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Nerd Movies I just love any movie that has to do with nerdy computer stuff like hacking, videogames the internet or supercomputers. I love seeing retard actors saying stuff like "Well, I hack into the mainframe by overriding the backdoor" or other tech-sounding nonsense, while they type away at a keyboard at an unbelievable speed, with six monitors in front of them showing high quality photographs next to useless wire diagrams and a huge load of nonsense text output. Ah! If you like to see a good, bad or worse computer flick, check out these reviews! You might just find the pulp you're looking for! I've only reviewed a few movies at this point, but more is coming! TERMINAL ENTRY Some lamers "hack into a game" where they blow up parts of America, and it actually happens in real life. Okay, this is a pretty stupid movie. The cover of my Dutch copy says "Terminal Entry starts where Wargames ended", and the whole is just build on the hype the movie Wargames caused. The plot is really unimagenitive and is basically a badly told variant on Wargames. Some typical 80's "I guess a computernerd would look like this" characters spend their time "hacking into games". How this works? First off all they pick out a game in a list explained as a list of the best stolen and pirated stuff. They're obviously online, but only seem to find it necesarry to hook up the modem when they actually start downloading the game. Okay, then this piece of old school w4r3 has to be hacked. Huh? Yes - they all have to "hack into" these pirated games. Then they only seem to play against other hackers. And they're all from M.I.T., probably the first term any nitwit could associate with hacking those days. Anyway, though some parts of the game look pretty graphical, with digitized movie footage and vector graphics, other parts are very basic textadventure-style with huge letters on the screen. Also, a lot of the times, people are rapidly typing away on their computers when the screen shows nothing but a static logo of the game. Huh? Don't they have to see the tenthousand letters they type in per second? Elite bastards! Right. After a jolly game which they win just one second before gametime runs out, they set out to a house one of the nerd's dad owns to try and hack into even cooler games. They choose "Terminal Entry", a game they found on this granddaddy of w4r3z FTP's. At the house, which doesn't have TV, doesn't have a phone and doesn't have radio, but does have a sattelite dish (for what then??), they hook up the computer and try to break into the game. Meanwhile, you'll see shots of some military guys at the border having trouble keep terrorists out. I missed from what country or movement they were. They definately looked foreign but were so polite to spreak in plain English to their collegue America-hating terrorsits. Huh? Okay, now what happens? These guys have a huge network to connect all their agents and use computers to communicate and pass on orders. And you've got those hacker kids. And that terrorist computer network. And you've got those hacker kids. And... ah! The kids accidently hack into Terminal Entry (through some dumb looking code they got in another game (why? how?)) which is the interface of the terrorist network. The kids take over the game, not aware that they are in control of a terrorist gang, and start assasenating a couple of policians (like a Russian guy who was there to speak to the American government, but is only able to say "njet" to reporters trying to interview him) and blow up a few things. The real trouble starts when one of the nerds puts all of their names, and the location of their house, on the hitlist - for fun. Now they're in a tight spot! This becomes clear when the one agent that's send out by the nerds to kill 'em, in one scene has 5 other terrorist friends with him, in the next 15, and in the end I guess they must have been about 50 terrorist running and shooting all over the place! To kill six students! Anyway, the border patrol and everybody shows up to rescue the kids, and the movie ends with the military guys thanking the brat who started all this. For blowing up half of America? Okay, so far for the story. It's dumb. The technical stuff and the shots of the computerstuff are also pretty lame, which on the other hands is part of why this movie is kinda good when it's actually pretty bad. The computers are talking in very a monotone, robot-like sense through a remarkable breakthrough in "voice recognition chips", according to somebody in the movie. Also, everything they do on the computer is lame: everybody types at a raging speed, never touch the backspace key (or every key in the middle of the keyboard for that matter) but keep on looking at the screen - as if what happens there has a relation to what's been typed. Hardly anything they do makes any sense, but will have you roll your eyes and go "ohhhhh god!" throughout all of the movie! If you like hackerpulp, you might wanna check this out. BRAINSCAN A kid plays an ultra-realistic videogame and finds out the stuff that happens in the game, happens in real life. I remember seeing this movie a few years ago, when a friend picked it up in the video store because the cover looked kinda cool. I also remember that we were quite enthousiastic about this movie. I recently watched it again, and though it didn't strike me the way it did a few years ago, I still think it's a pretty cool movie. The whole movie revolves around a kid, Michael, who buys a new, supposedly ground-breaking videogame. When the game is started, it takes over your mind and lets you play the game as if you really experience it - making it a very realistic game. The first objective of the game is murdering some guy. Michael completes this level, wakes up again and is very excited by the rush it gave him. But only a short while later, he finds out the murder he commited in the game, has actually happened - just a few houses down from where he lives. He puts one and one together, and figures whatever happens in the game, happens in real life. Obviously he isn't very fond of the game after he realises this, but has to play the game a couple of more times to whipe out some evidence and get rid of the host of the game, a weird looking bigmouth. Some pretty neat action stuff happens, Michael beats the game, gets the girl and the movie ends after an entertaining 90 minutes. The cool part of this movie is that, though most of it is highly unlikely to happen and technically questionable, it's still pretty "realistic". No Hollywood bullshit like throwing in technical-sounding nonsense specs, no stupid it's-sounds-so-computerish-they'll-think-it-makes-sense explanations of how the videogame works... they don't even show or explain on what kind of system the game is running. Buy this movie when you can find it for a good price, it's kinda cool.
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