It tries SO hard but it just kind of cracks me up every time I watch it.
The gigantic email text & 3d effects and all their techy jargon too...maybe I'm just too much of a geek
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The big letter "e" was a goof on Microsoft's big letter "e" they used to use for their email client, although the technological facts about the hard drives and the CDROM drives made in Malaysia and Singapore is dead on accurate.
I have a friend who is mechanical engineer and he does make visit to his companies manufacturing facilities to oversee the company's production lines in those two countries, and his company manufacturers DVD drives, hard drives, and DVR drives, in the past they used to manufacture CDROM drives.
In the mid and late 90's most companies did backup their hard drives, and other data on DAT.
The story line itself still hold up well in my opinion even after 15 years.
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What I really like is Demi Moore's Meredith typing "kill all files, do it now!" Hitting the delete button never sounded so ominous. It's funny to watch but I like the movie, mainly because of the stars and the Seattle setting.
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I agree.
The pop-up email effects were exaggerated but what the movie showed was not that different from how it was. Remember standard resolution back then was only 320x200 or 640x400, so the text would have been proportionally larger.
For example see these images:
Commodore (zoom 300%) - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/GeOS_Commodore_64.gif
Amiga (zoom 300%) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Amiga_Workbench_1_3_large.png
Mac (zoom 200%) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Macintosh_System_7.5.3_screenshot.png
PC (zoom 200%) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Windows_3.0_workspace.png
It's been well over ten years since that movie was made. At the time of "Disclosure"s release , those computer effects were the state of the art. Most of the audience watching that movie in the theater ( I was one of them) didn't even have a a personal computer!
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I had a computer back then but I only had a monochrome monitor, I remember having to use a television set for a monitor for a Z80 kit computer I built that i order out of Popular Electronics and Computers as it was called back then. I then moved to a green monochrome terminal, and I thought I really had moved up when I got an amber colored monitor that was easier on the eyes and had better resolution.
I agree most movies usually use high end special effects that become obsolete decades later. I look at it as a period piece now.
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I agree with your thoughts Knight! It's easy for most people to laugh at the technology in the movie at first, unless you vividly remember the time-period in detail (I do). 1988 to 1992....the tech company I worked for back then used DOS PC's, a few Apple Macintosh's, and "all" of them used green & black monochrome monitors. I remember my best friend (the techno-geek) spending a ton of money on the latest DOS multimedia power PC. Myself? I couldn't afford anything like that. Everyone else (if they had a computer) usually had a Commodore 64 or an Apple II. I purchased something similiar, a RadioShack Color Computer III (which ran Microsoft BASIC), including the color monitor, optional 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, modem and expanded memory boards. By 1990, I purchased the optional OS-9 operating system for it, which allowed you to do multiple windows & multitasking (like MS Windows 3.1), and was purchasing OS-9 software from 3rd party companies. "Online" activity??? I remember (vaguely) paying a monthly subscription to connect to "Compuserve", and dialing-in & connecting to a variety of "bulletin boards" (before there was public internet).
Back to Disclosure, the "SGI" UNIX-based power computer reigned supreme, and I enjoyed the crap out of the movie when I first saw it in '94, especially the use of the "virtual reality" and "digital video link conferencing" applications. Thought it was so cool back then. The SGI machines ran a program called "Windowmaker" which gave the appearance & functionality of a GUI operating system on the desktop.
One of my favorite things was Tom Sanders mentioning in the "book version" of the story (page 432) that....the virtual reality glasses/headset that they wore cost a "quarter-million dollars"! (HA!)
Check out the NOTE I posted (w/ photos) on the SGI hardware used at the "Disclosure Movie/Book Fan Base & Library" page on Facebook (link):
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=164694463580290
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It comes out of nowhere in what for the first 2/3 had been a straight legal drama/erotic thriller. Now this Lawnmower Man sequence comes out of nowhere and it's jarring.
shareits a tech thriller, based around tech. tech tech tech.
tech of the company, not working when she changed conditions
tech of the cell phone and answering machine
tech of typing spelling errors being pivitol to the plot
tech of emails
tech of video communications
tech of file systems, and a way forward thinking VR design we still don't have yet.
all working to keep itself entertaining inside a watchable movie, that you don't have to be a nerd to understand and follow.
I think it adds to the film. I honestly didn't think the Internet was that advanced back in 1994...video calling?
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