Bullock's Bullocks
The Net. Arguably, one of the stupidest “technology” films ever released. Not even Sandra could save this one. Premise strong, execution lame. I can't stand movie-made GUIs - especially when they're trying to emulate real-world machines. I could probably make a good living as a Hollywood “tech” consultant. Beats the heck out of flipping burgers, I suppose. Perhaps I'll give that a shot one of these days. Consulting, not serving up fries.
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4 Comments
Anonymous
January 25th, 2002
at 8:15pm
OK, if you hated The Net, what did you think of AntiTrust?
Anonymous
January 25th, 2002
at 8:47pm
Anti-Trust was great. If I remember correctly, they didn't use movie-made GUI's but instead used KDE Desktop on a Linux system. That is probably my favorite computer movie as of now. What was wierd was how in the beginning of the movie they show HTML code, but the whole movie is about coding and OS and that would be C, wouldn't it?
The Net was ****; so was Hackers. I wish someone would come out with a real good computer movie sometime.
Anonymous
January 26th, 2002
at 12:48am
Hackers is a fine piece of filmmaking!
Anonymous
January 26th, 2002
at 4:25am
I still laugh when I see Jurassic Park (the Original) in the scene when they all make it back to the Command Center and the “geek-girl” (Ariana Richards) sits down at Wayne Knight's terminal that has an OS with a 3D-wireframe-based-GUI and exclaims “Hey this is Unix, I can work this…” Wow, what they are teaching in Junior high school these days… what's next, “Particle Acceleration and it's Importance to Nuclear medicine?
I try to explain it to my kids and I get the blank stare…. Only a geek appreciates that scene.
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