Can't Hollywood Get Anything Right?

Published on December 30, 2006 By MasonM In Misc

I'm watching some television show, one of the CSI ones I think. I'm only half paying attention to it but something jumped out that just annoyed the hell out of me. They were talking about how someone uses their laptop to scan for a WiFi signal to use and the person said it's called "war talking".

Arrrrgh! It's War Driving, not war talking. I do it all the time. A quick google could have told these moronic writers that. Why can't these Hollywood asshats take 5 seconds to do a little research while writing a script? Little stuff like that just bugs the hell out of me.

Yeah, I know. It's not important, but it still bugs me. Writers shouldn't write about stuff they obviously know nothing about.

Comments

zorven

on Dec 31, 2006

I'm with you...that kind of thing really bugs me too. Take a little pride in your job people!

terpfan1980

on Dec 31, 2006

Sorry, they weren't allowed to use the words "war driving^tm" because I patented/trademarked/copyrighted the words and I'm mis-using the DMCA to keep Hollywood from using my words

(turning their own medicine back on them, yeah, that's the ticket!)

Locamama

on Dec 31, 2006

What is even more annoying is when they use their "fake" science to solve these murders. Some of this stuff exists only in imaginations and people now think it's real. Though maybe it will make people think twice before murdering someone because lord knows that once CSI gets to the crime scene all homicides are solved. There is no such thing as an unsolved murder nowadays.

And hey I wouldn't have caught that because I don't have a clue about wifi. I still have to be attached to a wall to get the internet. I guess I'm a caveman. Not that I mean anything by that. I don't want to insult cavemen a la the Geico commercials. ha ha

Gideon MacLeish

on Dec 31, 2006

What sucks is there has to be SOMEONE around the studio who could have corrected that little factoid. But Hollywood know it alls aren't open to suggestion.

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