What Happened to Hackers?

As someone with a background in IT, I can't even begin to explain how much easier my professional life became once I started wearing rollerskates, fingerless gloves, and sunglasses

This movie is pure kino. Killer soundtrack. Killer visuals. Costume design on point. Perfect amount of camp, never takes it self too serious or gets too ridiculous.

This movie turned me and my friends in middle school into social engineers. After this we were trying that recordning the phone tones trick (even though none of us really had any reason to make long distance calls) one friend was phishing for AOL passwords, trying to get free pizzas, etc. Those early days of the internet felt like a new wild west.

I think my favorite thing about the movie is how endearingly weird the ensemble is. They're weird characters in a scene where being weird and different is celebrated, rather than the normal "they're nerds and nerds are weird, so let's laugh derisively at them".

Jolie was a revelation to 15 year old me. Since the only way to really see her back then was to watch Hackers over and over, I watched Hackers over and over.

I remember explaining to friends (regarding this movie) "that's now what hacking is like, but it IS what hacking FEELS like."

This is a favorite hacker movie of mine. My three favorite hacker movies are Hackers, Sneakers, and of course, Wargames. 😊

Hackers is my second favourite movie of all time. Like said in the video, it inspired the young teen I was at the time to pursue an interest in computers and technology and drove the career I'm in today. But besides my career path, the soundtrack also played a large role in my life as the catalyst to a burgeoning obsession with electronic music that was on the fringe of popular music at the time in Canada. I had watched and rewatched Hackers with friends up until our mid 20s, and I continue to watch it every couple of months after ripping a DVD copy to watch on my phone at any moment. This copy has saved me numerous times. Listening along to the movie during a long stint in traffic late last year, I rattled off line after line as if I were each character in the show. I cannot articulate how important this movie is to me, and how much I love it. Thank you for doing the film justice rather than knocking it's unauthentic yet artful representation of hacking!

This movie did for computer culture what Fast and The Furious did for street racing I still love both And excellent video!

At around 14 min, it was mentioned that they wanted to show how hacking felt on the screens, and not just text. Many people I knew criticized the lack of "actual" hacking in place for this visual. I always told people that I interpreted that as how it feels when hacking, based on my own experiences hacking and learning. It's awesome to hear that is what was actually meant by the creators. Just another reason why I love this movie!

"Johnny Mnemonic is still kind of awesome" You're god damn right.

2 movies sent me down my cybersecurity path. Hackers and Ghost in the Shell. I remember when both were brand new. It all seemed so magical back then.

Hackers is still to this day in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Absolutely love this film! Just watched it earlier this week, they just put in on one of the streaming services I have

I went to watch Hackers at the mall on its second week high on LSD. Mind blown and deeply in love with a B-movie actress named Angelina. What's even crazier is that I saw it with 2 defense information specialists from Quantico who not only loved it as well, but were also tripping balls.

I remember being 15 and seeing laptops for the 1st time watching Hackers...blew me away

Hack the planet!!!! I love this movie. The soundtrack is killer. This is one of the films that made me wanna move to NYC. The beginning when the city turns into a motherboard always made me smile. They finally released the score soundtrack not too long ago with the finale music when they're a grand central station. Prior you had to have rip it from the credits. This is also when I realized fisher stevens was the same guy from mario and short circuit...and he wasn't Indian 😂

This one holds up, I re-watch it every now and then. The entire movie is just a great vibe from a bygone era.

This movie in 1995, through 2001 with "Swordfish" is the golden age of movies during the dark age of the internet/social media lol. Both flicks have great techno soundtracks and I was OBSESSED with that kind of music during that era (and not just the popular techno music on the radio at the time either. I used to find this stuff wherever I could back then).

Love, love, love this movie. I’ve worn out two different VHS tapes and am on my second DVD since it’s arrival. Still love this movie over 20 years later. Fantastic actors were chosen. Still an awesome movie to watch today.

Did you just rewatch this on Amazon Prime as well? lol If you were a clubber in the 90s, the soundtrack of this movie always puts a smile on my face.