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It's interesting to see how these hacking-themed Hollywood movies have better reputations after two decades. When they were just released, responses from the hacking community were almost entirely "Hollywood is clueless". But after two decades, it becomes something different and gained additional historical values.

[codezero]

I dunno, I'm not convinced that's the case. It may be that there is some undercurrent of that, but I recall being super into WarGames in the 80s and very-very into it in the 90s. When I ran a dialup ISP, my mail servers were called wopr and norad... :P

Also, I think nerds just sometimes hate admitting they like a thing that is a caricature of themselves. I hate to admit it, but I really liked Hackers, and thought it had a lot of relevant nerd stuff going on it, ditto on The Matrix :)

[hermitdev]

I'm with you on Hackers. It's a guilty pleasure of mine and I still watch it from time to time. I remember watching it for the first time, scoffing at everything and thinking it wasnt even close to reality. But, it was fun. Also absolutely loved the soundtrack. I still listen to some of the artists to this day.

[bawolff]

Idk, maybe having two decades of terrible hacker movies made people appreciate the old ones more. Personally I have always loved both Hackers and WarGames, but admittedly i wasn't around when they came out.