Jobs

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013, I went to see the movie Jobs.

I was going to write a review, but my friend saw the movie and also wrote a review.  I think she puts it nicely into words and after reading her review, I feel that I would make many of the same comments.  She just puts them into words more eloquently.

Here's a link to her review. The only thing I would add is that the actor who plays Mike Markkula, Dermont Mulroney, he also does a good job.  And he looks spiffy in a suit.

Pacific Rim

On Tuesday, April 20, 2013, I went to see the movie Pacific Rim.  I had the pleasure of seeing it in IMAX 3D.

This movie is about a war between humans and kaiju.  Giant monsters are coming through tectonic plates and destroying cities.  Humans are fighting back with giant robots, or jaegers.  However, the storyline at the movie is that the kaiju are learning the defences of the jaegers and so the world has decided to go for another approach, the coastal wall program.  Yet, they saw that the kaiju just clawed through the coastal wall in Australia, so essentially people feel a bit helpless and desperate.

It was decided that the last ditch effort of the Jaeger program was to go through the rift between the two worlds and detonate a bomb so that the portal between our world and the Kaiju world would collapse.

What occurs?  You'll have to watch the movie to find out!

There is lots of eye candy to see in this movie and Guillermo del Toro does a good job of weaving a story just enough to not get in the way of all the action, but enough to satisfy the mind.