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Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN
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#52Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…
> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever. Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...
I hoped Crank 2 would be as good, but the craziness was over the top.
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#53You should add open source software tools, os's, or like someone said hardware (NAS, routers, servers, chips, etc.) that are mentioned too. On top of all these movies that are mentioned here. Great work.
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#54No hackers the movie? No zerocool? No emmanuel goldstein on his rollerblades in that terribad NYC nightclub (which sort of actually did exist).
It gets made fun of a lot, but personally I believe Hackers had the most realistic depiction of what hacking is like to hackers of any movie. Definitely one of my favorites.
I was around and active at that time, reading T-Filez, phrack and using those giant phreaker and hacker chatrooms. I did go to a club in NYC that was very similar to the one in the movie which were freq by Patrick K Kroupa and Corrupt, plus other hackers before they threw me out for being underage.
I seem to remember in the film the two guys Razor and Blade who had that pirate broadcast 'Hack the planet' actually existed as well.
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#55Opinions on some of the movies from the list I've seen: Idiocracy – Basically an ordinary comedy, with an above average plot, but overall nothing that special or interesting. Overrated. Fight Club – One of my favourite movies, perhaps in my top 10. Really loved it. The Game – Another great movie from David Fincher, I love the mysterious atmosphere of his movies. The Man From Earth. – Huge disappointment, I never unde…
> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever. Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...
Nice to see that others appreciate Crank as well! I always wondered why it was so underrated.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.
That's funny, because a few weeks ago somebody did the same exact thing but with books and no affiliate links. All the comments were about how he should add affiliate links, and that HN appreciates projects which make money.
I think you mean this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485653. It's about the same project actually. It didn't have affiliated links then.
Full disclosure: I'm the author.
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#57No hackers the movie? No zerocool? No emmanuel goldstein on his rollerblades in that terribad NYC nightclub (which sort of actually did exist).
Most people I know who were active in that "scene" from that era (even those who think Eric Corley is an annoying hot-air bag) love "Hackers", mostly because of how ridiculous it is.
But I mean, c'mon, you've got Penn Jillette there, one of the best soundtracks of any movie out of the mid-90s there, Angelina Jolie's boobs there, what's not to like?
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#58You should add open source software tools, os's, or like someone said hardware (NAS, routers, servers, chips, etc.) that are mentioned too. On top of all these movies that are mentioned here. Great work.
Very good idea! I like it!
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> * Crank – not very known, but wow, this is the best action movie ever. Just seconding this, in case it is not known. As action, Crank is perfect in every way. It's a shame Crank 2 went off the rails the way it did...
I hoped Crank 2 would be as good, but the craziness was over the top.
Yeah, they seem to have thought what was called for was "Crank, but more so" when what they really needed to hit was "Crank, and exactly the same amount." I wasn't too disappointed though, since the original stands so well on it's own.
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#60True story: One of the entrepreneurs from Startup.com was my summer camp counselor.
I hope it wasn't the CTO guy.