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A 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 scre
by xanderstrike 9y ago
A 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.