James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus

Velcroman1 writes "No smartphones. No exploding pens. No ejector seats. No rocket-powered submarines. 'It's a brave new world,' gadget-maker Q tells James Bond in the new film Skyfall. The new film, released on the 50th anniversary of the storied franchise, presents a gadget-free Bond fighting with both brains and brawn against a high-tech villain with computer prowess Bill Gates would be envious of. What inspired such a villain? 'Stuxnet,' producer Michael G. Wilson said. 'There is a cyberwar that has been going on for some time, and we thought we'd bring that into the fore and let people see how it could be going on.'"

Poison?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it really necessary to prove it's possible to ruin a James Bond movie by taking all of the fun out of it?

Re:No wonder it sucks!

[acid_andy]

...and it's fun unless you expect a James Bond movie.

FTFY.

To give an explanation, I think Craig is so far from the Fleming character and when introducting him they shouldn't have thrown out the good bits of the existing film canon.

Re:Bill Gates?

[Empiric]

He could code (and in multiple languages), in contrast to, say, Steve Jobs.

From what I've read of the experiences of other coders/designers/architects, he had the in-depth technical acumen to make a one-on-one development review a very detailed and rather harrowing experience, as well.

Re:Exploding pens have been replaced with ads

[mcgrew]

Downloading from The Pirate Bay doesn't take a lot of smarts. Pay to watch ads, or see the movie for free without them? The industry is brain-dead, this is the kind of crap that drives people to the very piracy the industry hates and was the sort of thing DeCSS was written for.

Re:It has a PCI bus.

[jgtg32a]

I actually had this conversation with a violinist. String instruments in movies annoyed her because she could see how they were being played and the sound wouldn't match up at all.

Re:They do the same with physics

[Psyborgue]

There's a good one in Skyfall too, if a bit cliche. Towards the end of the movie a helicopter crashes into fairly large building made of stone and blows it completely apart.

Re:It has a PCI bus.

[Psyborgue]

Depends. If you're civilization that's millions of years old that has encountered little, if any, resistance out of the countless conquered planets, you might actually become a bit overconfident and neglect to patch things on a timely basis.

Re:An exercise in suspending disbelief..

[GrahamCox]

It's a long known observation that the more you know about something, the more errors you will see in someone else's version of that thing, e.g. news stories about something that happened to you or a friend.

Accurate technical detail is usually too boring or irrelevant to most of the audience - look at Top Gear's version of The Sweeney car-chase with Clarkson's insistence on getting the technical detail correct that the Jag's traction control needed to be disabled and that in turn required holding down a button for 10 seconds. By showing what a movie would be like if they stuck to such facts, the showed (in an amusing way) why it is a very, very bad idea.