Movies with electronics related storyline

[mindcrime]

There's also Shocker, where a demon turns into pure electricity... or something like that.



Not the greatest movie ever, but the soundtrack was amazing.

[cdev]

Movies routinely portray technology as incomprehensible to average people, or as malicious and evil.

The media do too. Its often kind of funny, if it wasn't so tragic. Take for example any story that talks about computer security. Why cant the government agencies that work with computing make more of an effort to educate the public so that we will have better computer security in users. It wouldn't be so difficult for them to do this. They used to do it.


*sigh*

[mindcrime]

Why cant the government agencies that work with computing make more of an effort to educate the public so that we will have better computer security in users.

Why would the government want to improve computer security among the public? That would just make it harder for them to spy on us. 

[Alex Eisenhut]

30 years ago ... ouch

[cdev]

Why are they assuming the worst in people? Most people are basically honest, studies show.

Why cant the government agencies that work with computing make more of an effort to educate the public so that we will have better computer security in users.

Why would the government want to improve computer security among the public? That would just make it harder for them to spy on us.

[Cubdriver]

Why are they assuming the worst in people? Most people are basically honest, studies show.

Why cant the government agencies that work with computing make more of an effort to educate the public so that we will have better computer security in users.

Why would the government want to improve computer security among the public? That would just make it harder for them to spy on us.

Projection.  If you can't be trusted, you naturally assume others can't be either.

-Pat

[RoGeorge]

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991) - VHS Trailer

[jonovid]

batteries not included (1987) Trailer

[I wanted a rude username]

On a meta level, it is quite interesting that few films focus on specialist trades like ours ... and those that do tend to "other" the specialist, showing him as brilliant, eccentric, single, and often autistic.

Wonder why that is. Inability of the artist to understand the engineer? Or just not wanting to delve into particulars, focusing instead on parts of the story applicable to all viewers?

[mendip_discovery]

Not a film but in the UK we had on the BBC a series called Bugs.

https://youtu.be/nDmptnw7zYo

[TimFox]

I have been trying to locate a movie (possibly made for TV) that I saw in the early 2000s.
Premise:  a computer system to defend the Government and all it entails interprets the Patriot Act as giving it the authority for regime change.
Meanwhile, back in Chicago, our hero has been located downtown.
He is lifted out a high-rise window, and boards the 'L' train, where the Argyle stop is close by (due to some relativistic effect).
The evil computer grabs control of the 'L' system and actually controls the train (as opposed to track 3rd-rail power and turnouts).
There seems to be a commercial port at Argyle with computer-controlled cargo cranes (that port is unknown to Chicago maps).
Luckily, he is able to get the high-school band that is about to perform in front of the President back in Washington before the bomb in the tuba goes off.
I'm not clever enough to have imagined this--can anyone help me with the name of the film?

[RoGeorge]

Search for Argyle computer defense movie

[Bud]

Blackberry

https://youtu.be/cXL_HDzBQsM

[TimFox]

I found the movie:  Eagle Eye (2008).  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_stry_pl
That synopsis does not discuss the CTA 'L'.
Typical plot bit:  The president's cabinet is announced and the members begin to file in. The president arrives. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the capitol to play the national anthem prior to the president's speech, begins to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last stanza of the national anthem. ARIIA had arranged this as poetic justice, believing the president to not be brave.  ARIAA is the computer that has taken on regime change as a task.
From an IMDB contributor about the 'L' stations (I misremembered Argyle for Wilson, the two stations on the Red Line are close to each other, but far from downtown).
"Early in the movie when Jerry is on the El train in Chicago, he is shown at the Quincy stop, but the train that he is on is a specific type of train that is only utilized on the Blue line route that doesn't go through the Quincy station. Also, shortly after leaving the Quincy station he is shown at the Wilson station, which is on a completely different train line and would probably require at least 30 minutes to get to even if on the correct train line."
Quincy is a stop on the Loop 'L' for the Brown and Orange Lines.  Wilson and Argyle are stops on the Red Line, which is a subway downtown and elevated on the north side.

[RJSV]

   Scanning through all these movie titles, I can't help wondering; As a handful of the movies seem to exhibit a 'self-mocking' or on the other hand, a lack of circumspection, I kept a lookout, for the movie 'Galaxy Quest' as that movie made it clear....they were mocking the DORK lifestyle, shamelessly.
Of course, Tim, 'The Tooltime Guy' played it up, in character as a useless error prone hapless 'hero'.

   You gotta laugh, at the deliberate lameness.   'Lameidity'

[mendip_discovery]

I remember one from when we first got Sky (16 channels)

1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/

"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."

The full Film can be found here,

[schmitt trigger]

There is a Cold War thriller, which for the life of me I can’t remember the name…. Anyways, about a radar station north of the Arctic Circle, probably the DEW line, in the dead of the winter.

Classic plot: a bad guy, presumably a Soviet operative, thrashes the station, including the only short wave radio. Left several dead operators but our hero somehow survives.

Our hero finds a damaged resistor on the radio, and proceeded to fix it with the graphite from a #2 pencil.

[BrianHG]

I remember one from when we first got Sky (16 channels)

1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/

"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."

The full Film can be found here,

@20:35 in the video, he is working on an open Amiga 1000 computer.  LOL, 1993, they should have been old and long gone. @21:35, the painted the rear plastic bezel black.

[Electro Fan]

Halt and Catch Fire
 

https://youtu.be/_CtzaSzO2cE

You’ll probably know if it’s for you after watching Episode 1.
Then get ready for about 39 more.

[I wanted a rude username]

1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/

"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."

There was a 1986 MacGyver episode with this theme: The Human Factor. With Wargames and similar, homicidal AIs were very much in the Zeitgeist.

[RoGeorge]

Found another one, the main character is a radio-TV repair man.

It's Only Money (1962) - trailer

[alpher]

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s?si=d0YPYGm2BKRFH9Wq

[alpher]

https://youtu.be/i5txwFv-zYM?si=Wdo-PNhfM_sSvm6p

[RoGeorge]

Robot Dreams (2023) - Official Trailer
Madman Films

[coppercone2]

i want to know the movie about the DEW line