Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by tptacek on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:20PM (#450771)

Good movies about startups: "Tucker", "24 Hour Party People", and "Ghostbusters".

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mechanical_fish on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:49PM (#450804)

Wow, Ghostbusters is a movie about a startup. It seems so obvious once it's pointed out, but it never occurred to me before.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by scott_s on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:38PM (#451087)

It's also very much a product of the Reagan era: the bad guys are the scientists, academia and the EPA.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by tptacek on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:58PM (#451121)

Uh, hello? Venkman: "Back off, man! We're scientists!"

Also, didn't they give props to a Dem mayor of NYC?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by scott_s on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:04PM (#451140)

That's what he says, but they lack the skepticism of actual scientists. I love the movie - and the quote - but Venkman is clearly calling himself a scientist because it's convenient at the moment.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mechanical_fish on Monday January 26, 2009 @06:16PM (#451246)

Wait, how do we know that Venkman isn't a legitimate scientist, again? Because he's insufficiently skeptical about ghosts? But in the universe of Ghostbusters ghosts physically exist!

If anything, the part of Ghostbusters that strains my credulity is that in their universe there seem to be scientists who don't believe in ghosts. You'd think that the accumulated evidence would be pretty overwhelming by the 1980s!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by jjs on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @04:26AM (#451856)

IIRC, the spate of hauntings in the movie was brought on by the imminent return of Gozer the Gozerian (or by the same rare set of conditions that allowed Gozer to return).

By the sequel, the Ghostbusters had mostly closed up shop due to the collapse of the haunting bubble.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by scott_s on Monday January 26, 2009 @11:36PM (#451664)

I was thinking more of that scene, where his line before that one was "Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?" It's clear he's more interest in her than the study. Again, it makes for a funny movie, but it's also making fun of scientists.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by gravitycop on Monday January 26, 2009 @10:45PM (#451597)

the part of Ghostbusters that strains my credulity is that in their universe there seem to be scientists who don't believe in ghosts. You'd think that the accumulated evidence would be pretty overwhelming by the 1980s!

Accumulated evidence has actually tended to slam into the brick wall of popularity contestance.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RiskandSafety.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=aaron+wildavsky

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress

http://www.google.com/search?q=john+mccarthy+sustainability

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book

http://www.google.com/search?q=war+against+the+atom

http://jamesphogan.com/heretics

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by gcheong on Monday January 26, 2009 @02:13PM (#450838)

DOT http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1956839705/

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by jseeba on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @10:51AM (#452247)

Looks amusing... in the vein of a Christopher Guest classic. Bought the cheap copy on ebay.

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