THIS IS A UNIX SYSTEM I KNOW THIS

[deathboy]

I am going to watch:

Hackers
Jurassic Park
Johnny Mnemonic
Sneakers
Wargames
Lawnmower Man

My theme is "Films featuring awful depictions of cyberspace"

I need more films.

I'm not sure about Tron, as it's pretty fucking awesome.

Comments

[ajr.livejournal.com]

The Net.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

good point, but I sorta class that movie as "so bad it actually is bad", rather than hackers and the like which are so awful they're somehow good again... but I did have it on a mental B-list.

does whatserface get her tits out in it?

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

shit, well, you just pretty much closed THAT competition single-handedly!

good fucking suggestion!

[pchavez.livejournal.com]

I actually thought Hackers did a pretty good job. Theatrical but fairly sound techniques. At least they weren't hacking coffee pots plugged into power outlets.

[kest]

are you kidding? The filesystem in that movie was a fly-through GUI that looked like skyscrapers! (Disclaimer: I love Hackers. But it is much more geek fantasy than anything realistic.)

[moopet.livejournal.com]

Sneakers is brilliant!

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

it is, I don't even remember any really awful cyberspace metaphors (though the stuff with the blind guy was farcical - if funny - sometimes)

I mostly added it because it's got hacking in it, and I actually enjoy it :D

[moopet.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Arcade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_%28film%29)!
It's got Megan Ward in it in some kind of skintight cyber suit (I'm deliberately not looking up how old she was at the time) and my desktop what I'm typing this on is named Arcade in its honour, that's how glorious it is. Virtual Reality was all going to be about Knightmare, you see...

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

holy shit, I've seen that... it was exquisitely bad... I wonder if torrents exist!

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

i immediately thought of Tron, but then I thought, "No, actually that was pretty cool". And then I saw your mention of it.

The Matrix was sort of supposed to be cyberspace. Sort of.
Strange days is a "sort of" as well ( and worth watching for Angela Bassett).

[kumimonster.livejournal.com]

tron is going to have a sequel...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/

[danblood.livejournal.com]

surely the Matrix is a contender?

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

yip, though probably not the 1st one, which is not *too* awful. need true awfulness.

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Dude, the worst of the worst is Burning Chrome, originally a short story by William Gibson and starring Christopher Walken. You'd think with those two things it would be filled with awesomesauce, but it's all just a clever trick. It's fucking horrible :)

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Do you mean New Rose Hotel?

[pchavez.livejournal.com]

Swordfish

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. You hack by typing REALLY FAST. It's a well known fact.

[explodingbat.livejournal.com]

No one seems to have mentioned Nirvana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%28film%29) yet.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

that looks fantastic!

[pir.livejournal.com]

Not exactly cyberspace, but virtual recordings/playback (and quite nicely Fucked Up): Strange Days.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I really like that film :) and that bird's tits. hooboy.

[drreagan.livejournal.com]

SGI actually released the 3d filesystem browser the 12 year old in Jurassic park used. It was incredibly unusable.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

I haz it :-)

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

I want to say the Thirteenth Floor but I actually enjoyed that.

[spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com]

Gretchen Mol = WIN!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Wargames is tolerably accurate, IIRC.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I have a big softspot for that film, and worked on the (modern, RTS) computer game

[atomkinder.livejournal.com]

Another vote for Strange Days.

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else remember VR-5?

[herdivineshadow]

I LOVED that. It had Anthony Stewart Head in it.

[ishora.livejournal.com]

Die Hard 4 uugggghh

[the-buzzard.livejournal.com]

Actually I think all the technobabble in Die Hard 4 works because whenever it comes up John McClane rolls his eyes along with the audience.

Also Jurassic Park and Wargames are both legitimately good movies!

[spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com]

All of the William Shatner Tek offerings.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

oh god. good call.

[darkcryst.livejournal.com]

Hackers is pretty solid (I mean, you have to show command line terminal as interesting... what do you do?).

Tron is REALLY solid actually, at least things make sense to their counterparts in real life.

Jurassic Park was a real SGI interface, so they were actually using software on that machine. Not fake.

Sneakers was sound on most stuff - but the building break-in was toss. Odd tip - I now live NEXT DOOR to the building they use as their HQ in that movie. It's the Fox Oakland Theatre, and it was abandoned and empty when they filmed there.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Hackers is pish, and I fucking hate it, it's going to be awesome to watch :D

also, Takedown.

Tron is the daddy. Nuff said.

Jurassic park might have used real software, but the kids and their reactions etc were fucking intolerable.

Sneakers was lovely and full of awesome... that's wicked, man :)

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

Anything Hackers does wrong it compensates for adequately with Fisher Stevens riding around on a skateboard.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that's what I hate MOST about the fucking thing!

[kest]

it isn't really 'cyberspace', and it's hardly the whole movie, but Office Space features a Mac shutting down to a C prompt.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

when you're not looking, that's actually what they do.

[pir.livejournal.com]

Goldeneye has some pretty bad hacking depictions...

[megashrike.livejournal.com]

If you include Lawnmower Man then the sequel needs to be added as it's 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 x worse.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

yessss

[lineoutrecords.livejournal.com]

Karen says "WEIRD SCIENCE was THE BEST" (I thought it was shit)

[crm.livejournal.com]

you need to get 'bugs' its not a film, it is dangerously nintees.