Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Man oh man, the Internet was scary to a lot of people back in the 1990s. Kids these days (kids these days!) who’ve grown up with it probably can’t grasp the fear that the mainstream, particularly the Baby Boomers, had of computers and the Internet and what many people either called cyberspace or the information superhighway. (Yep, “information superhighway” was a thing once.) Hollywood produced its share of the-internet-will-destroy-us-all! paranoia films at the time, and if we’re being honest, and it hasn’t stopped, considering recent scare films such as Disconnect and Men, Women, and Children. For that matter, virtual reality was briefly a thing back then as well, though the technology wasn’t ready yet. But, holy cow, it’s been 20 gods-damned years since Iain Softley’s Hackers came out! Not only is it a reminder of my own mortality, it’s why Shout! Factory is releasing a 20th Anniversary Blu-ray on August 18. The thing to remember about Hackers — a deeply silly film about a group of flamboyant teenage programmers led by Kate (Angelina Jolie) and Dade (Jonny Lee Miller) who get entangled with evil cyber-villain The Plague (Fisher Stevens) — is that even if the target audience had home computers, they most likely […]
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