Star Technology and UIs on Movies: Entertaining a Diverse Audience
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
Multimedia, AV With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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RE: you sound like a curmudgeon :P
by Eugenia on Wed 10th Sep 2003 00:06 UTC

> Its a movie. Movies don't have to be real. People go to movies to be entertained, and a UNIX terminal is not entertaining.

I think that this changes with each generation. When you see Flash Gordon from 1930's, or the sci-fi B-Movies of the '50s, you laugh at them today. You can't stand all these innacuracies.

But you wouldn't laugh back then.

Same today, we get people who do have a clue about a few things, and they get bothered when they see a few things not done better...