Joe Berkowitz
Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.
- That highway scene from Final Destination 2 was Jaws for millennials.
- Saw the Tim Robinson movie at the Angelika and the crowd was like a big police lineup of every UCB class in history.
- Hahah we’re going there tomorrow!
- Excited to hear your thoughts
- I have a reported piece up today that I’m pretty excited about, so here’s a little table-setting before I drop the link.
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View full threadI talked with the filmmakers behind 1995’s The Net and Hackers, 30 years later, to explore what the earliest movies about the internet got right and wrong about life in our glorious online future.
- Not ashamed to say that if a big account doesn’t rt any of this, I *will* cry.
- Some might say that we are still living in the present of The Net.
- lolol. Incredibly, Miller was also in Disclosure, which came out the year before, and which I use as a negative example of an early internet movie throughout the article.
- Netscape…now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
- Literally forgot about it until researching this.
- All of those films, and Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days too, were lumped together as “internet movies” at the time, but only The Net and Hackers were set in the present. They were the first to steer mainstream audiences toward the America Online internet as it existed in 1995.
- Now that the internet has been in our lives, and in movies, for three decades, it’s wild to look back closely at how it was first presented to mass audiences. Early adopters knew things were about to change, but they had no idea by how much.
- The first website I ever went on was a dedicated marketing site for Johnny Mnemonic, which came out this month in 1995. All movie ads in newspapers had recently started featuring urls, so I finally tried one. It took so long to log on.
- Also released that summer: The Net, Hackers, Virtuosity... and the Netscape IPO that kicked off the dot com boom. It had been around for a while, but the internet truly started hitting critical mass right as it hit movie theaters.
