Weekend

Jobs –

--Not a review only rants

I am not a big Steve Jobs or apple fan (go Google J ) .  So going into the movie I knew I would like movie that much. But then I had same feeling when I went for Social Network and was completely blown by the movie. However Matt Something is no Aaron Sorkin .  Having already seen Pirates of Silicion Valley I had a fair insight about Jobs’s life. What I was hoping was that Jobs would carry on from where pirates left and walk us through his rise and introduction of iPhone.  Which in a way this movie does so while Pirates end with Bill clouding over Steve, Jobs ends with Steve Jobs in full control.

However, Jobs is not able to stay completely true to depicting Steve completely or being entertaining. I think that is where the movie falls short. It would have had more punch if it revealed little known facts about jobs like firing employees without any notice or severance, asking questions like when you lost your virginity in an interview.

 To movie’s credit it does get many things right, Including the game woz and jobs developed for Atari, His denial and finally acceptance of his daughter. I watched Planes just prior to watching jobs. So I enjoyed it, because planes was kind of a drag.  I would recommend watching Pirates over Jobs.

Inferno

I am a Dan Brown fan so to all those say that he is not a good writer, - I don’t care as long as he is entertaining.

However, even his ardent fans wills admit that his formula was getting little old. Langdon gets a call, meets a pretty, intelligent and accomplished girl, and discovers a secret that involves a secret society of kind (NSA, Illuminati, Priori of Sion, and Vatican City.), girl and Langdon try to escape the bad guys while Langdon throws on interesting factoids around. Then a friend who was helping them turns to be the antagonist.

Fortunately, this time even though the story is similar it does not start like in other books. Often the interesting piece of writing in Brown’s book has to do with history of some particular thing and this time it is Dante (as is evident from the book name) and Botticelli’s map of hell which is intriguing enough to make you want to read Dante’s divine comedy . For me though, it was ######### (well I believe it would be tantamount to spoiler so not mentioning it).

 Verdict:   The Lost Symbol < Inferno << Angel’s and Demons.