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  3. Posted

    I am having trouble figuring out a time issue with this movie. The listed running time of Steel is 97 minutes. And I am sure that scene of Shaq chasing the robber through the train yard was 45 minutes long. So did the rest of the movie take place over just 52 minutes? That doesn't seem possible. Confusing!

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    Also, if you are a "l33t haxor" like he supposedly was, being out of the game for five years would be a huge set back wouldn't it? Technology and internet moves pretty fast so the technology of his first hack would be somewhat outdated or changed by the time he turned eighteen. I'm sure he could read magazines and things to stay in the loop but reading and learning and actually putting into practice are two different things. Maybe he was such a rebel that he was using computers that whole time!

     

    I think that what the movie actually wants us to believe is that Zero Cool has an innate hacking gift and if he got magically transported to the year 2323 he would be hacking those systems in under a minute.

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    Also, I couldn't understand his reticence for moving to New York City. It seems like it would be one of the few places in America that would embrace his eccentricities. It's not like we get a scene where he is saying goodbye to friends or any other attachments. What is so special about where they lived that NYC is such a horrible alternative. This isn't even to mention that the High School he ends up going to appears to be lousy with computer hackers.

     

    Yes at one point he makes a bitchy statement about not having a lawn. When his character seems like the last person on Earth who would care about that.

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    Here are a few random notes of things that didn't get mentioned in the (hilarious) episode.

     

    Zero Cool's defense lawyer didn't even get a chance to make a closing statement at his trial. It went straight from the prosecutor to the judge dropping the hammer.

     

    I wish they had thrown in a quick statement that Zero Cool was going to be put into a detention center in the UK for a few years (make up a reason like the UK doesn't have the internet) so his accent could be explained away.

     

    Johnny Lee Miller was typing so painfully slow in the TV station hacking contest scene. I think later the director figured out to tell him "Just throw your fingers at the keyboard don't worry about actually typing the right words."

     

    Regarding the sprinklers on in the school prank. I have never designed a sprinkler system but I don't think I'd ever put in the option for a timed sprinkler test which, at best, will cause thousands of dollars worth of water damage.

     

    This movie would have had no plot if The Plague had "emptied the Recycle Bin" of the Gibson.

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  9. Posted

    Some notes on the DaVinci virus. The movie seems to put forward that The Plague came up with the virus as a reaction to Joey stealing the garbage file. I would say him whipping that up in a few hours is the most impressive thing in the movie.

     

    Even more impressive is he took the time to program in for it to say "Help Me" when it was being destroyed.

     

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    And finally I am sure that everyone involved was glad that he put leaves over the junk so it is more modest than the real Vitruvian Man. Hackers are known for being a very prudish group.

     

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    Unimportant correction: Gibson was the brand of supercomputer (like Cray supercomputer in real life). That is why it was a big deal to "hack a Gibson" The company that The Plague worked for was a made up oil company called Ellingson.

     

    I did think while watching this movie about how much sentiment has changed in 20 years regarding the oil companies. Now I think someone whose plan it was to steal millions from an oil company would be considered a somewhat sympathetic character.

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    I mean, we're all in agreement that this movie takes place in the future, right? If I were to hazard a guess, I would say this movie takes place in 2061--the year Halley's Comet is scheduled to return.

     

    It never dawned on me that this was supposed to take place any time other than 1986. They gave the ESA a shuttle and made up the Nerva engine but that was it. No other indication that it wasn't the mid-80s.

     

    Also Halley's Comet coming in 1986 was a big deal. People were excited about it and I am sure this movie was made purely to cash in on that excitement.

     

    Edit: I thought about this some more and I wonder if the original script even had anything to do with Halley's Comet. It may not have but then when they were actually getting ready to film it was getting close to the comet coming and they figured they could take advantage of that. So initially maybe it was supposed to be more in the future but when they decided to include the comet they got locked into 1986.

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    Maybe, because she was filming, they postponed the episode to give her time to be there, but filming ended up running over, so rather than delaying any longer, they just decided to do it without her...Just a shot in the dark.

     

    BTW-Lifeforce is 100% reasonable.

     

    Yeah I assume it was something like that. I just thought the explanation was funny.

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    Also if Caine could just shoot and kill a vampire why did he grab the large and clunky sword? Surely he could have just shot the doorman vampire.

     

    I think the 3 vampires from the ship are fundamentally different. I don't think any of the victims on Earth became space vampires. It is more like they turned into energy zombies. But they were not and would never be the same as the vampires from the ship. In many vampire stories a vampire has to choose to make their bite victim a vampire. Otherwise they are just food.

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    Now... i might be very European (which i am... greetings from Milan btw), but to me it does not seem such a long jump from disaster to: 'de', a prefix for everything bad and 'astra' -meaning star?

    The word disaster really means: bad star and i am confused nobody on the show gets that... you are all educated people no?

     

    Next to that i am confused that nobody knows the ESA? It is the European equivalent of NASA and launches rockets in space since 1975! Hundreds of satellites have been launched from Guyana... (french territory)

    How can you be so oblivious?

     

    all in all i am confused about the general knowledge about the hosts of HDTGM

     

    In fairness to the hosts the ESA never had a shuttle program so they didn't have anything like what appeared in the movie.

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    I'd say my biggest problem with this movie which they didn't talk about is that because the plot is so incomprehensible there is A LOT of exposition. That maybe wouldn't be so bad if most of it wasn't coming out of the mouth of the movie's worst actor. I thought Carlsen was worse than Caine. Although I won't fight anyone over that.

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    David is introduced in the movie as the creep in the control room spying on and screwing with the gym members. When he is leering at the bench presser and says "Here is something even I can't improve upon." the security camera footage they are watching is the actual film footage from two minutes earlier in the movie.

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  25. Posted

    I agree some kind of tweak is needed to up the guest time. Mixing in new types of charts is definitely a good idea though. Howard was killing it throughout the TV chart. How many Kremer Moments have been lost lo these many years due to unexplored charts?

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