Also, WarGames was very accurate, except for the “WOPR having artificial general intelligence” part.
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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days agoThe hacking scene in the Matrix sequel is actually pretty accurate.
“My Cousin Vinny” is almost entirely realistic as far as the courtroom scenes.
A mobster reported that Joe Pesci generally plays a very accurate gangster when he plays a gangster in movies. Most of the time, he’s this weirdly dark violent loose cannon outlier, because they can’t just make every character a psychopath and have people enjoy watching the movie, but he’s the one that is playing the role accurately.
When “King of the Hill” showed Bobby doing stage magic, it was all real magic tricks with his hands and props positioned so that he’d be able to really do the things he was showing.
The corpsman scene in “Captain Phillips” was very legit.
Everything else is a bunch of crap.
There’s also this stuff: youtube.com/@Insider
grue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
nmaps a good choice to hit when your manager walks by. Always good to have it run in a loop on a terminal you can quickly tab over to from YouTube.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Nmap isn’t encouraged where I work. I ran it once on a customer’s IP a couple months when I first started here. The firewall interpreted it as an attack, and blocked us for 20 mins. Except we had a BOVPN connection to them, so 20mins never reset because it thought we kept hitting it. Since we needed to hit it to change the setting manually, it was pretty annoying to fix, though one of our guys managed about 5-6 hours later that night.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
How long will Win 10 IoT be viable for gaming and home use?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably late in October.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
(BTW, the corpsman scene leaves me sobbing, every time, no exceptions.)
Gun related scenes are top notch in John Wick. I love how real shit happens like he loses ammo count or jams, instantly remedies the situation. And believe this, plenty of gun nuts counted for him and I’ve never heard anyone call out an inaccuracy.
Also like how there’s nothing fancy. For example, look at what the The Sommelier recommends; Glock pistols, AR-15 rifle and a Benelli for a shotgun. No idea how Hollywood resisted gimmicky bullshit, but I would have screamed if they came with a funky looking KelTec.
The action, morseo in the first movie, is on the bleeding edge of believable. I’m sure by now everyone who has any interest has seen Keanu practice guns, and before that martial arts for *The Matrix".
Hard to overstate how difficult all that is. Targeting while moving is hell, worst with a pistol, but even a shotgun isn’t much better. Notice how he reloads the shotgun before he’s out of ammo, doesn’t have to pump it? You can do the same with a semi-auto anything, don’t shoot the last round before reloading.
I could train like that for weeks and never come close. I can ping every piece of steel, over and over, but even at a creeping walk? LOL, nope. Fuck me, I can’t even master the violin or combat load with a 12-gauge. Hmmm, I’m off tomorrow and have plenty of shells.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days ago
screenrant.com/heat-shootout-scene-marine-weapons…
IDK how much of that being shown to marine recruits is real, or if so, how much was just because the marine trainers wanted the recruits to have something badass they could aspire to for themselves. But apparently there’s a bit of truth to it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhV2u4a_pV0
Joe Pesci apparently did the same thing in Goodfellas, with wanting full load blanks in his gun for shootout scenes.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It usually doesn’t take much work to get stuff like that right.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And yet, so many pieces of media still get it wrong
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What’s the vector, Victor
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
we have clearence, clarance
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days ago
Hm… she uses some of the right words, but it’s not accurate to how a pilot would speak. There’s way too many words.
“Island approach, IG99 checking in VFR on top, over” would be “Island approach IG99 inbound”
“Island tower” would still be “Island approach,” and “Island tower, this is IG99 requesting vectors to the initial, over” would be “Island approach, IG99 inbound, you there?” or something.