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Movies with electronics related storyline
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'
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