Take away the nostalgia, and the best you can really say about Hackers is that it's an interesting cultural artifact, a movie where the technology practically feels like it's from the dark ages, yet it was released during the same year as the first Toy Story. It's kind of beguiling to think the same year a groundbreaking computer animation film was released that characters in computer-thriller were in complete awe of the power behind a 28 bit dial-up modem. I guess that's a testament to how rapidly computer technology has advanced in the past 15 years, but it's still quaint to imagine a virus spread through dial-up modems could capsize oil tankers out in the middle of the ocean. But, then again, Matthew Broderick nearly caused World War III in 1984's Wargames with an Imsai 8080.
Hackers is also a ridiculous movie, a mish-mash of attractive people skating around on roller blades (why?...
Hackers is also a ridiculous movie, a mish-mash of attractive people skating around on roller blades (why?...
- 8/12/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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