Typing at a computer

Compelling action: Computers in the movies

If someone were making a movie of my life right now, it would be hella boring. It’s tough to make someone sitting at a computer look exciting, though bless them, the movies do try.

Can you name the film from these freeze frames where a computer in the movie plays a central role in a scene or acts as a major device in the plot?

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Answers up after one of the most awesomely bad scenes of “computer hacking” ever put to film. It comes from “Castle” and the line, “I could launch a cyber-nuke,” while a little cartoon of a missile comes up on the screens is never not funny.

Answers:

  1. “You’ve Got Mail”
  2. “Iron Man”
  3. “Office Space”
  4. “Bridget Jones’ Diary”
  5. “The Net”
  6. “Mission Impossible”
  7. “Set It Up”
  8. “Enemy of the State”
  9. “Independence Day”
  10. “Legally Blonde”

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