What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[BillyG]

Well he only produced it, so his buttfuckery could only taint so much.

[Ed Hocken]

Tried to rewatch Hackers the other day, only got through about 15 minutes. So rather than bitch about how much the movie sucks. I just had some thoughts that would perhaps make things better.

1. Johnny Lee Miller's original crime should be a lot worse, a seven point drop in the DOW nothing. I'm surprised even the feds would come across something like that.

2. Get rid of the bullshit secret identity handle nonsense and even have other people call them out on it if need be.

Social Network made this computer stuff facinating, I'm sure somewhere you could have a movie about hacking that would be actually interesting.

Shit, there was such a movie and that was SNEAKERS.

[Matt]

'Sneakers' is amazing.

[Ed Hocken]

Fuck it, Matt.

Let's go watch SNEAKERS

[Ed Hocken]

Ultimately, Hackers is style over substance but outside of Angelina Joliee and her pretty damn good looking boyfriend, it's not even good style. Maybe it's because I can't take Fisher Stevens seriously with that bald spot riding a skateboard.

[B_Metal]

Ultimately, Hackers is style over substance but outside of Angelina Joliee and her pretty damn good looking boyfriend, it's not even good style. Maybe it's because I can't take Fisher Stevens seriously with that bald spot riding a skateboard.

[Captain Russ]

I remember that ep. He wasn't even mad. He was dancin' and shit.

Hahaha, fucking Dean.

[Ed Hocken]

Was he dancing on the celing, Lionel Richie style?

[B_Metal]

Was he dancing on the celing, Lionel Richie style?

Actually kind of....he was on the roof of his car. Eye of the tiger by the way.

[Ben Thomas]

One moment of...I don't know how to describe it. Surrealism? Was when they showed Bill Hicks and his friends take off from Houston/Austin and go to Waco during the Branch Davidian siege. I remember being sick the day that all went down, and watching it live on TV, and it kind of ushered in the realizations of "man this world is fucked up" and little did I know that a man I would grow to respect a decade later was right outside filming it because he had figured out the same thing. I dunno, felt cool.

Very nice.

I enjoyed the film and really appreciated the look at the early footage, before Bill tried booze and drugs and some of the family stuff. But there's so much good that was skipped over, the film needs to be 4 hours long really. Have you read American Scream (biography) or Love all the People (notes, journals and letters)? Both great. American Scream had me emotional as a motherfucker. It covers the same sort of ground as the film, but obviously in a lot more depth, especially in that it doesn't get hung up on Bill being a guru and shows what an asshole he was at times. All my heroes (Sellers, Lennon, Hicks) were assholes - its what makes them great.

[PHEDG]

Tried to rewatch Hackers the other day, only got through about 15 minutes. So rather than bitch about how much the movie sucks. I just had some thoughts that would perhaps make things better.

1. Johnny Lee Miller's original crime should be a lot worse, a seven point drop in the DOW nothing. I'm surprised even the feds would come across something like that.

2. Get rid of the bullshit secret identity handle nonsense and even have other people call them out on it if need be.

Social Network made this computer stuff facinating, I'm sure somewhere you could have a movie about hacking that would be actually interesting.

Shit, there was such a movie and that was SNEAKERS.

Ed you must watch this.

[BillyG]

Ben - I've got those on my Amazon wishlist, and will be getting them once I get through my backlog of books I have right now.

[Ed Hocken]

I will check it out, Jeff.

[Abraham Smashington]

Tried to rewatch Hackers the other day, only got through about 15 minutes. So rather than bitch about how much the movie sucks. I just had some thoughts that would perhaps make things better.

1. Johnny Lee Miller's original crime should be a lot worse, a seven point drop in the DOW nothing. I'm surprised even the feds would come across something like that.

2. Get rid of the bullshit secret identity handle nonsense and even have other people call them out on it if need be.

Social Network made this computer stuff facinating, I'm sure somewhere you could have a movie about hacking that would be actually interesting.

Shit, there was such a movie and that was SNEAKERS.

hahah. this whole post is why we give you so much shit Ed.

1. That was based off of a real hack and today people are getting busted for just shutting down websites. Call me when you can even hack into my hotmail account ed.

2. Even today "handles" exist. You have a fucking podcast where you don't even USE YOUR REAL NAME. Same fucking difference.

3.Social network no way in shit made the computer stuff interesting. You're on crack. The computer shit was second bananas in that film which was good because no one wants to watch a nerd type on a keyboard for 2 hours.

4. Sneakers is legit. hackers is fun.

5. GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN and go watch some shitty police dramas.

[Abraham Smashington]

Ultimately, Hackers is style over substance but outside of Angelina Joliee and her pretty damn good looking boyfriend, it's not even good style. Maybe it's because I can't take Fisher Stevens seriously with that bald spot riding a skateboard.

Oh Ed. If you're trying to take that movie seriously then you are doing it so wrong it's great.