I think you’re right about tropes and campiness. But there’s one thing that the movie did other than being realistic and that’s capturing the “feeling” of a thing.
I think hackers did a good job of capturing the “feel” of mid-90s computer users. It was a new frontier, mostly celebrated by outcasts and was inherently anti-authority.
I still get the same vibe from the CCC as I got from the first time I watched the movie Hackers.
Also, people tend to forget about Acid Burn, best hacker in the movie who is only “beaten” because the other members took pity on the main protagonist. That flies a bit in the face of others in the same genre.
I think hackers did a good job of capturing the “feel” of mid-90s computer users. It was a new frontier, mostly celebrated by outcasts and was inherently anti-authority.
I still get the same vibe from the CCC as I got from the first time I watched the movie Hackers.
Also, people tend to forget about Acid Burn, best hacker in the movie who is only “beaten” because the other members took pity on the main protagonist. That flies a bit in the face of others in the same genre.