Movie #25: Antitrust

Her Take: I think the ridiculousness of this move can be best summed up by this phrase: “Murdered for code.” Yea. This movie is about Gary Winston, a loose amalgamation of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Except (?) he’s evil. Ryan Philippe is Milo, a Stanford graduate who takes a job for NURV to help program code for their new project Synapse which will connect all mobile digital devices worldwide. Or something. As he begins working, he becomes suspicious of where Gary gets his inspiration to solve coding problems. Then Milo uncovers a criminal underground at NURV and tries to expose it to the world. I know Britt loves this movie, but it is a little silly. I love the scene where Milo finds out someone in the DOJ is working for NURV. The camera does these hilarious quick cuts between Milo’s wide eyes and a photo on the wall. It’s kinda funny. Anyway, the movie is entertaining at least, so for that I will give it 3 stars.

His Take: OK. So I have to admit it. I am a nerd. A geek. A technoweenie. I’m pretty sure I would get kicked out of the club(yes that is the Lamer’s Guild, for all you non-technology geek movie fans out there) if I didn’t at least have Hackers in the collection. That of course is how it all starts. You find Hackers in the $5 bin, oh glorious glorious $5 bin. You begin wondering what other movies out there can satisfy your technolust. A quick google search and another trip to the $5 dollar bin and you end up with Wargames, Sneakers, and Antitrust in the collection as well. This one definitely has its issues. It is more a thriller attempting to make a political statement about technological economies than an actual movie about computer hackers. Though there is enough in here to make it worthwhile. My personal favorite is the “code poet” tshirt Teddy wears that he obv got from Thinkgeek.com. I’m enjoying the bat-shit crazies Tim Robbins is playing later in his career, and I love going around saying, “The compression is great. Who’s doing this?” So in conclusion, you take the thriller out and what you have left left is…well…not a lot. But it should be enough to geek out over. (I bet the grammar geeks are going to love that last sentence.) 3 out of 5.