Technobabble

[tejasd]

Is it just me, or has the technobabble in mainstream movies and television starting to become more and more accurate these days.

The movie Swordfish had some of the crappiest, nonsensical, technical shit that I've ever seen in a movie. Things like "I'm going to drop a logic bomb in that system" and other assorted pearls of wisdom. Of course, one

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[nicubunulj]

Indeed, Swordfish is painful... and The IT Crowd is like real life, Roy is just like a copy of me, if the writer had used me as a model the final character would have ended just like Roy is :D

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[anonymous]

In Swordfish, the 'Torvalds' character speaks with his lawyer (I think it was) in a foreign language, which just happens to be German. It seems as if the filmmakers thought it was close enough to Finnish (or Swedish, depending on how closely they modeled the character on Linus) and that American audiences can't tell the difference anyway. Or maybe the character really was supposed speak German for some inexplicable reason, who knows. I'm Finnish and I can tell you that hackers around here really do not learn German.

But yes, I think Hollywood in general has become at least a little more careful. I saw Die Hard 4 some time ago, and while there are lots of unrealistic happenings in it, it seemed to at least avoid the completely nonsensical technobabble. It's the sort of movie where a few years ago I would not have expected the writers to pay any attention.

IT Crowd - My favourite

[tuxmaniac]

IT Crowd is hilarious. I have watched it like some of my friends watch "Friends". Again and again and still enjoying it.