can almost sense in the glances between people around George Lucas that people realized George had no idea what he was doing, and that they had no real power to say anything about it.   This was especially evident seeing John Knoll, the head of special effects on Episode 1, and one of the creators of Adobe Photoshop.   Throughout the documentary he looked like a man who was just trying desperately to keep the train he had boarded vaguely on the tracks.

Take an hour or so out of your day one day and check this out.    It's incredibly interesting to watch it to see how easily one can take a beloved property and completely mess it up.

A Hit Sundance Film was shot solely on an iPhone.→

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Courtesy of The Verge

Courtesy of The Verge

Here is a great piece from The Verge on "Tangerine", a film getting rave reviews from this year's Sundance Film Festival that was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s.    Pretty interesting video about how/why it was done as well.   Can you imagine arriving on set to film a movie and finding out that they were about to film the entire thing on a PHONE?   Kudos to the actors and crew for seeing it through,  I'm sure there are many who wouldn't have been able to take it seriously.

Also, it never ceases to amaze what people are able to create with iPhones.  Super impressive.