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David Hess:

--- Quote from: Moshly on April 15, 2021, 08:47:31 am ---I always loved Tron but the seen with the logic probe always drove me nuts (It's cleanly a logic PULSER)
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An easter egg like I described occurs in TRON after Flynn crashes the recognizer.  He encounters some weird looking programs which Lori calls "data pushers".  They were suppose to be low level programs like device drivers which indeed can be very weird because they operate at a much lower level than application programs, but only a programmer who had dealt with them would recognize the reference.

AntiProtonBoy:
I'm surprised nobody posted The Conversation yet:

I wanted a rude username:

--- Quote from: wilfred on April 11, 2021, 03:11:24 am ---Also there was "The Conversation" with Gene Hackman

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--- Quote from: cdev on April 11, 2021, 11:38:57 am ---The Conversation was a good film about surveillance

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--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on April 16, 2021, 04:26:38 am ---I'm surprised nobody posted The Conversation yet

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It is a good film, though the ending is weak. I saw it as a double feature with Klute (1971), which was fitting.

Syntax Error:
The China Syndrome (1979)

When failsafe systems seriously fail. Anticipating Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078966/

GlennSprigg:
I MAY be off on a Tangent from this original Post/Topic... but I hate it when movies etc show particular 'props' in the background, that
'Those in the know' are aware of how fake it is!  :o   One such example, was a movie (something like 'A Space Odyssey 2001 ?), where
the walls inside the spaceships passages were lined with 'technical' looking pieces, but are actually multiple plates from an 'Alpha-Laval
Heat Ex-changer, as per the photo below...


And I also hate it when in some Crime Scene Investigation movies etc, when they are in some Computer Lab, looking at some 'evidence'
on a monitor, and the chief instructs the 'Tech' to "Zoom in on that numberplate" etc... And all you see is the guy madly typing on his
keyboard for five or so seconds!!!  WTF??  Instead of using a mouse or whatever, he must be 'typing' into some 'Terminal'...  "Select that
part of the screen from 2063-1072 pixels to 2157-1200 pixels, and zoom in on it 10x" !!!   :palm:

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