Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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Do not be misled to thinking that Hackers is a movie about computers, that's absolutely ridiculous. The movie is a social commentary about sub-cultures, and nobody cares how cheesy the computer scenes look. If you do, then you mustn't be a big fan of movies -- so I would suggest to go sit back down at your computer and hit CTRL-R in your browser until Slashdot updates.
I thought my reading of this article was thorough but perhaps I still managed to skim over the paragraph that contained the point?