What did you think of the movie Hackers?

[tatui]

Well, well.. Apple everywhere. At least you may wonder from whom some of movies funds came.
About the technical part, I imagine some of the phreaking stuff might have worked some day. At least, the "telegraphic way of dialing" used to work here, many years ago. Now everywhere tone is used, instead of pulses.. The operating systems used in these so-called hacker movies are quite interesting.. I wonder if they were all written in flash. . And I also wonder if you have noticed how fast they can type, and why the heck they don't use space key?!
But forgetting the technical part, there's Angelina. Ah, and a plot, but I can't remember where it was... damn, I can't remember the movie properly..

[CXGJarrod]

I do have to say that it encouraged kids to become l33t and say w00t! I remember that everyone in my high school wanted to download viruses and tones for payphones after that to "Hack the Planet"

I got a lot of people coming to me asking how to be l33t and how to find the l0pht to hack peoples hotmail.

[hatebreed2000]

the movie couldnt be more fake, sure they do some stuff that would be done in real life, but it more of a comedy then a cyber movie. and as for angela jolie, if i wanna see her naked i just pop in gia( never heard of the movie until my ex-girl rented it) it shows everything, score!over all though i just watch it just to get a good laugh.
" yes this is Mr.eddie veder from accounting....." LMAO .

[StickyPhingaz]

Honestly,

I thought that the movie was ok, it really glorified hackers in a way that made sense to normal ignorant people. I guess what im trying to say is that some of the movie was blown out of proportion (like the internet being a world full of circuit boards and visual displays of servers), and that "non-internet" folks have an expectancy of hackers doing stuff like that....(like making someones records disappear//////Black or White hat i think no-ones that morbid.......... ) this movie is definitely five material..

[moby_duck]

lots of senior members have opinions on this movie. i agree with Vorlin about some of the discrepancies between the movie and the reality. they were trying to make it look futuristic and glorify hacking as an artform carried on by enlightened subculture teenagers. for most bystanders the technique probably worked, but some of us think it's a total fraud.

my biggest problem with the movie was not that the the writers didn't know Unix from a box of cracker jacks--no, my problem is that the movie offered false hope to aspiring code-monkeys that one day they may meet a chick who looks like Angelina Jolie. trust me, i've worked at Intel and i've been an engineering student for some time--there's no (or at the very least a distinct minority of) female computer enthusiasts that look like Angelina Jolie. oh, but if only there were...

[neta1o]

The movie Hackers was just as "Hacker" as the movie Antitrust. I guess you can't expect movie writers to be able to fully express a lot of the real ways in which they operate. If you haven't seen Antitrust, it is definetly one to dl, don't waste the $ renting it.

On a more positive note, I like seeing watching hacker movies a lot more than romances.

[Midridth]

I must say that I love the movie. I dont literaly watch it everyday but I try as much as possable. True it's not accurate, but that is because it's Hollywood and they did need to "hollywoodize" it so that it could bring in some money. That's show biz folks.

One of my favorite movies on the subject though. Right up there with War Games and Operation Takedown (to name a couple).

[Sevari]

Hehe, I loved the movie considering most of it was filmed in my school (Stuyvesant High School) =]

[wsemperfi]

I wonder who and when will make a movie after the book The Heretic by Jason K. Chapman. A wonderfull cyber thriller.

[er0k]

i liked it, however it made the game look so easy. the game of hacking anyway. for another, it completly exagerrated everything. I guess it was there for the public eye. Anyone else notice how they would type like 6 things and crack something. Amazing... not even *real* hacking. It should have been called "Crackers" if anything.

Funny fact, Johnny Miller (dade) and angelina Jolie (Kate) were actually married in real life.

Another fact, my sisters first and last name were in that movie, when lord nikon was dj'ing - Lisa Blair