What’s the Worst Tech Fails You’ve Seen in Movies? (Bonus: Rage Over Power/SATA

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We've all cringed at Hollywood's hilarious misunderstandings of tech—hackers smashing keyboards, "enhancing" JPEGs into 3D crime scenes, or connecting to the mainframe with a cable that clearly goes nowhere.

So let's rant about:

Most Unrealistic Cable Scene

Example: A hero "rewiring" a server with what's obviously a [spam link removed]SATA cable[/spam] (meant for hard drives) to stop a nuke.

Or a power cable dangling from nothing, magically fueling a supercomputer.

Best/Worst "Tech Babble"

"Reverse the polarity of the Ethernet!"—wait, that's not how any of this works.

Your Favorite "Bad Movie" Tech Moment

Extra points if it involves cables used as plot devices (looking at you, Mission Impossible rope drops).

The Goal: Celebrate the absurdity while roasting the worst offenders. Who's earned the Golden SATA Cable of Nonsense award?

[Gabriel Knight]

I think the most absurd would be INDEPENDENCE DAY when they just "upload" a virus to an alien spacecraft, like if they were running Windows XP or something.

On the other hand, the most accurate I've ever seen was UNTRACEABLE. While still has some corny stuff, overall it makes perfect sense, talking about proxies and stuff instead of super hacker skills that makes no sense. Give it a watch if you have the chance.

[Trevor]

THE RECRUIT tells us that the CIA headquarters does not allow drives in their computers yet a character is shown putting a USB flash drive into a PC and downloading information 😳

[zombie no.one]

In WILD BEASTS (1983) a guy picks up his regular landline phone and makes a call to his buddy in a car on his CB radio....

I'm no tech guy but I don't think that was ever a thing?


--- @Rev.Powell should this thread be moved to 'bad movies' for more traction?

[chainsaw midget]

In Resident Evil:  The Final Chapter, the lead character has trouble starting a military humvee with her key. 

Military Humvees don't HAVE keys.  They have a little switch you flip

[Alex]

So many things in Top Gun 2.... I could spend hours talking about the things it gets wrong and why Maverick would have been on so many charges for things, including facing the death penalty (so an American military lawyer informed me).

I'll settle for just commenting that flares will do absolutely nothing against radar-guided missiles.

[Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan]

I think the most absurd would be INDEPENDENCE DAY when they just "upload" a virus to an alien spacecraft, like if they were running Windows XP or something.

On the other hand, the most accurate I've ever seen was UNTRACEABLE. While still has some corny stuff, overall it makes perfect sense, talking about proxies and stuff instead of super hacker skills that makes no sense. Give it a watch if you have the chance.

Sherry Turkle wrote a book about it. Just so you know. So do double duty on that and for sure Dump that Sir Mix a Lot — dummy Rachel Carson stuff.
Silent Farts or Silent Springs, DDT garbage whatever, and get with it.. Because that is really what I think you are talking about. I mean get with the program. I can't seriously believe that someone is bringing up Windows XP as a reason for a failure in Technology. Unless you have Bill Gate's personal phone number why talk about it? Or Rick Santorum collecting all of the private parts of Meresamun and putting it on Mr. Wonderful's face book page? You realize that this is called fiction? How about the movie Parasite. Or Agent Smith talking to Morpheus and saying that human beings are nothing more than a virus. Perhaps that was a technology failure. Because Morpheus survived that encounter. And I am sure that him being called a virus loaded him with a full new barrage of get even tonic. So yup. Technology failure = Agent Smith calling humans a virus. Nope. You should have kept your big mouth shut. 686 pounds of gold and 3,250 pounds of silver. Next to old Ironsides (Hey you never knew that I was the commander of Old Ironsides but in past life?.)
Wear Sunglasses and pledge your allegiance to Christina Aguilera.

Talk about pee ants. Seriously. Yeah throw Linux at them. Give them Carl Sagan signed and autographed portrait with the voo doo dolls