Is this a profoundly stupid plot point? Yes. Honestly, it’s a wonder the angry incels of the world didn’t use this tactic to get the worldwide media to condemn Captain Marvel when it was coming out. Jonah Jameson style about the new menace threatening our society. Yes, modern media outlets definitely all have central mainframes, and if you hack into them and insert a news story, every journalist in the world will absolutely all run straight to our cameras and parrot that story on the air, yelling J.
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Tasha Robinson, film & TV editor: For me, nothing in this film even comes close to being as funny as the line where a flunky casually tells villain Idris Elba that he’s “hacked the mainframe of every major journalistic outfit” and fed them all a false story demonizing grumpy anti-heroes Hobbs and Shaw.
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Is the movie’s fundamental clumsiness about technology, science, physics, and every other aspect of the world a deliberate feature? Is this movie actively joking about how little people understand about the world they live in? More importantly, what was your favorite dumb moment in this film? So here’s a question for the Verge staff in attendance: We all collectively got a lot of laughs out of Hobbs & Shaw’s meatheaded yelling about the Dark Web, computer hacking, and secret Estonian bioware dark sites. It’s also just hilariously stupid about all of them. The story brings in a programmable virus, biometric-locked guns, self-driving vehicles, an emergent bioweapon, sabermetrics as a combat tool, and a whole lot more high-tech ideas. It’s a futurist story about the conflict between a group of extreme body-modders who want to jump-start evolution by cyber-enhancing themselves, and a couple of Luddites who prefer to deal with all problems via face-hitting and dick-waving. In theory, Hobbs & Shaw should be an extremely Verge-friendly movie. Nineteen Verge staffers watched this film together in an East Village theater, howling with joy and contempt through the whole movie. So of course we wanted to see Jason Statham and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson spend approximately 12 hours of screen time insulting each other’s penis size and basic capacity for punching things. The Fast & Furious movies have been a longtime addiction for Verge contributors, going back to the days when we created our own F&F Dungeons & Dragons hack and played it for the site. Last week, The Verge’s editorial staff gathered in New York for an annual summit, and we roundly agreed that the only acceptable after-hours staff outing was a trip to see the new Fast & Furious movie spinoff Hobbs & Shaw.
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