What are some of the best movies that feature interesting technology, or portray development and hacking realistically?<p>I'll start: maybe not particularly realistic, but The Matrix (1999) has always been one of my favorite tech-heavy movies.
Wargames<p>Hackers<p>Revolution OS<p>Freedom Downtime<p>Any/all Jason Scott movies<p>Short Circuit 2<p>I also made a short ~8min piece about GNU with Stephen Fry that I'm still fond of. <a href="http://gnu.org/fry/" rel="nofollow">http://gnu.org/fry/</a>
The Matrix is probably my favorite movie of all time. I've watched my DVD copy so many times that the DVD is wearing out (eg, has scratches, etc.) and I just had to buy a new DVD of it.<p>Otherwise, I like Hackers a lot (despite the unrealistic aspects), as well as Anti-trust. War Games is another of my favorites. Also, Tron and Tron:Legacy.<p>Swordfish is also entertaining in its own way.