I watched Rage in several viewing sessions on my iPhone last week. It was entertaining and the story worked for me. Interesting characters and a story arc that did make me want to see the next installment. Rage made no attempts at significant visual storytelling and I did find myself wanting it to break out of the subjective blue screen set-up. But that may have also been what made it more intriguing as things happened off-camera and the story developed via each character’s subjective, perhaps suspect reactions and interpretation of the events.

I’m a filmmaker so I don’t really want to be limited to what Sally Potter did. I’m sure that’s not her point-of-view. I have also enjoyed traditional films on my phone while on a plane. I try to select films that don’t depend on big, sprawling visuals, but otherwise I’ve made the jump and it works for me, for that situation.

I also like the idea of more models for distribution that are more easily accessible to us outside the traditional systems. I believe the models will continue to multiply and we’ll see new ones very often, just at social media morphs at a rapid pace.