I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
Hacking. Each and every time it is part of a movie or TV series.
The matrix power plant hack was the exception. In the movie, it’s just a screen of code flying past. If you slow it down, it’s a legit hack.
Trinity checks the software version, to see it hadn’t been updated. She then implements a real hack that that version was vulnerable to. It resets the admin password to a default, letting her log in as admin.
[click clickity click] “I’m in!”
Hacking is used in plot the same way that magic is. That shows how much they care about making any realism into hacking or IT.
Yeah, there was a TV show once where the plot of the episode was the theft of some new, important classified tech.
In the last scene the bad guy drops their suitcase and this important, secret tech falls out.
The prop master used vanilla, recognizable RAM chips. It annoyed me so much.
It was fine in Mr Robot.
the director made the show because he was tired of hacking not being done correctly in shows
We just watched “The Trap” last night. There was a major pop concert that ended in time for family dinner time during daylight. In the concert, they were depicted having time to make multiple trips to the merch tables and concessions, and in one of those trips, they talked like it was an intermission to change the stage set between songs.
Naval drama in space with magical faster than causality travel.
AGI is the machine god mythos, or the insanity that sentient superiority results in an inevitable existential threat to humanity… because we are a monoculture on this planet after defeating all lesser contenders.
Going to space for stupid reasons like flag planting, or the failure to communicate how much resource wealth is really in space, even close by Earth with M-type asteroids.
Well maybe AGI will never become a reality? So humans must step in and battle.
do as the very subsentient murder animals do
I think AGI is very near and just a matter of mixing systems. An entire data center running a complex agent in a FORTH interpreter loop with a few guardrails is practically there if you have the resources and enough data.
@RemindMe @RemindMe@programming.dev 15 years, tell this guy he’s wrong
70% is a passing grade for a human.
Anything gun related in most movies is probably wrong
L shaped blankets.
You can’t just leave a tvtropes link without a warning! Some never make it back.
Hah, that’s great. I’m going to be on the lookout now.
Hacking.
There is no way that you keyboard danced for 12 seconds and completed a nmap scan, identified an unpatched target with a remote code execution bug, delivered the payload, pivoted to an account with the permissions you needed, and found the server running the internal application you are looking for.
telnet 127.0.0.1
I’m in!
Ah legacy systems.
All the young kids use ::1
You say that but it’s pathetic how little has been upgraded to add support for IPV6.
Only Mr Robot
Hey now, War Games had pretty dang realistic hacking!
It’s really simple, you just search the evil corporation’s hard drive for a file named
EVIDENCE.txtRealistic hacking scenes would be funny.
“Okay I’m in”
“Wait… how?”
“Oh I figured out the default passwords and naming conventions for new employees awhile ago.”
Funnily enough I got my college to change password policies because for a report for one of my classes I wrote about how stupid it was that all new users passwords were First intial + last initial + last four of social security number, with usernames being firstname + lastname + year. Since they had no max number of attempts on logins, and didn’t prompt you to change password on logging in, it took a few minutes to get into anyone’s account once you knew their name. (That school was very incompetent, and they are closed now)
OR
“Give me 20 minutes, I’m on hold with IT. They’ll reset the password and tell me it if I give them an employee ID, dob, and name. Which I see clearly on this guys facebook picture where he has his badge visibile.”
Or a hacking guy trying to brute force for days. Then the “no nonsense” guy goes out for 20 minutes, and comes back with it and refused to answer questions. Oh wait… that’s just XKCD.
Hack the planet!
exactly. running an nmap scan alone involves minutes on end of just sitting there, waiting for nmap to do its thing, and hoping that the network administrator doesn’t notice your computer running the most obvious port scan of all time, barge into your borrowed cubicle, and say “what the hell are you doing”
To be fair, that’s your personal thing, because you have knowledge about this topic. In movies and TV a crap ton of stuff is abbreviated to not bore the audience to death. Some shows portrait a certain domain more or less realistically but still take dramatic license with other things. After all, we watch this stuff to escape from reality.
There’s a scene in NCIS where somebody is losing a “hacker fight” so to turn it around a second person joins in and starts typing on the same keyboard.
Like there’s suspension of disbelief, and then there’s whatever psychological issue watchers of NCIS suffer from.
Hehe that scene was the one that made me think of this post.
NCIS should just dive into self parody at this point.
Quiet conversations on airplanes and dance floors as if there’s no background noise.
The film Under Siege II has some of the best hacking scenes and dialog.
Even at a young age, the line “This is the guy that hacked into the Pentagon with a laptop” made me WTF because unless you’re brute forcing encryption, the kind of computer you use to backdoor a system is irrelevant.
Just be at work and look around yourself. Many of your colleagues got their jobs without knowing what’s actually going on. Doesn’t matter what kind of job they have.
To be fair the vast majority of what you need to know to do the job is learned on the job. Maybe not for the people who program CERN, but for the majority of jobs this is true.
Challenge accepted. Gonna apply to CERN next year 😎
Basically any time someone playing a chef or cook on TV picks up a knife I fly into a rage.
As a counterpoint to the excellent examples posted here, I will cite an example of the opposite that I appreciate: In the Big Lebowski when the Dude goes to retrieve his stolen car and he asks the cop if they have any leads. The cop’s reaction is both realistic and absolutely hilarious.
The Dark Knight trilogy really wanted to be a realistic, grounded take on the Batman mythos, so they dropped the more fantastical elements of some characters’ backstories. Ra’s Al Ghul was no longer immortal, Bane didn’t have super steroids, the Joker wasn’t permanently bleached by chemicals…then there’s Two-Face.
I guess they thought acid burns were too unrealistic, so they gave him regular burns…apparently without knowing that burns that severe would be so painful that he wouldn’t even be able to remain conscious, much less run around the city on a killing spree. I mean, you can see exposed muscle in some places. There’s a line where Gordon says he’s rejecting skin grafts, and I remember thinking, “WTF are you talking about? He should be in a medically induced coma, not making healthcare decisions.” Half of his body was an open wound; I’m amazed he didn’t die of infection 15 minutes after he left the hospital.
Space Flight.
I walked in on my roommate watching “Don’t Look Up” right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.
We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It’s not some crazy mystery. This isn’t Gravity where they add a window that doesn’t exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It’s not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.
A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That’s the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn’t necessary for good story telling.
Most recent example: I was watching the remake of Salem’s Lot, and protagonist Ben Mears has been on maybe one date with a woman named Susan. Fast forward, Susan is a full-on vampire and is ruthlesssly attacking Ben, trying to bite him. His response: “SUSAN!! IT’S ME!!”
I didn’t watch it, but I saw the trailer for Moonfall and I had a lot of WTF moments just watching that. A lot of ‘there’s no way that’s how it would actually work.’
Moonfall exclusively uses cartoon physics throughout the film.
Wow. Yeah, that’s almost Space: 1999 levels of unphysical.
I have a friend who loves that movie because it just leaves him and his wife gasping for breath between their ceaseless laughs. My personal favorite is
spoiler
when the moon is orbiting every minute or so, and despite having a gravity of 1/6 of earth’s (at it’s surface!) is lifting them up into the air.
