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Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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alanfalcon wrote: post #118
archangel_one wrote: post #101

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Haven't seen it yet, sorry. I've read the book but wasn't excited enough to make a beeline for the movie. Probably will see it sometime though. From what I've seen of various shorts about the movie, the archery looks pretty good. I don't think she spent 6 months practising but she obviously spent some time on it with a good coach (a US Olympian, so she knows her stuff). The only thing they get wrong is that longbows…

Jeremy Renner, who plays Clint Barton ("Hawkeye") in the Avengers, claims he undertook extensive archery training in preparation for his role. Then, on set, they had him do things that "looked cool" rather than "were right" so it didn't really translate as he had expected. He also said he sustained an archery related injury while filming which A) shouldn't happen if he'd had the proper training and B) would also affe…

That scene didn't really bother me in Tron; I cut them a bit of slack for the use of a convincing Unix shell (also Emacs: http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178), but Tron's never been about realistic computing. And yeah, I was sold on the music + cooler lightcycles.

I have listened to some of Joss's commentary (Serenity and Firefly, unsurprisingly), although I hadn't heard that particular part. It does sound exhausting, but I guess refusing to budge on that sort of thing is what makes him a great writer/director.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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rbanffy wrote: post #113
archangel_one wrote: post #103

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The most unrealistic thing about that wasn't the interface itself, it was the 10-year-old girl who says "This is Unix, I know this!"

Not to mention the whole dinosaur thing...

Yeah, but a movie called "Jurassic Park" with no dinosaurs would be pretty woeful. The same movie without 10-year-old experts in esoteric Unix UIs would have worked just fine.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by taejo »

mindcrime wrote: post #94
blhack wrote: post #93

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THANK YOU This movie gets so much completely unnecessary hatred. Yeah, it's a joke, but there is plenty of little nods to "real" culture in there. To me it has always been pretty obvious that it was supposed to be silly, but that the people making it knew what they were doing. I'm pretty sure most of the books from that scene were actually real books.

I'd have to watch it again to be 100% sure, but - going from memory - I believe every single book mentioned in that scene was real. Certainly the "pink shirt book" (IBM Guide to PCs) is real, as is the Dragon book (compiler theory) and the "Rainbow books".

The pink-shirt book is not the IBM Guide to PCs, but "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". Incidentally, the blue-shirt book ("Peter Norton's DOS Guide") was the book that turned me into a computer nerd :)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by nicholassmith »

pyre wrote: post #111
nicholassmith wrote: post #57

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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

You must have only read the comic, but not the comments about down-shifting for turns. :P

Did read the comments, but they still always find an extra gear to shift up into ;)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by mindcrime »

taejo wrote: post #143
mindcrime wrote: post #94

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I'd have to watch it again to be 100% sure, but - going from memory - I believe every single book mentioned in that scene was real. Certainly the "pink shirt book" (IBM Guide to PCs) is real, as is the Dragon book (compiler theory) and the "Rainbow books".

The pink-shirt book is not the IBM Guide to PCs, but "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". Incidentally, the blue -shirt book ("Peter Norton's DOS Guide") was the book that turned me into a computer nerd :)

The pink-shirt book is not the IBM Guide to PCs, but "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC".

Right, that's the one I was thinking about. It definitely stands out because of the pink shirt on the cover. So they got the exact title wrong (or I just mis-remembered what they called it in the movie), but still... that scene was fairly accurate for a hollywood movie involving computers. :-)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by JadeNB »

adavies42 wrote: post #120
KC8ZKF wrote: post #54

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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.

audiobook narrators are really hit-or-miss on technical material, at least the kind that's sparsely distributed through some types of novels--i've heard them really butcher computer and military jargon quite frequently. (can't remember anything specific off the top of my head right now, but i think there was something fairly egregious in one of the Kris Longknife books.)

Forget technical terms; I once heard a particularly bad audiobook narrator refer to 'hallow-tipped bullets'. (He also mispronounced plenty of technical terms.)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by rbanffy »

archangel_one wrote: post #142
rbanffy wrote: post #113

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Not to mention the whole dinosaur thing...

Yeah, but a movie called "Jurassic Park" with no dinosaurs would be pretty woeful. The same movie without 10-year-old experts in esoteric Unix UIs would have worked just fine.

It's OK to suspend incredulity for entertainment. I enjoy watching Star Trek even if I cringe when I imagine how implausible it is.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by jgarry »

rbanffy wrote: post #148
archangel_one wrote: post #142

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Yeah, but a movie called "Jurassic Park" with no dinosaurs would be pretty woeful. The same movie without 10-year-old experts in esoteric Unix UIs would have worked just fine.

It's OK to suspend incredulity for entertainment. I enjoy watching Star Trek even if I cringe when I imagine how implausible it is.

Google: real devices from star trek

Could be that something in the near future as simple as relativity was 100 years ago will solve the hardest ones, namely transporter and ftl tech.

Then again, it was funny as hell to see the flying car in Captain America.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by archangel_one »

jgarry wrote: post #149
rbanffy wrote: post #148

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It's OK to suspend incredulity for entertainment. I enjoy watching Star Trek even if I cringe when I imagine how implausible it is.

Google: real devices from star trek Could be that something in the near future as simple as relativity was 100 years ago will solve the hardest ones, namely transporter and ftl tech. Then again, it was funny as hell to see the flying car in Captain America.

Somehow I suspect that the transporter and warp drive won't fall that easily, but I admit you never know :)

The tech level in Captain America was all over the place, which is deserving of a rant in itself, but suffice to say it was the most annoying part of that movie to me.

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