My local cinema recently showed this and it was great to see it on a big screen, I think the older you are the funnier and more ridiculous it gets. When I was a kid and saw it I was totally inspired seeing them hacking from a payphone outside on the street, I thought it was so cool!
The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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#112Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…
Yes please! Bet it would have a killer soundtrack too
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#113Hah. Just yesterday I was contemplating how awful Angelina Jolie's character's handle "Acid Burn" was. Like - who the fuck would choose such nickname for themselves? Other than that - cult movie. Love it. Awesome soundtrack, not that bad acting and not that bad script for back when computers and internet were hip, not just the usual thing. "Hackers" caricaturally but still somewhat properly presents the phreaking cul…
I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.
Ultra laser. Doctor Doom!
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#115I remember how this was a kind of cult movie around my university group, we had several watch sessions organized back in the day. We took it from the local movie rental shop, remember those?
My video rental store sold it to me because I was the only person who ever rented it
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#116Type "cookie" you idiot!
This is one of the best lines from any movie ever. I used it on a much younger co-worker of mine when he was having an issue with a website and it turned out to be a problem with cookies. It was clear to me from his facial response that he had never seen the movie. It didn't go over well.
I used to talk about hacking the Gibson all the time. Gotta bring that back for the anniversary.
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#117I hated it when it came out for its inaccuracy, but man it's just so much fun I'm developing a video game inspired by it! Actually, I take that back. In terms of culture it was not that far off the mark. I went to college near New York City, and it turned out to be a local hotbed for activity in the MOD/tracker scene. I used to pal around with one guy who was a big deal in the KFMF, and he looked like he could have c…
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#118Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.
'23' is a great movie. 'Who am I' deserves a mention too.
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#119During Chaos Communication Camp in 2019 we held a veryvery improvised screening of Hackers. The people at the Norwegian hackerspace I was with had never seen the movie, clearly this was a mistake we needed to fix!
For those unaware of CCCamp here are some pictures; http://smtw.de/cccamp19/
We managed to steal^Wborrow the projector screen from an empty workshop tent. Hauled it across a veryvery busy whiskytasting event (called Whiskeyleaks). Got a small projector and then we rigged the sound.
A single concert speaker was our sound source, but we had no AUX cable long enough. So we found a headset with an AUX output on it and chained it together with the AUX cable :)
The end result https://twitter.com/MortenLinderud/status/116502963964076032...
Also had a screening at May Contain Hackers this year, and it was great having 30 people scream "Hack the Planet" during the movie and loudely complain when the RISC line came :)
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#120Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…
>Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. I think it comes down to the fact that our industry has become rigid and beholden to the university education system. John Carmack and John Romero were both college dropouts. Their stories would probably be impossible today. What we have now is a world o…
What part of their story are you referring to? There are lots of indie devs that appear to be having great fun making games and doing well to boot. Valheim, Black Rock Galactic, Celeste, Dead Cells, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, Don't Starve, Undertale, etc. were all pretty bit hits, certainly made their developers millions of dollars, and AFAIK the developers were having fun making them.