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Movies with electronics related storyline
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: rdl on April 15, 2021, 02:31:45 am ---Apollo 13
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Speaking of disaster films,
Speed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)
MathWizard:
There's an 80's/90's movie, about little dinner plate sized intelligent Robot/Alien things, that are trying to get home, or are hiding on Earth or whatever, in some apartment building they must save. I don't remember it much, but I'm pretty sure it was well done with special effects that hold up today.
Some other 80's movie, about some kid's that see a schematic in their dreams and they build a Spaceship out of a theme park ride vehicle, and go ...somewhere. It's all hooked up to their computer, I can't remember them making electronics, but they must.
i can't remember their names.
Cyberdragon:
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--- Quote from: cdev on April 12, 2021, 01:57:06 pm ---Movies about electronics and computing are just the larger than life full size versions of the ridiculous ad industry clip-art image fails we often see. It shows how little ordinary people often know about technology. We've failed in explaining tech areas to the public at large, or at least, the screenwriters.
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In a sci-fi show I watch with alien tech, a corpse got "electrostatically charged" and dust was floating around it. The dude sticks his phone out and it hovers mid-air and charges! :palm: |O
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Your post reminded me of something... Just checked out a sci-fi series a few days ago, Debris : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11640020/
Supposedly some kind of huge alien spaceship started to break apart above Earth and pieces of it fell down all around the world and some had special properties like gravity modification, teleporting people a few meters, hallucinations ... and that's just the pilot episode.
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That's the one yes, episode 6 I believe. Their scanners for alien radiation can apparently "scan for life signs" like a tricorder too. ::)
Cyberdragon:
--- Quote from: MathWizard on April 15, 2021, 03:59:21 am ---There's an 80's/90's movie, about little dinner plate sized intelligent Robot/Alien things, that are trying to get home, or are hiding on Earth or whatever, in some apartment building they must save. I don't remember it much, but I'm pretty sure it was well done with special effects that hold up today.
Some other 80's movie, about some kid's that see a schematic in their dreams and they build a Spaceship out of a theme park ride vehicle, and go ...somewhere. It's all hooked up to their computer, I can't remember them making electronics, but they must.
i can't remember their names.
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The first one is Batteries Not Included, with the sentient robotic spaceships that could molecularly repair anything and even reproduce. From the brief clip of when the old man looks at one with a magnifier, you can see a bunch of moving parts giving the impression they are made of a bunch of interconnected micromachines and they run on electricity, as a major plot point is them needing to recharge. There is also the scene where the guy tries to fix the broken baby robot with parts from an old tube TV and whatnot but he cant get the thing to take a charge enough to start the system (hence the title), until he knocks it into a sink where a toaster falls in and zaps it enough to bring it to life.
Moshly:
I always loved Tron but the seen with the logic probe always drove me nuts (It's cleanly a logic PULSER)
A couple more not mentioned yet
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