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This is pretty much what you'd want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29
by 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 agoThat movie was cheesy but for some reason I love it. I don't know why.
- aidenn0 12y agoI like it because it captures the fantasy of every script kiddie from my generation.
- huhtenberg 12y agoSame here with Johnny Mnemonic :)
- current_call 12y agoI 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 agoI 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.
- RunningWild 12y agoJust watch "Sneakers" instead of that drivel of a movie.