It was an MTV move made for teenagers. People thought it was silly and had dumb technobabble when it was released. "RISC is good."

If you objected to the premise or technical content of the movie, you weren't the intended audience.

Hollywood tried to make a bunch of computer movies at the time and had to figure out how to make things on a computer seem exciting, even though in reality, it's just someone sitting and typing for long periods. The producers decided on 3D mainframes and artistically rendered hacker tools (some macintosh progz at the time were not too far off).

At least at the time, they were up to the task of using some creativity to address the challenges of making a compelling, at least visually if not intellectually, movie set in a place and time with technology that effectively shrinks time and space. Now they simply set all their movies before smartphones existed.

Disagree on Hackers, agree on Strange Days.

Skunkanansie cameo too.

I see where youre coming from. But oh when you embrace the cliche of it all.. it's amazing

Fun fact: "right here, right now" sample in eponymous Fatboy Slim song is Angela Basset trying to make Ralph Fiennes come to his senses and forget Juliette Lewis.