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Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by ok123456 »

MrCurryCasino wrote: post #176

Such a crap, corny movie. Cliché dialogues. Didn't age well, typical 90s techbabblebullshit drivel. Strange days OTOH...

It was an MTV move made for teenagers. People thought it was silly and had dumb technobabble when it was released. "RISC is good."

If you objected to the premise or technical content of the movie, you weren't the intended audience.

Hollywood tried to make a bunch of computer movies at the time and had to figure out how to make things on a computer seem exciting, even though in reality, it's just someone sitting and typing for long periods. The producers decided on 3D mainframes and artistically rendered hacker tools (some macintosh progz at the time were not too far off).

At least at the time, they were up to the task of using some creativity to address the challenges of making a compelling, at least visually if not intellectually, movie set in a place and time with technology that effectively shrinks time and space. Now they simply set all their movies before smartphones existed.

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Post by jimt1234 »

herodoturtle wrote: post #88

I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile. And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho. Hack…

- I'm Crash Override. - You're the moron that's been invading my turf?!

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Post by cheschire »

dylan604 wrote: post #166
harel wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me that was War Games that got me into this world and career. Always felt like I owe Broderick a Raspberry Pie or something

The use of the soda can pull tab to ground the receiver to get a dial tone was my moment as I was a noob phreaker well before being a hacker. How many kids watching that movie would even know what was happening today? Would they even know what he picks up off the ground let alone the actual phreaking

Let alone the receiver. Or the concept of the pay phone as a whole.

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Post by jghn »

stevekemp wrote: post #143
jghn wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're the one who missed the point, as in you missed *my* point. When I first saw Starship Troopers, I disliked it because it wasn't faithful to the book. Over time I came to appreciate it for what it actually was, and now think it is fantastic. Likewise, with Hackers I initially disliked it due to how inaccurate and unrealistic it was. I came to appreciate it for what it actually was over time, and now thin…

> I think you're the one who missed the point Yes, I would like to know more ..

I'm doing my part!

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Post by INTPenis »

herodoturtle wrote: post #88

I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile. And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho. Hack…

Hackers inspired me to start digging around on my FreeBSD laptop and learn how to setup a bitmap image as boot splash, just like the kids in the movie all had their own custom boot image.

Just a few years later I dropped out of school and started my career, haven't looked back since.

My first boss who gave me my first chance, and my 2nd job through referral, he dropped out of 7th grade to start his own business. He was once interrogated by police, and they had brought in some experts from a big ISP, and these "experts" had no idea what he was talking about. :D

Wild years...

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Post by tracerbulletx »

I went to see hackers in 35MM at the Academy Museum and the director said when he saw the script his immediate thought was, computers are going to be the new electric guitars. He framed the whole movie around the crew as sort of a punk band where computers were their instrument and tool of creative expression and fun, and I thought that was awesome. Also btw, all of the visualizations of the gibson were practical effects. they actually built stacks of glass towers and projected the light on them and had a camera track flying through it in a warehouse.
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