10 Horrendously Inaccurate Depictions Of Technology In Movies

By Shaun Munro /

1. Mobile Phone Screens - Every Movie Ever

Seriously, movies have budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars and still can't render a convincing mobile phone screen? Given how everybody has a mobile phone now, and we all know what the screens should look like, this is right up there with unconvincing news reports as one of cinema's main bugbears; surely a marginally adept graphic design intern could whip up a passable graphic in Photoshop inside of around ten minutes? The common mistakes tend to be, as above, simply displaying text against a background with no realistic frame of reference; where is the time the message was sent, the name of the person who sent it, and so on? What about a network logo? Given that we'll often see the brand name of the phone clearly displayed, how's about asking Nokia or Vodafone or whoever to also co-operate with you on some damn graphics? And the excuse that the text needs to be displayed so large in order for us to see it doesn't really fly anymore; we all have big-ass HDTVs after all. Which technological inaccuracies bug you the most? Let us know in the comments below.