[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

Martyn Drake martyn-d at moving-picture.com
Tue Aug 27 10:54:02 UTC 2002


From: "SteveC" <steve at fractalus.com>

> I saw The Sum Of All Fears the other day, and was surprised to see that
> F16s on a combat run fly above cloud with their navigation lights on.
> They should obviously have painted "we are here" on the side of the plane,
> maybe trailing one of those air-signs.. Also when encrypting mail, you get
> to see the encrypted chars in a pane below your email as you type...
> fascinating stuff..

They call it artistic license, unfortunately.  But surely things would bore
the leaving pants of viewers if they showed the reality of these things.

> Anyone have better examples of computer fantasy at the movies? I know
> MacOS made it into Independance Day right? Windows has been in lots of
> films but what about Linux? :-)

Jurassic Park
Wargames
Tron
Disclosure (just plain bloody silly)
Anti Trust
Hackers
You've Got Mail
The Net

Loads of them..

Regards,

    Martyn


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