re: #172 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I tend to get at least mildly annoyed when I get pulled out of the illusion by blatantly wrong depictions of certain things. Like when the main character successfully “hacks” into the Evil Government/Megacorp database by typing “OVERRIDE SECURITY{enter}” and >if prompted for a password, it is invariably the name or nickname of the main villain’s tragically deceased loved one. Or when being shot by handguns causes cars to explode and flip several times, after which the driver climbs out of the car with an inconsequential cut over his eyebrow.

There is an old article on cracked.com (which I can’t look up from here, because firewall) which listed a bunch of HILARIOUS HOLLYWOOD TECH BLOOPERS. There was one example of some government secure system that made its firewall like a FREAKING GAME and if you won the game, you could enter, and an episode of NCIS where Abby and McGee were pounding on one keyboard.