Hey everyone - so one of my hobbies is vintage computing, and of course, I love movies, so every once in a while I like to go through an old movie and go "Okay, that's not REALLY how that works..."

I also make youtube videos about vintage computing, so 2 years ago I did a video on 'Wargames' - that was a lot of fun, and people seemed to like it.

This time I did Hackers - let me tell ya - this isn't a good movie. Lets get that out of the way. It's hollywoody weirdo coverage of a culture that they thought they could make a buck off of. They descend into ridiculous moody camp that just doesn't fit with the vibe, while also doing to sound all technical and hard core to uneducated audiences.

There's a whole host of interesting cameos in it. Yes, everyone knows this is Angelina Jolie's first big role (she was like 17 or 18 for it), but there's a whole slew of "Heyyyy, that's..." - Fisher Stevens - pretty well known actor - he plays the baddie. But there's also Penn Jillette in a cameo role, Marc Anthony, who I didn't realize became a fairly successful musician, Jesse Bradford did a bunch of other interesting roles too.

Anyway - curious how folks feel about this work of art - video is here https://youtu.be/I-BK6mdBQhU - but I'm mostly interested in hearing feedback about the movie in general. (Having now spent a good 100+ hours editing my vid, I think I've memorized every frame of it. Did you know there's also a cameo by Dave Stewart? One half of the Eurythmics? He's on screen for about 4 seconds, but he's there :)

My son really enjoys older movies — he's seen The Birds, American Graffiti, Casablanca,Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casablanca, just to name a few. I'd really like to show him The Fugitive but the violence in the first 20 minutes give me some pause. He's 12-years-old. When did people watch or show their kids this movies for the first time?

I haven’t played Street Fighter or know anything about it so my review might not resemble some others.
Story was mediocre.
The fighting is mediocre.
Cody Rhodes and Andrew Schulz were both really funny and great.
The tournament was shit, the movie skips over almost all of it just to include mediocre story scenes in the middle of fighting scenes.
Only one actual street fight in Street Fighter.

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