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Hollywood and Computers don't mix
by John Script (movies profile)
Jan 27, 2008
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It feels like the studio heard about the internet one day and told someone to make a movie. This movie is complete with flashing alarmed red "ACCESS DENIED" screens, beeps on most key strokes, and a FedEx'ed website.
This was when the common American was first learning about the Internet, when the concept of e-mail was brand new to the pre-iMac generation. Bullock is a "1337 HAXXOR" who uses the "Internet" or the "'Net" to do such complex, interesting things as ordering a Pizza. Good job Hollywood. Anyhow, she gets a floppy disk in the mail with a website on it. That's right, not an emailed link, not even a letter with the address, a fcuking disk. He tells her to click a pi symbol on the page, and we're treated to a bunch of random pictures, and newspaper clippings flashing by the screen. The rest of the movie, she runs from the bad guys who want the disk. The entire movie, she doesn't think to make a copy, email it to anyone. just runs fugitive style. The end of the flick is a blur, I think she shows up at a computer show and loads a "Virus" (again, gr8 job Hollywood, using another term you read in the NY Times) into a computer which makes everything on the screen blurry. (I suppose we should be thankful that the computers didn't start coughing or something) Crap, just crap. A textbook example of Hollywood not knowing jack about computers, (which still doesn't imo) |
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