Dementia wrote:
] ] LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. Pictures'
] ] "The Matrix: Reloaded" made box office history this
] ] weekend as the highly anticipated sequel chambered an
] ] estimated $93.3 million during the three-day session and
] ] a staggering $135.8 million since its release late
] ] Wednesday night.
]
] I foresee the hacker culture suddenly becoming very
] mainstream...

I don't see it as the hacker culture so much as the gamer culture. One of the news magazine shows, I can't remember which, interviewed a guy coming out of the movie and his quote was, "This is porn for hackers." That's bullshit. Porn is porn for hackers. This is porn for gamers, because it works just like a game - your physical motions are isolated from your mental desires, allowing a 400 pound guy drinking a Big Gulp of Mountain Dew to perform acrobatic kung fu faster than he can down a Twinkie.

The Matrix saga is a damn good story, but I don't see it being a catalyst for bringing more than just the gaming side of the hacker subculture into mainstream. Just my $0.02 out of $136M.

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