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.
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.
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.
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
I always loved Tron but the seen with the logic probe always drove me nuts (It's cleanly a logic PULSER)
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.
I'm surprised nobody posted The Conversation yet:
Also there was "The Conversation" with Gene Hackman
The Conversation was a good film about surveillance
I'm surprised nobody posted The Conversation yet
It
is a good film, though the ending is weak. I saw it as a double feature with
Klute (1971), which was fitting.
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!
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" !!!
Here's an old one some people might remember.
wow, this movie is great
next time I need to test something ima hook up a lead acid battery to some random connector looking things and put some juice in it
I have fond memories of this movie, definitely very electronics related.
but I suspect, if I ever re-watch as an adult, the memory will be ruined.
that was a great movie
also the SFX , in one scene, is scarier then many more attempts at a particular life form
The movie Chappie (2015) by Neil Blomkamp has a lot of electronics and software in it. The scenes where you see a Linux-like shell are surprisingly accurate too.
Apollo 13
One of my all-time favorites. Before the big-screen, Hollywood version, there was an excellent Public TV (PBS here) documentary that I have not been able to find again.
They had a great series of scenes where, years later, they were interviewing the engineers and they asked them about wearing "pocket protectors "(older nerds know what those are - youngins might need to google the term). Each one was saying that they did not, personally, wear them, but many did. Then, for each one, they would show footage of them wearing a pocket protector
More "robotics" than "electronics", but how about Real Steel?
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" !!!
Because they were using Linux
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??
Or even worse, the number plate is completely blurry and unreadable in the original until the tech hits a few keys and then the image magically comes into clear focus and is perfectly readable.
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??
Or even worse, the number plate is completely blurry and unreadable in the original until the tech hits a few keys and then the image magically comes into clear focus and is perfectly readable.
It is possible for AI to read text that's hard for a human to read. As for faces or other images, sofware was already being developed in 2017.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/4871415337/google-ai-adds-detail-to-low-resolution-images
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??
Or even worse, the number plate is completely blurry and unreadable in the original until the tech hits a few keys and then the image magically comes into clear focus and is perfectly readable.
It is possible for AI to read text that's hard for a human to read. As for faces or other images, sofware was already being developed in 2017.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/4871415337/google-ai-adds-detail-to-low-resolution-images
Yeah, but there was no AI "reading" the number plate text in these CSI shows--the number plates were perfectly readable by eye after "enhancing" the image. While some improvement may be possible in the future with better software, when these shows were made this was pure BS.
Here's an old one some people might remember.
Terrible trigger discipline. Keep your booger hook off the bang switch until you're on target.
-Pat
Real Genius (1985) has a few hacks, from using a slice of solid CO2 as a fake "quarter" to get coffee, to Lazlo hacking up a computer sweepstakes signing plotter to enter sweepstakes. But the ultimate hack was the reprogramming of the airborne laser target tracking computer to target [spoiler redacted] instead of the intended demonstration target. It involved pulling a ROM chip, programming a new ROM chip with target coordinates that were transferred by (radio or early cellphone) modem, burning the new ROM, and installing it in the control circuit.