Do you avoid movies with computer plots/experts? And if so, why?

I don't really avoid that kind of movie if it has any depth. It's generally the element of the film that's the sound of tinkling brass though, less substantial and more easily ignored than paid attention. For example I find there is a line-of-no-return where computer tech movies cross into corporate culture concerns, and I find those movies much less interesting in terms of the tech aspect.

Good examples are movies like Sneakers or WarGames or even The Net, where some computer culture aspects are either clearly fleshed out or given attention as their own unique world that may supercede what corporate is doing or aware of. If corporate endorses it, yeah no, that's often more of a morality play.

Eh, all movies get tech wrong, then there is Castle with it's spinning cubes cybernuke hacking scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Hn1rPQouU

It only bothers me when it's a documentary, but if it's fiction, well, computers and networks are mystical to most people, you don't want to disappoint them with the mundane reality. The same goes for investors too, they also like things dressed up because people like things dressed up. Half of the tech industry is mundane, trivial stuff dressed up, made mystical.

The closer they try to get to replicating real world computerized systems, the more they tend to fuck things up, and that then stands out as a bigger and bigger sore thumb for me, so I can’t watch them. Think Mr. Robot.

Otherwise, they do actually sufficiently replicate the office environment, and then they’re just criminally depressing. Yes, I’m looking at you, Office Space.

The more they stick to what technology could be like in the future or in an alternate universe, and distance themselves from our real-world systems, the more I can enjoy them. Think the Matrix, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc….

Yes. I spend enough time with the infernal machines as a job to want them involved in my entertainment.