Poll of the Day > In Die Hard 4 Kevin Smith plays a loser 40 year old who lives with mom.

(+) Yeah! (+)

But apparently he's a genius.

Yes?

that one was probably the most believable thing in that movie

i'm a genius who lives with your mom

Lack of ambition and being so bad at social interaction that you can't really hold down a meaningful job are both things that exist, you know.

The smartest man who ever lived is still utterly worthless if they never do anything with that genius. At that point they're functionally no different from the crazy homeless man who thinks gophers live in his brain.

Sometimes geniuses are... excused for certain eccentricities

there was no computer mice in the entire movie

multiple times someone went to use a computer in the movie and went to grab the mouse and there just wasn't one lmfao

Yeah duh, geniuses don't use a mouse, they just type random letters really aggressively until hax happens

I'm pretty sure the hacking in that movie was more authentic than in most other Hollywood movies that have hacking. Like it showed actual common hacking tools/commands in action.

it showed command prompt

Naturally. There's also a scene that shows Justin Long's desktop for a split second and he had a bunch of popular real-world hacking tools on there.

loic is not a hacking tool

Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah duh, geniuses don't use a mouse, they just type random letters really aggressively until hax happens

Nah. If I've learned anything from modern movies, it's that all computer geniuses wear a glove or a bracelet or use a camera to register their hand movements, and just gesture in the air until holographic stuff happens.



hera posted...

it showed command prompt

That's more technically accurate than about 90% of Hollywood hacking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4

Hell, video games where you have to connect pipes or shoot down space invaders or succeed at QTEs are more accurate than most Hollywood hacking.

But here, this is for you:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/brains-with-urgent-appointments

Dont knock it until youve tried it! I admit Im nowhere close to being a genius. The smartest thing Ive done is not buying a house with how much they cost here in California. (This state isnt perfect, but Im too much of a coward to live anywhere else.)