Best movie depiction of a software developer (or "hacker" as Hollywood calls them)
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I don't remember that movie very well, but I remember that when I saw it I felt it was the worst movie I had ever seen. Though, Darren Aronofski more than made up for it with The Fountain, which is one of my top 10 favorite movies.
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I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Best movie depiction of a software developer (or "hacker" as Hollywood calls them)
Live Free or Die Hard[^] - Matthew Farrel character as a Hacker.
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Wow, I forgot about that, I might give it a watch tonight! By the same dint, hardware hackers: "Primer"
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
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I am pretty sure that Michael Caine never said that!
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I don't remember that movie very well, but I remember that when I saw it I felt it was the worst movie I had ever seen. Though, Darren Aronofski more than made up for it with The Fountain, which is one of my top 10 favorite movies.
Well your standards should be high, in my opinion (the movie is sketchy and 'experimental', but far better than the average 'sweetened mainstream movie'). I didn't watch "The Fountain" (discorauged by a review, if I remember well. However, I liked "Requiem for a dream").
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Wow, I forgot about that, I might give it a watch tonight! By the same dint, hardware hackers: "Primer"
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
I am pretty sure that Michael Caine never said that!
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live
The Professor in the original was great
Professor Simon Peach:
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Get it, it is one of the best time-travel movies I've ever seen, even though it was a low-budget job. It's main drawback was explaining the plot to the wife. Repeatedly.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
Get it, it is one of the best time-travel movies I've ever seen, even though it was a low-budget job. It's main drawback was explaining the plot to the wife. Repeatedly.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Boris Grishenko[^] from Goldeneye, despite his rather poor password policy.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Transformers. Stereotypical basement dwelling geek manages to rig up a system with ancient hardware that converted keystrokes into morse code, sent them through an old radio system then received incoming morse code and converted it for display on an old green-screen monitor .. all by plugin in a few cables (which magically fit, no need for solder and spare bits of wire) and 'drumming' his pudgey fingers on a keyboard for 5 seconds
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Plain English OSMO movie.
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I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Boris Grishenko[^] from Goldeneye, despite his rather poor password policy.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^] -
Richard Pryer in Superman III.
I completely forgot about that one! Awesome.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I was thinking about Newman in Jurassic Park and his awesome "ah, ah, ah!" when they entered the wrong password, and then the "I'm a Mac" dude in that movie where he used a Nokia to do everything up to, and possibly including, piloting a space shuttle or something (OK, I may have fallen asleep in that one). What would you say are the best movie depictions of a software developer?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Not a "Holywood" movie, but my favorite has always been the smiley face hacker from Ghost in the Shell[^]. Not sure which specific series he took a bigger role, but there are numerous hacking roles in the series. The premise is that everyone is really a ghost in their shell of a body. In fact they have technology to load your ghost into shells. In one of the series the Smily face hacker quite often hacks the shell taking control of the person (someone like a CEO or president) and does wacky stuff. Not only that, if the Smilely face hacker does not want anyone to see who someone is, he hacks into the media networks and puts a roatating face over the person with some text that says "What I thought I would do is pretend I was one of the deaf mutes"
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.