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Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies?

Posted by Soulskill on from the this-is-a-unix-system-i-know-this dept.

Cuban Devil writes "Yesterday I rented a copy of The Social Network. I won't comment on the story, but the Zuckerberg character's narrated performance on hacking Harvard servers made me wonder: what's the worst computer-related acting performance ever? I leave here my vote: Independence Day, when I had to see Mr. Goldblum upload a virus, using a Mac, when it did not connect even to an ethernet network, compromising the entire alien fleet. What other major technological gaffes have you seen?"

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  1. Agree by Ramirozz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Independence Day... light years away

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  2. Hackers... by Xyverz · · Score: 4, Informative

    "It's a P6 chip ... RISC architecture is gonna change everything".

  3. GUI Interface in visual basic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This.

    Spew forth as many technical-sounding terms as possible to confuse the average person and make them think you know what you're talking about!

  4. Re:Jurassic Park by Qzukk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that it actually WAS a UNIX system, SGI IRIX to be exact. And it was a real file browser as well.

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  5. WarGames 2: The Dead Code by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, this movie exists. And yes, it's godawful beyond belief.

    Here's a review I wrote about the movie when it came out. But, really, every detail is awful-- not just the computer scenes, but every scene is brimming from top to bottom with WTF. It also doesn't help that they couldn't get any characters from the original, except WOPR (if you count that.)

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  6. Re:Jurassic Park by siegesama · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

    FSN (File System Navigator), was a real application made by SGI for 3D viewing of file systems. That really is a real gui layer, and you can get a clone of it for linux called FSV at http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

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  7. Re:The scene from 24 by laughing+rabbit · · Score: 1, Informative

    I like it when Chloe opens her socket!

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  8. Star Wars by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 3, Informative

    R2D2 could understand speech but not speak.

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  9. Re:NCIS by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Frankly I find all CSI and all its knockoffs/ripoffs to be just atrocious on all technical levels.

    Furthermore, I read that doing all the tests they do for even one case, would take weeks even *if* they could afford it. One tech mentioned that to even rent some of the equipment required for a few of the tests would exceed their annual budget.

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  10. Re:Jurassic Park by gknoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    how does knowing that a system is running Unix enable one to understand the complex control software running a dinosaur park?

    man parkcontrols

    ?

  11. Re:This begs the question... by paiute · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

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  12. Re:Jurassic Park by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Someone at SGI created that interface /after/ seeing it in the movie.

    Not quite. FSV is the open-source clone that came out after the movie. FSN is the original that appeared in the movie. It was released in 1992.

    http://web.archive.org/web/19991113223434/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html