The social network is nothIng for hackers. Most of the facts and characters are in reality not as portrayed. And itS one of the weakest movies of Fincher.
A list of movies about hacking
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#22No AKIRA? I thought this one is pretty acclaimed, and frequently hailed as a cyberpunk classic
The plot doesn't really have much to do with computers? It was perhaps the first anime to make a splash in the US, and it is worth seeing, but I don't think I'd use "hacker" or "cyberpunk" to describe it.
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#23Missing Elysium and Children of Men.
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#24What makes a movie “must watch” for “every hacker and cyberpunk”? Two criteria come to my mind: - The movie is likely to teach you something that will make you a better “hacker” or “cyberpunk”. - The movie depicts what it's actually like to be a “hacker” or “cyberpunk”. Now, which of the movies on this list are going to do either of those? Probably some of the documentaries, and probably almost none of the fictions.
Cyberpunk is a culture, a style and an attitude as much as a skillset. Fiction can convey these things, sometimes better than truth can.
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#25No AKIRA? I thought this one is pretty acclaimed, and frequently hailed as a cyberpunk classic
yeah same reaction here.
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#26Off topic: Does anyone else get annoyed at bossy articles telling them what they must watch, or must read, or must do?
I know it's just an expression, but it bugs me...
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#27Needs "The Conversation". A near perfect movie about surveillance, that doesn't feature a single computer.
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#28Not for the hacker or cyberpunk genre but I do think that 'Primer' needs to be in this list. Haven't seen more realistic time travel movie than this yet.
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#29My personal favorite:
"Hackers - Wizards of the Electronics Age" Starring a bunch of old school programmers/hackers!
Magnificently produced by Fabrice Florin -http://fabriceflorin.com/
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU
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#30This doesn't appear to be so much a curated list of much-watch movies so much as a list of all movies about hacking ever. Here is my curated list of movies ever hacker and cyberpunk enthusiast must watch: * Sneakers * Ghost in the Shell * Tron Why is Tron there? Because the screenwriter loosely based the character around her husband. Who was her husband? Alan Kay. Tron's protagonist is Alan Kay.
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