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by kaybe 3589 days ago
Well, for what it's worth, there's this comment on IT stuff in movies:

"We write those scenes to be inaccurate and ridiculous on purpose.

I'm a young writer in his mid-30's, computer and game savvy. Lots of us are. I guess you could call it a competition of one-upping other shows to see who can get the best/worst "zoomhance" sequence on the air. Sometimes the exec producers and directors are in on it, and other times we just try to get bits and lines into scripts.

90% of our TV viewing audience will never know the difference and honestly, we love it when threads like this get started and love reading the youtube comments. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_f...

The comments on that thread link to a lot of ridiculous moments of IT movie/TV history.

(My google-fu is strong today.)