IT Engineers are Incompatible with Movies

Friday, January 16. 2009

Yesterday I saw the movie Eagle Eye and once again it hit me in the face... (but if you haven't seen it yet and intend to do that, stop reading on. I don't want to spoil the last bit of the movie.)

IT Engineers are incompatible with Hollywood movies. Or in other words: How to shut down my brain to enjoy a modern movie that deals with IT technology?

Eagle Eye is yet another movie around the old story we all know from the Terminator series and was probably introduced in 1968 with 2001: A Space Odyssey: A computer goes wild and starts to kill humans. And none of the brave people manages to turn off the fuses. How do we need a computer to kill humans, when the people in the movies are so stupid? Not to mention that it's impossible to create a program that manages to control everything that has technology inside: Starting from a car to a harbor crane up to overloading power supply lines to explode at the desired position..

Another thing that makes me shake my head are those virus attacks, where the monitor flickers (Live Free or Die Hard) or the screen content seems to melt (The Net). Or where Hollywood wants to make people think that it would be an effective UI to enter 3D virtual reality to perform simple database manipulations (Disclosure).

There is an endless list of movies, where I as an IT engineer wishes that I could forget my IT knowledge for some minutes, just to be able to enjoy the rest of the thin plotlines a little bit.

What's your favourite IT engineer incompatible movie?


Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Thoughts.
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