Hackers has ben making it’s rounds on HBO lately.
I love this movie! It’s such cheesey comedy gold.
First off, on what planet do the computer nerds get to be the it crowd that evryone wants to be a part of? And on what planet do they where such trendy clothing?
I also particularly like the part where Joey is sitting at the table with the other “elites” and he’s got a cigarette in each hand like theres absolutely nothing wromg with that.
Classic movie I tells ya!
wear not where :smack:
And its not it’s. :smack:
I absolutely love this movie. I quote it all the time, and it dictated my music choices for at least 5 years.
I especially like the Oscar-winning actress saying “Cancer…Brain…Brain…Cancer…Somebody talk to me!!!” like she’s saying it phonetically for the first time, Penn Jillette as a cyber-security guard, the discussion of the ‘colour’ books, Angelina Jolie’s fly laptop – “It’s got a 28.8 bps modem!”, Cereal Killer’s various rants/monologues, Lord Nikon whenever he is on screen, Marc Antony showing up at the party (huh?), getting revenge on that guy from “The Wire”…woo, pretty much everything about that movie is just great.
Come on, admit it. You’re just trying to trick people into watching it, so they can share your pain.
At least that’s the reason that I recommend it.
Ugh. This movie sucks too much to be considered ‘cheesy’. It was written by clueless morons who acquired their knowledge of computers from strict orthodox Amish and a colorful K-Mart advert. The only purpose of this movie is an example of what not to do, and maybe as a justification for denying a human being the right to fingers. Round these parts, the phrase ‘You can’t hack a gibson’ has come to be associated with weapons grade stupidty.
Seriously. Bury it, and forget about it.
That’s the weird part : at one point, one of the bad guy’s subordinate is quoting the Hacker Manifesto. Similarly, the colored books did exist at one time, and Cereal Killer’s method of using a payphone for free by playing tones at it worked back in the 60s. Which betrays that the script writers actually did some decent research and had a notion about what actual hackers are and do.
Then chucked it in a bin. HACK THE PLANET !
I don’t know about the writers, but the main guy behind 2600 was a technical advisor.
The way I see it, I want to watch a movie about how computers ‘actually’ are about as much as I want to watch a movie about how anything ‘actually’ is-- ie, not at all.
I forgot to mention-- my best friend (also a big fan of this movie) wanted a JVC shirt like the one that Jolie’s boyfriend (not the main character-- the guy she was with on the bike early in the movie) was wearing-- anyone ever seen anything like that before?
I watched this movie about 400 times when I was a kid. Yes the computer lingo is horribly out dated and often wrong, but come on, it was fun. It had style and a great soundtrack. We thought they were cool as hell when we were 13.
Cheesy and horrible computer gaffes but still fun in a stupid sort of way.
Lots of odd cameos: Dave Stewart, Felicity Huffman, etc.
Fun fact: Joey’s mom is played by his mom. One of her grand total of 2 imdb entries.
And yes, I knew all the books that Cereal Killer pulled out. (And not all the celebs that he said died on their own vomit did, e.g., Mama Cass Elliot.)
I loved this movie! Still do!
It got me interested in computers, and started my life’s devotion to the evil damn things.
OK, you’ve got a point there. Then again, I still chuckle at the thought of a computer geek in leopard tights. Seriously, what the phrack ? Even WarGames wasn’t that goofy, and it came out ten years earlier. If The Matrix is what script kiddies wish they were, Hackers must be what a 60 year old accountant from Missouri thinks they are.
I still watch it from time to time, though. But then, I still watch the Dungeons & Dragons movie from time to time 
“Mr. Belford?”
“It’s…The Plague”
“Uh, Mr. The Plague?”
I like the energy in this movie. I’ve seen it many times.
There’s such wierdness in the look of it, like Lorraine Bracco’s makeup. It looks like it was applied by one of my six year old girls. The lighting, some kind of filter or processing maybe, there’s just something odd about how the movie looks.
And you gotta love the Gibson with it’s feathery floaty characters and fly-through navigation.
Some of it was filmed at Stuyvesant High (the most competitive science and math HS in NYC), which I assume the school in the movie is modeled after, so I give it a pass. The clothes I can’t comment on. Then there’s the videogame hangout.
One more thing: Cereal Killer wasn’t the one using the payphones. It was the Phantom Phreak, you know, the King of NYNEX? And Razor and Blade talked about it as well.
The only way to win is not to watch…
Whatever did happen to RISC processors?
They got replaced by Accis and Allies processors.
“I call it my Greatest Pukes Album, I got Elvis, Jimi Hendricks, Janis Joplin, Mama Cass, all people that asphyxiated on their own vomit. You can’t buy this in stores man.”
Memorable characters, great dialogue and a kickass soundtrack make up for the tech speak being ridiculously outdated and the corny ‘Lawnmower Man’ Internet scenes.
I love that fucking movie.
I’m giving this thread the bump it deserves as Hackers is now on Netflix.
Zombie Hackers!!
Still no desire to watch it again. It’s sole claim to fame for me is that Roger Ebert wrote that Angelina Jolie was going to be big. Based on this. Seriously. Nothing I’ve seen in Hackers makes me think that, and it’s after the fact.