It's a combination of a cyberpunk crime film and a teen comedy, but yes it definitely counts as cyberpunk. They even named the computer "The Gibson" after William Gibson the author who created the cyberpunk genre
It doesn't depict hacking accurately.
Which is fun enough to mock as a teen. And we've all made the jokes between friends and eventually at Defcon once we were grown ups.
But really, the reason people of the trade still love this movie is that despite not depicting the reality of the trade it's still accurate in the sense that it depicts the idealized feeling of being a hacker. We all wish we were this cool. And that's all you can really demand from art.
Hackers captured the spirit of an era. Not many films can claim to have done that.
>It doesn't depict hacking accurately
LMAO yeah a Hollywood movie doesn't show fat ugly nerds staring at white text on black background for 12 hours while eating potato chips, how stupid of the writer.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Laugh it up but I though that Mr Robot made it compelling. And it was quite realistic.
And it kinda shits on Hackers for it, which I was irked by.
4 months ago
Anonymous
"loner" "social reject" hacker bangs sexy women and btfos criminals that he openly confronts like some kind of superhero vigilante
yah I'm laffin
4 months ago
Anonymous
Well yeah, but he does literally sit in front of a computer eating chips doing it. And there's no 3D rabbit.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah but only one of these has the Vitruvian Man singing 'Row Row Row Your Boat'
4 months ago
Anonymous
They spend all night searching the garbage file and eating pizza. Realistic
4 months ago
Anonymous
but the CGI!!!!
1/3 of this thread is too old
1/3 of this thread is too young
1/3 of this thread is the perfect age
You mean because of all the flashy CGI sequences or?
It takes an entire half of a brain cell to realise that the CGI sequences are obviously just for style, the movie doesn't try to present actual hacking as 'you fly through a digital cityscape looking for files'. Doubly so when the movie gets so much other shit right like the terminology and other aspects of hacker culture.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>the movie doesn't try to present actual hacking as 'you fly through a digital cityscape looking for files'.
it actually does but it's ok
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Missing the point
4 months ago
Anonymous
nah
4 months ago
Anonymous
Shit alright gonna have to concede this one anon.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I don't remember a single instance of hacking being accurately depicted in the movie. It's always some sort of garish, frantic, video-game-like flying through cyberspace kinda thing. Which is more cinematically compelling for young audiences, I guess, and fits the overall aesthetic of the movie, and really it works because the movie is so unabashed about it. Even the little software UIs are way too flashy and noisy, they went all out with stylistic exaggeration.
Very few people used the internet back in 1995, the vast majority of people had no idea how coding or hacking even worked, the very idea of the internet had a futuristic aura to it, and 90s pop culture was all about "radical sports" and "adrenaline", so it makes sense they would depict hacking as a radical sport, as surfing or skating your way through perilous cybernetic landscapes. Did most viewers back then realize this was all bullshit, that real hacking looks nothing like that? I don't think so.
4 months ago
Anonymous
the first scene is zero cool calling the dumb ass cable/phone operator and conning him into getting the Ip address for the router or some shit. Thats about as accurate as you can get when it comes to hacking. You have no point cause people more knowledgeable then your zoomer ass actually know how hacking works. FFS its a major plot point in the movie that SYSADS use shitty passwords like sex or god. Password guessing and social engineering is how most shit is hacked, fricking boomer moron homosexual this site is for nerds, not normie facebook rejects.
4 months ago
Anonymous
It had phreaking, dumpster diving, spoofing, and social engineering. All of which are pretty much how it's done in real life
4 months ago
Anonymous
The writer legitimately did his homework researching and interviewing real life hackers and going to their meetups. It's an extremely stylized movie but a lot of the fundamentals of old school hacking are pretty fairly represented.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I wish Rafael Moreau had wrote more scripts, I love the film's dialogue. 90% are the lines are quotable >Ugh, hard copy
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, good post, how about we settle this here? All I'm saying is the stylized parts of the movie would seem plausible to people back in 1995, that "metaphor" is a moronic way of referring to stylization, and that hacking is not accurately *depicted* in the movie.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>that hacking is not accurately *depicted* in the movie.
you're wrong though zoomie. 100% wrong being called out by people who know better.
4 months ago
Anonymous
If you dont know what phone phreaking was you do not get to have an opinion on this movie
4 months ago
Anonymous
>goes on /b/ once >ya I know how to backtrace, I never had a dmt trip while doing it tho
4 months ago
Anonymous
So would you say this was more accurate?
4 months ago
Anonymous
That movie was horrible and no one should ever watch it, not even for "So bad, it's good" entertainment. It's insulting to anything with DNA and even some inanimate objects.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>that loading screen
4 months ago
Anonymous
The intent was absolutely to create a pictorial metaphor for hacking, as confirmed by the director and producers and actors. It's not a literal representation of what hacking is. And it works since hacking is fricking boring, while the movie Hackers is not boring.
4 months ago
Anonymous
But "metaphor" is not an apt word here. It's more like a pretend reality where hacking is like playing an exciting video game. And back in 1995 that would seem more plausible to audiences than it does now. Most of us had never used the internet and our idea of the near future was shaped by futuristic advertising aesthetics (the mid-nineties was the period when consoles went 3D, for instance).
4 months ago
Anonymous
>But "metaphor" is not an apt word here. It's more like a pretend reality
holy frick go back to middle school you fricking moron
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I guess you're right. I remember leaving the theater back in 95, everyone was like "damn this movie had some great metaphors"
4 months ago
Anonymous
>I remember leaving the theater back in 95
you werent even born yet but that doesnt negate the fact you dont know what a fricking metaphor is.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>"damn this movie had some great metaphors"
Thats exactly how people talk
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, picture a bunch of 14 year olds saying things like "dude that scene where the hackers are flying through cyberspace chasing files? what a dope metaphor." It was like that.
4 months ago
Anonymous
you are 14 lol
anybody leaving the theater woulda been like, did you see her breasts?? fricking dipshit zoomer
4 months ago
Anonymous
Her breasts were probably a metaphor as well.
4 months ago
Anonymous
zoomers always think they cant continue a joke they're the butt of and get away with it. pathetic
4 months ago
Anonymous
Okay, you win. Hackers is an educational movie. It teaches computer hacking through the use of metaphors. You guys are right.
4 months ago
Anonymous
you havenr refuted anyones claims about actual hacking methods being used in the film. your whole argument is "cgi metaphor for internet/computers bad" which is the most normie argument one could possibly have.
>It doesn't depict hacking accurately.
It does tho at some parts it has the characters outwitting dumb ass workers, conning their way into information, even diving into a dumpster. if that isnt real hacking then what is?
I grew up in the 90s and got into electronica due to my older brother. I was the only one in the whole school that liked electronica. Surrounded by NPCs I swear
yeah it was also one of the only pieces of programming/hacking media to this day that correctly cites things like the hacker's manifesto, the red book, etc, classic hacker culture stuff
it still bugs me that nikon has a photographic memory then says 'i thought you were black' to cool immediately after quoting the arrest date, charges etc. like he'd have known that already, the line should have gone to another character
He'd have to have seen a picture of Zero Cool as a child to have known that. Details about race weren't generally described in the newspaper in the '80s unless it was an adult.
Presumably newspapers didn't print photos of Dade considering he was underage?
I'm betting no one published a picture in the aftermath of that trial. The last thing the market would want is the public knowing how vulnerable their security was that a 10 year-old kid could devastate them with a PC.
The late 90's early 00's still had people taking their computers to stores to get upgrades that seam mundane these days. We didn't have easy access to websites or commonly have family members aware of websites that sold shit relatively cheap with the knowhow to install it. Most people have no idea what hacking is like now. You had to radicalize the concept, so it looked moronic to anyone familiar.
It's a combination of a cyberpunk crime film and a teen comedy, but yes it definitely counts as cyberpunk. They even named the computer "The Gibson" after William Gibson the author who created the cyberpunk genre
it's a completely fictionalized version of the net, so absolutely agree its cyberpunk
It's cringe. But ZERO COOL is the coolest hacker name. Can't change my mind.
I'm trans btw not sure if that matters
Yes it does, it means youre not allowed to have a benis bigger than mine.
>Cringe
It's cheesy at worst but it unironically has heart.
another gibson rip off, it's count zero without the double meaning
"i was Zero Cool. that's why i gave the disk to the bad guy."
can someone be more lame?
i don't think so.
He loves his mom, and who can blame him his mom is pretty hot
Cereal Killer is the ultimate handle.
Bros how do I get a cool handle?
first you gotta stop lettin' yo mama dress you man
HACK THE PLANET
Hack the planet!
HACK THE PLANET!! xD
H A C K
T H E
P L A N E T
Chad skateboarding villain vs. virgin rollerskating protags
The scene towards the end where he's hitching a ride Tony Hawk's Underground style and snatches the floppy disk is top tier.
Gangsta
>too moronic to know the difference between rollerskating and rollerblading
Honestly you could've left it at too moronic, you're not wrong.
its one of the most 90s things ever made
>RISC architecture is going to change everything
What did she mean by this?
I hope you don't screw like you post.
It means if you lose you're wearing a dress on our date.
Virtually every modern mobile device has an ARM processor
she wasn't wrong, just far ahead if her time.
HACK THE PLANET!!!!
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
Yup, it's literal cyberpunk in its depiction of high tech combined with low culture. They're all outcast 90s kids
the girl is very cute.
other than that, it's a shitty movie.
>Got to see the faintest glimpse of Angelina Jolie boob because our clueless English teacher put the movie on for us when we were like 12
Good times.
>wanted to know more about hacking when I was a kid
>watched Hackers
>thought it was moronic even then
>Still pure kino
what is moronic about it?
It doesn't depict hacking accurately.
Which is fun enough to mock as a teen. And we've all made the jokes between friends and eventually at Defcon once we were grown ups.
But really, the reason people of the trade still love this movie is that despite not depicting the reality of the trade it's still accurate in the sense that it depicts the idealized feeling of being a hacker. We all wish we were this cool. And that's all you can really demand from art.
Hackers captured the spirit of an era. Not many films can claim to have done that.
>It doesn't depict hacking accurately
LMAO yeah a Hollywood movie doesn't show fat ugly nerds staring at white text on black background for 12 hours while eating potato chips, how stupid of the writer.
Laugh it up but I though that Mr Robot made it compelling. And it was quite realistic.
And it kinda shits on Hackers for it, which I was irked by.
"loner" "social reject" hacker bangs sexy women and btfos criminals that he openly confronts like some kind of superhero vigilante
yah I'm laffin
Well yeah, but he does literally sit in front of a computer eating chips doing it. And there's no 3D rabbit.
Yeah but only one of these has the Vitruvian Man singing 'Row Row Row Your Boat'
They spend all night searching the garbage file and eating pizza. Realistic
but the CGI!!!!
1/3 of this thread is too old
1/3 of this thread is too young
1/3 of this thread is the perfect age
You mean because of all the flashy CGI sequences or?
It takes an entire half of a brain cell to realise that the CGI sequences are obviously just for style, the movie doesn't try to present actual hacking as 'you fly through a digital cityscape looking for files'. Doubly so when the movie gets so much other shit right like the terminology and other aspects of hacker culture.
>the movie doesn't try to present actual hacking as 'you fly through a digital cityscape looking for files'.
it actually does but it's ok
>Missing the point
nah
Shit alright gonna have to concede this one anon.
I don't remember a single instance of hacking being accurately depicted in the movie. It's always some sort of garish, frantic, video-game-like flying through cyberspace kinda thing. Which is more cinematically compelling for young audiences, I guess, and fits the overall aesthetic of the movie, and really it works because the movie is so unabashed about it. Even the little software UIs are way too flashy and noisy, they went all out with stylistic exaggeration.
Very few people used the internet back in 1995, the vast majority of people had no idea how coding or hacking even worked, the very idea of the internet had a futuristic aura to it, and 90s pop culture was all about "radical sports" and "adrenaline", so it makes sense they would depict hacking as a radical sport, as surfing or skating your way through perilous cybernetic landscapes. Did most viewers back then realize this was all bullshit, that real hacking looks nothing like that? I don't think so.
the first scene is zero cool calling the dumb ass cable/phone operator and conning him into getting the Ip address for the router or some shit. Thats about as accurate as you can get when it comes to hacking. You have no point cause people more knowledgeable then your zoomer ass actually know how hacking works. FFS its a major plot point in the movie that SYSADS use shitty passwords like sex or god. Password guessing and social engineering is how most shit is hacked, fricking boomer moron homosexual this site is for nerds, not normie facebook rejects.
It had phreaking, dumpster diving, spoofing, and social engineering. All of which are pretty much how it's done in real life
The writer legitimately did his homework researching and interviewing real life hackers and going to their meetups. It's an extremely stylized movie but a lot of the fundamentals of old school hacking are pretty fairly represented.
I wish Rafael Moreau had wrote more scripts, I love the film's dialogue. 90% are the lines are quotable
>Ugh, hard copy
Yeah, good post, how about we settle this here? All I'm saying is the stylized parts of the movie would seem plausible to people back in 1995, that "metaphor" is a moronic way of referring to stylization, and that hacking is not accurately *depicted* in the movie.
>that hacking is not accurately *depicted* in the movie.
you're wrong though zoomie. 100% wrong being called out by people who know better.
If you dont know what phone phreaking was you do not get to have an opinion on this movie
>goes on /b/ once
>ya I know how to backtrace, I never had a dmt trip while doing it tho
So would you say this was more accurate?
That movie was horrible and no one should ever watch it, not even for "So bad, it's good" entertainment. It's insulting to anything with DNA and even some inanimate objects.
>that loading screen
The intent was absolutely to create a pictorial metaphor for hacking, as confirmed by the director and producers and actors. It's not a literal representation of what hacking is. And it works since hacking is fricking boring, while the movie Hackers is not boring.
But "metaphor" is not an apt word here. It's more like a pretend reality where hacking is like playing an exciting video game. And back in 1995 that would seem more plausible to audiences than it does now. Most of us had never used the internet and our idea of the near future was shaped by futuristic advertising aesthetics (the mid-nineties was the period when consoles went 3D, for instance).
>But "metaphor" is not an apt word here. It's more like a pretend reality
holy frick go back to middle school you fricking moron
Yeah, I guess you're right. I remember leaving the theater back in 95, everyone was like "damn this movie had some great metaphors"
>I remember leaving the theater back in 95
you werent even born yet but that doesnt negate the fact you dont know what a fricking metaphor is.
>"damn this movie had some great metaphors"
Thats exactly how people talk
Yeah, picture a bunch of 14 year olds saying things like "dude that scene where the hackers are flying through cyberspace chasing files? what a dope metaphor." It was like that.
you are 14 lol
anybody leaving the theater woulda been like, did you see her breasts?? fricking dipshit zoomer
Her breasts were probably a metaphor as well.
zoomers always think they cant continue a joke they're the butt of and get away with it. pathetic
Okay, you win. Hackers is an educational movie. It teaches computer hacking through the use of metaphors. You guys are right.
you havenr refuted anyones claims about actual hacking methods being used in the film. your whole argument is "cgi metaphor for internet/computers bad" which is the most normie argument one could possibly have.
>It doesn't depict hacking accurately.
Who cares. Nerd. Ain't that what cyberpunk is? It's a fantasy.
>It doesn't depict hacking accurately.
It does tho at some parts it has the characters outwitting dumb ass workers, conning their way into information, even diving into a dumpster. if that isnt real hacking then what is?
it was realistic the social engineer aspect
Pure kino is right.
filtered
SEXOOO
proof no chick has ever looked good in that haircut
What is wrong with you
closet homosexuals see short hair on girls and immediately think of wieners
gay
proof the poster above me is a raging homosexual
>EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
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Absolutely goated soundtrack
>ONE LOVE
I will forever thank this film and my father for introducing me to The Prodigy.
Voodoo People delivered via this movie and Blood Sugar/Propane Nightmares by Pendulum on Gmod Deathrun servers set me on a path
I grew up in the 90s and got into electronica due to my older brother. I was the only one in the whole school that liked electronica. Surrounded by NPCs I swear
yeah it was also one of the only pieces of programming/hacking media to this day that correctly cites things like the hacker's manifesto, the red book, etc, classic hacker culture stuff
it still bugs me that nikon has a photographic memory then says 'i thought you were black' to cool immediately after quoting the arrest date, charges etc. like he'd have known that already, the line should have gone to another character
He'd have to have seen a picture of Zero Cool as a child to have known that. Details about race weren't generally described in the newspaper in the '80s unless it was an adult.
he was on the front of the paper he quoted, there were cameras everywhere in the court room even showing the kid trying to hide from the flashes
see
I'm betting no one published a picture in the aftermath of that trial. The last thing the market would want is the public knowing how vulnerable their security was that a 10 year-old kid could devastate them with a PC.
He could have been quoting another article that listed the newspaper as a source
Presumably newspapers didn't print photos of Dade considering he was underage?
There were a couple of black hackers back then but not many. Lord Nikon might just been having some fun saying that.
>Halloween ain't till mañana.
Whatever happened to the zesty Rican from this and Con Air?
Didn't Hackers have that "mutha FUKKA" black dude in it?
Yeah, he's the main fed that gets all the crank calls
The glowBlack person in chief
HIS ONLY CRIME WAS DEVELOPING GOD'S TEMPLE
No, but Strange Days is a cyberpunk film
What about The Net starring Sandra Bullock?
Strange Days is amazing. Absolute peak fin de ciecle kino.
visually both are peak cyberpunk, but I prefer watching Hackers
I remember seeing this on release and in the beginning, they drink pop for breakfast, and I thought, do people really do this?
Accurate portrayals of both hacker AND American culture.
Not really, but I do have it filed under scifi.
Unironically one of the greatest modern films ever produced
I still don't know what to make of this movie, but Angelina Jolie was smoking hot.
>learning Linux terminal
>create a "penis" file using the command "touch"
hehe
The only thing I really remember about this was the early footage of Wipeout for the then-new Playstation.
So thats what it was! I never realized. i liked the futuristic racing games on the N64 forget the name
Extreme-G was peak n64 racing kino
>"Oh no Crash Override sirs, I am thinking You are Boned!"
what did he mean by this?
when did uma thurma have huge breasts?
Halcyon really does go with anything.
?t=21
AH AHH AHHH
it sure is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives#Nowpunk
worth a read if you're a fan of the film imo
Hackers blows. Horrid acting. Villains okay
HACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
It's not just the chip. It has a PCI Bus
damn she looks like she can suck a wiener
see
consider your planet hacked
lara croft is a bawd
The late 90's early 00's still had people taking their computers to stores to get upgrades that seam mundane these days. We didn't have easy access to websites or commonly have family members aware of websites that sold shit relatively cheap with the knowhow to install it. Most people have no idea what hacking is like now. You had to radicalize the concept, so it looked moronic to anyone familiar.
Spandex: it's a privilege, not a right.
A LITTLE PELVIS
AND BOOTY
A LITTLE PELVIS
AND BOOTY
>>IT'S IN THAT PLACE WHERE I PUT THAT THING THAT TIME