Probably, me and my training partners made fun of the recent movies riding the MMA hype train, but: horse racing scenes still have a jockey riding a horse around a track competing against other jockeys on horses. But tigers don't leap onto the track. The bad fighting movies still have guys hitting each other, even if their techniques are terrible, they never show any bruises and take a half dozen shots to the chin and barely wince. But the fighters don't literally fly at each other or perform super-human acts of strength. (Unless, of course, it is a fantasy movie.)

Hacking in most movies is basically magic. Yes, there are people in front of computers, but the visualizations and narrations of what's going on bear so little resemblance to reality that they might as well be invoking magic missile.

It's really just a difference of scale, not kind: the details of technology in general and hacking in particular are so foreign to most people that they're willing to accept much wider aberrations than in other areas.

haha, right, like Rocky is an accurate depiction of boxing