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GATTACA might be worth adding to the list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
Gattaca is an underrated classic. Andre Niccol's other movie The Truman Show is even better.
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On the other hand, Hackers did take the time to name its characters after handles taken from 2600.
It also had Angelina Jolie. It... motivate me to be a hacker. And yet now that I am a hacker... I am no closer to Angelina, funny that.
The reason why you're not closer to Angelina has a simple solution - you haven't yet hacked The Gibson.
Slightly off topic, but a good hacker TV show is "Big Bang Theory" on Monday nights on ABC. It's about 4 physics PhD students at Cal Tech. The best part is that they don't water down the physics at all. One guy got dumped by his girlfriend because of their differing opinions on string theory. I just got the season 1 DVD and it's great.
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/
Antitrust: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
Not all are hacker movies per se, but these have great general geek appeal: Existenz http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/ Cube http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/ The Nines http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/ The World's Fastest Indian http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/ October Sky http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/ Three Days of the Condor http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/
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I got a real kick out of watching Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I much prefer "Triumph of the Nerds." http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ The real Gates, Jobs, etc. are far more compelling, interesting, and charismatic than actors trying to portray them.
Blade Runner's on there, too. Oh, and cowboy bebop. Another vote for: Hackers Sneakers
I think Ein, yes the dog, is my all time favorite character in any series/movie ever.
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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!