I would like to know which movies/series you would recommend, where the plot and programming scenes are mostly technically correct (no hacking into NASA computers with some HTML scrolling across the screen 😅).
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I really liked Halt and Catch Fire. Awesome character development during all 4 seasons and very moving personal stories about how it was in the 80's to be an entrepreneur, computer engineer or software developer.
I really love this series. Very realistic how they present the technology side of the time.
This. And how failing in this business was that time.
Lived through those days. Fun to watch.
2 series that are totally awesome: silicon valley and MrRobot 😁😁
Office Space
Thank you, never heard of this one! What do you like about it?
It's a cult classic about office work that takes place around the time when lots of work was going on to fix Y2K problems before Jan. 1, 2000. It's hilarious.
Sounds fun, will put it onto my watch list ✔ Thanks again!
If you like it, the same director/writer did Idiocracy. Wouldn't quite fit on this list, but a good watch.
An absolute must watch
It’s more real than reality. It could be a documentary for past, present, and future.
Anyone who works in an office must watch Office Space. Any interns or very young staff who haven't seen it, I offer to pay for them to rent it. Required viewing!
In no particular order:
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'War Games' is pretty much correct and features a multitude if real life 80s pentesting methods.
That and, obviously, 'Hackers' :)
This is one of my all time favorites. The newer one was okay but the one from 1983 is truly amazing !
Black mirror and especially Black mirror: Bandersnatch, not to mention the sophistication required in producing the latter one by Netflix production and engineering team!
The IT Crowd - not programming, but very realistic IT support :D
A non-zero number of plot points from IT Crowd have happened to me at work...
Finally a man of culture
Yup! Definitely the most realistic IT advice on TV -- "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Anyone remembers the movie Antitrust ? Its where i got the phrase 'human knowledge belongs to the world' fitting for the open source community 😀
I recently see this, it says all the things that we programmer know well but in a very nice way: imdb.com/title/tt11167964/
Thanks for sharing!
I haven't seen it in years but I always liked Sneakers. A 1992 movie about a group of hackers (might be called "pentesters" in today's lingo). I don't remember if there was much code on screen, but regardless most of the movie was about cracking into a hardened system. Some huge names in the cast: Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix...
I don't remember the coding, but the CS is waaaayyyy off base. Encryption and cracking encrypted data doesn't work that way.
I mostly remember the human intelligence gathering, social engineering, etc.
The McGuffin that they were using all that for is completely unrealistic.
I think not many relate that movie with "hackers" because is too realistic; not like the mainstream picture of a "h4xor".
Super moment when mama calling ...
Mr Robot and Silicon Valley.😁
Silicon Valley is the best series to watch
Anyone remember a series based in Blackpool about VR murder game? Remember it being really good but can't think of the name of it.
VR murder game movie I remember is Brainscan.
Killer Net? imdb.com/title/tt0127383/
WarGames 👍
Wait, what do you mean by that? There are two ways of interpreting the ending, aren't there? Damn, now I have to watch it again.