'This is a Unix system. I know this.'

The only plus point of enduring the self righteous `I'm such a good person for watching this` over long pap that was constant gardener was that it had some spectacularly bizzarre use of computers. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love weird and wonderfull computers in films, but only when the film isn't trying to convey the 'real world'. Basically, if it's made between 1990 and 2000 and uses the term 'cyber punk', your on to a winner (see hackers and the great scene in Jurrasic Park, dissected here).

Along with the normal zooming in on the low res image to show the face of a man who was previously the size of a pin head, the real messed up thing in this film was the attempt to disguise XP as Mac OS.



For some reason they've changed windows explorer to use Mac OS folder icons, and then amazingly engineered some software to use the brushed metal effect and Mac OS style icons. Why not just use a mac? Earlier on in the film they were using a powerbook and iChat - so why goto all this effort?

Maybe i'm getting overly upset. The thing that really made me laugh was that the technical ineptitude even extends to the naming of the DVD ...



Genius.