Blow stuff up at will, steal any damned thing you want, become self-aware at any moment…
Generally through the power of hacking, as exemplified by Die Hard 4.
“OK, I want you to hack into that traffic light and make it red. Good. Now, I want you to hack into Kevin Smith’s basement and physically move his webcam around the room. Now, hack into the brain of that fighter pilot and get him to shoot missiles into the middle of a busy freeway.”
Hacking is to this movie what magic is in the Harry Potter stories: plot-hole spackle. All the gaping cracks in logic between scene A to scene C can be neatly smoothed over with the mystical power of hack.
5 responses so far ↓
Sharon K // March 24, 2008 at 10:58 am
Hack is such a lovely word - with a variety of uses apart from the computer-related one:
Judgemental (I’m afraid he just couldn’t hack it).
Critical (oh, he’s the worst kind of hack).
Arcadian (we went hacking through the woods).
And now I’ve just discovered that it also means “a board on which a hawk’s meat is laid to rest” - isn’t that a neat definition?
Oh, and I beg to differ Meg - we both know your dog is called Doook, not Duke!
djpaterson // March 24, 2008 at 12:18 pm
It’s not just Hollywood. My wife’s parents. My wife’s sister. My wife’s brother-in-law. Mmmm… I think I see a pattern emerging?
All these people think computers can (and will) do the most bizarre things if they press the wrong key. Or click the wrong button. What to do, what to do? I know - ring DJ - he’ll know.
Aaarrghh!
Ken // March 24, 2008 at 7:14 pm
What about a description of a smoker’s cough, or lack of finesse when cutting meat? I’ve also heard it as a description of a used car wreck.
Don // March 26, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Maybe you should start a thread on falsehoods that Hollywood perpetuates in order to draw out the plot. I will start you off with number 1
Tracing phone calls is instant and doesnt need the caller to stay on the line for a protracted period of time in order for the trace to be successful.
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