08-21-2003, 06:47 AM | #41 (permalink) | |
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08-21-2003, 06:57 AM | #42 (permalink) | |
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08-22-2003, 05:18 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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all technology represented in movies/TV are skewed... I'm sure when The Original Start Trek aired... lots of people were like ::giggle:: WTF is that thing he's talking to in his hand?
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08-22-2003, 05:45 AM | #46 (permalink) |
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I find it worse when most movies try to use "real" terminology. Most of the time, when they use real terminology, they use it wrong. Or worse, by the time the movie is out, that technology/terminology is already out of date or changed.
Remember "Hackers": everyone Oooing and Awwing over the "new Pentium Five" notebook...."RISC is good". Wrong and obsolete by the time it came out on video. Movie makers should either do a computer scene REALLY well (like Matrix II) or they should leave it all abstract and try not to be "computery" at all. |
08-22-2003, 05:47 AM | #47 (permalink) | |
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08-22-2003, 06:29 AM | #48 (permalink) | |
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arrgh! i'd be aggravated at it more than i already am...
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08-22-2003, 10:15 AM | #50 (permalink) |
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How did that infamous line in The Lone Gunman tv show go? MY GIBSON HAS BEEN HACKED!!@#!
Or something like that. Gave me a good chuckle. I also look to see what OS they use too. It's either a Mac OS or something that resembles Linux. Swordfish was the worst example of hacking I've ever seen in a movie. Made me cringe.
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08-22-2003, 11:01 AM | #51 (permalink) |
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They filmed a movie here a few years ago called "Pass the Ammo".
Our C language instructer worked for ATT who provided the computers for some scenes. He wrote a program that was basicly a slide show for a alarm system. You press space bar, it moved the "alarm" on the screen. The move made it look like as alarms went off, the computer reported it. And there was a room full of printers running. Well, actually, they had a bunch of people lie under the printers and pull the paper through by hand. Then they added sound effects later to make it look live. I still have a copy of that program somewhere
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08-24-2003, 10:38 AM | #63 (permalink) |
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Apple is the 1000 pound gorilla of product placement in movies and TV. If you can identify a computer in a movie or TV show, it's likely an Apple. Odd how they still don't get market share!
As for screen protrayal on the big and small screen, they never are real - no matter what type of computer is supposedly in use! I expect that the software makers want royalties for use on the screen which producers don't want to pay... furthermore, it's likely that the actual screens wouldn't work well on the camera - and made-up ones (larger font, better colors for the camera, etc.) work better. While I'm on the subject of product placement: If you watch movies/TV you'd seriously doubt the existance of hand-helds or PDAs. They're NEVER used! Is the handwriting on the wall saying they're soon to go the way of the dodo bird and Beta? |
08-24-2003, 11:48 AM | #64 (permalink) | |
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08-24-2003, 06:59 PM | #65 (permalink) | |
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Royalties don't have much to do with it since product placement means either a Thank You in the credits or a bunch of loaners and a payment depending on how much screen time they actually get. I worked out a deal with Compaq when I was at VH1. I got tired of them not leveraging getting some new and exciting computer systems for on screen. If they don't want to pay, then they get the gaffer tape across the logo. Watch how many times you'll see the apple logo blacked out. It happens.
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08-24-2003, 07:00 PM | #66 (permalink) |
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I know this has been said once...but I have to repeat it..
I was watching Sister Sister with my little ones...and Tia has a laptop, she setting up a date with some guy outta nowhere...and she's online using some kind of im..and I had to look twice..as there are NO wires..or from what I could tell external wireless cards anywhere near this thing...and when her sister Tamera walks in the screen is till on...after a while...that battery shoulda been dead!! So yeah, I know what you are talking about...asshopo..my SO talks about it ALL the time when we are watching movies! Programmers...go figure!
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08-24-2003, 09:37 PM | #67 (permalink) | |
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