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Please, not with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman...
Ugh why them? The main characters in Hackers were teenagers who went out to explore cyberspace and see what was there and hack into it. They had a "Hack the Planet" message in that movie.
It's time for a Jeri Ellsworth biopic anyway. With Flying biology books and car racing!!!
At any rate, I can confirm that the "pool on the roof" myth is indeed alive and well. Upperclassmen used to try and sell "pool keys" to incoming students for $10 each. Absurd as that was, there was a thriving market for escalator keys - to turn on or off the many escalators in the 10-story building - so it wasn't that far-fetched.
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I still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
He looks at his sandwich before he says it; he's showing that you don't even need accurate information to get people to do what you need. sound potentially important, hurried.. and desperate for a favour- and people will try to help
It's been a very long time since I've seen the movie, but I was going to make the same point that the director does: it was never intended to be realistic, just a fantasy which captured the right feelings. It's probably not a good movie for other reasons, but I think it was successful at doing that. I've heard similar criticism of William Gibson's work, that his 1980s-flavored cyberpunk makes no sense scientifically…
Of course it had to be "inaccurate" to show visually what that feels like without it being super boring. It glorifies a particular set of attitudes and styles that many of us were a part of in that era.
Love it.
I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
For an actually good hacker film, see 23 (1998), about the story of Karl Koch.