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some of the movies that I would like to mention1. Mission: Impossible (1996)The scene: The security roomThe original 1960s TV show relied on intricate plans that ran on a knife edge, but the film series places more of an emphasis on action.In one of the most famous scenes, our hero decides to hack a highly secure CIA computer, in a manner that is literally over-the-top, as he drops in from above on wires. It’s a great looking scene that provides a lot of tension. The computer software is what we’d expect, completely non-standard with absolutely massive text that explains what’s going on. Anyone would think that this thing was designed to be used in a movie in which the audience would need a good view of the progress of the hacking effort. Why did the CIA go to all the trouble of creating a room that detects intrusions rather than simply deactivating the computer when not in use? Afterwards, we bet the CIA wished they’d installed a CCTV system as there was so much at stake.This is a classic example of a scene that was designed to look good rather than make much sense, and it’s successful on that level, despite how unlikely it all is.2. D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)The scene: Playing Pole PositionAn android boy who was created as part of a military experiment escapes and attempts to integrate into normal family life. Young Daryl shows his amazing prowess by being really good at baseball and playing the game Pole Positionon an Atari. On his first attempt at the latter, he proves to be very good. However, somehow his extreme skill seems to cause the game to speed up, so it looks like his is driving even faster than normally possible. Later, his experience of controlling Pole Positioncontributes to his amazing skills when driving a car in real life.Again, the film was made in a time when most of the audience didn’t know how computers worked. It seems unnecessary to make a games console do something it could never do, and even in that era, a lot of the audience could probably smell a rat with this. It doesn’t ruin anything, but it’s silly.3. A View To A Kill (1985)The scene: Bond in Zorin’s officeThe trope: Amazing face recognitionBond sits down in the office of Max Zorin, the villain. Zorin distracts him, causing him to look in the direction of a hidden camera that’s linked to a computer. Immediately, the computer uses face recognition to look Bond up in a database of some kind.It’s difficult to get a straight answer to the question of whether such a thing would be possible with modern day technology, 30 years later. You see, the companies that want to sell the technology and certain sections of the press make exaggerated claims for the accuracy of the systems, whereas other reports suggest that the success rate is low. It’s a bit unlikely that such a thing existed in a working form in 1985.Bond films, in common with science fiction, often show technology that seems like it could be just around the corner. It’s all part of the fun in Moore’s final run as James Bond.4. Antitrust (2001)The scene: The daycare centreWe like the way that they mention Microsoft founder Bill Gates in this one, just to make sure that audience knows that Tim Robbins’ character isn’t based on Bill Gates. The hyper-aggressive business tactics take their inspiration from the actions of some of the big players in software and hardware back in the 80s and 90s. Not that anyone is actually suggesting that they were carrying out murders, but things were pretty cut-throat as companies battled for control of the home computer market, the office desktop, and later, the Internet.The actual computer usage scenes are mostly fine. The most unrealistic scene is the the one in the children’s day centre when he stumbles onto the full extent of the conspiracy that’s in place. We don’t get much sense of what the user interface in, but as far as we can see, it looks like the underlings of the villain made the mistake of putting all of the most damning evidence into one place. Was this the exchange?“Hey, why don’t we – for a bit of a laugh – put all of the evidence against us into a single folder on the computer? I say we should have no miscellaneous data in that folder, just the incriminating stuff.”“What about the videos? There’s hours of surveillance footage.”“No problem, we’ll edit together the highlights. I mean, we want to get caught, right?”Most of the film makes use of a combination of fictional and real software. It’s a shame that they didn’t spend a bit more time on the day care centre scene to make it look a bit more plausible.5. No Way Out (1987)The scene: ImageIn this tense thriller (one of Kevin Costner’s finest films), the hero is trapped in a race against time to prove who committed a murder. The main piece of evidence is a blurry photograph, and unfortunately, the photograph is of him. Government computer experts are called in to recover the image using computer technology.Ah, it’s the old ‘enhance the image’ one again. Given the source image, this one is pretty much impossible even now. The film hints that artificial intelligence methods are being employed to reconstruct the image, and it’s a plot device to explain why it’s taking so long to reveal the identity of the person in the photograph.The film itself is an enjoyable and underrated thriller, and that makes up for a lot. The idea – to use a computer to digitize and then enhance a photograph to reveal the identity of a murder suspect – is fine. They needed to make the task seem practically impossible in order to stretch out the length of the process for plot reasons. The film was made at a time when something like enhancing a photograph on a computer must have seemed magical to the audience. It must have seemed like a way of modernising the plot to employ a computer and some ‘computer experts’.6. Disclosure (1994)The scene: Virtual reality file managementThis film is ostensibly about a mystery surrounding some dodgy business dealings and the sexual politics that come to the fore when a man has been the victim of sexual harassment. It also features some really over-the-top computer scenes. Whenever anyone in this movie receives an email, it’s animated and everything uses a massive font, a common trope, but that’s nothing compared to the film’s treatment of the exciting world of file management.When Michael Douglas’ character wants to browse the company file structure, like most of us, he straps on his virtual reality gear and gets to work. For some reason, the suite that he straps himself into uses some sort of laser scanner on his body. Is it actually suggesting that it’s scanning a 3D map of his body to create his avatar, or is it some part of the body position tracking system? Either way – woah! He puts on some sort of headpiece, but as the film is set in 1994, it’s incredibly lightweight compared to the bulky devices we have to contend with in 2015. Once inside the virtual world, Douglas’ character first glances at the photorealistic rendering of his own hands before progressing around the inside of a building to find that damn file the he needs. The environment that he navigates is rendered is ostentatious style with the best pre-rendered CGI that could be summoned at the time.It’s hard to think of a more extreme example of an inappropriate computer scene. In fairness, it’s probably an example of futuristic predictions that were off-base. Many of the audience who had seen clips of the virtual reality sequences, when coupled with the Crichton name, will have believed that they were going to see a techno-thriller. The completely unrealistic computer scenes are weirdly out of place and just serve as a distraction in what is basically an issue-driven drama. We’ve argued before that Disclosure is about the most dated film of the 1990s already…7. Enemy Of The State (1998)The scene: 3D rotation of a 2D pictureWill Smith and Gene Hackman team up in this computery espionage thriller. A lot of the technology that is talked about or shown on screen is fanciful stuff – but who knows for sure what secret government spy organisations really have hidden away?Ah, enhancing the image, we meet again my old friend. Just once, I’d like it if when someone in a TV series or a film says, “That face over there, can you zoom in and enhance it?”, the computer nerd character would reply, “No, it’s absolutely impossible, sir!”.A scene in this film takes things a step further – by using a computer to actually rotate a 3D scene so that they can see it from another angle! Bear in mind that this footage is stolen from a CCTV camera that was operating inside a clothing store, so it would have been extremely poor quality. What’s going on? They’ve got us actually considering this nonsense. I wonder if there’s a making of… scene on the DVD that shows the weeks of work that it took the special effects guys to complete this scene – that the computer nerds supposedly did in real time?We’ll chalk this one up to personal taste. The director and special effects team obviously decided to keep things peppy and entertaining rather than plausible. Maybe, just maybe, the film itself was created by a secret government agency as a distraction to cover up the stuff they nicked off a crashed UFO that they keep at Area 51.8. Blade Runner (1982)The scene: Enhancing the image (again)Although not a massive success on release, this film went on to be lauded as a classic and cast a huge stylistic influence over other films and many video games. The scene we’re interested in involves the old classic of enhancing a photograph.Using voice control, Deckard directs the computer to zoom in on areas of a photograph that he has just scanned into some sort of a computer display device. The first problem is that the image seems to have an infeasible amount of detail, and therefore, the picture doesn’t degrade as much as it should when it’s zoomed in on. The second problem is that, in the latter part of the scene, the system seems to be capable of seeing behind objects, which is impossible. Sure, it might be some sort of futuristic technology that allows software to make an ‘educated guess’, but the whole point of the scene is that Deckard doesn’t know what he’s looking for.As with all science fiction films that are set in the future, any nitpick can be waved away with a hypothetical explanation involving advanced technology. Perhaps, for example, the photo contained a serial number and this serial number linked to an online database containing the original photographic data, which was taken with a 3D camera of some kind. Maybe one of the replicants carelessly uploaded his photos to Flickr. Perhaps Deckard dreamed the whole thing?It pains us to take a shot at such a well-regarded film, but this may be the granddaddy of all unrealistic enhancement scenes in films. What’s happening on screen doesn’t seem consistent with the capabilities of the device we see working.9. Taken (2008)Scene: The photo kioskHot on the trail of his daughter, ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills differs from the template laid out by so many featured on this list, in that he’s not your typical nerd. He prefers to kick ass in the real world rather than in multi-player games, and he can probably do actual pushups and things like that.Although throat chops are his trademark, he also has some technology chops when he needs them, as demonstrated in this scene that employs that staple of espionage movies – enhancing the image. Employing the kind of resourcefulness that they taught him in the CIA, he takes his the memory card from his daughter’s camera to a public photo kiosk. What’s that? A face in a reflection? Time to zoom in, and then… enhance the image.It’s a fairly standard example of this trope. The idea – zooming in on image to get a clearer look at an important detail is OK, but the implementation is wrong. They can’t even use the usual excuse, that this is top secret software, as it’s a public photo printing facility. When zoomed in, the image is pixellated, but then Bryan presses the ‘process’ button on the touch-screen, and that lightens the image and adds back the missing detail. Impossible. Hang on, we don’t want Liam Neeson to come after us. Actually, the scene is fine. Very plausible, in fact.10. Swordfish (2001)The scene: Hacking with a gun to his headAs often happens in these films, computer hacking involves quite a lot of spinning 3D graphics and meaningless jargon, along with another of our favourites, having lots of monitors. Maybe this has all been part of a long term plot by office workers to convince their bosses that they are working, when they are actually playing games?The hacker himself, played by Hugh Jackman, uses his magic powers rather than any understanding of how things like security systems work. Under extreme pressure, he seems to be able to intuitively guess passwords and overcome encryption. Compare scenes like this to those of social engineering and studying in the library that we see in WarGames, a film that isn’t exactly trying to pass itself off as a documentary on hacking.For more >>Shrink your URLs and get paid!