Computers in Movies

[RazorGTR]

25 Interesting Things That You Learn About Computers in The Movies...

1. Word processors never display a cursor.

2. You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.

3. All monitors display 2 inch high letters.

4. High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.

5. Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.

6. Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.

7. Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures in computers, just like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk drives and monitors.

8. All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.

9. Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.

10. All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward. See #7, above)

11. People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.

12. A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.

13. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.

14. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.

15. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.

16. If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup file -- and there are no undelete utilities.

17. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.

18. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.

19. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.

20. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.

21. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP.

22. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.

23. Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.

24. Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users.

25. Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to. Example: "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? I don't know, let's check. It's the murder weapon! Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes. no, just some comics books (Marvel 1954, very rare). Let's check the closet shelves...!"

[Rich]

Originally posted by RazorGTR

25. Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to. Example: "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? I don't know, let's check. It's the murder weapon! Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes. no, just some comics books (Marvel 1954, very rare). Let's check the closet shelves...!"

This one is the funniest to me. The pictures always retain the same level of quality and clarity no matter how much they zoom in on a specific part.

[SiRI]

yeah they seem to always zoom in and it stays so clear! i wish i had a super computer like that!

[integr8]

You mean the computers in "Hackers" werent realistic?!?

[speediva]

It's not always so in the movies, but almost every commercial having to do with internet access or some sort of technology uses a Blueberry iMac.

And you all mean to tell me that you didn't know that ALL Mac users have computers like that??? :o

[Graphik Styles]

hahahahaha...........all of those 25 things were so tru.........especially the last one...............:hehe: :hehehe: :hehe:

[Damien]

So what about the moitors? Do they move with you like a you're lookin' into a mirror but it's a monitor instead of your face?

[Cavallino]

So what you're saying is that if i hacked into a computer i WOULDNT see cool graphics of towers and lightning representing files and transfers on my screen?

[SilverLotus340R]

what i love is when in a movie a building blows up or something and a huge tower falls down outside of the building and ends up landing on it and destroying everything inside excpet that ONE computer..which amazingly still has internet and all normal capabilites even tho everything is on fire

[Cavallino]

Speaking of buildings blowing up and things miraculously surviving, anyone see thirteen ghosts? The house blows up in the end and my gosh, no one dies except the bad guy. Even the black girl lives in this movie.

[SiRI]

Yeah my sister loves to watch hackers and the other day she was like "WOw i wanna learn how to hack it looks so cool!" i was like oh geez.....

[Toksin]

Hehehe, so true.

On a similar note, there's a cool little game called Uplink in which you play a hacker, but its fun because it simulates Hollywood-style hacking. Far from realistic, but still cool.
http://www.introversion.co.uk/

[Oz]

Those are sheer brilliance. Oh, and they never use any proprietry software such as Microsoft or Linux or Mac. It's always a custom written GUI.

[Damien]

Originally posted by Cavallino
Speaking of buildings blowing up and things miraculously surviving, anyone see thirteen ghosts? The house blows up in the end and my gosh, no one dies except the bad guy. Even the black girl lives in this movie.

I know!!!! It's hilarious! I just knew someone would die! Well, the geek dude died but still! She did live!

[boingo82]

#26: Hackers never have to use the mouse. EVER. They are able to do all of their hacking through the keyboard commands they intuitively know.