Hackers is a fun and great movie. :-) Yes, it has many an exaggeration. I'm guessing a similar movie about some kid that lives in his mom's basement and doesn't get out much would not be as entertaining.
As hilarious as some things in this movie are (the nemesis riding the skateboard, lol), it does have many things ground in reality ("Dragon book. Compiler design", hehe).
The funny thing is that what annoys people in the know most sometimes becomes reality (and could later be considered visionary, hehe). Remember the scene in The Net (shudder) where Sandra Bullock's character is on some awesome looking (at the time) website with animations and multimedia (I remember an animated character playing a guitar or something)? It wreaked of utter bullshit at the time, but that could easily be done in Flash today (the movie still sucks, hehe).
As hilarious as some things in this movie are (the nemesis riding the skateboard, lol), it does have many things ground in reality ("Dragon book. Compiler design", hehe).
The funny thing is that what annoys people in the know most sometimes becomes reality (and could later be considered visionary, hehe). Remember the scene in The Net (shudder) where Sandra Bullock's character is on some awesome looking (at the time) website with animations and multimedia (I remember an animated character playing a guitar or something)? It wreaked of utter bullshit at the time, but that could easily be done in Flash today (the movie still sucks, hehe).
HACK THE PLANET!!!