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Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Tonight's movie was a digital presentation of a mid 90's classic that put Angelina Jolie and Matthew Lillard on the map, Hackers.
Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Tonight's movie was a digital presentation of a mid 90's classic that put Angelina Jolie and Matthew Lillard on the map, Hackers.
Hackers premiered when I was fifteen years old. The internet was in its infancy as a consumer product at the time, and its growing role in the world seemed to spark a wave of action, sci-fi, and horror films that were centered around the dark side of technology. The best of these, in my view, was The Matrix, but it came at the end of a decade that included The Net, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor, Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man and its sequel, and I'm sure many others that I've forgotten about. Hackers kind of got lost in the shuffle for me, so tonight was my first time seeing it. Based on nothing other than my memory of the poster and the VHS box art, I expected it to be kind of cheese, and I suppose that some parts of it are, but it's a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
