Also, I'm not saying the code itself has to be accurate, because you're right that you won't spot that stuff in the moment (usually, though I was ecstatic to see proper shell commands being used in Social Network). The bigger question is the design/look of that stuff, which tends to be over-engineered graphical bullshit flying all over the screen, which bears no resemblance to actual coding (Skyfall is the most recent culprit of this crap).

Just toning that stuff down, or making something visually believable, goes a long way.

You mention the Matrix, and while the vertically scrolling matrix character stuff makes no sense, the way it's presented visually is simple and consistent enough that you can buy that this is just how the machine-engineered code works, and that the human operators have gotten good enough at looking at it that they can pick up on what's going on. It also doesn't hurt that the "in-world" hacking we see Trinity doing in those movies is actually pretty believable too. Wachowski's did their homework.

Seriously Karen Gillan looks awesome in this

Didn't even realize that was Karen Gillen as crazy blue alien chick, pretty solid makeup work

Deus Ex is already being adapted into a movie as we speak, and the writer has talked openly about the similarities to Robocop, and how Deus Ex deals with a very different set off themes. I do think that adaptation has the chance to be very successful in movie form.

Yep, the case genuinely seems awesome now, I can't wait to see where it goes now.

Also, I'm now obsessed with the credits song from ep 5:

Yeah, their choices for this season kinda baffle me. This show is bizarre in the sense that it's so well-made in every department that it kinda tricks you into going along with it and thinking it's good, when in fact it's just spinning it's wheels. Lots of cringe-worthy stuff this season, and the comment about it being a Soap Opera is so right. It's just not very good.

All of Season 2 spoilers:

By the way, I love that the show is explicitly setup to be 1 eight-hour story. We know this will be a complete story without having to pad things out for future seasons. It gets the benefit of the extended TV runtime, without all the negatives that usually implies compared with feature films.

It also opens the possibility for lots of unique things for other seasons. Like, for Season 2, they could do a complete 180 and follow a pair of detectives working in some foreign country, like Russia, and see how utterly different procedure is there.

Also holy shit, apparently it was a true single take, no CG splices at all  0_0

Off the top of my head, I would say Children of Men, Dredd, maybe Social Network?

I'll say this, Signs scared the ever-loving shit out of me when I saw it as a kid. I was going through a serious UFO phase at the time, and that 1st viewing is still probably the most scared I've ever been by a movie. That rooftop Silhouette shot made me jump several feet out of my seat. Only stuff that's come close since then is Rec and The Descent.

Haven't gone back to it because I think all the religious stuff would just piss me off nowadays, and a lot of the stuff with the Aliens is deeply stupid if you think about it now. That being said, there's a lot of really effective filmmaking on display. The kitchen pantry, the scene with the radios, the found-footage birthday party.
It's hard to believe the same guy who pulled off such amazing stuff went on to make Last Airbender.

Abrams is a terrible action director. Shaky-cam all over the place, bad use of geography, and the guy refuses to give you master shots for the space stuff. It kinda bugged me in Star Trek 09, and really pissed me off in STID.

It's a bummer cause it sounded like an awesome project and it was all set to go. Who knows when he'll be done writing the next one, and when THAT one goes into production?