I agree with most of you that it would not be as interesting or sellable to the average Joe if hacking and such were portrayed realisticly. It would loose much of the commercial value to the studios and bore computer-illiterate viewers. But what I would like to see is just a *hint*, even the smallest amount of realism added.
I mean even if they payed an average teen-age kid to go over the cut and say "hey wait, that's not believable at all" I would be happy. I find movies like "The Net" an insult, and find it hard to sit through the whole movie.
To enjoy a film you have to get lost in the story and forget that it is not real, and blatent inaccurate portrails of computers and their uses just sends me spinnnig out of the story and I find it hard to get back into it.
But I suppose afterall we are the minority and the masses will be just as happy to be fed this crap....
I take objection to the Ottawa bashing. I was born, raised, I live and work in this so-called "hell hole". Bash Copland all you want, I think the guy deserves it. Hell make fun of his wife's outfits (crazy stuff if you've ever seen pictures of what she wears at parties -- jeweled nippes, what the hell is that) but leave the nations capital out of it:).
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I mean even if they payed an average teen-age kid to go over the cut and say "hey wait, that's not believable at all" I would be happy. I find movies like "The Net" an insult, and find it hard to sit through the whole movie.
To enjoy a film you have to get lost in the story and forget that it is not real, and blatent inaccurate portrails of computers and their uses just sends me spinnnig out of the story and I find it hard to get back into it.
But I suppose afterall we are the minority and the masses will be just as happy to be fed this crap....
I take objection to the Ottawa bashing. I was born, raised, I live and work in this so-called "hell hole". Bash Copland all you want, I think the guy deserves it. Hell make fun of his wife's outfits (crazy stuff if you've ever seen pictures of what she wears at parties -- jeweled nippes, what the hell is that) but leave the nations capital out of it :).
You got it on the button. We studied that Jeep case in my Business Law class. They don't have a ground to claim any sort of infringement!