Hackers (1995)

“it really does feel like you are sitting next to the PDP-1 from Stephen Levy's "Hackers"”

“I was struck by how similar Berry, Pirsig, and the early MIT hackers thought about Quality work.”

“it doesn't take itself too seriously which I think makes the ridiculous parts work”

“That movie is ridiculous and still great. At least as a nostalgia pump.”

“the other being Steven Levy's _Hackers,_ which I read afterward”

“every movie in that list is amazing for different reasons”

“it portrays the feeling of hacking and programming to someone who might not have done it”

“the tech part of it is so obviously fake, but then you have the hacker culture part”

“The ad campaign was super campy, there were print ads in comic books”

“the dated visualizations it associated with all the hacking scenes”

“Hackers has one of those shake-and-bake 80s plots; it's like a Save The Cat movie.”

“I listen to the hackers soundtrack regularly when coding. It's ideal.”

“Cereal is my favorite character! Especially the random shouting.”

“it feels so right even with the wild crazy stuff in it that might otherwise be cheesy”

“I love it, but I know it's bad, but I also think it was intentionally what it is, which makes it good or even great.”

“when you embrace the cliche of it all.. it's amazing”

“Such a crap, corny movie. Cliché dialogues. Didn't age well”

“Orbital still sounds fresh in my ears after all these years.”

“all covered by the epic soundtrack”

“This movie changed my life. Saw it when I was probably 7-8 years old for the first time and been watching and rewatching it ever since.”

“Hacker had HEART, man. It was cheesy but the feeling it left in an entire sub-culture of a generation, cannot be underestimated.”

“the sense of adventure in the movie brought my memories of BBSs and creative misuse of telephone lines”

“I think the movie is wildly overrated just as a piece of storytelling”

“I came to appreciate it for what it actually was over time, and now think it is fantastic.”

“It's surprisingly accurate in terms of how weird and cringy the 90s / early 00s hacker culture was”

“I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists.”

“which didn't have anything to do with hackers or computers and which was terribly overacted”

“I've watched it a good 8-10 times over the decades and enjoy it every time.”

“some of the representations are the best I’ve seen anywhere”

“Hackers was our absolute favorite movie back in high school”

“I started to appreciate how they weren't trying to be faithful representations”

“The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit.”

“a laughable clown caricature of hacker culture”

“Hackers doesn't really have a depiction of the social milieu of the elite hacker”

“Easily my biggest guilty pleasure movie, warts and all, I still love it.”

“I highly recommend the 88 films 4k blu-ray release for those who love Hackers.”

“I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation”

“It's just a shot of joyful nostalgia right into my veins every time I watch it.”

“it still holds up as one of my top ten favorite movies”

“does a great job of painting an evocative picture of this era”