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So when is the movie coming out?

nhayden 12y ago
Not sure there's enough drama to really make this a good movie. There is some drama and bickering and Romero leaving when he got bored but that's about it.
- mhomde 12y ago
  Are you kidding?? :) The two John' starting out as friends. Chaos Romero vs order Carmar. The rise of a small indie developer to super stardom. The ensuing split with Romero going full hubris with Ion Storm (Heck with the amount of drama and dirt available a movie on ion storm alone would make a great movie). Scenes with an battle axe breaching an office door, a gamer winning a ferrari. An underlying theme of "everyone's expendable". It would make for one epic movie in the right hands.
  - myth_buster 12y ago
    Yeah, they did a good job with Indie Game: The Movie [0] with an order of magnitude less drama. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/
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- anaphor 12y ago
  If The Social Network is a movie then I don't see why the story of Id Software couldn't be a movie.
  - sumedh 12y ago
    Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, nobody knows Carmack outside the tech circles. They would have a tough time marketing the movie.
    - current_call 12y ago
      I don't buy that. They managed it with Turing, didn't they?
      - scintill76 12y ago
        Well, Turing can be turned into a martyr for gay rights (as I understand they've done with the movie, which I haven't seen). I guess that's a lot "cooler" than anything about Carmack, at least AFAIK.
        ANTSANTS 12y ago
        "The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.
        icelancer 12y ago
        Something something see the guys that practically invented Call of Duty and other shooters. Easy sell.
    - anaphor 12y ago
      You're right, but lots of people know about DOOM and Quake right?
current_call 12y ago
This is pretty much what you'd want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29
- Grazester 12y ago
  That movie was cheesy but for some reason I love it. I don't know why.
  - aidenn0 12y ago
    I like it because it captures the fantasy of every script kiddie from my generation.
  - huhtenberg 12y ago
    Same here with Johnny Mnemonic :)
  - current_call 12y ago
    I think what makes it so appealing is that it isn't just an action movie with lots of keyboard action. It's actually about hackers and their subculture. The heroes enjoy understanding new things, share books on BSD and compilers, have an annoying wannabe that they nurture, value merit over superficial traits, and have a low tolerance for artifice. It's as if they came out of a jargon file hacker template. When I said that this movie is more or less a Carmack movie, it's because of how teenage Carmack is described. He's arrogant, but not so much he'd surround himself with idiots. When he meets other smart programmers at Al's company, he's elated. So yeah, it is cheesy, but it does more justice to the hacker subculture than anything else I've seen. It certainly has more to do with actual hackers than hacker news does.
  - kh_hk 12y ago
    I love it because it has almost everything that makes a cult movie: bad and punchy dialogs, great soundtrack and an unbalanced cocktail of cool things (including subcultures) the director likes (hackers, rollerblades, cyber). It's as if all these things are more important than the plot itself. These movies always age well. At that time it was lame. Now it's just a joke about itself.
bluedino 12y ago
I'd pay $8 to see it.

Not sure there's enough drama to really make this a good movie. There is some drama and bickering and Romero leaving when he got bored but that's about it.

mhomde 12y ago
Are you kidding?? :) The two John' starting out as friends. Chaos Romero vs order Carmar. The rise of a small indie developer to super stardom. The ensuing split with Romero going full hubris with Ion Storm (Heck with the amount of drama and dirt available a movie on ion storm alone would make a great movie). Scenes with an battle axe breaching an office door, a gamer winning a ferrari. An underlying theme of "everyone's expendable". It would make for one epic movie in the right hands.
- myth_buster 12y ago
  Yeah, they did a good job with Indie Game: The Movie [0] with an order of magnitude less drama. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/
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anaphor 12y ago
If The Social Network is a movie then I don't see why the story of Id Software couldn't be a movie.
- sumedh 12y ago
  Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, nobody knows Carmack outside the tech circles. They would have a tough time marketing the movie.
  - current_call 12y ago
    I don't buy that. They managed it with Turing, didn't they?
    - scintill76 12y ago
      Well, Turing can be turned into a martyr for gay rights (as I understand they've done with the movie, which I haven't seen). I guess that's a lot "cooler" than anything about Carmack, at least AFAIK.
      - ANTSANTS 12y ago
        "The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.
        icelancer 12y ago
        Something something see the guys that practically invented Call of Duty and other shooters. Easy sell.
  - anaphor 12y ago
    You're right, but lots of people know about DOOM and Quake right?

current_call 12y ago

This is pretty much what you'd want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29

Grazester 12y ago
That movie was cheesy but for some reason I love it. I don't know why.
- aidenn0 12y ago
  I like it because it captures the fantasy of every script kiddie from my generation.
- huhtenberg 12y ago
  Same here with Johnny Mnemonic :)
- current_call 12y ago
  I think what makes it so appealing is that it isn't just an action movie with lots of keyboard action. It's actually about hackers and their subculture. The heroes enjoy understanding new things, share books on BSD and compilers, have an annoying wannabe that they nurture, value merit over superficial traits, and have a low tolerance for artifice. It's as if they came out of a jargon file hacker template. When I said that this movie is more or less a Carmack movie, it's because of how teenage Carmack is described. He's arrogant, but not so much he'd surround himself with idiots. When he meets other smart programmers at Al's company, he's elated. So yeah, it is cheesy, but it does more justice to the hacker subculture than anything else I've seen. It certainly has more to do with actual hackers than hacker news does.
- kh_hk 12y ago
  I love it because it has almost everything that makes a cult movie: bad and punchy dialogs, great soundtrack and an unbalanced cocktail of cool things (including subcultures) the director likes (hackers, rollerblades, cyber). It's as if all these things are more important than the plot itself. These movies always age well. At that time it was lame. Now it's just a joke about itself.

bluedino 12y ago

I'd pay $8 to see it.