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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There are these guys called consultants. Pay them and they'll advise you on whatever subject you want. With movies costing between 10 to 100 million dollars, producers have no excuse at all for not hiring qualified people to check their scripts before peddling crap toward spectators. In some cases, it would be enough to hire undergraduate students.
The scene with Trinity in The Matrix Reloaded may be accurate according to nowadays techniques. Nonetheless, it's absurd to use nmap or ssh because the movie is supposed to happen centuries in the future, not today (and yes, I read Fyodor comments on that matter). It's the equivalent of saying that last week, burglars used slingshots to rob Fort Knox. That's cheesy, plain and simple.
Let's talk about Star Wars : Obi-Wan Kenobi got "vaporised" (for lack of a better term) by Darth Vader's lightsaber. Yet, in episodes 1 and 2, when characters were struck with that same weapon, they didn't disappear. Was this an afterthought from the producers ? Another bummer : the first trilogy racked in so much money Lucas decided to add another one, but backward. Problem is episodes 1 and 2 feature more sophisticated technologies than episodes 4 to 6, which are supposed to happen later. Isn't it stupid, what producers can do just to get more bucks ?
Those who have watched The Time Machine were surprised to see that 900,000 from now, some people will still be able to speak english with a New York accent. Gosh, in reality, we can't even speak languages that are 5,000 years old !