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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It always amuses me when "geeks" get so upset over the depiction of computing in movies.
Modern cinema's imperative is fast moving storylines with intriguing visuals. Watching someone screwing about with a CLI for 15 minutes or logging on to a dial-up AOL account just for the sake of accuracy ain't going to make the cut. Besides which, using a computer in a movie is usually superfluous to the plot, not the plot itself (the Matrix excepted). So in a movie like "Patriot Games", where Harrison Ford is desparately trying to download a file before the bad guy erases it, it's not important that it's technically impossible, it's important that the tension is created to advance the story.
I alos find it funny that so many people are willing to suspend their disbelief at sci-fi movies that depict faster than light travel, teleportation and sentient energy clouds but complain that computers don't work like that.
While it may be true that Hollywood doesn't know much about computers, it's equally true that computer geeks don't understand cinema.