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mind when a movie has something “Tech” in it, as long as it’s realistic, or even remotely so. There have been times in movies, though, where you just have to hang your head as a Geek and wonder what Hollywood was thinking. … all the detailshere

Course you could say that for many actors in roles they play, but that really doesn’t matter. I mean, the subject was more about movies where they portray things that “don’t tell tech truth.” Well FSN is tech real, and it ran on SGI’s own IRIX OS, which is based on UNIX System V. Apparently you can even get a FSN like program for Linux called FSV.

whatch out for that virus, you may stept on it and it will hurt your feet sistem…

sorry

omfg its a lockergnome lego virus!

what is UNIX,SGI,FSV and FSN? sorry… but i’m new!!!

example: the core

Cute virus :P

Antitrust.

If I remember correctly, In the intro, when all those starting credits roll, they show in the background of actor names “flying” into view some HTML code :)

love how the video ends with

“this is a virus”

there is a bbc programme called hollywood science that investigates stuff done in movies to see if it’s possible

These people have just realised that what you see in movies is not exactly how it is in real life…. good on them.

Ha ha ha! Lego virus!

LOL i love the ending!

There’d be a lot of raged people if he put that on the Internets.

One other glarnig tech faux pax was in the movie Independence Day – How is that we were able to link up with the alien space ship using an Apple computer?
Were the aliens also using the MacOS?
If that was the case, we need to have a conversation with one Steve Jobs soon….

I saw “Man of the Year” (with Robin Williams) in the theaters and while it was a good treatise (or foreshadowing) about humorous political pundits a la Colbert running for office AND of the fallibility of electronic voting machines, the cause of the bug which the affects the machines is just silly beyond compare.

It winds up giving the candidate with the first-alphabetically double letter combination in their last name something like triple the actual votes. How the hell would someone program anything like that into a voting machine in the first place?

@Jesse Slicer,

Princeton did something vaguely similar to that in a study. Check YouTube.

Oh, lols lego virus. I thought you were actually gonna program a lego virus. Oh well, mayb nxt time

How the hell would someone program anything like that into a voting machine in the first place?

Exactly! This part ruined my impression of “Man of the Year”, even though I love Robin Williams as an actor and a stand up comedian… Cute movie.. If you rewind to see only Robin’s antics it becomes watchable more than once :)

LOL Jurassic Park killed his iner computer lol

C:\DOS
C:\DOS RUN
RUN DOS RUN

the independence day virus wasnt made on the mac, it was just launched on the mac, but they had a database of 40 years in the making about them aliens.

its called imagination get it

How about in Office Space when he’s shutting down his computer that shows the Mac OS, then the screen closes to a DOS C:\ prompt?

The latest one I watched is Bourne Supremacy. One scene shows Bourne copying files off the laptop, but the screen shows Norton Anti-Virus is scanning the files :D

The movie Anti-Trust is a tech movie and its awesome.

lol

awesome film

Transformers..

The scene in the Pentagon where she’s got the headphones on and “hears” the robot hacking into the defense network on airforce one…

the moive that pissed me off was die hard 4 i dont know that much about hacking but i know you cant hack into the street lights and change a 4 way intersection so that all lights are green or hack into every t.v channel and display the same thing if any that as seen that movie they would know what im talking about. i would like to see what other people tought about all the hacking that was going on in that moive

I hate how in detective movies the computer beeps whenever it loads something and everything is wireframe.

Lol you ditched Whats his face at 2:08. i was expecting him to go on for 3 minutes untill he realised, “…Are you there? …-.-.

how about in anti-trust when the whole intro of the movie has scrolling html in the background.. i found that quite hilarious when the movie had absolutely nothing to do with html

LOL

lmao for real

My main complaint was the “killer video game” movie, Stay Alive. Seriously the whole idea of a game being designed on a real place, that was fine. The idea that dieing in a 3D game would kill you in real life, that was just to much.

I agree with you Chris.

yeah!

Movies sometimes disappoint us. I wonder if they don’t just have that much time to make a research on what movie they are making.
That kind of things does not only happens in tech movies. It also happen in other genres. Some way or the other they make assumptions that are totally wrong or out of logic. Like the movie Final Destination in the scene where a man got hanged in the shower by a wire. He tried to stand up, grip the side of the shower, reach a scissor all to no avail. What? Why try all of those when he could just untie the wire?
It would be alright if they meant those mistakes as a joke.But if it was meant it to portray reality, it only breaks credibility.
I hope they would be more careful next time. The viewers aren’t that easy to fool.

his hair is tight

swordfish is a good film thou well in my opinion