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Ask HN: Favorite hacker movie
What is your favorite hacker movie?
Mine is Swordfish (2001)
- nikcub 15y ago23 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
- wvl 15y agoPrimer (2004) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ Classic entrepreneurs hacking in the garage, with some unanticipated science fiction side effects.
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- pwim 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702
- agotterer 15y agoHackers, primer and antitrust
- _pius 15y agoSneakers (1992, still holds up perfectly) and Hackers (1995, probably doesn't hold up quite so well). edit: I'd also like to add The Social Network (2010) ... completely forgot about that one!
- ktsmith 15y agoSneakers and Real Genius are my favorites.
- canadiancreed 15y agoSneakers as well. The world of cryptography is still as murky and interesting as it was back then. Doubt we'll find a key to everything in an answering machine though. :D
- inaequitas 15y agoThe hacking scenes in 'Hackers' are completely off, but it's still one of my favourite movies. Maybe because of the age it's set in, or the 'feel' of the movie.
- huhtenberg 15y agoSwordfish? Surely you're joking, Mr. ConceitedCode? Such as faux pas :)
- nivertech 15y agoOffice Space
- kragen 15y agoHollywood is almost universally terrible at hacker movies, unfortunately, dating back to when they perverted Frankenstein. I haven't seen Swordfish, but what I've heard doesn't make me optimistic. Real Genius and Ghostbusters are two pretty good hacker movies. I hear Buckaroo Banzai is in the same ballpark, but I haven't seen the whole thing. I also enjoyed Flight of the Navigator, but it's really more about magic than about hacking.
- wvl 15y agoVery true. Actually, unmentioned here yet is "The Social Network (2010)" which has one of the most realistic scenes of coding I've seen. The problem is that it takes David Fincher and a script by Aaron Sorkin to make someone sitting at a computer both realistic and interesting.
- nikcub 15y agoand Hollywood isn't the only place where movies are made
- discordance 15y agoPirate of Silicon Valley http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846#
- aliukani 15y agoOne of my favorites. The quote "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" has stuck with me since middle school.
- ttrashh 15y agoCon artists are hackers too: Catch Me If You Can, Matchstick Men, I Love You Phillip Morris
- figital 15y agoHard to top Wargames.
- tingley 15y agoReal Genius by a hundred thousand miles.
- bryanhun 15y agoAntitrust & Startup.com
- highlander 15y agoThe first $20m is the hardest (based on Po Bronson's novel)
- scottchin 15y agoGhostbusters :)
- deadcyclo 15y agoThat would have to be antitrust and wargames
- jgibfried 15y agoI like where Scottchin is going with this one, Ghostbusters.
- sad 15y agoGotta be Sneakers. Incredible cast and well written. What's not to love about Darth Vader answering "We are the United States government, we don't do that sort of thing." to the simple request for "Peace on earth, good will towards men" seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHsUYF5VfQ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHsUYF5VfQ0
- brg 15y agoReal Genius is first, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ This portrays nearly everyone's ideal undergraduate experience. Then Sneakers.
- han_shot_first 15y agoTron: Legacy (2010) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/ "I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility." "So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance -- splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. I actually do use emacs irl, and although I do not subscribe to alt.religion.emacs, I think that's all incredibly relevant to the world of Tron." Source: http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 Quite genius actually.
- whimsy 15y agoOh, man. Those apps would make GREAT screen savers.