On hacker movies:
I can't take them seriously.
Now, let me clarify... Swordfish is one of my favorite movies of all time. You have a bad guy who, in general, follows the Evil Overlord Rules. You have HUMAN CLAYMORE MINES (this one I can't stress enough). You have Halle Berry's naked breasts. You have Hugh Jackman. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?
The "hacking" in the movie is, of course, farcical and laughable. (Didn't stop me from creaming over the monitor setup, though.)
What about Hackers? Well, it's a good comedy. I enjoy it for that factor.
Firewall... decent. As hacker movies went, probably the best: no fancy-schmancy computers and misused buzzwords (or, if there were, it wasn't glaringly retarded). It was "get a man who has PHYSICAL and ADMINISTRATIVE access, threaten to kill his family, and make it happen". Nice.
Hell, the fourth Die Hard movie, where their hacking was... uh, exaggerrated to say the least... was pretty decent, because every hacker has thought about the idea of a fire sale. How they "did it" in the fourth movie was made of fail, but good for a Bruce Willis action flick, so I forgave them.
But this new movie, Untraceable... just watching the trailer hurts my SOUL.
"The FBI's cybercrime division", it states, "can catch any criminal with the touch of a button."
If that wasn't bad enough, the entire premise of the movie seems based on the idea that someone can have a website where no one can find the server or where the data is coming from (lies!), running that much bandwidth, etc. etc. etc., and that the criminal/webmaster is killing people live and online, linking the poison dripping into the veins of the victims to their SITE HITS... for the sole purpose of luring out and killing the chick that runs the FBI's Cybercrime division.
What. The. FUCK?
The "hacking" is dubious, at BEST. The trailer made me want to vomit.
What does Hollyweird insist on putting out movies with hackers are the evil bad guys who are psychotic mass murderers that are virtually impossible to catch because, oh noes, they uses das intarwebz?
I haven't seen a hacker movie premise so shitty since The Net. And THAT is saying something.
Now, let me clarify... Swordfish is one of my favorite movies of all time. You have a bad guy who, in general, follows the Evil Overlord Rules. You have HUMAN CLAYMORE MINES (this one I can't stress enough). You have Halle Berry's naked breasts. You have Hugh Jackman. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?
The "hacking" in the movie is, of course, farcical and laughable. (Didn't stop me from creaming over the monitor setup, though.)
What about Hackers? Well, it's a good comedy. I enjoy it for that factor.
Firewall... decent. As hacker movies went, probably the best: no fancy-schmancy computers and misused buzzwords (or, if there were, it wasn't glaringly retarded). It was "get a man who has PHYSICAL and ADMINISTRATIVE access, threaten to kill his family, and make it happen". Nice.
Hell, the fourth Die Hard movie, where their hacking was... uh, exaggerrated to say the least... was pretty decent, because every hacker has thought about the idea of a fire sale. How they "did it" in the fourth movie was made of fail, but good for a Bruce Willis action flick, so I forgave them.
But this new movie, Untraceable... just watching the trailer hurts my SOUL.
"The FBI's cybercrime division", it states, "can catch any criminal with the touch of a button."
If that wasn't bad enough, the entire premise of the movie seems based on the idea that someone can have a website where no one can find the server or where the data is coming from (lies!), running that much bandwidth, etc. etc. etc., and that the criminal/webmaster is killing people live and online, linking the poison dripping into the veins of the victims to their SITE HITS... for the sole purpose of luring out and killing the chick that runs the FBI's Cybercrime division.
What. The. FUCK?
The "hacking" is dubious, at BEST. The trailer made me want to vomit.
What does Hollyweird insist on putting out movies with hackers are the evil bad guys who are psychotic mass murderers that are virtually impossible to catch because, oh noes, they uses das intarwebz?
I haven't seen a hacker movie premise so shitty since The Net. And THAT is saying something.