No Props for the Props.

[Crimson Sky]

Ever see some cheesy props or bad editing/continuity in films and TV? I was just watching an episode of 24, and the bad guy went to disable a PC (a PC modded into a fake file cabinet no less) by pulling out what appears to be a PCI card. I think this thing is already pretty much FUBAR.

Can you see why??

Lolzapaloooza :rolleyes:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/misc/bad_cpu.jpg

[simon275]

Huston we have no CPU over.

[Crimson Sky]

lol...dontcha love it.

[Zephik]

That is funny! I've seen a few shows/movies with little things like that. Makes me laugh! Then I quickly feel like a tard because no one understands why I am laughing! :rolleyes:

-SF

[simon275]

Thought this was funny got it from the site http://www.esmerel.com/circle/movies.html


* Word processors never display a cursor.
* You never have to use the space-bar when typing long sentences.
* Movie characters never make typing mistakes, even though what they type often doesn't show up on the monitor.
* People typing on a computer can safely turn it off without saving the data.
* ...monitors display ... letters. (we couldn't read this one)
* High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA and the CIA, usually have easy to understand graphical interfaces.
* Those computers that don't have graphical interfaces have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English. Note: Command line interfaces will give you access to any information you want if you simply type, "ACCESS THE SECRET FILES" on any near-by keyboard.
* You can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS". (See "Fortress".)
* All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer even if it's turned off.
* Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. (Really advanced computers will also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer.)
* All computer panels have ... thousands of volts and have explosive devices underneath their surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash of light, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks and an explosion that causes you to jump backwards.
* A hacker is always able to break into the most sensitive computer in the world by guessing the secret password in two tries.
* You can always bypass the "PERMISSION DENIED" message by using the "OVERRIDE" function. (See "Demolition Man" and others.)
* Computers only take 2 seconds to boot up, instead of the average 2 minutes for desktop PCs and 30 minutes or more for larger systems that can run 24 hours, 365 days a year without a reset.
* Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.
* When the power plant/missile site/main computer overheats, all control panels will explode shortly before the entire building will.
* If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the scr...
* If a disk contains encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you insert it.
* Computers can interface with any other computer regardless of the manufacturer or galaxy where it originated. (See "Independence Day".)
* Computer disks will work on any computer that has a floppy drive, and all software is usable on any platform.
* Most computers ... have reality-defying three-dimensional active animation, photo-realistic graphics capabilities.
* Searches on the internet will always return what you are looking for (and no more) no matter how vague your keywords are. (See "Mission Impossible", where Tom Cruise searches with keywords like "file" and "computer" and only 3 results are returned.) (We tried this at Alta Vista and got 7984495 matches on computer and 9740837 on file, which was too many for the search engine)

[DaveW]

I think i'm the only person in the whole world who got the joke in Futurama where Bender is shown to have a 6502 for a brain.

It was one of the first commercial microprocessors.

-Dave

[tennysol]

I can distinctly remember a scene in Charlies Angels (the movie) where Cameron Diaz's character attaches a "wireless transmitter" to a stick of RAM...:dead:

Ridiculous...hire a consultant, and at least make it half believable...reminds me of this kind of humor...
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f318/tennysol/274_image.jpg

[Aero]

lmao, and I know that only about 5% of the people watching that show even noticed. Thats the sad/scary part.

[Crimson Sky]

I can distinctly remember a scene in Charlies Angels (the movie) where Cameron Diaz's character attaches a "wireless transmitter" to a stick of RAM...:dead:

Ridiculous...hire a consultant, and at least make it half believable...reminds me of this kind of humor...


Hahaha..thats a great find...I think the prop people assume that we see a bunch of circuit boards and winky-blinky lights and take it for the guts of a modern PC.

I can't stomach certain movies just for the fact that they take so many liberties with how they portray human interaction with computers--In one regard, 95% of the people watching will think "Wow, computers are really complex and dangerous", which is a good thing for people like us :)

[Zephik]

In one regard, 95% of the people watching will think "Wow, computers are really complex and dangerous", which is a good thing for people like us :)

Took the thought right out of my head you did!

[AKA_RA]

There is at least one movie that supposedly used actual Linux commands as one of the main protagonists hastily "hacked" a computer console to shut down a power grid.(or something like that, i don't remember) Oddly enough, it was second or third Matrix. Why am i so fuzzy on details about it? Come on, have you ever had the urge to watch the second or third matrix more than once?

[Redundant]

It was the second Matrix that I coincidentally watched a few days ago. What happened was Trinity had to shut off the back up power grid so power to the building could be cut off so Neo could go to the Architect. (what a run-on sentence!)

It sometimes drives me nuts how they only have to type something on a computer to do anything. It's like they've never heard of a mouse before!
On this one cheesy movie, the guy used the a/b buttons on a game boy to type ~30 lines of code a minute.

Edit: Hey Crimson, It's also funny how that motherboard has no processor!

[DaveW]

It sometimes drives me nuts how they only have to type something on a computer to do anything.

Well...she did have to beat the **** out of a plethora of security personnel to get to the computer in the first place. I mean, that's probably what it would be like in real life. Trust me when i say old power stations do not update their computer systems. If they currently work, they won't waste money on windows XP so the nuclear engineers can play Solitaire on their lunchbreak.

-Dave

[Redundant]

No,no,no, The second paragraph is not a continuation of the first paragraph...sorry to confuse you.
What I meant in the second paragraph goes for other shows like CSI where they appear to type a sentence to zoom into a picture and no words appear on the screen.

Edit:
Trust me when i say old power stations do not update their computer systems.
I thought she was in the same building as Neo (the one with the door to the Source), that other person blew up the power station.

[Omega]

What I meant in the second paragraph goes for other shows like CSI where they appear to type a sentence to zoom into a picture and no words appear on the screen.

Uh, you can actually do that though. If you know how to, in WoW, you can turn off the interface (Alt+Z) but still use the chat interface although you can't see it. I fogured out how to do it awhile ago -- but I've forgotten since. You gotta pull off some little trick for it to actually recognize the input, however.

[DaveW]

I think we're probably getting too technical.


I thought she was in the same building as Neo (the one with the door to the Source), that other person blew up the power station.

No, Trinity blew up the power station on her own, cutting off the power to the building thus letting Neo through the door. And he has to rush back from the Architect's office to save her when the agent shoots her after she falls from the roof.

-Dave

[intergalacticman]

yeah, 24 is an awesome show, but i never knew pc's contained only a mother board and some biohazard signs, but to look at it differently, what if it was some kind of modified/server/machine thing, not a computer? w/e, computers are definitly overlooked as far as realism goes.

[ajmilton]

completely offtopic, but damn, thats a huge sig

[AKA_RA]

It was the second Matrix that I coincidentally watched a few days ago. What happened was Trinity had to shut off the back up power grid so power to the building could be cut off so Neo could go to the Architect. (what a run-on sentence!)

It sometimes drives me nuts how they only have to type something on a computer to do anything. It's like they've never heard of a mouse before!
On this one cheesy movie, the guy used the a/b buttons on a game boy to type ~30 lines of code a minute.

Edit: Hey Crimson, It's also funny how that motherboard has no processor!

30 lines using a gamepad? jeez. i had trouble entering 3 lines of hex for my game genie when they released that on the original nintendo, and i was reading out of a book...for a while.

BTW...Infinite lives on the original Mario bros. is SXIOPO ^_^

EDIT: now that i think about it, didnt trinity shut down the power plant and the building blew itself up when neo opened the door as he flew out. -_-

[DaveW]

didnt trinity shut down the power plant and the building blew itself up

Yeah, the power station never blew up. But you wouldn't say that she motorbiked into the guards post, shot a few of them, kung-fu'd the rest, fought her way past security personel by the dozens into the control room, barricaded the door, and politely turned off the power station.

Blowing up is a frame of mind. :)

-Dave

[AKA_RA]

Found this (http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/494), thought it would make an interesting addition to the props comment, lol.

[Aero]

good find AKA_RA, I personally love the last one....

Although I bet the Mac & Linux communities would love to hear that alien motherships are based off of Unix.

[Crimson Sky]

6. Sorry, no. Just no.

lmfao

[d_stilgar]

I think i'm the only person in the whole world who got the joke in Futurama where Bender is shown to have a 6502 for a brain.

It was one of the first commercial microprocessors.

-Dave

I love the NES, but I have never seen that episode.

Yeah, Man of the Year made reference to Hal 9000 from 2001, but my friends didn't get it. I called them uncultured swine.

[slytherock]

6. Sorry, no. Just no.

Had to copy/paste it, laugh to hard to write...

[AKA_RA]

did you hear the gag about the HAL 9000? move each of the letters one place over in the alphabet. i don't recall if it was intentional or coincidental, either way its amusing i think. Kubrick films FTW! ^_^

[Omega]

It might or might not be coincidence that HAL moved over one letter is IBM.

[nil8]

md5 makes me flaccid

If real life were like film I'd be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter.

I know that makes me a nerd, but damn, that's funny.
Where do you find these gems of stupid?

[DaveW]

I have never seen that episode.

I think it's the one where they get the xray torch. Fry shines it on Bender's head before using it to find the golden ticket in a can of slurm.

-Dave

[d_stilgar]

I have seen that one. The one where they go to the Slurm factory? I'll have to watch again. I guess I missed the reference.

[DaveW]

I have seen that one. The one where they go to the Slurm factory? I'll have to watch again. I guess I missed the reference.

It was only there for a split second. It means that out there, somewhere, is someone just as sad as me, and they're trying to communicate. I've been trying to formulate a way to send a message back. Maybe i could reword the Turing Halting problem with 2 benders.

-Dave

[ESX]

I havent seen a single movie with a computer beeing used in its true form, without those amazingly beautiful 3d effects and ****. :/

[chedabob]

You know what else is annoying? When people are supposed to be typing but in fact they asgoiujew40-1r3q0[oegr098fsjkafs09823908t4yewnhjsgjnkmsvdpoi23kjl2we fhji

See, I never actually finished the sentence, I just mashed random buttons. Look i can type a lett=========021439802902254987289120==-1=`1=-121=-02352=-0354=05

And also, when they type stuff in command prompts, in plain english (think this has been mentioned before) like SEND VIRUS TO DAVE. Last time I checked, no operating system understood any of that.