IT ignorance in movies

Dano · 29 Jul 2007 at 15:01

sid said:
BTW in the bourne supremacy the PDA the guy exists in RL IIRC.

Theres is HP PDA with built in fingerprint scanner which they use.

No, the one in the film scanned it via the screen.

Dano · 29 Jul 2007 at 15:05

allllec said:
Any film where they zoom in on an image or CCTV footage. firstly - all with the keyboard and only a couple of key strokes? huh. lol. and also the stupidly high amount then can zoom in and still get details from it

That's just reminded me of one of the worst offenders, Enemy of the State, where the not only zoom in but are able to rotate the image in a third dimension to see a bulge on the back of a bag, awful, just awful.

Deiwos · 29 Jul 2007 at 15:49

I know its a comedy, but Ferris Buellers Day Off. Where he hacks the school computer.

nemtizz · 29 Jul 2007 at 15:54

Dano said:
That's just reminded me of one of the worst offenders, Enemy of the State, where the not only zoom in but are able to rotate the image in a third dimension to see a bulge on the back of a bag, awful, just awful.

You've obviously never seen Deja Vu.

Dano · 29 Jul 2007 at 16:27

pitcl said:
You've obviously never seen Deja Vu.

I have, but the entire pretence of the film's plot kind of forgives pretty much any other outlandish technological claims.

clv101 · 29 Jul 2007 at 16:40

milkinc13 said:
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

Shock Horror, you mean Hollywood distorts reality and makes it seem more glamorous and sexy than it really is?! :eek:

Rather than singling out how IT is represented in films... how about car chases, fight scenes, high schools, romance etc etc... it's all unrealistic. It would be kinda dull it if wasn't.

Volcs · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:23

clv101 said:
Shock Horror, you mean Hollywood distorts reality and makes it seem more glamorous and sexy than it really is?!

Rather than singling out how IT is represented in films... how about car chases, fight scenes, high schools, romance etc etc... it's all unrealistic. It would be kinda dull it if wasn't.

Yeh, I don't think a film based on me writing shell scripts to turn a set of numbers from one format into a different set for an e-commerce upgrade would do to well at the box office. It's not all dull though - sometimes we get beers when we work late!

...God it's monday tomorrow already.

sid · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:02

Dano said:
No, the one in the film scanned it via the screen.

HP 5550 can scan by placing the finger on the screen, no differnt to placing a film with the fingerprint on the screen.

sid

edit/google it for specs

churned · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:09

War games surely, "would you like to play a game, how about Thermonuclear Warfare IRL!?" gtfo...

Dano · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:13

sid said:
HP 5550 can scan by placing the finger on the screen, no differnt to placing a film with the fingerprint on the screen.

sid

edit/google it for specs

Hmmm, the google search I did earlier said it had the fingerprint reader on the back, either way, it didn't exist when the movie was made as far as I know and I seriously doubt it would have worked any where near like it did in the film.

PikeyPriest · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:42

Hackers - im sure they say something like:

"its not fast enough...
Double the RAM!" - Queue floppy disc being put in :confused:

Then again people think that i can hack because i can build computers! The most "hacking" i did was to use win nuke on the school network

sid · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:56

Dano said:
Hmmm, the google search I did earlier said it had the fingerprint reader on the back, either way, it didn't exist when the movie was made as far as I know and I seriously doubt it would have worked any where near like it did in the film.

I'm sure they did use that PDA in the movie, (let me check i have the film)

Whilst I haven't used the device myself, I think it would be able to scan the film and check some sort of database over its Wifi so I don't think its "Myth Busted" its very plausible.

sid

edit/ I checked and it is infact that pda so very plausible, although I doubt it could match the suspect so quickly.

edit/ did you say the scanner was at the back? then obviously it wouldn't work although I swear it was the screen that could scan.

nemtizz · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:44

Dano said:
I have, but the entire pretence of the film's plot kind of forgives pretty much any other outlandish technological claims.

That wasn't the point I was referring to.

squiffy · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:57

pitcl said:
You've obviously never seen Deja Vu.

Or Bladerunner.

buachille · 29 Jul 2007 at 22:37

what about pirates of the caribbean. remember when jack sparrow used his compass with 32 gig flash memory (cleverly hidden in the base) to transfer his vids to his linux box, encode them as xvid and them punt them onto his ipod............

am i on the wrong page here?

penski · 29 Jul 2007 at 22:46

buachille said:
what about pirates of the caribbean. remember when jack sparrow used his compass with 32 gig flash memory (cleverly hidden in the base) to transfer his vids to his linux box, encode them as xvid and them punt them onto his ipod............

am i on the wrong page here?

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FUNNY!!!!!!1

*n

ElvisFan · 29 Jul 2007 at 23:17

dmpoole said:
For many years when anybody gets an email its always in a great big window with a great big font.

Yes, I watched Mission:Impossible the other week as well.

Strangely, I've always wanted an email interface like that.

Agree about the typing thing though. Best one was on Star Trek 4 when they go back in time and obtain some big sheets of perspex by giving the seller a diagram of a molecule of a highly complex polymer. Scotty draws the molecule in ten seconds just by typing! :rolleyes:

MookJong · 29 Jul 2007 at 23:41

The lack of mice, nearly everything gets done by tapping away at the keyboard.

Morba · 30 Jul 2007 at 00:49

MookJong said:
The lack of mice, nearly everything gets done by tapping away at the keyboard.

whats wrong with that? i work with a few people who rarely use a mouse.

i dont understand what the issue is with IT (amongst other things) being misrepresented in a fantasy film.
they are not there to sit and wait 10 mins while a file downloads, fails then needs to be done again. they are not making movies so that people can watch some type out a custom script to hack a system, only for it to fail due to a typo, then be re-written and get blocked.

Doohickey · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:17

Morba said:
they are not there to sit and wait 10 mins while a file downloads, fails then needs to be done again. they are not making movies so that people can watch some type out a custom script to hack a system, only for it to fail due to a typo, then be re-written and get blocked.

Lol. I'm sure there's a spoof in there, Scary Movie style.

Camera pans across to Jack Bauer, downloading a database onto a 1TB zip disk:
"Oh for ***** sake, it's crashed again :rolleyes:

"