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Re: Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

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Post by mechanical_fish »

rogercosseboom wrote: post #26
mechanical_fish wrote: post #21

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 thought about "Matrices" but decided that there was only one Matrix (in all senses of the word...)

What former physicist could resist? It's like trying to resist saying boxen, only more so, because matrices is an actual word.

Re: Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

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Post by rokhayakebe »

utnick wrote: post #22

I recently rented August from blockbuster. Its about a VC funded startup with little revenue that goes bust. It was a pretty terrible movie though and the web2.0 talk will make you cringe.

August was pretty bad. I just watched it Friday. What did LandShark do?

Re: Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

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Post by divia »

prakash wrote: post #6

I liked the King of Kong: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/ . Man on Wire is on my list of movies to watch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/

If you liked King of Kong, you might like Chasing Ghosts: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479879/

It has a different focus, but it's about a lot of the same guys (Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Roy Schmidt), and is also really well done.

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Post by cgranade »

Sadly, it's kind of hard for me to come up with good hacker movies, but I can at least try to make a recommendation of interest to (most) hackers: Paprika. It's an anime film (by the same team that brought us Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress) that explores the ramifications of a device that allows someone to interact with someone else's dreams. Like I said, not a hacker movie per se, but I think it's one that most hackers will probably like.

Re: Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

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Post by rbanffy »

artlogic wrote: post #16
hachiya wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Hackers, I never understood how the bad-guy hacker arranges a drop-off (he comes in on a skateboard no less!) of a floppy disk from Zero Cool that had the "garbage file". As if Zero Cool didn't have the technical expertise to make his own copy of the disk's contents first. A drop-off wouldn't protect the bad guy in any way!

Actually The Plague (the bad guy) was just trying to determine how much of the "garbage file" they had - how much they knew... I have to admit that the movie sort of is a guilty pleasure...

The soundtrack is great.

They also did quite a lot of research in names and related "hacker stuff" (a Jolt Cola can in Plague's bedroom comes to mind)

And, of course, there is Angelina Jolie in her 18's. That more than compensates for any screenplay flaw.

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Post by Zev »

hachiya wrote: post #5

"Antitrust" is cheesy, but if you suspend disbelief and just treat it as fiction, it's a very entertaining movie. And even Bill Gates is spoofed in the movie.

As far as computer movies go, Antitrust wasn't too bad; It at least had real code whenever it was needed to be shown on screen.
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