[Gllug] not so great hacker/tech movies

[Panos Savvas]

as a twist to worst use of technology in fiction:

number 5 is the best use of fiction in a technology advert in the following
list
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49292857,00.htm

On 10/6/07, Panos Savvas <pasavvas.accounts at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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