[Gllug] not so great hacker/tech movies

[Panos Savvas]

What about antitrust?
Very anti MS but goes a bit far in making tim robbins a murderous geek
killing b.gates figure

Ryan phillipe finally figures out how is geek buddies died and what happened
to their code and eventually releases all Tim Robins code  base to the
public. how? TV of course... in a race against time to stream the whole code
base to a hijacked tv link. As though a simple post to a forum wouldn't have
done the trick?

Anyone care to take on the matrix? Or Demolition man with wesley snipes
hacking a kiosk in a matter of seconds. At least that was a comic book style
movie.

Someone elses top 10:
http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/326/1

On 10/6/07, Ryan Cartwright <ryan at crimperman.org> wrote:
>
> Panos Savvas wrote:
> > I finally got around to watching Ocean's 13 last night.
> > Is it just me or is the Hollywood techno bable getting more and more
> bizarre
> >
> > A few other hilarious "tech" thrillers
> > Die Hard 4: "Oh no they have stolen the Internet"
> > The Core: "We need you to control the flow of Information on the
> Internet
> > while we jump start the Earth"
> > Swordfish: "Let me just find my virus. Ok I have released it.... Come on
> > come on come on.... I'm in!"
> >
> > Any others?
>
> As someone has said the bit in disclosure is hilarious. I also like the
> way the e-mail looks totally unlike any real world e-mail client - just
> in case. :o)
>
> I love the ones set in the near future and the only tech-advance they
> come up with always some kind of virtual reality interface.
>
> Tom Clancy has a good pedigree in this field. Clear and Present Danger
> where Jack Ryan hacks into another guys computer and prints off evidence.
>
> But nothing is as bad as Net Force. Terrible book, even worse TV movie
> where the main plot ends with the President of the USA having a set of
> codes which can turn off the Internet.
>
> It's redeeming feature is the bad guy, the major software company CEO
> called William Stiles who wants to get his browser on every computer.
>
> nah scrap that , it cannot be redeemed.
>
>
> Ryan
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