John Wick 2 is a movie like a violent shoot-em-up game with a body count approaching that of a typical Call of Duty game. But it’s also got a retro heritage, with old fashioned telephone exchanges, rotary dial telephones and even a venerable Commodore VIC 20.
It’s also a magic computer because it wasn’t even plugged in, and the power light was unlit. It was a hero prop so they should have noticed!
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That Vic-20 threw me completely out of the John Wick 2 movie, fortunately at the very end.
The green-screen computer displays in the movie were retro Apple 2, and the Vic-20 (that couldn’t connect to a second computer, ever, with 3,583 bytes (3.5Kb) total memory and no ability to connect to a single computer let alone every cell phone on earth. was too ridiculous to miss for those of us who ever owned a VIC-20 back in the early 80s.
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That was what using a Vic-20 was back in 1980. Gee whiz, that line of code made the screen flash and 2 tones go simultaneously from top to bottom and vice versa. And aside from being a learning tool, it was useless as a computer and couldn’t connect to a single other computer.