feardotcom

[robinturner]

I started watching Fear Dot Com and gave up in irritation.

A website that manages to cause people to have hallucinations so frightening that they die of fear is a not-too-unbelievable idea for a plot. What strains credulity way past breaking point is that a team of highly-trained investigators should one by one enter the site. For sheer stupidity this beats the classic horror film scene: "What's that noise?" "Oh, it's probably just the wind ... I'll take a look outside anyway." Didn't anyone think to look up the site's IP number? Or perhaps, rather than plunge into the full cheesy S/M multimedia experience, to run wget -r --cookies=off feardotcom.com?

A little knowledge of computing can ruin your viewing pleasure.

Comments

[circumambulate.livejournal.com]

yeah, I get chills anytime someone spouts off some techno-babble dialgo written by someone with absolutely no grasp of technology. It must be like Dr's watching ER.

One of the worst one, for me, was when I actually attempted to watch a few seasons so Star Trek Voyager, and they were always worried about that stupid holographic Dr. IT'S A PROGRAM! MAKE A COPY!

[ironed_orchid]

HAve you ever seen a star trek script? it's like:

Bilana Torres: blah blah blah
tom parish: blah [tech] blah blah blah

Yep, the script writers just put the word 'tech' in square brackets and figure out what the tech is after they've decided on the (not so) special effects budget.

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

Forgive them, they were running MAC.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Moral of the film: Unix saves lives.

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

Indeed.