Mainframers are portrayed in movies through the lens of being secure, inaccessible, and the place that hackers enter to steal secret data. While this is a great parallel for Hollywood to have given the platform, this can also make them aloof and foreign to many.
This talk is a light hearted exploration of the role that mainframe computers have played in movies, whether it's Jaws or Independency Day, through SpiderMan and Thor, and how the mainframe is both the hero and the villian