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The movie HACKERS, that starred Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller, was in theaters in 1995. The movie was ahead of it’s time and well, didn’t really reflect the life of a real hacker. It was exaggerated but it’s a movie and I loved the concept of it! I first saw the film in 1998 when it was at the local block buster and rented the VHS tape for kicks. To my surprise, this movie launched me to computer nerd world. I got my first computer soon after and it’s been history since then. One thing I enjoyed from the film was the summarized reading of the Hacker’s Manifesto. And I finally found it!

This is our world now…the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

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Saw Transformers last night with my family. OMG! It was REALLY GOOD! Apart from the very cliche “more than meets the eye” line that was used and abused throughout the movie but other than that… COOL! I cried T_T Well, not really, almost did…. I grew up with these awesome alien machines and seeing them in live action ;w; OH OH and I’m glad that I only saw one part of the movie that you can tell it was CG and it happened to be a CG of a human being flicked away by Megatron from one side of a street to another. Total HA HA moment! I did not like the end. Well, I DID but it should’ve ending with the honorable Optimus Prime sacrificing himself but nooooo. I see a sequel coming on XD

Pulled some interesting information over from What Japan Thinks regarding which films a Japanese native would recommend a foreigner to watch. So far, I’ve only seen となりのトトロ, 火垂るの墓, and 風の谷のナウシカ =__=; I want to see them all! Anybody seen any other on the list? If you have them can I get a ripped copy or a source where to download them?

Q: Which Japanese film would you most recommend to a foreigner to watch?