IT ignorance in movies

penski · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:27

slambo69 said:
I remember reading a blog and the guy was saying - 'how come we never see Windows on computers in movies?'

Kind of true, all movies with computers just have some basic, dodgy OS.

Mac OS?

...

Anyhoo; Jurrassic Park - "Ah, ah, ah! You didn't say the magic word!"

And the "Live Video Feed" of the dock that has a progress bar at the bottom of the window.

*n

m3csl2004 · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:38

transformers, again with the "hacking" scene lol

Trixxy · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:47

Whenever text appears on the screen, the monitor makes a noise like a dot-matrix printer.

Seen that in many movies.

daz · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:56

Volcs said:
Hi 5.

Jurassic Park: "This is a UNIX system...I know this"

Stop scrolling around with your mouse then.

I believe that is (was) an actual GUI available at the time. Something to do with SGI systems.

Nitefly · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:59

The Thing! Best computer simulation of alien invasion, everrrrrrrrr

sam83uk · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:00

Nitefly said:
The Thing! Best computer simulation of alien invasion, everrrrrrrrr

oh the probability calculations.. ??

Steedie · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:05

penski said:
[geeks only] do you think my IT is accurate?

*n

LOL Poor sam

lol

But yeah on topic, pretty much any hacking scene in a movie

Begbie · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:06

Hackers!

The leet 'hacking' on that is just brilliant.

brendy · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:11

Uploading a virus to the Alien mother system on Independance Day, obviously a windows 98 system eh?

Jaap74 · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:14

wasn't "War Games" the first movie when hacking rocked the world ?

Nitefly · 28 Jul 2007 at 18:19

sam83uk said:
oh the probability calculations.. ??

Indeed

SexyGreyFox · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:11

One of my all time favourite movies Independance Day featured aliens using Windows.

shifty_uk · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:15

I hate it in movies when they sit and type, yet never use a mouse. :confused:

It's not a movie, but CSI is terrible for this. Especially the zooming in on CCTV footage.

Gatsby · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:17

m3csl2004 said:
transformers, again with the "hacking" scene lol

Oh man that irritated me!

Can you "rewire" this old computer to output a morse code signal? Of course.

Hmmm here's a signal that hacked into the US Government's mainframe. None of our top analysts have been able to understand it but if I show it to this irritating (read: comic relief) geeky hacker dude he'll solve it in seconds!

Fraggr · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:18

Flying code that isn't even in human understandable letters.

Noises whenever something is typed, searched, moved, completed, etc...

Edit: hacking satellites with PDAs/mobiles.

Phalanx · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:41

Die Hard was ridiculous

what kinda professional hacker gets IP traced?

Azagoth · 28 Jul 2007 at 19:42

There's just too many to mention really. My pet 'tech' hate in films is when someone's using a computer and the display is shown to be not only on the monitor, but miraculously projected onto their faces!

I mean, WTF! :confused:

milkinc13 · 28 Jul 2007 at 20:37

not a film but Spooks does have some laughable hacking scences. bits i like are when "oh i need an internet signal. pass me you mobile i'll use it to tap into secret disused military satellites, and crack the whole encryption on my 1st attempt wit hrandom key presses" :rolleyes:

and the ability to download a whole PC HDD onto a USB key stick in under a minuite

if only someone would make an accurate film on hacking, then hollywood would see that it isn't glamours or sexy, would be boring but the truth

Ak!ta · 28 Jul 2007 at 20:54

I like 24, but it has to be one of the worst for this...

titaniumx3 · 28 Jul 2007 at 20:56

The computer stuff in movies like Italian Job, Oceans Eleven make me cringe too.