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jji7skyline · 2012-05-20 20:43:03

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but computers and things in movies are really misleading. They make it seem like programmers all use green and black themed desktops with binary floating on the desktop.

I think the earliest one I can think of, is the one in Jurassic Park. They show a "Unix" system as a 3D visualisation of a file system? I thought Unix was originally command line tongue

Discuss misrepresentations of technology in media.

GravityCatisalie · 2012-05-20 21:07:16

Well Hammonds was a millionaire and everything and hired the best programmers so I'm sure they could have modded Unix to be a 3D file system.

jji7skyline · 2012-05-20 21:28:21

That's possible I guess

http://ideajet.files.wordpress.com/2011 … .png?w=460

Have you watched G-Force?

veggieman001 · 2012-05-20 21:51:53

I thought they did... :'(

CheeseMunchy · 2012-05-20 21:53:16

Ikr. tongue

jji7skyline · 2012-05-20 21:56:35

veggieman001 wrote:
I thought they did... :'(

I feel sorry for you. Sorry to burst your bubble.

stevetheipad · 2012-05-20 22:18:35

I know what you mean!

Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site. tongue

coolhogs · 2012-05-20 22:21:45

Press a button and you can fly! Yeah, I see what you mean.

veggieman001 · 2012-05-20 22:28:24

jji7skyline wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
I thought they did... :'(
I feel sorry for you. Sorry to burst your bubble.

sad

jji7skyline · 2012-05-20 22:54:50

stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!

Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.

Either that, or you type things into a glass panel with keys that magically appear and disappear, and the whole desktop looks like eye-candy to the max tongue

Harakou · 2012-05-20 23:02:55

Yeah, computers in movies pretty much defy all logic, but that's true of pretty much anything in movies, especially when it's something most people don't understand.

trinary · 2012-05-21 02:28:10

Certainly true.
It's rather annoying seeing technology misrepresented in the media.

sparks · 2012-05-21 05:46:17

Think about all the bad press robots get in the media! If you study robotics people instantly start saying "oh, you'll probably be the one that brings on robot Armageddon, then!". Which is foolish because they get the movie version of robots with guns and such, not the real versions that can barely walk tongue

3DSfan12345 · 2012-05-21 07:14:22

In half the movies that I've seen, the computers are iMacs or MacBook Pros.
And there are no Mac Minis or Windows PCs.

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BOBBYBOB3 · 2012-05-21 08:03:06

jji7skyline wrote:
I don't know if you guys have noticed, but computers and things in movies are really misleading. They make it seem like programmers all use green and black themed desktops with binary floating on the desktop.

I think the earliest one I can think of, is the one in Jurassic Park. They show a "Unix" system as a 3D visualisation of a file system? I thought Unix was originally command line

Discuss misrepresentations of technology in media.

well, they need all the tech to take the dino DNA from the mosquitos, and also to keep teh dinosaurs caged. I wonder why dennis made the bad choice...

maxskywalker · 2012-05-21 10:18:32

3DSfan12345 wrote:
In half the movies that I've seen, the computers are iMacs or MacBook Pros.
And there are no Mac Minis or Windows PCs.

I agree. It's always Apple. What happened to all the Windows computers?

stevetheipad · 2012-05-21 10:43:18

maxskywalker wrote:
3DSfan12345 wrote:
In half the movies that I've seen, the computers are iMacs or MacBook Pros.
And there are no Mac Minis or Windows PCs.
I agree. It's always Apple. What happened to all the Windows computers?

They failed.

And guess how much they spend for movie advertising? "Absolutely nothing" according to this Appadvice article. On one 2011 movie, The advertising was worth over $23 million, but Apple got it for free because people see i and Apple products as cool. wink

scimonster · 2012-05-21 14:05:54

I don't watch movies, so i wouldn't know.
But they certainly get it wrong in books.

bananaman114 · 2012-05-21 14:16:40

I tend to watch older movies
it's fun to see how outdated the technology is
especially when I'm watching 1940's TV shows tongue

GameHutSoftware · 2012-05-21 17:36:38

scimonster wrote:
I don't watch movies, so i wouldn't know.
But they certainly get it wrong in books.

-1
The Bourne Deception, anyone?

3DSfan12345 · 2012-05-21 17:46:17

maxskywalker wrote:
3DSfan12345 wrote:
In half the movies that I've seen, the computers are iMacs or MacBook Pros.
And there are no Mac Minis or Windows PCs.
I agree. It's always a certain kind of Apple. What happened to all the Windows computers?

Fixed.

jji7skyline · 2012-05-21 19:26:27

bananaman114 wrote:
I tend to watch older movies
it's fun to see how outdated the technology is
especially when I'm watching 1940's TV shows

Beige boxes with floppy disk slots xD

jji7skyline · 2012-05-21 19:37:37

I think they usually use Apple computers because they look clean and they are cool and stuff.

They tend to use really complicated looking computers for "hacking" scenes, such as the one in "National Treasure" (remember the van? tongue )

bananaman114 · 2012-05-21 19:41:44

jji7skyline wrote:
I think they usually use Apple computers because they look clean and they are cool and stuff.

They tend to use really complicated looking computers for "hacking" scenes, such as the one in "National Treasure" (remember the van? )

Haha yeah that movie
Most computers in movies are either from the prehistoric era or subtle advertising

maxskywalker · 2012-05-21 19:53:02

jji7skyline wrote:
I think they usually use Apple computers because they look clean and they are cool and stuff.

They tend to use really complicated looking computers for "hacking" scenes, such as the one in "National Treasure" (remember the van? )

Oh yeah that one. Although I would guess that the guy built his own computer and OS, so that's not quite as wrong. Not quite.

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