…and that’s not even the silliest thing about that scene. The whole caper could’ve been made actually impossible if the CIA had bothered to put a simple CCTV camera in the room.
I still love MI though.
Ok, as I see that was 35 years ago, in that innocent age of computers, many viruses and malware still got distributed by pranksters with no real ill criminal intentions, other than to cause havoc and have a laugh about it. Nowadays, the foul actors will hide their traces before they have stolen all of your data and encrypted it, and only then tell you you’ve been hacked and demand ransom. Or they use your private computer for their bot net without you ever noticing it.
I saw a humorous video with a dachshund moving through the ventilation ducts, and that was semi-realistic! But, as you say, with a human? No way.
On Mission: Impossible (the TV series), they used a chihuahua named Chico. I think they used a cat once too.
What I find “silly” about that scene is that I, a curmudgeonly skeptic, immediately jettisoned all my critical faculties and was rooting for Agent Cruise despite so many logical problems with that scene.
“Rule of Cool” triumphs again!
Literally their job, dachshunds are tunnel rats. I certainly wouldn’t want to meet one in the duct, and I’m not even a badger.
Exactly.
Please don’t quote me to prove a point of yours I totally disagree with.
There was NO inhouse irony or humor in that scene-just ignorance from the scriptwriters.
If you say so, I thought it was quite funny. Humor is in the eyes of the beholder, same as the two people on one keyboard.
Okay, please never quote me or reply to Me on anything. Will that work? 
Nice try. No.
Yeah, nobody is going to announce their presence before they’ve completed the job. But sometimes the mission of the hacker depends on you being notified “welcome to p0wnsville, population you.”
Steve McQueen’s constant fiddling with the ejector port on his M3 submachine gun in Hell Is for Heroes didn’t make it scarier, but it sure was annoying. It was obvious he didn’t want to be in the movie at all.
The trope is to splice into the camera feed and insert earlier footage of an empty room. Well documented in the TV show, aptly named Mission Implausible.
It was done in Columbo, too.
Was was done in Columbo? The cocking a gun? Or the hanging from the ceiling bit?
No, hijacking the camera feed. I think it’s probably been done in a lot of other shows too.
And “Ocean’s 11”.
As it happens my brother was served a can last month. He didn’t know the full story either, only that the bar didn’t have any bar facilities, only cans, were serving an odd minority cliental (old white dudes), and were located behind a plain door on the edge of an old (borded up) tavern/hotel in a declining country town.
I was on a retreat with guys who were beer aficionados. We drove into the nearest small town to watch The Game, piled into the only bar, and something just looked “off”…
… took me a minute to realize it was the lack of tap handles. I’d never been in a bar that didn’t have them. This place just had a cooler full of cans (all light “beers”).
There are a handful of bars near me that have no or almost no beer on tap. The whole model is to have a ton of coolers, and stock lots of different bottles/cans of beer. You serve yourself - walk around, see something you like, take the bottle/can, and sit back down with your friends. At the end, you take the collection of empties to the register, and you pay for what you drank.
It’s actually a pretty interesting setup.