It has been eons since I last watched these two movies. Deep in my head, I had this impression that Hackers has the more accurate presentation of hacking and cybersecurity. Turns out it was The Net instead.
#movies #Hackers #TheNet #1995 #1995nostalgia
Today, March 29, in 1995, reclusive systems analyst Angela Bennett is issued a temporary passport under the name Ruth Marx after her identity and life are stolen by hackers while she's on vacation in Mexico (The Net, 1995).
@mackensen Heh. Yes. Yes it is.
I've seen #TheNet once. Which is one more time than I should have seen it...
@mackensen It's better than #TheNet ...
Just watched #TheNet again on an alternative streaming channel & I'll raise my rating of it from a 6 to a 7.
It has been so long since last saw the movie that everything was new to me again and, although the technical aspects of the movie were implausible, even then, the movie kept me entertained & interested to see how Bullock's character was going to avoid getting killed by the evidently incompetent assassin & get out of the mess she was in.
I liked that they shot the ending in San Francisco & was pleased with myself knowing that she could not run from the 200 block of California St to Moscone Center so quickly.
The movie also uses various ploys that I found interesting because they are still in use in movies now, like waiting for a file to be saved/transmitted to increase tension in the film, as was done in #MissionImpossible (1996) & catwalk chases, as was done in #TheInferno (2016).
So, I'd call this an under-rated & under-appreciated film that deserves more credit that it has received.
@mookie Just looked for #TheNet (1995) on #Prime but it's only being offered currently on #Netflix.
So, I checked some alternative streaming site & found it there & will take a look at it later today.
In the meantime, I placed in order on #eBay to buy the #DVD in order to fill the gap in my DVD collection. 
It will join the other #SandraBullock movies in the collection, including #Speed 1 (1994), #Heat (2013) & #Gravity (2013). I think Gravity is the best of the bunch, including The Net.
#SandraBullock was #effectively able to #dissuade me of that #pipeDream in the 1995 #film #theNet
We even had a #KurtCobain to physically #warn us about the very idea of #Nirvana
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/
Unfortunately, most were still too enamored of their softly spoken lies, "You've got mail."
Today, March 29, in 1995, reclusive systems analyst Angela Bennett is issued a temporary passport under the name Ruth Marx after her identity and life are stolen by hackers while she's on vacation in Mexico (The Net, 1995)
I could easily have been Sandra Bullock’s character in “The Net.” That movie was SO prescient!
Ordering merch online, I’m there & have been since Amazon only sold books! An online chat rather than a phone call, sign me up. Online friends—my kind of social life.
In the ‘90s I even worked from home teaching remote classes to sick kids or ones who were suspended/expelled — initially I taught over the phone & later online.
Guess noone gonna call me a people person!
#thenet
Action movies released in 1995…pick your favorite. Poll 2 of 2.
I've just watched "The Net", that mid-90s hacker movie with Sandra Bullock.
A couple of things...I thought it was really good, but also a little nostalgic for those low-fi web-browsing times. The internet was much better back in the 90s before it became mainstream. 
#thenet
Today, March 29, in 1995, reclusive systems analyst Angela Bennett is issued a temporary passport under the name Ruth Marx after her identity and life are stolen by hackers while she's on vacation in Mexico (The Net, 1995)
Holy shit, this freaks me out a bit. We just up and stopped calling it #TheNet one day, didn't we? (Except for that Sandra Bullock film to remind us.)
They put The Net on Netflix!
Bout time to revisit this masterpiece of 90s Internet paranoia ... haven't seen it in maybe 25 years
"In the coming year, we will have the opportunity to take back the net yet again. Let's go for something better."
#DouglasRushkoff, Dec 2022, #TeamHuman '
It has NOT aged well. Ironically, the most unrealistic part is not the tech (which is still bad), but the main character.
The introverted character which only communicates through the world via the Internet is now a myth of past ages; everybody's online right now and they're even called SOCIAL networks, ffs.
(Add to that that online pizza services were not a thing back in '95. It was some weird anachronistic thing, neither getting the present nor the future.)
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