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I gave it a cold, I gave it a virus, a computer virus. (Independance Day, 1996)
Later explained (retconned? fanfictioned? idk) in that computer technology as we know it was made possible due to alien tech.
Also they show earlier on at Area 51 our limited, but real, ability to control via software the alien devices.
This applies to the real world as well. I've had a couple of times when I've been closely involved in an event that was covered in the national newspapers. Both times the stories were presented with major factual inaccuracies and with clear bias. I've brought this up in conversation a few times over the years and quite often a similar experience was reported by others. Yet everyone still seemed happy to trust the acc…
And yet we manage to keep ourselves reasonably informed. I subscribe to one of the major papers, and avail myself to a variety of mainstream sources. I can count on the fingers of one hand the times, over multiple decades, that I've ever looked back on an issue and felt that I had actually been misinformed. "You made one tiny mistake so your entire organization is discredited" would have been an unreasonable reaction…
Every computer movie with a hacker ever: hacker opens an excel spreadsheet and types in a bunch of gibberish "I'm in the mainframe."
I recall slashdot absolutely flipping out that the Matrix used a genuine SSH vulnerability. Why, here it is! https://slashdot.org/story/35036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U
this looks plausible enough.
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Marvel movies are the worst about this for me. The adult characters use adult mannerisms and delivery, but the actual dialog and what they're saying is so cartoonishly simple and childlike that I can't suspend my disbelief when watching grown adults talk and act that way. It's easier for me to believe in superpowers than to believe in people that have the psychological complexity of houseplants.
Well, it's an adaptation of a comicbook. They didn't have believable personalities there either.
Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes. I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber pr…
I once saw the movie Armageddon in the movie theatre onboard a drilling rig. The heads of everyone in the audience collectively exploded watching the drilling scenes (both on earth and in space). Fun fact: In the DVD commentary, there's a point where Ben Affleck asks Michael Bay why it would be easier to train drillers to become astronauts than it would be to train astronauts to become drillers. If I remember correct…
Still makes me laugh.
Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes. I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber pr…
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They had to add the battery (or, any reason to actually keep them alive) because extermination would otherwise be the obvious choice.
It's only an obvious choice if you're a psychopath or a sociopath. The machines are definitively - and canonically! - not.