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Ask HN: Movies for Hackers?
I will be interested to know what kind of movies will you recommend to hackers.
- flixic 14y agoPrimer. Wonderful movie, the script is smart and complex, budget is tiny, ideas are huge. Watched it 5 times, still don't get parts of it, but it's brilliant.
- tjic 14y agoAgreed!
- zhovner 14y agoTrue.
- trafficlight 14y agoThe best thing about Primer is that I come away with the feeling that I can go out to my garage and do something amazing.
- bmelton 14y agoI know it's poor HN etiquette to pile on 'Me too' responses, and I'm ordinarily very good at refraining, but in this particular case, Primer can't be recommended enough. I've watched it about 8 times now, and I'm only 'mostly' sure that I understand all of it. It's brilliant beginning to end, and is sometimes on Netflix.
- eterps 14y agoThe Andromeda Strain (1971)
- eterps 14y agoMoon (2009)
- eterps 14y agoThe man from earth (2007)
- kentf 14y agoAmazing film.
- eterps 14y agoDragon: The Bruce Lee story (1993)
- eterps 14y agoDistrict 9 (2009)
- eterps 14y agoCastaway on the moon (2009)
- xd 14y agoIf you've had enough of thinking for one day, grab a cold one and put on: The Core(2003).
- waterlesscloud 14y agoThe Core has perhaps the highest degree of (ridiculousness times budget) of any film ever released. I love it.
- mattsears 14y agoHackers (1995) WarGames (1983)
- kevinSuttle 14y agoCan't believe I had to scroll down the entire page to see this. It's so obvious!
- Dejital 14y agoFlatland (2007) - Hacker Jr. friendly!
- eterps 14y agoPitch Black (2000)
- brudgers 14y agoMacon County Line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_County_Line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_County_Line
- eterps 14y agoDeath Note (Anime series)
- tomh 14y agoSneakers (1992). Too many secrets.
- eterps 14y agoSherlock (TV series) very modern and high paced, love the way they put SMS messages in view http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/
- medecau 14y agoFirst time I saw it the thought on my mind was: "What did just happen? That was very cool. I like that. Why haven't this been done before"? Has it been done before?
- luxpir 14y agoYou see it a lot in Korean movies and TV from the last decade. Very cool effect. I appreciated it in the excellent Sherlock series too, although in general season one was much more enjoyable/original/faithful than the second.
- dchamberlin 14y agoTakedown (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/
- why-el 14y agoOld Boy. Fantastic South Korean thriller about the perils of the revenge mentality.
- eterps 14y agoI can also recommend the The Chaser (2008): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/
- bkvirendra 14y agoDie Hard 4.0 (What hackers are cabable of doing) !!
- ojbyrne 14y agoThe Conversation(1974): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
- waterlesscloud 14y agoA great hardware hacker movie, and one of the greatest movies of all time. Excellent character study of the withdrawn hacker personality type. It's even set in San Franciso. Coppola's best work, bar none. And that's saying something. At times this has been my very favorite movie.
- chris-j 14y agoPi (1998)
- trimbo 14y agoDonnie Darko
- fumar 14y ago1. Ghost in the Shell 2. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex - series not a movie 3. Primer 4. Zizek The Movie 5. Pi 6. Gattaca 7. Waydowntown
- trimbo 14y agoBuckaroo Banzai
- apgwoz 14y ago* Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) * Revolution OS (2001) * Code Rush (2000) * The KGB, the Computer and Me (1990) * Infinity (1996) * Antitrust (2001) -- mildly entertaining and fun
- zhovner 14y agoWaking Life (2001)
- pcore 14y agoMemento (2000)
- trimbo 14y agoReal Genius
- ygmelnikova 14y agoCube (1997) For all you A/B, MAB testers out there.
- z_ 14y agoThe Life Aquatic
- brcrth 14y agoBrick (2005): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/
- chmod775 14y agoThe Millennium Triology (Thou shall watch the 2009 version. The Hollywood one is crap). 3 movies. Involving hacking + The hacking parts are not total garbage as in other movies. But there's one scene where they say that she needs a faster computer to download things faster -.- I dunno if the movies are available in English. But there should be at least swedish, norwegian and german ones. Edit: I checked it. There's an English one too.
- trienthusiast 14y agoTimecrimes
- Off 14y agoSouthland Tales (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405336/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405336/
- perlgeek 14y agoInception (very interesting idea) Source Code (also nice idea, but crappy end)
- davyjones 14y agoTimecrimes. One of the best time travel movies I have ever seen.
- hansy 14y agoGlengarry Glen Ross Kinda cliche but still a fantastic movie about hustling and desperation. Of course, one simply cannot talk about this movie without referencing, at least once, one of the greatest motivational scenes in movie history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0
- bfrs 14y agoThese are some movies/tv series that I deeply enjoyed and (some I) wish I had known about earlier. 9.9 Hitchhiker's guide to the universe, BBC TV series 9.9 Contact (1997) based on a novel by Carl Sagan. Very few people seem to know about this movie. 9.3 War Games 9.0 most Akiro Kurosawa movies: Seven Samurai High & Low The Bad Sleep Well Ikiru Red Beard 9.0 Terminator 1 (watch again) 8.8 Terminator 2 (watch again) 8.7 Pirates of Silicon Valley 8.7 Matrix 1 (watch again) 8.7 The Italian Job (featuring Napster's original inventor) 8.7 Live Free or Die Hard 8.5 Track Down or Takedown (about social hacker Kevin Mitnick) 8.5 Revolution OS (2001) 8.5 Dr. Strangelove 8.5 2010 A space odyssey 8.3 Antitrust (2001) 8.3 Sneakers 8.3 COSMOS 8.2 Minority Report 8.2 2001 A space odyssey 8.2 Paycheck (2003) 8.0 The Thirteenth Floor (1999) 8.0 The Net
- Thunderchild 14y agoFrequently asked questions about time travel - 2009: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/
- kevinSuttle 14y agoSwordfish (2000)
- kevinSuttle 14y agoAlso, Ghost in the Shell.
- rsiqueira 14y agoLimitless (2011) - A writer discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him super human abilities. With Robert de Niro.