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simtartsI have a whole slew of caps to edit and re-size for the next Group Hug Group Home update, but I'm not looking forward to it because my arm muscles are in so much pain from the gym! Haha, seriously, just moving the mouse around is making me achey.
Last night I wanted to watch Ponyo on my boyfriend's XBox-live Netflix, but for some reason I couldn't find it anywhere (the movie, not the XBox), so I watched Hackers instead, which I remember seeing in the theater with my sisters when it came out.
HAHA.... people on my list who are young and have never heard of this movie, please watch it if you want a good laugh! Because I was a nerd, I was already on the internet when this movie came out, but lots of people weren't, and you can tell because of the truly unrealistic and hilarious way this movie depicts "cyberspace" and "hacking." The way they show a computer virus (it talks! And has a face!) is what really takes the cake, though! I also love how the movie makes computer nerds look like a weird punk/goth/rave subculture. This was also the first movie I ever saw with Angelina Jolie, and I remember being blown away by how beautiful she was. Watching the movie again, I was still blown away. She was just realllllly gorgeous, and I wish she hadn't changed her nose and reduced her lips or whatever else it was she did to her face. I also love her futuristic clothes and her haircut:
Now I kind of want to make a bunch of 1990s-era hacker sims. XD
Last night I wanted to watch Ponyo on my boyfriend's XBox-live Netflix, but for some reason I couldn't find it anywhere (the movie, not the XBox), so I watched Hackers instead, which I remember seeing in the theater with my sisters when it came out.
HAHA.... people on my list who are young and have never heard of this movie, please watch it if you want a good laugh! Because I was a nerd, I was already on the internet when this movie came out, but lots of people weren't, and you can tell because of the truly unrealistic and hilarious way this movie depicts "cyberspace" and "hacking." The way they show a computer virus (it talks! And has a face!) is what really takes the cake, though! I also love how the movie makes computer nerds look like a weird punk/goth/rave subculture. This was also the first movie I ever saw with Angelina Jolie, and I remember being blown away by how beautiful she was. Watching the movie again, I was still blown away. She was just realllllly gorgeous, and I wish she hadn't changed her nose and reduced her lips or whatever else it was she did to her face. I also love her futuristic clothes and her haircut:
Now I kind of want to make a bunch of 1990s-era hacker sims. XD
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Date: 2010-09-05 11:04 pm (UTC)To understand the cyberspace they use in the movie you also need to be familiar with the cyberpunk genre, and more specifically with the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson.
When they hack into the mainframe, you may (or may not) have noticed the line "It's a Gibson!" This type of cyberspace is very specific to Gibson's take on cyberpunk and is exemplified by data being represented by stacks that look like buildings and programs that move around in that cyberspace like they have bodies - in this case a virus represented as a worm/snake. In Gibson's cyberspace the programs almost have a will of their own and will protect themselves, like you see in the movie.
Hackers references so much that was in the cyberpunk sub-culture and the epic cyberpunk writers of the time like Gibson and Harrison. If you have never read Neuromancer or The Stainless Steel Rat I highly recommend them if you like cyberpunk.
Now I want to pull out Neuromancer and read it all over again for the umteenth time :)
*puts on the Hackers soundtrack because it's still epic after all these years*
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Date: 2010-09-06 01:09 am (UTC)I did read Neuromancer in grad school (and no longer remember it well) but I hadn't connected Gibson's vision of cyberpunk with the film. I wish the film had stuck a bit more to that Gibson-esque realm than trying to connect it to what was really going on with technology at that time. I mean, when a character says "You have a 28.8 baud modem?! WHOA!" it takes you out of the film a bit, heh. I do love the clothing/costumes and the way the hacker culture "looks" in the movie, though. Kate Libby's style is especially cool.
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Date: 2010-09-06 07:53 am (UTC)okay, maybe I still do...
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:56 pm (UTC)angelina was gorgeous in that movie.... i'm not fond of what she's done to her face either :(
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Date: 2010-09-06 03:30 pm (UTC)