Total OT

Nikolai

I do computer programming for a living, so I got pretty accustomed to all the nonsenses and total b.s. when they show anything computer-related in the movies.

However today it was a different one:-)

I was watching a movie "The Interpreter" (with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn) today.
The movie starts with a few guys in a jeep deep down in Africa. One of the guys is obviously a photographer. When the camera gets closer to him you can see large "Nikon" letters all over the neckstrap. Body also looks nikonian.
Later in the movie (few days or weeks later accoring to the plot) he gets killed, the authorities search his place, and what do you know: his photobag (just some kind of a duffel bag, not even a special one - well, that's OK) is full of white canon glass ...:rofl

I guess Hollywood never shows anything right :

marlinspike

Didn't you know? It's the newest trend. Forget using Zeiss wides on Canon bodies, all the cool kids are now using Canon tele's on Nikon bodies roflrofl

gus

No no no nik..he was on a search deep into the jungle for a secret treasure of the lost canonites that many of us are the direct decendents of. It is written in our scriptures that one only has to glance upon the hidden lair of white canon lenses to become one of us & join us in our eternal whiteness of joy.

Dee

You too?

Nikolai wrote:

I do computer programming for a living, so I got pretty accustomed to all the nonsenses and total b.s. when they show anything computer-related in the movies.

You mean, those really neat e-mail programs they show on the screens?
Or the "zoom in" and "clean the image up" so we can see the license plate ones?

Nikolai

yeah..

Dee wrote:

You mean, those really neat e-mail programs they show on the screens?
Or the "zoom in" and "clean the image up" so we can see the license plate ones?

Speaking of the emails: in the same movie Sean Penn's character is sitting in the stakeout room in front of the PC, supposedly geeting info from the FBI, CIA, etc. Well, that's all great apart from the fact that he's looking at the screen very much resembling Microsoft Outlook 97 running on Windows 98 (or ME at best)...