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8 Scenes That Prove Hollywood Doesn't Get Technology This one is my favorite:
#2. CSI -- Second Life Chase Scene
So the cops on CSI are tracking down a character in the online game Second Life that they believed was no longer active in the game. Then this happens:
They find her in-game avatar. Clueless Dipshit #1 tells Clueless Dipshit #2, "I'll distract her. You ping her IP." Because if she isn't distracted, you wouldn't be able to do that? Wait, why would you need to ping her IP address in the first place? To see if she's online? Because that's actually what you're doing there: seeing if there's a response from- oh, fuck it.
So out of the blue, some fox looking avatar comes up to them in the game and says, "Hey you, stop pretending you're Venus!" The character of Venus disappears, and the cop starts asking the fox questions -- but the fox doesn't want to answer them. So does the guy who doesn't want to be questioned just, you know, disconnect from the game? Does he shut down his computer? Does he put the cop on ignore or disable voice chat? Nope. He runs away. In the game.
The cop grabs a portable remote control keyboard thing, stands in front of a TV the size of your living room wall and gives chase. The resulting scene is among the top five stupidest things I've ever seen on television.
Watch them all.
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Thank you.
It certainly justifies my avoidance of CSI and similar shows. They obviously haven't gotten any better since I was watching. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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The "I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic" line cracked me up.
CSI has always been remarkably stupid. That show aggravates me. The New York one makes me think its creators have never even been to New York.
One movie I really enjoy, even though its understanding of technology is way off, is The Net. I don't know why I like it, but I do. At the end, Sandra Bullock manages to destroy an evil company's entire mainframe at a trade show. | |
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