Hackers (Re:View) ft. Macaulay Culkin (Red Letter Media)

This is one of my favorite "just relax and chill" movies to watch. It takes me right back to that era, when I was starting to get into computers at the time.

Hanging out on mplayer a couple years later in a group of friends that liked this movie waaaaaaay too much with our handles being blatant ripoffs of "Zer0cool" and others. We thought we were cool and used Sub7 once, then figured out it looked nothing at all like it did in the movie and went back to just playing games and just chatting with each other instead.

Dream Machine said:

Jack tho?

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Well, at least is not the bald bearded guy.

Does Mike appear in this video? I refuse to watch anything with that hack fraud

The videogame in Hackers is a beta version of (European) PlayStation launch title Wipeout. Jack should be fired from Pre Rec for not knowing that.

It should also be noted that Angelina Jolie went on to play Lara Croft in the film version of another early PlayStation game, Tomb Raider.

How they gonna do Wendall Carter like that? I'm all for random dudes making entertaining videos on the internet by come the fuck on.

Cheerilee said:

The videogame in Hackers is a beta version of (European) PlayStation launch title Wipeout. Jack should be fired from Pre Rec for not knowing that.

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Pretty sure it's just pre-rendered footage.

Culkin was great in this, charming and affable, he fit in really well. Also nice to see him looking healthy and happy looking as well. Some pictures in the past where he looked really thin and drawn were pretty grim.
As for Hackers, it's been YEARS since I saw it. All I remembered was Fisher Stevens riding his skateboard and the fact that it starred Angelina Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller. The rest is a blank. Seeing how achingly cool they thought they were being kind of makes me want to give it a watch again, just for the cringe.

Great episode, Culkin was very funny.

Jack ive warmed up to a lot, sometimes insightful and has really developed his style and delivery in his time on the RLM pieces

Josh I can give or take.

Culkin looks like he's right at home. Alone.

My main takeaway from this is that I had no idea the Indian character from Short Circuit was a due in brownface.

Mind kind of blown.

People are speculating they shot a Christmas special with mculkay already. I think they might be right

HStallion said:

Macaulay is pretty fucking funny. The whole thing about thinking Fisher Steven's was actually Indian until he watched Hackers was pretty good. That and asking why he was even there. Also Hackers is really watchable film, hilariously unrealistic but fun. That and any film with song is good in my book.

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The entire soundtrack was amazing. Some songs are a bit dated, almost like 90's artifacts, but the rest is incredible. Kind of like The Matrix, really.

Border said:

But I bought the soundtrack to Hackers 2!

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Still angry at those CDs featuring songs that were NOT in the movie and drove me nuts trying to find them somewhere. So many soundtracks did this in the 90's. "Inspired by" my ass.

CybilBennett said:

People are speculating they shot a Christmas special with mculkay already. I think they might be right

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If so they're keeping it a secret even from their patreon. Which if so it wouldn't be surprising, they only announced that Culkin would be in a botw after the Halloween ep ahead of time. Everything else they've announced a few days prior to the release.

That's be great if they did a Christmas re:view or a Christmas botw where they watched a bunch of shit.

Man Culkin isn't fucking around, I wonder if he's planning a return and all of his appearances here and in other nerd culture videos are part of a self promotion?

I agree with the people saying he should just move to Wisconsin and become a regular. He's fantastic in this episode.

Macauley is looking healthy. I was seriously worried with him looking extremely gaunt a few years ago amidst rumors of drug and alcohol abuse. I am happy for him. He needs to do more of this stuff.

Jack is great, Josh is great, Macauley is fantastic in this, great episode. Jack nailed it with his comment: "this is a bad movie that has aged horribly".

I'm 20 minutes in and the one joke I wish Jack would have done is, when Macauley was talking about the Pan Am building and how it became the MetLife building, he would have asked, "How do you know so much about New York?"

I will never not love Mccauley. Also Hackers is underrated as being one of the most awesome "so bad it's good" movies of all time. So I guess I'll add this to my watch later list.

julian said:

I've never heard of Best of the Worst and all these abbreviations made me think there was some long video with Culkin doing a play through of breath of the wild.... :(

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Hey, he was also at the Angry Video Game Nerd HQ recently, so you never know..

I was hoping since they had Culkin, they'd do a re:view of Party Monster, but this was good too.

nineties prodigy so good

Macaulay might just be the best celebrity guest they've had on the show. I will still never not love Max Landis torturing Rich Evans about Double Down and Neil Breen, even though I hate Landis as a person, but man, Culkin just slots in perfectly.

Regulus Tera said:

Does Mike appear in this video? I refuse to watch anything with that hack fraud

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Not this one. Just Jack and Culkin.

SArcher said:

Johnny Mnemonic and Hackers are a perfect double feature.

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Then follow up with Sneakers, a really good movie.

Culkin is hacking the internet. He's everywhere in the nerd-o-sphere these days.

Regulus Tera said:

Does Mike appear in this video? I refuse to watch anything with that hack fraud

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Lol wut? People find a reason to hate everyone eh.

I love that movie. I attribute a lot of my early interest as a kid in computers from that movie even if it was unrealistic.

Cheerilee said:

The videogame in Hackers is a beta version of (European) PlayStation launch title Wipeout. Jack should be fired from Pre Rec for not knowing that.

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Are you sure about that? It always looked like Hi-Octane to me, but hollywooded up

They are certainly no experts in youth culture. That's peak 90s rave fashion.

Hack the planet!

That was great!

And Hackers is some true blue guilty pleasure. Pure distilled 90s cheese.

I was giddy when I saw this thumbnail, I love Hackers for all of its attempts to visualize what is going on within computers when no one really knew anything about them.

While the movie as a whole is pretty bad, the ham-fisted lines and the attempts at humor were a score for me. They took a stab and missed, but at least they took a stab.

Yeah a great RLM episode, it was very cool seeing Caulkin in it he was in one of their previous episodes briefly too so I guess they had him around for a few things. One of my favorite movies growing up, this, Wargames and Sneakers really set the vibe for the whole young-computer-kid thing in my youth.

Thinking back it really was kind of pre-Matrix (these movies) and post-Matrix separation for many nerds.

God I love that movie, can't wait for the UK bluray in December

Dr Wily said:

Are you sure about that? It always looked like Hi-Octane to me, but hollywooded up

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It's not a beta (it's entirely CG), but it sure is Wipeout.

I never saw Hackers despite being a teenage nerd when it came out. I heard it was terrible and never made the effort.

Maybe I'll watch it.

I watched Hackers so many times growing up, it was a favorite amongst my siblings. I fear rewatching it as an adult.

lol I loved this move back in the day. I can't bring myself to watch it again due to fear of cringe overload but that review was fucking hilarious. Culkin is a funny dude

Culkin was really entertaining here, I would like to watch more things with him in it

4th best guest after the bald canadian, the comics guy and the martial arts guy

Merrill said:

Lol wut? People find a reason to hate everyone eh.

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His style of humour is the most irritating of everyone in RLM.

I like that Culkin is just there. No need for some big introduction. Hope they also shot a best of the worst

Flipyap said:

It's not a beta (it's entirely CG), but it sure is Wipeout.

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Yep. Sony UK hooked the movie up with it's soundtrack, and Psygnosis (a UK studio) was making Wipeout as a PlayStation launch title, also featuring music from Sony UK, so Sony UK introduced the two parties to each other, and Wipeout ended up being featured in Hackers.

It was all over videogame magazines back in the day, as this was one of the incredible new things that megacorp Sony was bringing to videogames. Videogames could have "real music" now. Videogames could have genuine Hollywood connections. Gamers didn't have to put up with trash like the Super Mario Bros movie (1993), they could have real Hollywood movies like Hackers (1995).


Fortunately Mortal Kombat (1995) came out a month before Hackers and successfully built the "videogames in movies" future that people were trying to build.

That was really good, Jack and Macaulay Culkin had some pretty good chemistry too.

They shot it in and around my high school, with some of the students as extras. The things my 15 year old self wanted to do to Angelina......

*takes shower*

It's a cheesy movie, but fun as hell.

I was surprised that they didn't comment on how horrified Fisher Stevens looks right before he grabs the disk. This was clearly not a man who was comfortable on a skateboard.

AcademicSaucer said:

Culkin was really entertaining here, I would like to watch more things with him in it

4th best guest after the bald canadian, the comics guy and the martial arts guy

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Colin (bald Canadian) is still sitting at number one on my all-time RLM jokes list with his comment about a future CGI David Carradine. "His eyes are so lifeless. It's perfect!".

Uh oh.

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Uh oh.

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Oh man, they should splice this in and call it the Special Edition.

Hackers was filmed in my High School. Theres no pool on the roof (it's on the first floor)

masud said:

Hackers was filmed in my High School. Theres no pool on the roof (it's on the first floor)

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You went to Stuy as well?

Boy, I've never seen it, but based on this, is Hackers the most 90's movie ever? I feel like half of this is high-res FMV game footage. And The Matrix at least ushered the transition to full-leather 00's aesthetics. Also, Jack and The Culk were great! He really did slot in perfectly.