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Crap movie hackers...

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I just got done watching "The Core", awful *&^% movie..

I get sick of how hollywood portrays "hackers", they use lingo that may confuse the general public but not people who actually deal with technology, then they show a screen shot of some little graphical pc screen supposedly doing "hacker-things" but to me looks like it was designed for elementary kids..

Sorry for ranting but.. come on!
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Yeah, lol

I see most movies - they display a screen with objects that look like it was made in MS Paint. I think they're trying to avoid Windows lol.

But yeah, the MOST realistic I've seen was at Antitrust. Where they actually displayed some code. I noticed the <tr><td> and all.

Maybe they want to save cash on a computer advisor or so.

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Lol, yea, I belive they showed some HTML and possibly a bit of C++ or C in Anti-Trust. But I saw it about three months ago, so don't quote me.
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The problem with movies and hackers (or crackers to be technically rather than media-driven correct) is that a standard cracker's screen is mind numbingly boring for the general movie watching populace.

Think you'd get rave ratings if you showed a screen with a konsol or dos window, a telnet window and some naff script-kiddie-has-vb-first-effort as the display.
The use of tron like system internal views (on movies like Hackers - splendid film, 'specially Ms Jolie in the swimming pool) is simply a media gimmick to make something look interesting to those who don't know.

In much the same manner as cars exploding in accidents/shootouts/cliff-falls.
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Post by igoy »

It's show biz dude.. and all they do is glorify the <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>.... :)

frankly... they think they are good at it.. and masses may believe.. but not people who know the stuff... I think they should stop spending money on hot-babe-seducing scenes and hire some computer pro to make things look real. these days even kids on home PC knows what they show in movies.
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the last thing i am studying is the computer screen in the movie when there are hot women on show!

Swordfish...Halle Berry...mmmmmm :)

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Bech100 wrote:the last thing i am studying is the computer screen in the movie when there are hot women on show!

Swordfish...Halle Berry...mmmmmm :)

Mark
Totally! I just saw it yesterday (again).

I want the multiscreen computer :D.

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Post by macewan »

yeah, the matrix was rather interesting with nmap

even though the sex scene and the chanting at the beginning sucked - it stayed fairly true the command line =)
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yeh... Matrix Rulez Always !!! :)
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I am trying to decide which was better... The computer setup or Hale../
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nigma wrote:I am trying to decide which was better... The computer setup or Hale../
Hahaha! :D

http://php.jam.nu/matrix.jpg
At least this looks real (Matrix Reloaded, Trinity shutting down nodes).

And just on informational basis:
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The comment (last) bugs me. "Special purposes"... Matrix films... hmmm...
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sw33t, I haven't noticed that throughout the ten or more times I have watched The Matrix.
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