Because it's twenty years ago, and they're pre-teens, and, you know, come on. The geek boy is going to be into dinosaurs and computers and the older girl is going to be into New Kids on the Block and clothes and is going to treat her younger, uncool brother disdainfully.

(As long as I'm binge-commenting)

All of this stands in contrast to 2001: A Space Odyssey and David Bowman's need to physically "get in there" in order to win control of the system.

In the book, the dinosaur-geek boy knows computers and the girl is just dumb. Which is far more realistic (especially how Crichton writes it: she's a serious pain in the ass who has lines like "This is boring" while the other characters are trying to puzzle through the situation). But mid-period Spielberg apparently…

Bogosian as another in a series of actors believing they would get the Alan Rickman "action movie villain" career bump (which never actually happened to anyone except Rickman).

Do not go see "Dr. Acula"

What's so wonderful about the "zoom and enhance" scene in Blade Runner is the subtle implication that these are some new kind of photograph and all that information's actually in there.

My favorite thing about that movie was Sandra Bullock speaking every single thing she typed out loud, and trying to somehow find an acting method for doing this without it seeming ridiculous. (She was not able to, especially in scenes where she was supposed to be chatting.)

I keep meaning to go back and watch Hackers again for the sole purpose of determining whether or not Angelina Jolie subsequently got breast implants (based on that one topless scene) but the movie is so boring that I have never actually gotten around to doing this.

Probably Doug Chiang. He's responsible for everything stupid-looking

It's really too bad they didn't split The Godfather Part III into two parts.

See below; I brought this up and we talked about it. I agree with you completely. It's pretty clear that the author of this article simply hasn't seen the show.

I'm weirdly fascinated by his horrible grammar and usage, because it's the kind of language mangling that I associate with really arrogant (and usually not that bright) people trying to sound smart, like Dan Quayle or George W. Bush.

Yeah, agreed.

The show overtly presents the Cameron Howe character as a continuation of the legacy of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper (and educates viewers about who they were).

I recommend you binge through the whole first season. It improves tremendously in its final three or four episodes (building up to a certain real-world computer milestone that occurred in 1984) and sets up wonderfully for the next season.

Of course it's Jackson. These mythical "executives" don't actually exist like that.

Well, I think it's a great show, and I'm delighted that it was renewed.

Ignoring Halt and Catch Fire, which is the exact antidote to all of this.

Yeah, that's a really good point.