Dr Evil was clearly inspired by Travis Dane (or visa versa).
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captor speaking. There's been a slight change in your travel plans tonight. You have, you will note, been moved to the last two cars of the train for your own well-being. First, I'd like to call your attention to the highly trained men with the automatic weapons in your cars. In the event of an emergency, they may be called upon to shoot you. Your safety IS our primary concern. However, if you try anything stupid, Federal Regulations require that I kill you. So please, no hero sh!t!
I loved Eric Bogosian in this. His distinctive voice and the way he delivered his lines was one of the best things about this movie. He brought insanity to a very entertaining level.
"You telling me there's no way I can shut that thing off?" "Nooo way...." *shoots* "Never thought... of that..."
LMAO
The gigabyte and general computer language was so far off base, but it was 95. Most people back then bought it and didn't understand computers like they do today. Windows 95 was not even out yet (about a month or so away) so only serious computer users were going to understand that was BS.
No, it's not misunderstood. Common computers back then (95) had like 16-32 megabytes of RAM.
And the way he says, "Gigabyte of RAM should do the trick" is completely stupid, like he knows how much RAM to apply. Regardless, it wouldn't take a gigabyte of RAM to hack a device, that makes no sense at all... if it was password protected, most hacking software relies completely on CPU processing, not RAM. The software itself takes little to run, it's the speed at which it can process (CPU) that is the trick.
When the two lovebirds are having sex, and the bad guys explode the train tracks, the guy was like "What was that?" She was panting, and said, "I think it's called...an orgasm."
Although that line is delivered rather hilariously, I had read some time ago that if you wanted to break a password (or any encrypted disk), you needed a shit-ton of memory to do it. Back in 1994, a Gig of RAM was a lot for a computer like that. I had an encrypted disk that I had to get into once in 2015 and I bought this weird program for like $40 that could hack it and it created a 16 GB .sys file that it used. It worked, and I was wondering if it did the same thing that Dane does in the movie.