Your knowledge ruins the movie (Die Hard4)

We’ve had these threads before, and I’ve been able to overlook these kinds of things in the past, but as a network security professional, Live Free or Die Hard sure bent my suspension of disbelief.

Sure, computers have to be ‘gussied up’ to be used as a plot device to the general public, and there really isn’t anything cinematic about a SQL injection attack, but dear og!

I won’t even go listing (he’s eBombing us!) the less obvious (nitrogen cooling and razor blade fans) issues (We have access to all TV, Satellite, Power, Military, Utility, and Traffic!)

But I bent my bullshitometer knob and want a refund!

That’s all. I’m sure it’s no worse than folks feel about CSI.

I havent seen it yet, only ads. I did notice the gunfire coming from the F-35. I seemed to notice it being two guns, mounted in the LERX next to both intakes, and they seemed to fire at a slow rate, like an old .50 caliber. I am fairly confident the F-35 has a 6-barrel gatling gun(the A model does, 25mm, mounted on left side, but A model cant hover). So the plane in the movie has to be a B model, which has no built in canon, and would carry one in a pod underneath.
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The plane in the movie can’t possibly exist in real life for a few reasons:

  1. It couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with ANY of it’s armaments
  2. It hovers, drops near the ground, scoots under an elevated highway, takes potshots at Our Hero, then scoots up between the lanes of said elevated highway.
  3. Hi Opal, point three was combined with point 1.