Well, here I am with another movie review… this one is for the movie Anti-Trust. While this movie is an older one it is one of my favorites. While I don’t believe that anything on this scale doesn’t happen in the world it still paints a picture of how the software development landscape may go.
Watching the trailer for this film there were some scenes that wer cut from the film and the trailer doesn’t reflect that these scenes have been cut. This leaves some questions that are only half answered. The relationship between the Milo Hoffman charecter and the Lisa Calighan is not explored as full as the original script called for. It really isn’t the thriller that it could have been, the target audience for this movie is ultimatly people who have a computer or technical background. The movie is accesable to pretty much anyone, the advantage that someone with a tecnical background is they will understand the scope of the movie and the time it takes for software development.
The founder and head of NURV is Gary Winston and he is a mix of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the movie is a tounge-in-cheek look at Microsoft and Apple. It does paint a world where there is only one software company and most of the applications run on one platform and the only other choice is open source software.
Well, now that I have the ability to start posting again the big news lately is the new Star Trek movie. There were a large number of folks that were of the impression that this movie is a reboot of the Star Trek franchise. After seeing the movie for the first time I spent a little while trying to think through the new time line and it didn’t work.
This is going to be one of the movies where the time line does not fit into the full story, it has been a while since I have watched the 10 Star Trek movies but if I remember correctly they do not take place in an alternate time line. With the exception of going back in time everything fits somewhat nicely into the time line.
This is the first time that I have gone to the theatre in a long time to watch a movie. In fact over the past two weeks I have seen the movie 3 times. Something I have never done before. There will be no spoilers here simply because I am not a huge fan of spoilers and appreciate it when people take care not to spoil movies. Maybe at some point I will go into the statute of limitations on spoilers.
What can be said about this movie that hasn’t been said already? I was exposed to this movie in the early 90s on late night TV. To be honest this was the movie that got me interested in radio (something I followed up in the late 90s and early 2000s). I think the reason it attracted me so much was due to the fact that it was the first real teen movie that had a message but didn’t push it in your face.
This movie while dated still fills a purpose, it is a realistic story about the outcasts that still exist in schools today. There are some movies that were produced before this one that just did not live up to the standard that this movie has set. I have not seen a movie that addresses the same issues and presents it in a believable way.
On a side note this is the move that introduced me to the music of Leonard Cohen, The Pixies, and others. The same music that the University of Manitoba radio station used to play (possibly the reason I volunteered for them). I still watch it from time to time just for nostalgia reasons more than anything else. I have now found a new movie that inspires me just like this one used to.
