Thus begins a first for me on two levels, one I will be simultaneously live tweeting, tooting and skeeting along with a movie and two that movie will be Swordfish from 2001, which I have never seen before.
Finland portrayed as some kind of international law ignoring hacker hideout is a bit random? Or have I missed something about Finland. I guess they have let zeekill run riot over the years. #Swordfish
I am definitely prepared to accept that John Travolta "exists in a world beyond your world", especially after seeing him acting at the start of the movie. #Swordfish
John Travolta's character Gabriel does all his best secret scheme explaining in front of a dozen or so people beside a crowded nightclub dancefloor and I respect that as I too like to live dangerously.
Stanley is handed a shot of tequila and then has a shot of tequila forcibly spat into his mouth, was this the grand plan to make him touch a computer in contravention of his parole conditions if the money didn't work? #Swordfish
1.2? Come on now, Worm Generator Tool v.1.3 is the better option and we all know it. The worms are uh, slimier to get dropped in the trapdoors much more easily. #Swordfish
At this point why don't they just go into the bank they want to rob via computer with good old fashioned guns? Oh wait, the beginning of the movie is coming back to me. #Swordfish
So the Senator has sent someone undercover to assume John Travolta as Gabriel's identity because something something secret stash of DEA money? Is anyone involved in this elaborate criminal plot just a plain old criminal? #Swordfish
@realhackhistory "we spent all the money on the bus and the tradeshow floor instead of spending a single cent on hardening or securing any of our products"
The same criminal mastermind who likes discussing hacking the DoD in a crowded nightclub has decided the best way to steal hundreds of millions from a bank is to drive a humvee through the front door of the bank in broad daylight. #Swordfish
Oh wait so it was Travolta's character Gabriel but there's some weird time jump from the ex's house to the bank and then a sort of rehash of the beginning of the movie? The backend of this film is a mess. #Swordfish
This movie makes the classic mistake of directly and indirectly referencing better movies that highlight the inadequacies of the movie itself, all this Dog Day Afternoon hat tipping isn't helping anything. I do like that this time it's an antivirus branded, circuit-board themed bus though? #Swordfish
The end of this movie really makes me unsure of whether the writers are endorsing the world view of Travolta's character or not. This wasn't as bad as I expected, I'm prepared to admit that! #Swordfish
I do feel like about half way through the movie the script writers or director was sick of techno-babble and decided they just wanted a straight up by the book action movie which makes the plot unnecessarily convoluted, but maybe there was a concern that hackers alone wouldn't sell cinema tickets. #Swordfish
@realhackhistory
It feels like ages since I watched it. I'm sure if I re-watched it, there would be more sens to make of it all, but I really like when things get chaotic in a movie. I don't need it to give me closure, I prefer it to be intense over it.
Sure there might be a mundane explanation to why this came to be this way, but for me it would take away from the magic of it.
@realhackhistory I was thinking more about him reviving Travolta's career. (I've never seen swordfish and am following this thread in the the "thank you for doing that for me" sense.)
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