Awesome Bad Movies
I get criticized a lot for my taste in movies; one of my favorite movies is Hackers; I’ve seen it dozens of times and I’m still not sick of it. I readily admit that it not a good movie by most (any?) standards, and it is very inaccurate as far as computing goes (Either use actual computing terms relevantly or don’t bother at all, okay?). But I love it all the same. One quality it has that is often overlooked is the way they portray navigating a file structure; it’s very difficult to make something so dull interesting, and flying through a digital cityscape was a decent way of handling that.
To me, there’s a two dimensional scale on which movies fall with quality on one axis and entertainment on the other. I’ve seen a lot of high quality movies that are extremely boring, and a lot of low quality movies that are extremely entertaining. The trick is getting one that scores well on both axes. I guess those on the low quality end of things are like little guilty pleasures; anyone want to confess to any bad movies that they love (I happen to know that a certain reader entered the Computer Science field because of The Net 
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