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Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by jagged-chisel »

jimt1234 wrote: post #203
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?!

Not sure why, but my favorite is:

- I thought you was black, man. YO THIS IS ZERO COOL!

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Der_Einzige »

harel wrote: post #162
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…

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

War games was an excellent film. Hackers was a terrible film. Not sure why people are celebrating such a cheesy film.

Also no one remembers cloak and dagger.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Der_Einzige »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #179
inanutshellus wrote: post #27

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I've flipped that switch for book adaptations. I let go of fanboying on what Hollywood "did to" the story and instead just decided to be thankful something I love was given a new medium / audience / interpretation... and voila! now I have two things to love. It's still fun to point out where things could've been done differently, but instead of actually disliking the film(s) because of those things, it's just another…

I actually really liked the live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and was disappointed at it's cancellation. Unpopular opinion amongst those who grew up on the anime, but I was late to the anime so my childhood-integrity isn't dependent upon requiring a faithful one to one retelling (or whatever would satisfy those folks - possibly nothing). I enjoyed the "Hollywood" Ghost in the Shell as a stand-alone 'thing', unr…

The problem with the live action cowboy bebop was poor casting. Spike shouldn’t look in his 40s, he was 27.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Der_Einzige »

wredcoll wrote: post #141
jghn wrote: post #61

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I find this and Starship Troopers to fit in a similar niche for me. When I first saw them I found them very cringey, horrible, couldn't stand it. Hackers for the reasons being discussed here. ST because of how bastardized it was from the source material. But over time I grew to love both of them. In both cases I started to appreciate how they weren't trying to be faithful representations, but rather capture a particu…

What is it with people feeling compelled to talk about starship troopers movie being different (lesser) than the book? Like, there's not that much to the book. It's a decently written "joins the military" story with a couple of well developed characters and one unique idea about sci-fi warfare (the suits spending most of their time jumping, which in retrospect would just make you a giant target...) None of this is ba…

Most people don’t want to admit that the author of the book wants you to take the book and movie at face value and thus the film/book are unironically right wing coded.

A lot of liberals don’t want to admit that.

Similarly, “they live” might have tried to pretend to be liberal coded and that might be the directors intention, but it’s schizo /pol/ right wing coded too in practice. After the Epstein stuff, we need reparations for /pol/ schizos.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by h33t-l4x0r »

dijit wrote: post #238
vidalakistrajk wrote: post #188

Hi guys! Original creator here. I had no idea this was trending here until some people on LinkedIn wrote to me!!! I will try to make the garbage files hunt easter egg. This was an idea that started all of this but I couldn't get it to work nicely and I definitely didn't expect this much traction!

I found an RSA private key while wandering around, hope its not used for anything ;)

Rumor is, it will get you into the pentagon. But you have to guess the ip.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by harel »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #242
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

War games was an excellent film. Hackers was a terrible film. Not sure why people are celebrating such a cheesy film. Also no one remembers cloak and dagger.

Because War Games didn't have Jolie in it. Maybe that? It was rather awful. A one-watcher.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by harel »

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

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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

And that actual "dial" on the phone...

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by kasey_junk »

tptacek wrote: post #129
Zaskoda wrote: post #10

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I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap ... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.

I remember being at Summercon before this movie opened and Ericb addressing hotel conference room we were seated in talking about how Iain Softley had directed Backbeat and how happy he was that he was doing this movie and that you had to get in the right headspace to understand what it was going for. (I think the movie is wildly overrated just as a piece of storytelling; the hacker fan-service in it is just fine, th…

It’s not a story driven movie, it’s a movie about a stylized subculture and youth. Compare it to Dazed & Confused instead of Chinatown.

The point is to make you want to hang out with those people on those days and it does that tremendously well.

If you disagree your a flake.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Der_Einzige »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #160
anthk wrote: post #78

I like Wargames much more. Still, people is right that we should take the 'hacking' (cracking) scenes artistically, as a metaphor on what's happening inside the mind of a cracker.

If a movie ever had the balls to show real hacking people would see how utterly f cking boring and uncool it looks. It’s like prog rock. By and large, hot chicks are interested in bands like Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. But prog rock never got chicks wet. It was always music by nerds for other nerds. I think a realistic movie about hacking would be the same. By and large.

It was sad to realize that my parents, who are utterly obsessed with rush, were the incels of their generation.
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