As I predicted the other day, Eileen and I saw Firewall this past weekend. The movie itself was ok enough for a midwinter throwaway, but what set it apart from the vast hordes of other techie movies were the computer scenes.

For the most part, Hollywood likes to completely exaggerate what a computer can do. Without spoiling this flick, there were certainly some unrealistic scenes but most of the shots of user interfaces were realistic command prompts rather than ridiculous "Swordfish"-esque symphonies of meaningless 3D graphics and spinning widgets.

So in the realm of UI realism, I give this film three and a half slashes(/) out of a possible four.

Meanwhile in other movie news, wasn't NASCAR supposed to be trying to convince us that auto racing isn't a backwoods hick sport? Why, then, would they endorse this walking stereotype, which seems to play to the same demographic that NASCAR is trying to distance itself from?

Posted by: Nathan at February 21, 2006 10:31 PM

Posted by: Brian at February 23, 2006 1:46 PM