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Regarding Iron Man: It is hard for me to suspend my disbelief when movies feature world-shatteringly advanced artificial intelligence and yet pay no attention whatsoever to the obvious implications of such technology. Forget the silly flying suit!
That was exactly what I took from the movie- not the suit or whatever was interesting but how great a user-agent setup he had!
Not all are hacker movies per se, but these have great general geek appeal: Existenz http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/ Cube http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/ The Nines http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/ The World's Fastest Indian http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/ October Sky http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/ Three Days of the Condor http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/
And did anyone else find it really sexual when Jenifer Jason-Leigh was plugging Jude Law in?
Don't forget the 13th Floor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor)
Let me know if you spot the 3dFx vs Power VR joke.
5th Element, I think is the ultimate guy/hacker movie. Disutopian reality, future, flying cars, spaceships, tech and gadgets, weapons, awesome soundtrack, action, funny, love story, and hot chicks... What do you want more from a movie?
Blade Runner's on there, too. Oh, and cowboy bebop. Another vote for: Hackers Sneakers
> Oh, and cowboy bebop I think Ein, yes the dog, is my all time favorite character in any series/movie ever.
Perhaps it's more of a good "science movie" than a good "hacker movie", but I adore Carl Sagan's Contact . I get chills whenever I watch the scene where the signal is first detected.
* Stargate
* "startup.com" - about the formation of 'govworks.com' i wonder what these guys think about Obama.
* Takedown - 'Kevin Mitnick's story'
* Serenity
* Star Trek: the Voyage Home
* The Last Starfighter
* Johnny Mnemonic
* Short Circuit 1 & 2
* Crest of the Stars (anime)
* Fahrenheit 451
* Equilibrium
* Batman (begins, dark night, the tim burten one)
* Edward Scissor Hands
* Space Balls
* Avalon ( http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-current/ava...)
* LAIN: The Serial Experiments (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Dune
* Ender's Shadow (in the works)
* Ender's Game (in the works)
* Diamond Age (in the works for sci-fi, 'a young girls illustrated primer')
* The Arrival
* The Terminator 1,2,3
* The Sarah Conner Chronicles
* D.A.R.Y.L
* Flight of the Navigator
* Explorers
* AI
* Batteries Not Included
* Blade Runner
* IRobot
* Appleseed (anime)
* Bubble Gum Crisis (anime)
* Ergo Proxy (anime)
* Virtuosity
* Metropolis (all of them are good)
* The Last Exile (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Robocop (this so hold up)
* Primmer
* Probe ( the TV series, it took me 3 months to find the copies of this Issac Asimov based TV series on ABC ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_(TV_series)
* Infest Wisely
* Logan's Run
* Planet of the Apes
* Star Trek: First Contact
* CQ ( if you get it, you'll get why this is a hacker movie , 'la resistance')
* Amelie
* 2046
* Trigun (anime)
* Escaflone (anime)
* Tank Girl
* Twelve Monkeys
* THX 1138
* Bicentennial Man
* The Philadelphia Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(fi...
* Seaquest ( some episodes )
* Strange Days ( new yeas hacker style )
* Freejack
Okay, I'll say this much in defense of the Matrices : (a) the first Matrix movie is emphatically not a stinker; (b) I appreciated the second two a lot better after reading these links [1]: http://corporatemofo.com/media_and_mediocrity/the_matrix_rel... http://web.archive.org/web/20071005000019/http://www.corpora... I mean, I still don't think the sequels worked very well, particularly #3, but I admire the audacity of…
I appreciate those two essays and highly enjoyed reading them. But when interpreting such works I'm always cautious not to read too much into small details. I found the overview about philosophy refreshing but when the author begins to claim the movie got it wrong in some place but insists on some special philosophical trait I become suspicious.
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On the other hand, Hackers did take the time to name its characters after handles taken from 2600.
And there are a few other realistic bits: PHREAK (to Cereal) D'you bring those Crayola books? CEREAL Oh yeah, technicolor rainbow. Cereal brings a book out of his bag. CEREAL Green one. JOEY What is that, what is that? Lemmie see. What are these? DADE International Unix Environments. Cereal pulls out another book. CEREAL Luscious orange? Cereal hands the orange book to Phreak. DADE Computer security criteria, DOD sta…
Okay, I'm insane, I know that. But I have this strange urge to nominate The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in this category. I'm not sure I can explain why. Perhaps it's just to be perverse. ;) There's just something about the character that rings true. He's a famous superhero, but he doesn't wear a costume or come from another planet. He's a mad scientist, but he doesn't cackle or plot or soliloquize. He's an odd guy…
I once walked past John Lithgow in Harvard Yard. I was so surprised I blurted out "Dr. Lazardo!" "Laugh while you can, monkey-boy," he replied, and kept walking.