Commodore in the Movies or TV

WallacetheBruce · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject: Commodore in the Movies or TV

Did Commodore ever feature as the "computer" of any of the wonderful
80s hacking Movies?

If not, has anybody spotted them in the background?

Tell you what else.......

......could ye's all supply a list of 80s hacker films?
or films that feature, at some point, a hack?

Me an my bud have been trying for a while so.....

1. Wargames,
2. Ferris Bueller
3. Wierd Science (mabye?)
4. .........
5. .........
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Stefan · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:57 pm Post subject:

We already had that topic some while ago. I'll go try and retrieve it for you.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/v...movies+c64

Here it is. BTW, was this what you ment. I kinda have the habit of reading too fast and posting something completly ridiculus.

Matt · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject:

Yeah
I once saw a c64 in that aussie soap called 'sons and daughters' Cool

anyone who remembers that?

Lagerfeldt · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 7:25 pm Post subject:

1. War Games
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Hackers/Hackers 2 (Takedown)
4. Swordfish
5. The Lone Gunmen TV Series (X-Files spin off)
6. Prime Risk
7. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
8. Colossus: The Forbin Project
9. The Demon Seed
10. Jurassic Park
11. eXistenZ
12. Weird Science
13. 23 (a German film)
14. Real Genius
15. Smart Money
16. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
17. Charlie's Angels
18. The Score
19. Mission: Impossible
20. X-files series (lots of hacking here...)
21. Office Space
22. Fled
23. Looker
24. Cryptographic Seduction (a porn movie)

Can we close the thread now, please Rolling Eyes

Jimbo · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:14 pm Post subject:

Remember that TV show "The Whiz kids"?

Hell, a talking computer!

(and the password to get into it was,"VOLTS"!)

Woo-Woo!

Laughing

(Kim, can you put an emoticon for "pissed")

J'bo

Mort · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:16 pm Post subject:

And I have seen a 64 in one of the early Police Academy Movies where the Lady with the squeaky voice is trying to send the recruits to the right location with a 64 playing Ghostbusters! Laughing

Jimbo · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:21 pm Post subject:

Mort wrote:

And I have seen a 64 in one of the early Police Academy Movies where the Lady with the squeaky voice is trying to send the recruits to the right location with a 64 playing Ghostbusters! Laughing

Yeah! Wasn't she called Hooks? (or something like that)

WiDDY · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:28 pm Post subject:

The best hacker movie ever is a German one from 1998 and called "23". It's a true story, and quite accurate.
A know there's an English version of it, but the whole movie "is very German", I think it doesn't work if you didn't grow up in the 80ies in Germany.
And, there are lots of C64s in it! Very Happy

WiDDY.
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Sir Clive · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject:

WiDDY wrote:

The best hacker movie ever is a German one from 1998 and called "23". It's a true story, and quite accurate.
A know there's an English version of it, but the whole movie "is very German", I think it doesn't work if you didn't grow up in the 80ies in Germany.
And, there are lots of C64s in it! Very Happy

WiDDY.

wow!! how interesting!! what pity that will be almost impossible to find that movie with subtitles in spanish.. Mad

TMR · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 9:38 pm Post subject:

Mort wrote:

And I have seen a 64 in one of the early Police Academy Movies where the Lady with the squeaky voice is trying to send the recruits to the right location with a 64 playing Ghostbusters! :lol:

Police Academy 3 - the display is a mixture of stuff, some run up by the effects department and at one point a feed from an Atari "Paperboy" machine.

Jimbo wrote:

Yeah! Wasn't she called Hooks? (or something like that)

yup, Marion Hooks if memory serves?

Another C64 appearance is in Red Dwarf season one - the keyboard Lister uses to delete Agatha Christie from Holly's memory is a breadbin. Oh, and the super computer used by Archangel in "Airwolf" had a familiar keyboard too... =-)

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I remember whiz kids, all 6 or 7 episodes. Sadly, I watched it. One time I had a friend over who was laughing at me for watching it. It was the episode where they caused chaos by controlling some California freeway streetsigns. Rolling Eyes

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Lagerfeldt · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 12:32 am Post subject:

WiDDY wrote:

The best hacker movie ever is a German one from 1998 and called "23". It's a true story, and quite accurate.
A know there's an English version of it, but the whole movie "is very German", I think it doesn't work if you didn't grow up in the 80ies in Germany.
And, there are lots of C64s in it! Very Happy

WiDDY.

Hey dude I put that on my list if you look closer Smile

Garak · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:51 am Post subject:

There is a Commodore PET computer in "Star Trek - The Motion Picture". It's in Kirk's apartment on earth. The PET is right near the huge windows in the back of his apartment.

Garak

Rough · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:52 am Post subject: xxx

WiDDY wrote:

The best hacker movie ever is a German one from 1998 and called "23". It's a true story, and quite accurate.
A know there's an English version of it, but the whole movie "is very German", I think it doesn't work if you didn't grow up in the 80ies in Germany.
And, there are lots of C64s in it! Very Happy

WiDDY.

I neither have seen the movie nor do I have contact to any persons whose characters have been played there but what I read is that the movie isnt very accurate, and a lot of bullshit is told. I could been told wrong of course.

I dont like the type of character in 23, full of paranoid suspicion theories. I like this guy a lot better: http://www.tronland.net/
one hell of a hardware and encrypting ace found dead in a Berlin public garden although he was a confident teenager with supporting parents and enjoying his life.

Still I really have to watch 23 once in a while.

Garak · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:53 am Post subject:

I know this isn't a movie Rolling Eyes

. But I once saw a Commodore 128 in an newer "Matlock" episode once. It was being reffered to as just a word processor. The person murdered was writing a book using it or something.

Garak

WiDDY · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:43 am Post subject: Re: xxx

rOuGh wrote:

I neither have seen the movie nor do I have contact to any persons whose characters have been played there but what I read is that the movie isnt very accurate, and a lot of bullshit is told. I could been told wrong of course.

There are a lot of little mistakes, e.g. the program Karl writes on his C64 looks like a PC batch file, the file name is too long, etc.
The story has been simplified and dramatised, of course. And I don't believe any hacker of the CCC had to pay his phone bills in the 80ies... Very Happy

What I meant when I said "accurate", compare this movie to any other hacker movie like e.g. Wargames or Swordfish. The dull ambience and the music (Ton Steine Scherben and Deep Purple) of this movie is perfect.

WiDDY.
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smila · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:45 am Post subject:

the first series of red dwarf and a movie called "crash n burn"
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Rough · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:15 am Post subject: 23

@widdy:

yes, I really have to watch that one. I saw WarGames recently on TV for a few minutes, but it was so extremely stupid I turned to another channel.

Tron II (the movie) is being done right now and I have the huge fear it will be very bad. Tron was so brilliant twenty years ago, 'cos the computer styled design was so unique. And nowadays it wouldnt be at all except if they really dig out a innovative designer for the production.

My ex-girlfriend used to listen to a cassette play (Hörspiel) of Tron when she went to sleep. Pretty cool. Cool

WiDDY · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 9:15 am Post subject: Re: 23

rOuGh wrote:

@widdy:My ex-girlfriend used to listen to a cassette play (Hörspiel) of Tron when she went to sleep. Pretty cool. Cool

Got all episodes of "Die drei ???" (The Three Investigators) in MP3 format the other day... Very Happy

WiDDY.
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Rough · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 9:05 pm Post subject: ..

she likes that too. Smile

Today she called me to see if I hadnt drowned as she saw on TV that there is a catastroph warning in the territory of Ebersberg. It was the first time for me to hear that we also have high water. Smile

Happy Hamster · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

I got this from imdb.com:

"The majority of the trailer for Videodrome , was created with Commodore 64 computer."

Cool beans! Surprised

Videodrome is a movie made by David Cronenberg, who is a legendary horror movie director.He specialises in making really weird movies, Videodrome is one of these.It´s cool that they created the film trailer with a C64, i´d love to see it. Smile

tom simons · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

Happy Hamster wrote:

I got this from imdb.com:

"The majority of the trailer for Videodrome , was created with Commodore 64 computer."

Cool beans! Surprised

Videodrome is a movie made by David Cronenberg, who is a legendary horror movie director.He specialises in making really weird movies, Videodrome is one of these.It´s cool that they created the film trailer with a C64, i´d love to see it. Smile

videodrome is a classic, great movie !

rubikWizard · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Garak wrote:

There is a Commodore PET computer in "Star Trek - The Motion Picture". It's in Kirk's apartment on earth. The PET is right near the huge windows in the back of his apartment.

Garak

Wow, I have never seen that! Will have to watch the film again Laughing

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Wonderboy · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

In "class of nuke 'em high" (trash) is also a C64 used, as control panel or something like that
-> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090849/

I also liked the movie "23" though I'm not in this "Illuminati-Stuff" but it's not the kind of movie I'd buy or watch more often...