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.
Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?
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#152I like The Lawnmower Man a lot too. Stunning graphics and it really captures the spirit of a computer enabling you to do much more cooler things than Real Life.
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Gattaca is an underrated classic. Andre Niccol's other movie The Truman Show is even better.
His other other movie, Lord of War, was also pretty good. It does involve entrepreneurship. The Terminal, his other other other movie, was ok, but no hacking. I haven't seen his other other other other movie, S1m0ne.
I've seen s1mOne; the basic premise is very hacker-y. A guy living in his house develops photo-realistic CG, telling no one, and delivers it to a movie producer and then dies. What should he do with it? His choice == the film.
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#154Sadly, 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…
As an aside millenium actress was really a great movie I thought... But of course not a hacker movie at all
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That's what he says, but they lack the skepticism of actual scientists. I love the movie - and the quote - but Venkman is clearly calling himself a scientist because it's convenient at the moment.
Wait, how do we know that Venkman isn't a legitimate scientist, again? Because he's insufficiently skeptical about ghosts? But in the universe of Ghostbusters ghosts physically exist ! If anything, the part of Ghostbusters that strains my credulity is that in their universe there seem to be scientists who don't believe in ghosts. You'd think that the accumulated evidence would be pretty overwhelming by the 1980s!
IIRC, the spate of hauntings in the movie was brought on by the imminent return of Gozer the Gozerian (or by the same rare set of conditions that allowed Gozer to return).
By the sequel, the Ghostbusters had mostly closed up shop due to the collapse of the haunting bubble.
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#156I can't believe no one's mentioned Back to the Future!
Favorite scene: opening scene with the robotic arm automation
Favorite quote: "You'll have to forgive the crudeness of this model, I didn't have time to paint it or build it to scale."
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#157Primer - hackers doing a startup.
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#158Apollo 13 has some great hacker scenes. It has, in fact, my favorite hacker moment from any movie. "We gotta find a way to make this [holds up square peg] fit into the hole for this [holds up round peg] using nothing but that [points to random assortment of crap that they know is on board].": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDuGuerpf8
That's the only thing I liked in that movie.
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#159An excellent movie I enjoyed was: Dark City
It was kind of like a precursor to The Matrix.
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