Anti-Trust: bad geek movie
Over the weekend I saw the film 'Anti-Trust', a tech-conspiracy thriller, staring Tim Robbins as a crazed billion-dollar software psychopath; a thinly-veiled cartoon of how the media likes to portray Bill Gates.
![Tim Robbins character in Anti-Trust](https://secretgeek.net/image/GaryWinston.gif)
(His name, 'Gary Winston' cleverly resembled the name 'Gates William.' Mind Blowing Stuff!) He wasn't really all that evil though. He just needed to chill-out a little, maybe browse through a copy of 'The Mythical Man Month', and lost that 'Ship-It!' mentality.
The main character, a young software developer, looked like a very serious version of Rory Blyth. (What a crock! Everyone knows real nerds don't look that geeky.)
- Technical Mistakes
- Chilling trivia
- One forensic scientist to another, while they checked for fingerprints on a keyboard: "Dust the colon and the backslash key: only geeks use those keys."
- A headline: "Murdered For Code"
Technical mistakes
The main character burnt two whole CD-Roms in five seconds. Yet (for the sake of dramatic tension) it took the actors ten verrrry long seconds to read out an IP address.
Chilling trivia
The main evil-geek-henchman was named 'Redmond.' I wonder if that was a subtle reference to something?
Notable quotes
Personal note
My Missus was not impressed that I kept taking notes during the movie. "Go on!" she said, "Write down why the geeky movie is incorrect about geeky things, so the geeky-geeks who read your geeky site can laugh their geeky little laugh!"
Rating
I give it one-and-a-half "HAL 9000"s.
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