May 3

The Net and the Movies

The Web On Film: Here’s a great collection of movie clips showing depictions of the Internet on film from 1983 to 2005. Some notes:

  • Wargames
    Great movie, and probably the most realistic clip of them all, except for the bit when the computer talks.

  • Sneakers
    Another good one from a really under-rated movie.

  • The Net
    Very early in the Net’s adoption. This was the movie that sounded “the alarm” that the Internet could be a Very Bad Thing.

  • Swordfish
    A really laughable clip that shows Hugh Jackman turning the art of programming into a music video. The visualizations here are stupid, but how else were they supposed to make programming look interesting?

The title of the article is wrong — “The Web on Film.” Several of the clips have nothing to do with the Web. Wargames predated the Web by 10 full years.

by Deane   May 3, 2006 10:44 PM   |

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by Michael,   May 7, 2006 3:12 PM  

Some more:

  • The Lawnmower Man, 1992, based on a Stephen King novel
  • Hackers, 1995, starring a very young Angelina Jolie shortly flashing her breasts in a dream sequence
  • FeardotCom, 2002, redefining the term "killer website"

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