I think the reason the movies make it look "very measured and deliberate" is that the operators are the best of the best. They're so good in fact, that they never make mistakes.<p>Of course, this ignores that the point of a movie is to distill actual events down to their essence to convey an emotion, which isn't really what "click[ing] about a lot until we get what we want" is about.<p>TL;DR: smoothness is a property of movies, not a failing of humans or our software. I like the BladeRunner interface though.