Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
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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One thing I see repeatedly (and it drives me nuts each time) is when people are in a dark room and they show the faces of the users, the characters on the monitor are somehow projected onto them.
I hope they have a great insurance programme if they have to work while staring into a projector lens all day...
Another, why is it that most people in TV and movies rarely, if ever, use a mouse? The request "Zoom in on this section here" is not followed by clicking and dragging a square with which to select the desired area, but with a phenominal amount of key clicking as they must have to manually calculate the area involved and specify the individual pixels of the bounding box.
Also, what magical, wonderous world do they live in, in which all media and all file formats are 100% functional on all computers and in all systems? Save a 3D rendering with scrolling data, facts and dancing hamsters on a DVD and it displays just fine an hour later on someone's laptop.
One final thing. Humans today have enough trouble communicating to eachother with signals and lasers and video/audio formats. Yet somehow when humans meet aliens, they just have to turn on the screen and have a chat.