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I never understood the love for this movie, it just seems lame to see all of these caricatures being created that reinforce hacker stereotypes - and not even in
by aa-jv 1y ago
I never understood the love for this movie, it just seems lame to see all of these caricatures being created that reinforce hacker stereotypes - and not even in a good way.
- duxup 1y agoCompared to stereotypes I thought it was an interesting mishmash of lively / different characters.
- glimshe 1y agoThe movie was partially responsible for creating the stereotype. This was 1992 and hacker culture wasn't yet mainstream.
- aa-jv 1y agoHacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first. I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
- glimshe 1y agoThe movies you mentioned were far from any type of hacker culture. They were much more about the power of computers, then a mysterious machine people knew little about.
- aa-jv 1y agoWar Games is literally about a hacker. Tron is literally about a hacker. Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks. Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.
- duxup 1y agoI feel like those films were sort of "along side" the hacker world. Sneakers to me was more on point.
- digger495 1y ago_incorrect_ stereotypes? Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.
- throw7 1y agoDo you love the movie Hackers? I submit there are two camps of moviegoing nerds: those who love Sneakers and those who love Hackers. I will admit though, many many years later I softened to the sheer goofness of Hackers (which offput me much initially).
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoI love both, for similar but different reasons. Hackers captures the naive idea of the scene really quite well. It's goofiness allows the naivety to remain, past the overwrought characters and Hollywood's downright misunderstanding. It feels like it's accidentally great. But then again, maybe it just tickles to the surface the sense of wonder I had way back then.
- myself248 1y agoAccidentally great, yeah. If I allow myself to believe that the producers of Hackers knew they were making a spoof of Hollywood hackers in general, I can sit back and enjoy it as a masterpiece. But at the time, that was not at all clear. And I'm still not actually convinced. It certainly wasn't marketed as a comedy; it seemed to be drinking the same drama-aid as The Net and other breathless wankery at the time. In which case it's a terrible movie that only becomes watchable as an exhibit of wankery. This feels like a special case of "suspension of disbelief".
- bink 1y agoIt's really hard to believe that anyone took "The Plague" seriously as a character.
- myself248 1y agoYou haven't watched movies with my grandma. Edit to add: Now consider the age and tech-savvy of most lawmakers.
- nullc 1y agoI really disliked hackers when it came out, except for the sound track. Never saw it again until some twentieth anniversary watch party, and from that distance saw it for what it was and found it amusing. ... I still wouldn't call it a great movie, but enjoyable enough or at least I now get why people like it. Certainly far better than The Net, as low of a bar as that is.