Two things immediately come to mind when anyone mentions this movie to me:

1. My buttocks transfers more data than the modems they use in this film.

2. If William Gibson had been born with half a retarded squirrel for a brain instead of the mind that resulted in him being the Marshall McLuhan of cyberpunk science fiction, he probably would have been the one to write the script for Hackers.

Still corny. Still ridiculous. Still preposterous. Still outrageous. And I love the shit out of it. Love the characters, love the locales, love all the "geeky tech" talk and love the style. Lorraine Bracco is the only thing that bugs in this movie.

The montage with the spinning phone booths... aw yeah.

Recreate the experience of watching this film, by getting a friend to scream, "NINETIES KIDS ARE SO RADICAL", in your face for an hour and a half.

I have never seen this film before.

The lines in it make me cringe.

The fake computer UIs look like a bad acid trip.

It is totally worth watching.

I have to say beforehand that I have a huge bias towards this movie. I grew up watching this shit, which accounts for the 5 stars I gave it. I love it, despite (or because? I'm not sure, anymore) all its mistakes and corniness.

This movie has no resemblance to real life. It is corny. It is unrealistic. And it's one giant cliche. Yet, I'll watch it every time it comes on. Hackers is geek escapism. In the 90s, this movie gave hope to hundreds of thousands of techies working at soon to implode tech startups, that they too had a chance with Angelina Jolie. Set to a decent techno soundtrack, there are worse ways to spend a hour and forty-seven minutes.

Wow. Hackers does NOT hold up. The representation of hacking and hackers in this film is so ludicrous that it's hard to imagine that it made it into theaters without the creators being laughed out of the studio. It manages to get by on the relative likability of the characters alone, but outside of that it's just an odd curiosity these days. Also, it's crazy to think that Angelina Jolie was only 20 years old when this movie came out.

This movie has no resemblance to real life. It is corny. It is unrealistic. And it's one giant cliche. Yet, I'll watch it every time it comes on. Hackers is geek escapism. In the 90s, this movie gave hope to hundreds of thousands of techies working at soon to implode tech startups, that they too had a chance with Angelina Jolie. Set to a decent techno soundtrack, there are worse ways to spend a hour and forty-seven minutes.

Every time I watch this movie I am reminded of how far we have come techonology and VFX wise. This movie was made before the prevalence of smart phones, iPods, tablets and more. Angelina Jolie is still beautiful.

Some films, regardless of how corny they are, are seared into your genetic makeup at an early age. It has been several years but I can still vividly remember all of the wonderful moments that Hackers gave to my youth.

For instance, the sight of Angelina Jolie unzipping her leather jacket was almost too much for my young brain to handle. Also, hearing Fisher Stevens a.k.a. "The Plague" spit out new-agey monologue's with lines like, "We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo", was an experience that helped pave the way for my enjoyment of excessively cheesy villians.

It opened up my puerile mind to the wonders of the internet age that was about the consume the planet whole. And while I look back and marvel at how off-target they were in regards to our future, I cannot help but do it with a smile.

Time has not been kind to Hackers.

I have never seen this film before.

The lines in it make me cringe.

The fake computer UIs look like a bad acid trip.

It is totally worth watching.

Its reputation precedes it, and watching it today you certainly know what you’ll be in for. You’ll either laugh or scoff at how ridiculous it is, but nothing more.

Fun movie as long as you don't take it too seriously/question the many logistical fallacies. It's campy and it works.

Two things immediately come to mind when anyone mentions this movie to me:

1. My buttocks transfers more data than the modems they use in this film.

2. If William Gibson had been born with half a retarded squirrel for a brain instead of the mind that resulted in him being the Marshall McLuhan of cyberpunk science fiction, he probably would have been the one to write the script for Hackers.