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 movie you're thinking of where Jeff Goldblum blows up an alien spaceship with his Apple Powerbook is Independence Day, and I remember I had a hell of a time trying to explain to my friend why it was ridiculous to think an Apple Powerbook running OS9 could interface so easily with the alien ship's network. He didn't get it. I suppose maybe AppleTalk is really popular off-world, but that's a little too much disbelief to suspend. Maybe he just uploaded the whole OS9. :-)
I don't see it so much anymore, but in the '90s, did you notice how absolutely every computer in every movie was an Apple? Before OSX it was completely laughable to see a "geek" or a "hacker" using a Macintosh in a movie...no way, no how were "hackers" running the MacOS at that time.