I would name this film and Wargames before any others that I have seen (Wargames because it was realistic culturally and technically to it's time period).
Yeah they both have flaws primarily in terms of exaggerating the power of computers, but they are much better then other computer films in respect to realism.
What other films top the list?
I thought Sneakers with Redford, Akroyd, Poitier and Kingsley was really great.
"23" is the film to go. It beats all other movies about hackers. It`s even historically accurate, which is amazing. I just wish someone would translate the book. I saw it over 20x already, it`s that fascinating !
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Being into IT myself, I don't find "antitrust" realistic at all. For a truely realistic movie on IT, I suggest you watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley". That's as close to reality as it gets and I really enjoyed the plot.
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shareNot exactly a film but pretty realistic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
shareI liked "Colossus: The Forbin Project" from 1970. I understand its going to be remade which means it will be ruined. the original was about a super computer with artificial intelligence during the Cold War with Russia. It linked up with its Russian counterpart because it realized humans left on their own would destroy themselves with their nuclear toys. It might show up on TCM
People soon realized they would be safe at the cost of their individual freedoms and tried to outwit the computers. Kind of reminds you of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security.
Office Space.....
I'm the guy who makes the "worst movie ever" thread in your favorite movie board
The opening credits threw me off: presentational HTML in 2001?
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I liked the Forbin Project and War Games but also The Net with Sandra Bullock ub 1995. It had a similar plot to Antitrust. A company is picked to handle all security by the US government and has only their own interests at heart. One thing I remember is that Sandra Bullock, a self employed programmer, is their target.
She tells a friend, I think it was Dennis Miller, and he believes her. But they go into a computer system for the drug store chain he uses and change one of his prescriptions which kills him deader than a doornail without leaving a trail.
I also liked Hal in 2001 better than the movie itself.
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Realistic my s**t. I first watched this movie when it came out years ago, I was a Computer Science student at the time. Didn't like it. Fast forward to over a decade later (2016), watched it again a while ago and still didn't like it. I am very involved in the open-source community and I'm using Windows, deal with it.
I admit it, there's some realism in regards to the technicalities in this movie, and they at least took the time to make Ryan's character type REAL COMMANDS instead of just clicking buttons, but that's about it! Still a cr***y movie in all other aspects. You can't call a sh***y movie "good" just because it has the computing realism that you want.
I'd love to know if that command Milo used to restore the deleted Teddy Chin assault video was legitimate or not, because whatever it was, it seemed to actually be a base Linux command.
shareTo go back to the OP's point, I think that Antitrust is indeed one of the more realistic computer movies. It has drama and standard thriller elements, but those are plot contrivances, not depictions of technology. The depictions of technology were pretty accurate for the time.
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