I just saw the funniest movie ever, and Dan Aykroyd was nowhere to be found!

rodekill · Mon 16/08/2004 07:48:40

Hackers.

Man, I must have really been out of the loop in the early 90's, cause all I remember about being into computers was getting looks of mild disgust when I mentioned them.

Where were all the wild parties and women that looked like Angelina Jolie?

Dang.

My elite alias is Radical Ranger.

Mephistophilis · Mon 16/08/2004 08:33:01

Is that the one with The Funky Villain on a Skateboard who looks like he floats when he moves? And something about Da Vinci? That's all I can remember.

Captain Mostly · Mon 16/08/2004 09:30:26

I REALLY wish I could laugh at that film. But it just makes me REALLY angry. I HATE it with its deeply un-sympathetic charcters who are presumably some hollywood film writer's idea of what computer users think is cool (pvc dungarees with roller blades?!?!?!) and it's general lack of understanding of ANY theme it touches on.
I quite like the fact that the plot pivots on the sinking of an oil liner, but features only half a second of stock footage of the liner going through a wave.

No expense spared eh?

YOke · Mon 16/08/2004 09:50:16

You just listed all the reasons why the movie is FUNNY!!!

Kinoko · Mon 16/08/2004 15:46:11

It is funny, but not "ha-ha" funny.

It's kind of painfully funny. I actually saw that movie when it came out and thought that movie's couldn't get much lower. I don't think they have, really.

YOke · Mon 16/08/2004 16:20:06

Hackers has about the same relationship to real hackers as Air Force One has to real presidents.

Captain Mostly · Mon 16/08/2004 16:31:52

Or U571 to the real british soldiers who died so that we could break the enigma code during world war 2.

Only that's much MUCH more disrespectful, and sort of like the re-writing of history you might find in the book 1984.

Mind you, 1984 is a really dull book. It's kind of like Hamlet... Really boring, but very handy to be able to say you've read.

Darth Mandarb · Mon 16/08/2004 16:50:57

Hackers sucked.Ã,Â I just didn't like it at all.

Hollywood can, every now and then, get something right.Ã,Â But this is a prime example of them getting it sooooo very wrong.

I knew/know a lot of people who were/are hackers ... and they're NOTHING like that.

I think it's like Rebel without a Cause how they made the motorcycle gangs appear ... totally feeding off of a stereo type of how the masses envision those people.

Most of the hackers I knew were usually slobby, unshaven, and slightly over weight guys who stayed up all night drinking Jolt cola trying desperately to break into a local bank's computer network (and usually failing).Ã,Â If these same guys ever met somebody who looked like Angelina Jolie they would have squeaked and run away gripping their crotches!!

BerserkerTails · Mon 16/08/2004 17:30:19

At least it isn't as bad as Swordfish... that movie was TERRIBLE. I mean, to make sure the guy is a good hacker, they make him hack some system in 60 seconds, in front of them, while he's getting an oral service from some chick underneath the table.

...The hell?

Isegrim · Mon 16/08/2004 18:13:30

If you guys want to see a more or less realistic (and good) hacker movie, look for '23'. It's a german movie, so I don't know if there's an english version, but for a german movie it's really good... Based on a real story, and featuring the "Illuminatus!" conspiracy theory!

But, as for 'Hackers', I found it so bad that I just had to keep watching... (Well, maybe Angelina Jolie helped a bit preventing me from switching off). Reminded me of the somehow similarly crappy 'Tron' (At least Tron had better special effects)

Mephistophilis · Mon 16/08/2004 19:12:37

Don't diss Tron! heh. I remember playing the Tron Lightcycles game it's so Addictive,
Back on Topic, It's awhile since I saw it but I thought it was Fairly comical in it's rubbishness, kind of like the Jerkiness of B-Movie special effects (The Terminator 1 Skeleton scene, THAT was funny.)

InCreator · Mon 16/08/2004 19:21:44

See at Hackers II too. It's EVEN worse.
It's quite hilarious - even offending how these Hollywood guys picture hackers, crackers, computer and cyberpunk related people overall, etc to world.

It seems like they all should have nose rings, rainbow colored punkstyle hair and rollerskates. And men should look extremely gay. And dance every night at some warehouse to something Hollywood considers "rave" but really isn't one. Isn't anything, really. Not music.

Yuck.

Darth Mandarb · Mon 16/08/2004 19:24:35

Meph - since you were born the year Terminator 2 came out (which really started the whole CGI craze)... I think perhaps you don't appreciate the Terminator's special effects

That scene was really quite something back when the movie came out. Ã,Â Before computers were used extensively in movies, Stop Motion was all the rage!

BerserkerTails · Mon 16/08/2004 19:33:24

Man... I love the special effects of Terminator 1, ESPECIALLY the factory scene at the end. The mixture of animatronic and stop motion effects is brilliant. Ahhh, good old Stan Winston.

I remember seeing Terminator 2 in the theaters (Though I was quite young at the time), and just thinking the special effects were amazing. They still are.

m0ds · Mon 16/08/2004 22:15:48

For reasons I can't remember exactly, I hate that movie, Hackers. And I agree it made me more angry than humoured

And had he been in it, Dan Akroyd wouldn't have ruined that movie, the movie would have ruined him!

Still, my best friend loves that movie so I'll let you off Rodey. But movies don't get much funnier without Dan!

Eggie · Mon 16/08/2004 23:37:47

Heh, I love that movie. You could apply it to anything...Surfing...acting...tortoise juggling...pretty much ANYTHING except computer hacking.
But part of why I love is it's complete disregard for reality. Reality sucks, who wants to make movies about that? This is much more interesting.

Pesty · Tue 17/08/2004 00:17:30

Quote from: midis on Mon 16/08/2004 22:15:48
And had he been in it, Dan Akroyd wouldn't have ruined that movie, the movie would have ruined him!

He would've beat the movie at ruining him by a good five years.

Oh snap!!

rodekill · Tue 17/08/2004 00:42:03

I don't really understand what either Mod... er... Midis or Pesty were saying, but for the record, this is what I meant:

The movie was terrible, and thus funny, and also Dan Aykroyd is one of the funniest people ever.

That should be clearer.

Ben · Tue 17/08/2004 00:44:35

Quote from: Mephistophilis on Mon 16/08/2004 19:12:37
Don't diss Tron! heh. I remember playing the Tron Lightcycles game it's so Addictive,
Back on Topic, It's awhile since I saw it but I thought it was Fairly comical in it's rubbishness, kind of like the Jerkiness of B-Movie special effects (The Terminator 1 Skeleton scene, THAT was funny.)

Meph doesn't know what he's talking about

I actually like the T1 special effects better than the others. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think CGI is all that impressive anymore. It's just "Mehh, I know how they did that.. WITH CGI!!!" because everything is done that way now. Back in the day, they actually had to BUILD stuff..

So.. Hackers... Never seen it.

Blackthorne · Tue 17/08/2004 00:47:18

Quote from: rodekill on Tue 17/08/2004 00:42:03
The movie was terrible, and thus funny, and also Dan Aykroyd is one of the funniest people ever.

That should be clearer.

Did you ever see "Sneakers" with Dan Akyrod and Robert Redford? More hacker madness from the 90's!

As for special effects......

Stan Winston is a genius. We wouldn't have good looking special effects if he didn't make them. People like him, Gene Warren Jr. at Fantasy, or Richard Edlund..... they made the industry standards for what we judge as good special effects.

And let's not forget the king, Ray Harryhausen. Hail to the king, baby.

Bt

I just saw the funniest movie ever, and Dan Aykroyd was nowhere to be found!

m0ds