Hackers (1995)

i decided to throw the movie on (low volume/subs) an hour and a half into the podcast anyway does anybody remember in short circuit 2 Fisher Stevens and Johnny 5 use a touchtone calculator (?) to hack their way into a phone call to send for help...... what a time

It took until this episode to realize that Hey Dude was the most traumatic show of my youth.

Holy shit this movie SUUUUUCKS

Hell yeah

This episode predicted 1/6.

Amp was the EDM show came on MTV late Saturday night/ Early Sunday morning. Maybe it was Friday night.

Sleek ep boys thank you. Special thanks to Ben for recommending Good Time in a previous episode totally unexpected enthralling ride with uncut gems vibe. Cheers

I'm 22 Boyz. Why can't we figure out who the youngest scumbag in this bitch is?

When I was 12, I made "napalm" based on the instructions in "The Anarchist Cookbook" My mom found out and called our neighbor who was a chemist, and he called the fire department. I got in a lot of trouble.

My first AOL screen name was PurpleHazeDB89.

There was no swimming pool on the roof. Zero stars

Rotten tomato score isn't the Metacritic style grade score. It's not the quality of the movie, it's not saying its 5/10 or 10/10. It's just a measure of broad appeal, the percentage of people that say its worth watching once. A 70% on Rotten Tomatoes means that if you take 10 people to see it, 7 of them should have a positive experience, not that it's overall a low C average movie.

Boiling Point might be the movie that dealt in counterfeit money they were trying to remember at the top of the ep

I always remember Penn Jillette’s hot tub hunka chunka invention because he named it the Jill Jet https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/celebrity-invention-penn-jillettes-bathtub-for-the-ladies/65007/

Umm... the Playstation demo in the movie wasn't F-Zero. That's a Nintendo franchise. The game they showed was actually Wipeout. I don't normally like to point out gaffes, but if this is the kind of knowledge that Gabrus is bringing to his video games thesis, he's going to have a hell of a time defending.

The most famous PG-13 titty has to be Winslet’s in TITANIC. Not a coincidence that it was the highest grossing movie of all-time. Sorry for saying titty.

Pump Up The Volume isn't streaming anywhere.

Is rodgers dating cobra commander?

Story-wise, Blackhat is nothing special, and Hemsworth's NY accent is terrible. That said, I think on a totally superficial level the movie is pretty thrilling. And I mean 'superficial' literally, as in, the images and editing carry an aesthetic thrill. I think Mann is maybe the only Hollywood director to use digital cinematography in an interesting way: pushing the digital aesthetic instead of just passing it off as something that kind of/almost looks as good as film. I think Public Enemies is thrilling on the same level, but with a better story and better performances.

Pump Up the Volume ain't on Amazon Prime.... Very disappointed in Stanger's misinformation.

Chris Hemsworth is so miscast in Blackhat. You just cannot buy him in the role...that said I think I will rewatch it now.

Stanger's "Bad dates." Joke met with zero response is peak Boyz.

3 Ninjas for Ninja-vember?

The band at the club is Urban Dance Squad.

Fucking Hell, the English hacker by the Thames at the end is Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics! What a weird cameo...😳

Ben’s Catfishing Story: once again, his real life stories are utterly hilarious and compelling. He should write a script based around them; he’s essentially living Curb Your Enthusiasm while being younger, better looking, and on a more relatable budget! 👏🏻

I’ll always have a place in my heart for this stinker of a movie

I got excited when I first saw the note about this movie last week because I mixed it up with Sneakers, which is rad. Still, this is a great choice for the podcast.

Also, the Action Faction census is still open. Make sure your demographic of psychopath is represented by participating https://www.patreon.com/posts/43452870

Mr. Stanger sir, thank you for calling me out. I apologize for not making it clear that the playground rumor of multiple Warriors was common. Of course a lot of people thought the original Warrior was replaced by Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich, who himself had disappeared from television. The reason behind this of course was Von Erich’s addiction to painklllers as a result of his foot amputation, leading to his suicide by shooting himself in the heart. The original Warrior, Jim Helwig, did change appearance appearing much leaner due to injury and less steroid abuse. Warrior did make multiple appearances in WWF and WCW in 1996, after being fired from the WWF for holding up Vince McMahon for 500k or else he wouldn’t show for Wrestlemania in 1992. Kerry Von Erich committed suicide in 1993. Due to the hold up of McMahon, the WWF had a contentious relationship with the legacy of the Ultimate Warrior, even releasing an official DVD chronicling how bad of a wrestler he was. They made up by inducting him into the Hall of Fame a week before his unexpected death of a heart attack. They now have an award in his honor where they award usually sick children the Warrior award for showing indomitable spirit, despite Mr Helwig’s years long outspoken homophobia and racism. Thank you for your time.

Are American schools actually like some caffeinated inner-city Montessori, or was that purely the filmmakers’ Gen X masturbation?

I think this is the article Stanger was referencing about early catfishing https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1999/12/miranda-catfish-movie-199912

this movie accurately reflects my experiences as a 90's kid.

"gotta train my fart box to open and close despite what my cheeks are doing"

FBI raids culminating in 15+ people pointing guns in kids' faces is a character in this movie

Fisher Stevens on a skateboard

Definitely need to break out your Titty Safari Hat for this one

Question - Is Matthew Lillard good?

My god the “inside the computer” CGI scenes were so fucking boring

If Stangerbot gets fired or bumped we riot in the streets of Val Verde

I gotta say, when I was a kid I used to have this obsession with reading movie scripts of movies that sounded cool, but we couldn't get a hold of one way or the other in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Scandinavia – And Hackers was one that I remember read the script for and being, like, oh my god.. This is so cool. All my interest of computers and semi-cyberpunk and all that shit and you'd imagine how cool the computer sequences would end up looking. Anyway, years and years later I eventually saw the movie and while I have some nostalgia for it, it's awful. It's not like I read the script since, but there must have been SOME fucking shred of a good movie in there that got fumbled in execution somehow.

When young Jonny Lee Miller is getting arrested at the beginning of the movie, the song that's playing is Orbital's Halcyon+on+on

Have the ABZ covered a film with less action?

Angelina Jolie look like Steve Buschemi in this movie, DAMN

Fisher Stevens looks like a nick kroll character

Jonny Lee Miller’s career highlights are doing a working-class Edinburgh Scottish accent so well that his Trainspotting cast mates didn’t know he was English until the wrap party, and that he shagged/married Angelina Jolie.

U HAVE TREAD UPON MY DOMAIN & MUST NOW SUFFER WHO R U ?

It’s an awful film but a fantastic snippet of the 90s.

Agreed. This one was rough.