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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The Hansel character over the phone: "You mean the files are IN the computer?"
"It's so... SIMPLE..."
I am willing to suspend disbelief because their priority is entertainment, and it's hard to make a computer entertaining. For example, Sneakers had that absurd thing with cryptography that only worked with American systems or something. But everyone knew it was silly, and it wasn't even important; it was just used to make the movie funnier. The rest of the movie was really very good, where people used social engineering to defeat security, and it rode that line between humor and realism.
Swordfish was pretty interesting. It was all about hacking, but I don't remember any egregiously bad scene. That fear & sex scene was dicey, but I can't remember what was on the screen, if they even showed it.
Enemy of the State was pretty good too. It reminded me of those RTS games.
The nice thing about TV shows is they don't usually have a budget to make idiotic UIs. Buffy was pretty decent, talking about "googling," and that weird thing of tricking someone by pressing the DELiver butten was obviously unrealistic but well-handled.