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The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by sleepybrett »

motohagiography wrote: post #75

Ripe 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…

I'd watch this. You could swap it around either way, one of the two in the couple go rogue. Depends on who wants to play moody vanlife neo-luddite.

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Post by robohoe »

jgilias wrote: post #66

I still use "there's a pool on the roof" when meeting someone new to see if I've met one of my own :D

That's awesome! I've used "the pool on the roof must have a leak" a few times as well. That movies has so many one-liner quotes that still live on to this day.

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Post by robohoe »

racl101 wrote: post #149
kloch wrote: post #144

Hackers was released September 15, 1995. The newest version of Netscape you could have been using the day it came out was 1.22. Netscape 2.0 came out three days later (September 18, 1995) and included first support for javascript, java, and plugins. The Dot-Com craze was just getting started but nobody knew how big it would become. Few worked for Internet startups and nobody had been to a launch party yet. I had regi…

I was just entering my teens during those years. Few things I remember vividly were - Hackers (1995) - Mortal Kombat the Movie (1995) (both of these movies used Orbital's Halcyon +On +On) song and a bunch of other electronic music - And I remember the Windows 1995 release. That was a HUUUUUGE software release.

MK movie really got me into KMDFM. We'd hum the song on repeat as kids.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by sleepybrett »

kragen wrote: post #36
eimrine wrote: post #2

Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.

I'd recommend The Internet's Own Boy , Buckaroo Banzai , Real Genius , Office Space , or Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle ahead of Hackers and Sneakers . Startup.com is pretty good as a movie about startups (I lived just about every minute of that movie, just at a different company) but it doesn't have any actual hackers in it. I hear Risk and Citizenfour , both about Wikileaks, and Revolution OS , about Linux an…

I'm a huge fan of buckaroo banzai but there is like one scene with a computer in it.

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Post by Findecanor »

NGRhodes wrote: post #167

Highly flawed film; bizarre sense of style, ropey acting, terrible culture references, insane computer representations. All so bad, its agelessly bad, like only a true cult film can be. But there is one huge redeeming thing for me, and that is I find it a really fun caper.

You forgot one redeeming thing: the soundtrack is pure gold.

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Post by toofy »

derwiki wrote: post #110
jgilias wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It very much does exist. Just look for places trying to change the very basics of how the world works by hacking on new technology. You know, the places that naturally attract cypherpunks, people distrustful of 'the system' and the like. You can also find people with that ethos in corporate places, but they get swarmed out by suits and people who went to coding school because it pays well.

Aside from crypto startups, could you share an example?

crypto startups are infested with people desperately attempting to be the system, but they’ve convinced themselves (and each other) that adopting a different aesthetic somehow means their motivations are totally not the same.

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Post by leotravis10 »

Hackers is still one of those films that are influential and still resonates to this day. If you haven't seen it yet, I would advise to get the Region B (UK) Blu-ray release from 88 Films since not only it has the better surround mix (5.1 compared to 2.0 on the Shout Factory US release) it also has a director commentary track only seen in the UK release.

It's pretty easy to get a region free Blu-ray player these days.

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Post by MerelyMortal »

motohagiography wrote: post #75

Ripe 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…

It would be interesting if a social media post/idea led to a movie.

I know social media led to the phrase "Get these MFing snakes of my MFing plane!" getting included in the Snakes on a Plane movie.

I think there was a reddit post turned into a movie deal about what if modern U.S. Marines were transported back in time to the Roman era, but I don't think anything has come from it.

Does anyone know of any other social media posts affecting or turning into movies?

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Post by bitshiftfaced »

kloch wrote: post #144

Hackers was released September 15, 1995. The newest version of Netscape you could have been using the day it came out was 1.22. Netscape 2.0 came out three days later (September 18, 1995) and included first support for javascript, java, and plugins. The Dot-Com craze was just getting started but nobody knew how big it would become. Few worked for Internet startups and nobody had been to a launch party yet. I had regi…

Iirc, the movie's official website got hacked, saying it was a terrible movie and to go see "The Net" instead. Also, the movie's website got in to some hot water for hosting some kind of hacking information on it.
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