Hackers Iain Softley Digital Life DVD

Hackers
starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason
directed by: Iain Softley

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9786305047452
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305047456
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 25, 1998
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 4951
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1995

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When a teenager hacker unlocks the secrets of a secured super computer he discovers a high-tech embezzlement scheme. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 04/10/2001 Starring: Johnny Lee Miller Matthew Lillard Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Iain Softley

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As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ('By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.') For all its postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling tools. But it does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and alienation. The director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and he seems to have an instinct for the emotions that pull kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart. The familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It doesn't hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy Williamson in Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. --David Chute

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- The movie has gone golden here
With Angelina Jolie officially a super star this movie is becoming a
geek cult classic like TronTron.
The graphics are good and filming is nice.
It is the kids on the outside against the lame
straights on the inside, with a joker in the deck.
In the late 70's poor people couldn't get online: it just wasn't possible without megabucks.
By 1998 it became possible for ordinary people to dial up.
So movies about geek exploits became about myths of super-hackers.
It is the "wish you could" type of movie where the geek gets the super chick.

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- Hackers
This is a great movie from the 90s, and the young Angelina Jolie was amazing.

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- A teen movie gone high tech
Hackers has all the correct formula for a standard teen movie. New guy comes to some new high school, then meets some girl who has a stuck up boyfriend, new guy gains some new friends, goes to some party, then gets the hookup with the girl at the end after having a slight fight. The only added twist is the fact that the whole movie revolves around computers and hacking.

The movie has no bearing on real life hacking. Although there are some screen shots of actual computer usage, for example I saw a unix command prompt as well as a hex dump, most of the computer usage is done by graphical cgi. For example, when they type on the screen, it makes a noise, or the fact that a virus actually talks to you.

Personally I think the movie has the high level of hacking done right. At the time of the movie, dial ups were the common use of computers on the internet. So in this movie, the characters keep ... Read More

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- Hackers Movie
This earlier Jolie movie exemplifies what innate talent the girl had even back then. It was great to see some of the other cast that went on to Scream, Con Air and some others. Definitely makes light of what the current technology was then and how it became ancient history in a short amount of time.

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