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The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by idleloops »

Great article.

My pet peeves in shows/movies, are normally around the fact that it takes more than a few seconds to do anything useful on a computer. And yet on film even idiots seem to command their gadgetry with aplomb.

They should show failed password attempts. Computer lock ups. Anti-virus software blocking any meaningful use of the computer. Frustration of users as they are prevented from booting due to system updates etc.

I'm also not a fan of fake search engines - and video streams that appear in flawless hi-def!

I wish computers were omitted entirely sometimes - they are pointless props, and just age the movie. Couldn't they just say - 'I searched for blah'?

It's not like I'm loosing sleep over it though. I would rather TV wasn't such an insult to the imagination (I can - and enjoy - filling in the gaps myself.)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by masklinn »

drbawb wrote: post #47
lloeki wrote: post #11

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I have noticed across the years since 2000: - a bunch of nmap appearances (notably Die Hard 4 and the Bourne Ultimatum, also one of the Matrix movies) - some default OpenBox with XTerms in a few series - KDE quite a number of times too - SSH, bash and Unix FS exploration (cd, ls -l and its output, find, grep) at times In fact it's sad that so much of the computer scenes are bad, but I've seen enough actually good att…

Y'know the 3D filesystem in Jurassic Park was a real program too, and it was based on a UNIX system. (I think it's a file explorer for an old SGI box; which makes sense as SGI was commonly used in the production of movies.)

> I think it's a file explorer for an SGI box

Aye it's FSN/Fusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

There's even a screening of fsn in action on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRHU1XxMJQ

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by KC8ZKF »

scott_s wrote: post #40
jeffool wrote: post #6

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The Social Network was good about it. Someone online actually reedited the scene where he was grabbing images from frat sites and edited in scenes from other films, like Hacker's "virtual skyscrapers", and suddenly it was like a real Hollywood film again!

I paused the movie on all computer shots, and they're all legit. He's using emacs to hack Perl code in the beginning, all of the computers have Linux desktops, and most importantly, when they say things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end", it sounds like something the character says all the time. Typically in movies, you can tell actors aren't familiar with the terms they're using…

The audio version of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE" has our hero saving data in a "ee em ay see ess file."

But really, nobody ever says things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end" outside of an Aaron Sorkin script.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by pavel_lishin »

sp332 wrote: post #41
pyre wrote: post #26

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> interfaces for Jurassic Park Replace Jurassic Park with "Operation Swordfish" or "Hackers," and you might be on to something. Especially since the Jurassic Park interface was a real program that actually existed.

Swordfish was really funny to me because Hugh Jackman had the "kinetics" of a hard night of hacking exactly right, while he's typing at that ridiculous interface.

There's also something to be said for staying up all night and finishing off a bottle of wine.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by nicholassmith »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #24
ralfd wrote: post #14

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We recognize when movies dumb computer stuff down, but the truth is they do it always! Imagine sitting beside a big horse nerd and every time a horse is on the screen and makes this typical horse noise they would comment "the horse didn't make the sound" or white walkers are killing the night watch behind the wall and "this horse is not really frightened but relaxed and listens curiously" or every time there is a mig…

I have a friend who is a competitive target shooter, and he's always complaining that the shell casings are the wrong size during shootouts. Of course now he's got me doing it too...

If you think that's bad count how many gear changes happen in a car chase/street race in most big films that have manual cars.

Obligatory 9gag http://9gag.com/gag/4026146

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by drblast »

scott_s wrote: post #42
waterlesscloud wrote: post #24

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I have a friend who is a competitive target shooter, and he's always complaining that the shell casings are the wrong size during shootouts. Of course now he's got me doing it too...

Movies always abuse the gun-cocking sound, and/or have characters cock (or pump, for shotguns) the guns at inappropriate times because it looks cool.

Or the "click, click" empty revolver sound on a semi-automatic pistol. This pretty much only happens if you're evil though.

The slide just never seems to lock back like it should unless the hero has two guns that need to be thrown on the ground before he/she walks forward defiantly and grabs two MORE guns.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by bitwize »

KC8ZKF wrote: post #54
scott_s wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I paused the movie on all computer shots, and they're all legit. He's using emacs to hack Perl code in the beginning, all of the computers have Linux desktops, and most importantly, when they say things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end", it sounds like something the character says all the time. Typically in movies, you can tell actors aren't familiar with the terms they're using…

The audio version of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE" has our hero saving data in a "ee em ay see ess file." But really, nobody ever says things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end" outside of an Aaron Sorkin script.

No, they say things like "I need a SinoLogic 16, Sogo-7 Datagloves, a GPL stealth module, one Burdine Intelligent Translator, and Thompson eyephones."

When all else fails, make shit up.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by bitwize »

idleloops wrote: post #51

Great article. My pet peeves in shows/movies, are normally around the fact that it takes more than a few seconds to do anything useful on a computer. And yet on film even idiots seem to command their gadgetry with aplomb. They should show failed password attempts. Computer lock ups. Anti-virus software blocking any meaningful use of the computer. Frustration of users as they are prevented from booting due to system u…

One movie I saw get this right is Office Space, where Peter's computer has to do 69 different things before finally quitting.

True, it exits from a Mac-like GUI to a DOS prompt, but I loved the depiction of office software as finicky, time-consuming, and frustrating.

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