Movie Cliché #351 Bites the Dust!

[major_clanger]

Watching Battlestar Galactica (the new version), up comes a scene where it's crucial to identify someone from a small, grainy digital photo.

"Can you zoom in and enhance it?" asks one character.

"Yessss...." replied the techie, "but it'll be difficult, take ages and might not show anything."

AT LAST! A SCRIPTWRITER WHO UNDERSTANDS IMAGE PROCESSING AND ITS LIMITATIONS! HALLELUJAH!!!

Ahem. Sorry. But the magic software that makes pixels out of nowhere is an increasingly common cliché - and it was Blade Runner wot started it - that really gets my goat...

MC

Comments

[soupdragon123.livejournal.com]

Blimey if you feel like this, don't ever watch 24!

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

That's sort of what I'd heard :-)

Apparently CSI and its offshoots make a lot of real-life forensic scientists pull their hair out. too. Not to mention lawyers; so prevalent is the inflated expectation of jury members as to what criminal forensics can or should achieve that it's been dubbed the 'CSI Effect'.

MC

[daveon.livejournal.com]

One of the things I regret is my father not living long enough to see CSI. The fingerprint technology alone would have had him screaming.

I dread to think what he'd have thought of biometric ID/Passports and the travesty of an indentification system they use at US airports.