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And I think all of us here love hacker movies. Sneakers, Hackers, Swordfish, etc. :)
by J5892 9y ago
And I think all of us here love hacker movies.
Sneakers, Hackers, Swordfish, etc. :)
- kbenson 9y agoYes, but we love them despite the horrible misconceptions they hoisted on the general public, and the generally horrible accuracy. :)
- microcolonel 9y agoBut RISC is nonetheless good.
- philsnow 9y agoIn what way was swordfish like Sneakers/Hackers? The latter are cyberpunk-ish, a bit ideological. Swordfish is more of a "caper" movie with a cheap tacked-on hacking bit. Bad guy wants money, uses hacker and LOTS OF CRIME to get it.
- celticninja 9y agoYeah those three movies are not the same when it comes to the hacking.
- vacri 9y agoI realised in Swordfish that the 'hacking' bit (with the 3D shapes rather than anything real) isn't meant to be literally hacking, but instead emotive of it, for the 98.2% of the audience who doesn't know what actually goes on.
- philsnow 9y agoHackers has a couple scenes like that, I don't have a problem with the device. But in Swordfish it's completely ancillary to the movie that it's computer hacking that's going on. The goal is money, not any part of any "hacker ethos" or anything.
- J5892 9y agoJust in that they all have unrealistic depictions of hacking. It's definitely the worst of the three.
- captn3m0 9y agoI absolutely hated watching Mr. Robot. Gave up after 4 episodes.
- optimuspaul 9y agoAny reasons why?
- nopreserveroot 9y agoThat's surprising. Mr. Robot has the most realistic depiction of hacking I have seen in mainstream media.
- gaelian 9y agoSame. Massive reason why I watched the show. I remember watching the first few episodes and Elliot is doing one of his monologues about the technology he uses and his hacking activities and I was like hold on! That all mostly made sense! What's going on here? :)
- jaegerpicker 9y agoI love Mr. Robot one of the best shows on TV IMO.
- Tylerosaurus 9y agoMy personal favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
- rrauenza 9y ago...Or https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URVS4H7vrdU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URVS4H7vrdU
- Yhippa 9y agoDo you consider Office Space a hacker movie?
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoI consider Office Space a documentary.
- xanderstrike 9y agoA real hacking movie would be deathly boring. My favorite hacking in movies is either when it's cheesed up to the max (visually interesting) or happens off screen (more realistic).
- Karellen 9y agoI love the 10 minute or so montage in wargames where David just goes to libraries to do basic honest research on falken, in order to figure out what his password is. Of course, he should have tried Joshua like a week before he actually did, but you can't have everything. And that's not counting knowing where the school password post-it note is kept, and getting yourself sent to the principal on a regular basis so you can keep looking it up. Or just letting your computer run for an entire day to determine which phone numbers in a given set of area codes have modems on the other end. Wargames does take a few shortcuts for storytelling, and it is a bit silly in the best possible way, but the actual hacking is genuinely good, and not boring.
- flukus 9y agoWargames was brilliant. How does everyone feel about the remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/? I've decided not to let it ruin my memories of the original so far.
- eecc 9y agoAccording to the reviews on IMDB you linked to, that was a good call. Stick to it.
- moomin 9y agoOh grief, Swordfish is laugh out loud hilarious. I cannot for the life of me think of a movie that tries so hard to be one of the cool kids.
- driverdan 9y agoI enjoy when older, unrealistic movies become more realistic over time. Remotely hacking the sprinkler system in Hackers was so unrealistic when it came out but today it's scary how real that could be.