Movies & technology

Watched two movies - Cars (by Pixar) and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Amazing how one can be so well made and the other - well less said the better. Cars. The animation. The story. The opening sequence just knocked me off .Recovering, I wore a big smile. That remained till the end of the movie and continued well after the movie. Ah. The after taste. The folks at Pixar have done an amazing job. The technology behind the movie was extremely well hidden behind the well crafted story. If this story was made into a regular movie it would have been a bit cheesy. But with cars as characters, it was brilliant. The movie is a perfect demontration of using techonogy to enhance a story. There was no attempt to show off technology or the effort that went into the making. In true Steve Jobs style, the movie was elegant, clean, smooth with cutting edge animation wrapped around a nice interface in the form of a well told story.

Tokyo drift. What were they thinking? You can watch someone drift once. Ok. Twice may be. But all through the movie? It is really stupid to use technology or technique as a center piece and then bend and twist a story around it. Looked like the director was trying to create scenes just to show cars drifting. Again and again and again. The people behind this movie should have their artistic license revoked.