Jeff Goldblum cannot infect an Alien Spaceship with a computer Virus. C'mon!

[sushi]

Like how in Armageddon it was "easier" to train some miners how to go into space and such rather than to train some astronauts how to be miners...

How else would they have gotten the crews into space?

Then have Harry save the world, of course after having a nice last minute instantaneous (no lag) conversation with his daughter while the asteriod was tumbling in space on it's way to mother Earth.

Suspense of disbelief if often important for fiction. It let me watch Wanted without wanting to murder whoever wrote it, till it was done at any rate.

Snort!

Yes, there have been some movies were I forgot to do this and wanted to inflict damage on the director/producer for such crap.

Maybe that is why I prefer comedies. As long as you laugh, it's fun. Speaking of which, one of my favorite comedies is "Commando" with Arnold. What a funny movie.

 

[IndyGopher]

Like how in Armageddon it was "easier" to train some miners how to go into space and such rather than to train some astronauts how to be miners...

'sall wrong.

You think you MINE oil, and you're questioning other people's intellect? Pretty rich.

 

[Abstract]

For the sake of the movie, I can believe Jeff Goldblum putting a virus on an alien spacecraft.

However, I can't believe Pauly Shore could make friends with anybody, let alone a caveman. *shakes head*

 

[0098386]

You think you MINE oil, and you're questioning other people's intellect? Pretty rich.

They were oil people not seen that film since it showed at the cinema. All I remember was them going the wrong way about it sending the wrong people into space.

 

[drichards]

Earth girls are easy.

 

[iBlue]

They were oil people not seen that film since it showed at the cinema. All I remember was them going the wrong way about it sending the wrong people into space.

Hey, take it easy man. Bruce Willis is always the right guy for the job!

 

[themoonisdown09]

When I watch a movie I suspend reality for that period of time.

Makes watching a movie much more fun!

Otherwise issues like the OP mention ruin the movie. This is especially true with any movie where you are knowledgeable of the subject matter.

What subject matter are you talking about? Alien spaceships or computer viruses?

 

[iBlue]

What subject matter are you talking about? Alien spaceships or computer viruses?

Option C - Jeff Goldblum

 

[7on]

Jeff Goldbum can do anything if he sets his mind to it

 

[Melrose]

Yes he can.

No seriously, he can, I saw it in that documentary that came out ages ago.

Wasn't that in Popular Mechanics? I think so..

I love that movie; I don't watch aliens-come-to-earth-Will Smith-kicks-their-ass blockbusters to learn scientific truths about the world.

 

[dmr727]

Maybe that is why I prefer comedies. As long as you laugh, it's fun. Speaking of which, one of my favorite comedies is "Commando" with Arnold. What a funny movie.

I love that movie, and own it on DVD. Awesome!

Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix. You did.
Matrix: I lied.

I also had a crush on Alyssa Milano back then (before you call me a perv - I was seven at the time!).

 

[ZachsMacDaddy]

Seriously, I mean, I know we thought we had great OSes back in the 90's but you cannot do this! It just fails on so many levels. Sorry, just had to share this with someone.

Well first you have to have a USB 2.0 to AlienShip 1.0 adapter cable. Then you have to be running AlienInfectorX 2.87.

The software hasn't been updated in a while and there's a good chance the alien ship could be running a newer, protected firmware or it has the newer AlienShip 2.1 port which can only be interfaced with a firewire connection. That's bad news if you have a unibody Macbook and you have an urgent need to save the human race from an alien invasion.

Of course, it's easier with an Alienware PC since they have a secret built-in universal "mothership" interface.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Because otherwise that movie was totally plausible.

Anyway, has anyone else noticed that in movies, computers hardly ever work the same way as they do in the real world? Even in good movies, not science fiction movies. And it's not like they always give them whiz-bang capabilities. Sometimes they type out one letter at a time and beep on each one. That would have looked dumb even in the '70s, but you still see that silly convention in movies today.

 

[TJRiver]

Seriously, I mean, I know we thought we had great OSes back in the 90's but you cannot do this! It just fails on so many levels. Sorry, just had to share this with someone.

They were evil aliens bent on world domination..........








Of course they are running M$ Windows

 

[MacBoobsPro]

I can only partially suspend reality for movies. Independence Day was fine -it was all out sci-fi, and hillarious as well.

Things like Deep Impact or Armageddon which pretend to be realistic just annoy me too much. And Cloverfield just makes me want to get my money back at the ticket booth.

I'm with you on all that. I can't really comment on Cloverfield because even the poster offended my logical, non movie friendly brain. So I havent seen it.

I find it impossible to fall asleep in public but I was forced to watch Ghost Rider when it came out at the cinema and within 45 minutes I was fast asleep. WORST FILM EVER!!!!

 

[Raid]

But he discovered their hidden countdown signal in the TV satellites. So from that he could reverse engineer their network protocol. And from the computers in the captured UFO he could find out their computer instruction set.

Use the instruction set to make a program and the network protocol to plant it.

Yes and he did most of that in a 3 to 8 hour span. Mad haX0r skilz.

Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie probably couldn't "hack the planet" either.

&

Angelina Jolie can hack my planet... etc etc.....

Well back in the day I wouldn't mind it if she'd jump on my bed wearing nothing but bike leathers..... HAWT!

Hey, take it easy man. Bruce Campbell is always the right guy for the job!

Fixed that for you! Actually I thought MacGyver could have handled all these dangerous situations armed only with the items he found in the nearest kitchen drawer.

 

[yg17]

Another great part of that movie that is often overlooked is not only being able to look up the cell phone numbers of high ranking White House officials in the phone book (you can't even look up my cell phone number in the phonebook, and I'm nobody), but being able to triangulate their exact position in the White House from their cell phone signal.

Anyone have a copy of the DC phonebook? I want to call Barack Obama

And Swordfish is another one of those movies you can watch for a good laugh (and a good shot of Halle Berry topless )

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Well now that it's morning I suppose I'm thinking a little more clear about this topic. I just have to reason and use Jeff Goldblum logic to solve nearly any problem in any situation. Example:

<Goldblum Logic>"Clocks are umm, how can I say this, are umm, have hands, and Hands, well are something that all humans have. Humans generally have arms attached to their hands and well arms are also another word for weapons. Now if I had a weapon that was, umm, let's say the size of a stapler then I could probably smuggle this weapon into an open office space. My god! We can take the aliens out with a computer virus!"</Goldblum Logic>

See, makes sense now doesn't it?

 

[MacNut]

Angelina Jolie can hack my planet... etc etc.....

You would probably get a virus.

 

[Antares]

And Cloverfield just makes me want to get my money back at the ticket booth.

Are you serious? Cloverfield was one of the top 12 best movies of 2008. It had a great story and incredible suspense, decent acting and cool effects. Now, Godzilla (the Matthew Broderick remake), on the otherhand....

Fiction: something invented by the imagination or feigned ; specifically : an invented story.

How boring would sci-fi and fantasy movies (and books and comics, etc.) be if they were always kept completely within the bounds of reality? Stick to non-fiction and documentries if you want absolute reality.

I was still a die-hard Mac Evangelist when Independence Day came out. It was pure candy to me...and I later bought a version of that PowerBook. I loved Independence Day! I remember going to the theater to watch it on each day that took place in the movie...July 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.

 

[szark]

It is entirely possible, with any computer system, to hack in and plant malicious code. I believe it would take a lot more time than Jeff Goldblum had to figure it out, though.

Things like ... Armageddon which pretend to be realistic

I'm sorry, did we watch the same movie? I don't recall anything about Armageddon being remotely "realistic."

Maybe that is why I prefer comedies. As long as you laugh, it's fun. Speaking of which, one of my favorite comedies is "Commando" with Arnold. What a funny movie.

Awesome movie. I especially enjoy finding new errors and continuity problems every time I watch it.

However, I can't believe Pauly Shore could make friends with anybody, let alone a caveman. *shakes head*

Why? They seem to have a lot in common.

I find it impossible to fall asleep in public but I was forced to watch Ghost Rider when it came out at the cinema and within 45 minutes I was fast asleep. WORST FILM EVER!!!!

Ghost Rider is not even close to being the worst film ever.

 

[atszyman]

It is entirely possible, with any computer system, to hack in and plant malicious code. I believe it would take a lot more time than Jeff Goldblum had to figure it out, though.

Actually given an entirely different technology base it would likely be impossible. There is no guarantee that their computers work on our standard base-2 system. For all we know they could be using a Ternary computer or possibly even all analog based or some other completely different methods for calculation/communication.

But, hey, hobbits, elves, dwarves, wizzards and Viggo Mortenson don't exist either. If I wanted to pick apart every movie I ever watched I'd never enjoy any of them... of course that would have likely saved me a ton of money as well...

But he discovered their hidden countdown signal in the TV satellites. So from that he could reverse engineer their network protocol. And from the computers in the captured UFO he could find out their computer instruction set.

Use the instruction set to make a program and the network protocol to plant it.

You can look at wireless network protocols all you want, and OSX, Windows, Linux, and many other OSes have managed to communicate with one another over the same protocols. Does that mean that one program can be written to run on all of them? Without knowledge of the file system and OS, malicious code is hard to do.

Don't even get me started on Cartoons, they're so unrealistic... c'mon, Wile E. Coyote often defies the laws of gravity, there's no way that could happen.

 

[c-Row]

I think from either the extended version or the book came the info that much of earth's advanced technology had been reverse-engineered from the UFO they kept at Area 51, so a possible explanation would be that the laptop's OS (Mac OS ) would be based on alien technology and isn't too far away from the alien vessel's.

Damn, I feel dirty now.

Ghost Rider is not even close to being the worst film ever.

But it's trying as hard as it can.

 

[question fear]

I think from either the extended version or the book came the info that much of earth's advanced technology had been reverse-engineered from the UFO they kept at Area 51, so a possible explanation would be that the laptop's OS (Mac OS ) would be based on alien technology and isn't too far away from the alien vessel's.

Damn, I feel dirty now.

Wait, Independence Day was a BOOK?

 

[atszyman]

Wait, Independence Day was a BOOK?

If by Book you mean words written on paper and bound, then yes there was a book. It was, however, one of those books that's based on the movie so it likely has information not contained within the movie so if you're defining book as "literary work" I'm guessing it's no more of a "literary work" than the film was "cinematic achievement".