I'm a little surprised "21" wasn't mentioned yet. The movie, like the book "Bringing Down the House", is a fictionalized account of a true story about how the MIT blackjack club took Vegas casinos for many thousands of dollars.
Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?
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#182Blade Runner's on there, too. Oh, and cowboy bebop. Another vote for: Hackers Sneakers
Might as well throw in all the Philip K. Dick movies. Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, and some others.
Of the collection, Paycheck is probably the most hacker-related movie, as the main character is a reverse-engineer.
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#183Fan of: The headache inducing blue ribbon winner: Pi - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ The slightly corny but worthwhile: Sneakers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
Sneakers may be corny - but it's actually based on some serious math. Essentially one of the characters has developed a way to solve a prime factorization in what appears to be constant time (i.e. O(1)). Once you do that - well that's the end of basically all public key cryptography based on the RSA algorithm (pretty much everything in common use). Much more realistic than say, Hackers.
Man, I just lost 2 hours of my life to Sneakers. How did Redford, and company get sucked into that. What a horrible movie.
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#184Zack and Miri make a porno
Seriously, they're broke, they bootstrap and they make the porn, and it's really entertaining.
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#185Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey
Seriously. The timeline in those movies is an awesome puzzle. Not quite Primer, but the same vein.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Oh, and cowboy bebop I think Ein, yes the dog, is my all time favorite character in any series/movie ever.
They are making a full motion movie. Supposedly the downside is they cased Spike as Keano Reaves. (i guess when i think about a 'film nior' space-cyber-punk-black-belt, i do not think about NEO)
How is it that you just completely made my day, and then absolutely destroyed it all in about 3 seconds? Oh yeah, Keano Reaves.