Phone/computer screens in movies and TV series
Phone/computer screens in movies and TV series
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/5310977
What do you think about screens in movies and television?
Personally, I hate it, and have abandoned many productions because of it.
In most cases:
- you can see that they are artificial
- interfaces don't make sense. Often the cursor is missing, etc.
But Searching and Missing showed that if there are willingnesses, it is possible not only to prepare well, but to base an entire film on them.
Eh, as an IT guy, I love seeing computer screens on TV. They're either a good laugh, or they can be quite interesting.
Among the interesting/iconic interfaces:
- The 3D "Unix" system in Jurassic Park
- The Matrix
- Minority Report
I also love seeing vintage/fake-vintage interfaces in movies, such as SolarOS (a take on Solaris) in Tron: Legacy
and all the hilarious ones such as the infamous "I'll create a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP address" scene in CSI.
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I loved that Trinity actually uses Nmap to port scan during Matrix 2.
Mr Robot was good too.
I loved the Nostromo's computers in Aliens. Vintage future.
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The Other Place had a whole sub*cough* dedicated to this, called "itsaunixsystem", for the scene in Jurassic Park mentioned in other post (the software used was real, it just was really slow and impractical).
I wouldn't mind having something like that in Lemmy.
Found one !itsaunixsystem@lemmy.federated.club
The only thing that bugs me when they use modern phones on screen is when you can tell they aren't on a call. As an example, my phone screen turns off when I put it near my face if I'm on a call. In a lot of tv shows you can see the phone screen doesn't turn off since they aren't in an actual call and that takes me out of the fiction post haste.
I'm surprised I haven't seen an example of them using a screenshot that's being half swiped to a photo of a cat or zoomed while they are talking with it pressed against their cheek
I don't have problem with it when it is done right.
I liked cameo from Czech TV presenter in Spiderman - it was small detail but everything was done right, it looked exactly like Czech news.
But when it is some cheap screen recording playing on loop I am torn from the story immediately.
C'mon it is not that hard to customise some Linux DE to satisfy some unixporn lovers.
It irritates me when a computer or phone makes some kind of noise while it’s loading something.
As long as they aren't parodies I don't really care. I find this is more common when Apple products are used.
There's a few UnixPorn communities out there ( !unixporn@lemmy.ml ) and I think they really demonstrate how varied UIs can be.
If you are using a tiling window manager like i3 you might not have a cursor for example.