{"id":661,"date":"2004-09-10T23:34:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/09\/10\/hacker-movies\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T04:34:54","slug":"hacker-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/hacker-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 2pm this afternoon, I met a fellow Yulblogger at the corner of Mont-Royal and St-Denis. We exchanged greetings, then he gave me the movie Takedown<\/a> – based on the book<\/a> about the arrest of hacker Kevin Mitnick – and we parted. <\/p>\n

Because of poor test screenings<\/a>, the movie was only released in France<\/a>. I had been wanting to see it for months, without any luck. Thanks to a chance meeting at the last Yulblog<\/a>, I was finally going to be able to see this controversial movie.<\/p>\n

I came back home tonight (after seeing a great movie<\/a>), and decided to do a bit of reading about Takedown to refresh my memory. That’s when I found out that the news came out<\/a> yesterday that nearly 6 years after it was filmed, Takedown will finally be released in America as a DVD at the end of September. Talk about weird timing.<\/p>\n

« The film languished without a US release date amid rumors of poor test screenings and a re-shot ending. Perhaps hoping to recoup some of their losses, Miramax finally released the movie to French theatres in March, 2000, as Cybertraque. It was generally panned by critics<\/a>: a reviewer for the newspaper Le Monde noted the film’s problems in translating a virtual manhunt to the action-adventure genre. « Can the repeated image of faces sweating over keyboards renew the principles of the Hollywood thriller?, » the paper asked. »<\/p>\n

I wonder why they decided to distribute the movie in America now? I’m dreaming there might be a current surge of interest in hacker movies<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 2pm this afternoon, I met a fellow Yulblogger at the corner of Mont-Royal and St-Denis. We exchanged greetings, then he gave me the movie Takedown – based on the book about the arrest of hacker Kevin Mitnick – and we parted. Because of poor test screenings, the movie was only released in France. I… Continue reading Hacker movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}