If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I’ll just feel even older, as I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.
I’ve never stopped listening to “Cali punk” so I’m good to go (I don’t care if green day is really from California or not, that’s what I call the happy poppy punk that’s not crusty enough to be called punk without a qualifier: NOFX, Offspring, Blink 182, Millencollin, etc etc).
I remember that scene lol. I was like, no way! How?!
Can you guess the movie ?
I’ve asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There’s only this line I knew where the bad “entity” gets into a kid’s game and the kid says something to the effect of “there’s a guy in our game” (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don’t think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
Lawnmower Man?
I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn’t see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and “the guy” shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I’m thinking of.
Also… what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
I’ve watched spy kids, not a thriller.
Very silly movies though.
Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been
Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando’s house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don’t miss those days.
By ‘city street map’ do you mean something that folds out into a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
Single sheet of paper, yes.
But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you’d want one specific to the town otherwise you’d be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.
For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn’t make sense to use a map where you’re only looking at about 0.0001% of it.
You forgot the part where your boss yells at you for being out too long because the house you were supposed to go to had a mile long driveway and no numbers on the road.
Ah, well, better skip “Strange Days”, “12 Monkeys” and “Gattaca” then…
lest we neglect ol Jobe in Lawnmower Man.
(the one not affiliated with Steven King)
Yeah if actually read the Lawnmower Man the two couldn’t even confused as the same story. Crazy they just took the title.
Always told me how great Stephen King is, sometimes just his titles make great moves. But for real how can they make a movie out of anything he writes? Its amazing.
Just saw Life of Chuck and it was pretty danm close to the story.
Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
ACCESS DENIEDACCESS DENIEDACCESS GRANTEDI’m in
sneakers was in 90s… they had it mostly right vs … the fractal animations in Hackers. that one took some 'splainin.
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering and phreaking payphones. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
let’s not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)
Two people one keyboard was NCIS
Swordfish was always one of my favorites. Writing a worm using a custom compiler he wrote many years prior (to 2001) and had stored on a tape drive in some dusty basement.
TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
You’re saying that like the trope isn’t alive and well to this day 😅
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
Oh damn I should have read that properly 😂
A good exception to this rule is “Sneakers”. Love that movie, and now I’m due for a rewatch.
I absolutely hated the way computers were represented during this era. No one knew anything about them, so filmmakers would come up with the stupidest crap depicting hacking. A new era began when the first sequel to The Matrix depicted actual computer software accurately.
Have you seen War Games though? This was so long ago that I don’t think many people could say anything about the hacking part back then
Good call naming War Games! That was completely off my radar.
Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
And it is really healthy cos of SCIENCE
i remember the first time i ever ordered pizza online, total game changer for phone haters
be alive
I came here to comment this. Glad to see it’s already here.
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Today on Two Minute Papers…
I read on a wall in a dominos “restaurant” that they were the first to have online orders in 1999.
I definitely remember ordering pizza online years earlier, probably 1995 or 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Fun fact: the server used a fax modem to actually place the order. But the user interface was via browser.
I was working my first IT job when The Net came out, and I thought the tech in it was pretty good. Later I discovered that every IP address shown has at least one octet higher than 255. Probably just an “anonymizing” thing, but I didn’t notice it at the time.
I was thinking about this exact scene yesterday. When we first saw it, it was so amazing and an unnecessary luxury to order pizza from a computer. And then I just DoorDashed my dinner last night, and now it’s such a common thing
I literally think about that scene every time I order food online. I keep meaning to order pizza online and re-watch that movie just for that one scene.
