Where the hell...

[Aramor]

...do they buy their computers in movies.

I just watched DareDevil, and the guy played by Joe Pantoliano (CYPHER!!! Weeeeeee) had written an article about who really is DareDevil, and then he held his finger over these two buttons, the print button and the delete button. He then pressed the delete button and the entire text was erased as though someone just kept pressing the backspace key.
I mean, what keyboard has the print and the delete button next to each other... especially if pressing the delete button clears your whole text... "I'm sorry I don't have my essay with me, I wanted to print it but then I pressed the delete button and all was lost..."

Also in CSI, I love the series... practically everything about it (Go Warrick!!!) but they have computers which can zoom into a picture and then still get a clear view of something, when it's zoomed in like 10 times... I mean, I want that program!!!

And then there's the thing when someone's hard-drive is being erased. You see the file that's being erased in the background and then a status-bar. And after that you get a message saying "All files deleted". I mean, what operating system is that?

Is it just me or are computers in movies really unpractical/extremely useful/just plain weird...
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[Digitaaliklosetti]

Err... copyrights? I dunno.

Of course, there's the whole "dumbing down" that's evident in most movies and TV-shows nowadays. That marginal amount of morons who just "don' know 'bout dem computer thingamabobs" has to be taken by the hand and then, slowly and surely, explained the painfully complicated computerizagimentical process at hand.

Nanny - "See, Bobby? The silly lady pressed the 'delete' button, so the text is now 'deleted'. Deee-leee-teeed. See? The text is going away. That means it's being 'deleted'. Can you say 'deleted', too, Bobby?"

Bobby - "Deelted."

Nanny - "Good job, Bobby!"

I myself have been dumbed down temporarily by the Gaia chatterbox, so that longer quip may or may not make any sense. I might've misused "evident". Bear with me.
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bitchez n hose

[Ranka]

My personal fav: the red elephant-sized "ACCESS DENIED!!!" blinking on a blank screen after guessing some password wrong etc.

[Blaster]

Lol, Ranka.

And what is even worse is the way in which video games have traditionally been protrayed in movies and tv.
First of all, the players tend to just spam every button randomly like they are having some kinda fit.
Secondly, the games all tend to sound like they are for the Atari 2600. I mean, shit, sound has come SO far since then in games.
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Context is everything.

[Holly Resurrected]

My favorite is from the movie "Hackers". I mean, Hackers is great sci-fantasy, it has music from Orbit, the almighty Fisher Stevens, Laurence Mason who played Tin Tin in "The Crow", and Penn Jillette. But the way it portrays the very early internet is totally off. Yep, haxxors are totally leet in this movie, and skate around their kewl offices, because they're too kewl to walk, and the intarweb is made up of kewl graphics, not code or anything, and also the screens reflect onto people's faces, just like projectors! And when you hack into a seckret gov'ment site, you can erase the identity of a super gov'ment official, lickety-split! And everything is computer-controlled, including the fire sprinklers at your high-school.

It's lots of fun, but watching it now that I've actually, y'know, been on the internet, it's very silly.
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Still internet married to Tripper.

[desert_drum]

Anyone remember War Games? A fine example of really early computer silliness, though they at least looked right for the most part.

Shall...we...play...a...game?
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

[Blaster]

Ah. who could forget War Games?
Yes, that and Hackers proved to be a wee bit anachronistic.
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Context is everything.

[Aramor]

War games? That's with Joshua right? The computer thingy... cool movie.

And yeah, Hackers, really funny. Especially all the virusses (whatever).

But hey, when the internet was first heard of people always said you could do anything with it. Even walk through the White House using webcams... silly us.[/i]
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