With its gorgeously rounded form factor, the iPhone 6 is a big, beautiful beast. Which is a bit like the mecha in Guillermo del Toro’s epic 2013 movie Pacific Rim in fact. (Fine, I’m stretching the simile a bit — but don’t let that put you off a fantastic film.) Set just a few years in the future, Pacific Rim tells the story of an Earth at war with giant monsters from a portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. To fight them, mankind unites to build giant fighting robots.
The rest, as they say, is history. Or rather future.
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Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
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7 responses to “6 awesome sci-fi blockbusters to watch on your new iPhone”
Even though I’ll be getting mine (6) tomorrow night, I don’t plan on watching movies on it. To me the idea of video on less than a 24″ screen is simply useless. An occasional YouTube is about all I can handle. Even my iPad Air is never used for video (by me, anyway – sometimes the grandson will watch hulu on it).
I only insist on watching movies LIVE on the set and I’d never use my imax for anything less than youtube
I only can abide watching movies on IMAX screens. Anything less than that is just unacceptable.
so do you have an IMAX screen in your house?
I only watch movies on 8mm with mono audio. But that’s just me, I’m a perfectionist projectionist with an 8mm projector.
As the author of this article and a movie lover, I’ll agree that if I’m home I’m not hunched over my iPhone watching a movie, but if you travel this beats the heck out of the portable DVD player I used to cart around a few years back. True, a larger screen MacBook still wins out, but there are some times you just don’t have the opportunity to use your notebook.
or the space on the damn plane. have you SEEN those tiny trays?