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Recently learning that we can discuss movies lol...
What does everyone think about the new Die Hard movie?
ie how it portrays "computer people" and how the world is ran mostly off of computers, etc... I thought that they did a very good job in getting the small details down
at least "Matt Farrell" wasn't cracking over the phone lines using MS-DOS =)
Edit: clever little anti H word...
personally I don't watch those sort of films to see what OS is in play
I like the BruceW planning scenes
"so, what's your plan"
"I'm gonna go there, rescue my daughter and kill everyone else"
"THAT'S your PLAN!!!" :D
also you might just have noticed the latest anti H word filter in place, doing a wonderfully unobtrusive job :p
hacker ... just had to try it to see what people were talking about...
When I watch movies like this, I try to focus more on the action/storyline... if I pay attention to the technical details, I find myself being too picky...
I think Die Hard 4 did do a good job with the technical computer details. But do you know which movie did a better job????
FIREWALL!! :):)
Seriously? I haven't seen firewall, mainly because I am not the biggest fan of his work (although his career is the only one not ruined by Star Wars lol...) If hollywood actually does do a good job, I will have to rent it.
Agreed, Die Hard 4 tends to cause Cloverfield memory loss. :D
"Computer people"? Everyone uses computers. And anyone who doesn't see that by now needs to get in touch with the rest of society. And even with that said, I think everyone needs to be introduced to sites like howstuffworks.comQuote:
how it portrays "computer people" and how the world is ran mostly off of computers
That's a pretty dumb statement considering Carrie Fisher is probably one of the biggest writers out there. Yet alone, these movies both defined and made George Lucas and his companies. None of the hundred or so background characters had a career to ruin anyways. And speaking of starwars...Quote:
although his career is the only one not ruined by Star Wars lol
I thought the guy hanging around Bruce Willis' character was a very annoying and pointless character. Infact, Jar Jar Binks had more relevance to starwars than this guy ever had to this movie. I wanted to stomp his face inwards. The action was rather watered down aswell. It probably wouldn't have been as bad if there was actually a nice movie villain in it... instead of these splintercell nerds and some vietnamese lady.
No....The Wolfman is not serious with this one at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArPaNET
A friend gave me his copy of Firewall yesterday because it was so *bad*.
I'm going to watch it this some time this week. I will let you know if it's any good. But I suspect it's going to be a bad movie.
I thought firewall was good. Now a question about Die Hard 4 - was actually happened in that movie, is it possible? Speak your mind !
./me waits for the flaming to begin.
The-Spec I said "computer people" because we have a clever little filter put in place that replaces the H word with something else! (after 3 posts I am surprised that you didn't know that)
Also, I believe Harrison Ford is an actor, not a writer...
(since I was talking about acting careers, she would not apply)
The character I think your talking about is Justin Long, who's role was to help a not so technology smart guy (Bruce Willis) fight the bad guys who are...
So his role was pretty essential in this movie.
thanks for your thoughts though!
Cider
Seeing as to how the movie actually had a good point, the world today is being more and more reliant on computers to run things... For instance if you take a look at the latest issue of Wired magazine, we are on the verge of having computer controlled cars! So to answer your question, possible yes probable I don't think so...
Cider : getting the resources together to pull such a thing off would probably raise several red flags. The FBI/CIA/NSA/whatever would be all over them long before they got started.
wear fishnets wear fishnetser
wtf! when did h4x0r or h-a-c-k-e-r start coming up as wear fishnetser?
edit: That certainly explains a couple of things... I was searching google the other day like... wtf is hacker?! Man, go away to work for a couple of weeks and you can't say hacker anymore?
I understood but im still not making particular categorisations between internet users. It's pointless. There are more people with grandiose expertise in computer related fields than either of us could imagine. Things are at a point where the concept of terms like "computer people" is both silly and irellevent.Quote:
The-Spec I said "computer people" because we have a clever little filter put in place that replaces the H word with something else! (after 3 posts I am surprised that you didn't know that
You keep saying that it ruined them... but do you honestly beleave the likes of Mark Hamill could have found their own way into hollywood? I doubt it.Quote:
(since I was talking about acting careers, she would not apply)
Yeah, sounds like a nice 4chan reference huh? I generally dislike threads with the H-word in it. This atleast makes threads like these entertaining. All the kids that pop into sites like this to talk about leet h4x suddenly seem less annoying too.Quote:
I was searching google the other day like... wtf is wear fishnetser?!
It was a suggestion that I liked. forums need to be amusing as well as informative.Quote:
Originally Posted by phishphreek
Are you serious? they man is bouncing around t.v. shows and doing cartoon voice-overs... yeah his career as an actor is booming!Quote:
Mark Hamill
the only thing silly and not relevant are your posts...Quote:
silly and irellevent.
(how did you get the greenies?)
delstar brought up a good point towards Ciders question, I am sure (for the most part) that the United States government is monitoring such things...
Mark Hamill is Bitchfist...that alone is worthy of respect.
Oh, and the Wing Commander thing.
I'm talking out of my ass, of course.
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Speaking of Jedi (which we weren't), I'm about to finish KOTOR. What a phenomenal game! Great story, great development, flawed battle system (albeit very manageable).
Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled thread about whatever the thread was about in the first place.
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Exactly but I doubt that was ever the result of him playing a character in star wars. Everyone involved with the movie was working from the bottom up and not the other way around. None of them had huge acting careers that could've possably been ruined to begin with. They could have only gained from it.Quote:
Are you serious? they man is bouncing around t.v. shows and doing cartoon voice-overs... yeah his career as an actor is booming!
Says the guy who wanted to talk about movies then shutdown and got defensive about what? I guess movie trivia, right? That doesn't exactly hold you to a brighter light. And this probably isn't the trait of a very sociable person.Quote:
the only thing silly and not relevant are your posts...
Antipoints got boring fast for me and almost everyone else here. Nobody gives a crap about how erect my antipoints are.Quote:
(how did you get the greenies?)
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Originally Posted by Ouroboros
Regular scheduled thread??? I think that was lost a long time ago. So keeping with the new theme, KOTOR is cool. But this is probably going to be so much better:
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/
Maybe it's time for another "should we lose the reputation system?" Poll.
well, seeing as there is no longer a flashy bar thingy under a greened post, and we can no longer go and check the top ten charts eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
and because I can see no valid reason to keep them now
I say let em go
UNLESS you want to put in GOLD STARS :eek: :D for every 5000 AP's ?
now THAT would be worth working for :rolleyes:
Seeing as to how they are meaningless i would say let em go too...
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Originally Posted by JPnyc
I would say that if you are going to put a filter like this in place, pick a verb that conjugates a little better. Just a thought.
You could just switch both words around.
As an example, fishnet wear(ers) -- fishnet wear(ing).
Although I think it's pretty humorous as is. It fits in with internet slang.
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Originally Posted by The-Spec
that is a good point... though if someone posts something along the lines of teach me how to h*ck it would come across as teach me how to fishnet wear. which I agree is kind of humorous, I was thinking something along the lines of cross dress... so something like h*ckers attack the pentagon would come across as cross dressers attack the pentagon... I want to learn how to h*ck would come across as I want to learn to cross dress... still has it's flaws but it makes more sense in at least a few contexts... once again... just a thought.
I suspend my disbelief when I go to see movies, that is, when I find time to crawl out from under my rock. LOL I thought it was an okay movie, kind of redundant though. I'm not going to be in line to buy the DVD anytime soon.
Firewall was horrible, not for the computer stuff but the acting. Absolutely nothing compares to a CSI episode I saw were the "computer guy" is trying to hack a computer then all of sudden it launches a countermeasure and he barks "Put the firewall up! They're gonna get in!!" or some such nonsense. LOL
For all of the money they spend on CSI consultants you'd think they spend a little money on the computer consultant.
=) perfectly done anti H word!Quote:
I saw were the "computer guy" is trying to wear fishnets a computer
yeah the show CSI is a load of crap... like half the stuff on there is bs!
Errmmm, 'scuse me, but I worked rather hard to get my antipoints to where they are today. I think I'd rather keep them, if nothing more than to remind myself of where I'm at compared to anyone else.
Speaking of hacking, did I mention where I hacked into my own hacked system by hacking the hacker and hack hack hacking away at his manhood and leaving him hacked on the sidewalk and his hacked computer with him?
I can see the fun in abusing a simple word filter ;)