Reading this reminds me of the "Mistakes Were Made" This American Life podcast [1]. It's amazing how much we've learned in the last 50 years & how far we have to go in order to get to what we've seen in movies [2]
[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/354/m...
[2] http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4156/explain-hyper...