When I first saw the commercial for this movie I was wondering why the fuck they need to specify that they need a blackhat hacker when I think most people won't even know what the difference between blackhat and whitehat is supposed to be.
Just say you need a hacker.
Because people then wonder what that is, since they've never heard of it, and google it at home... then the movie is in their heads, and they have an opinion about the movie... boom... marketing.
$14,855,535.63 = The collective average of EVERY guess so far in this thread! Let's see how smart you really are Giant Bomb posters. *it took forever... and now I'm really good at entering numbers with the numpad...
If there's any hope left for humanity, exactly one person will mistake this for Thor 3, buy a ticket, and walk out. He'll then spread the word about how terrible this looks, and people will call him the Movie Messiah and obey his command to stay the fuck away.
It looks terrible/boring (maybe its not, but the trailers look cliche as all hell) and is going up against a kids movie, a comedy and a Clint Eastwood movie, hah, yeah, even with one star in it who could be considered bankable this is gonna stiiiink/floooop. I was going to go with 10 originally buuuuut everybody else is so close to that number that screw it, I'm gonna go low.
Man, people really have no hope for this movie. In the sense of it being good, I mean. It totally is fine. Mann explores his usual hyper-masculine traits and thanks to the slightly asinine script he accidentally sort of ends up laying out some of his chauvinistic tendencies. It's fascinating. The action, especially in terms of audio (the music, gunshots and ambient sound melts together so well) is exquisite. I also appreciate the silly, abstract metallic layers with electricity moving across them because Mann leans into those fucking things. He lets them breathe. He escalates them from dumb gimmicky shots to dumb abstractions.
Poor reviews, January Release Date (which most established filmgoers - Blackhat's target audience - know means disaster), and plenty of competition from Golden Globes/Oscar hype, Sniper, and football.
If this movie doesn't seem that good, there's still an intense cyberpunk-but-now tech thriller that is out.
CITIZENFOUR
I want to see that movie soooooo bad. Can't wait.
I knew some stuff about the Snowden case, but didn't realise in perspective how much of a dystopian cyberpunk future we actually live in right now. Definitely makes me empathise with whistleblowers and the narrative by governments to convict them as "spies".
11,438,641 dollars and 19 cents, 23,728 popcorn bucket remnants, 56,146 soda cups with a mixture of soda, backwash and melted ice-water, 1,837 chewed bits of gum stuck to seats, 13 forgotten smartphones (probably 11 of which will later be reclaimed), and 1 metric ocean of miscellaneous litter. All of which, upon their strict instruction, is to be shipped directly to Messrs. Chris Hemsworth and Michael Mann.
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