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Hollywood computer movies are the worst, between the tropes and the stereotypes they are just Weird Science without the road warriors and Bill Paxton. The origi
by zxcvbn4038 6y ago
Hollywood computer movies are the worst, between the tropes and the stereotypes they are just Weird Science without the road warriors and Bill Paxton. The original Wargames is probably the least campy and most watchable of the bunch. From there you take he express elevator straight down to absurd and fantastical stuff like Tron and Colossus: The Forbin Project. Anyone remember Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Yes, computers are magic and touching one gives you all their super powers - like doing hard math and making perfect hoop shots.
- kyriee 6y agoTo be fair, we now have robots that throw perfect pointers and do hard math. If anything, they were ahead of their time! :p
- dijit 6y agoI think you’re right about tropes and campiness. But there’s one thing that the movie did other than being realistic and that’s capturing the “feeling” of a thing. I think hackers did a good job of capturing the “feel” of mid-90s computer users. It was a new frontier, mostly celebrated by outcasts and was inherently anti-authority. I still get the same vibe from the CCC as I got from the first time I watched the movie Hackers. Also, people tend to forget about Acid Burn, best hacker in the movie who is only “beaten” because the other members took pity on the main protagonist. That flies a bit in the face of others in the same genre.