"The Net" with Sandra Bullock (1995)

Incredibly unrealistic, but fun. Sandy was great in it.

The most dated thing in the movie is Dennis Miller.

This is the best movie ever made.

Haven't thought about that movie in years, but it was fun!

I thought she was a bad daughter for not taking care of her mother who had Alzheimer's/Dementia. I was glad she started taking care of her at the end, but I didn't realize it's so difficult to take care of someone like that, until now that I have a family member with it.

I thought she was a bad daughter for not taking care of her mother who had Alzheimer's/Dementia. I was glad she started taking care of her at the end, but I didn't realize it's so difficult to take care of someone like that, until now that I have a family member with it.

The trailer. So dramatic!

Piece of shit movie. Terrible.

I loved Sandy's massive desktop monitor.

Jeremy Northam was sex on a stick in The Net. With or without a gimlet.

Definitely, r9.

I saw it but don't remember the premise.

R11 me too

I am Angela Bennett!

I remember finding this really entertaining as a kid. I can’t imagine it’s held up well.

The Sweetheart Saves The InterWebs!

What R9 said. Fucking hottie.

I remember a Reader's Digest article about young Sandra enthusing about search engines. What a gal of her times.

Sandra Bullock gets caught... in the NET, R11

Haha!! Yes, I went to see it when it came out (I was maybe in 8th or 9th grade or so). We really were not addicted to the internet back then (AOL, dial-up, Netscape, etc.). I remember the plot being so novel and alarming back then. Honestly, I don't remember much but Northam was definitely hot.

Obscure info: The actor who plays the computer tech guy who sent "Angela" the virus to look at and ends up crashing his plane (because the Praetorians made it happen) wrote and directed the great show "Rectify."

Thought it was very poorly done as much as I like Sandy. A movie that came out around the same time with a similar plot line was The Pelican Brief which was done solo much better even though I abhor Julia Roberts.

Sandra was such a goddess in this film, saving the world from dial up Internet hackers!

I loved that she was supposed to be like an "incel" type. Never left her house, no friends who weren't online. So believable.

Love this movie. Ahead of its time.

Didn't Blythe Danner play her mom?

R24 - yet unfortunately dated by the time of it's release. The problems of centering a movie around "current" technology - it's inevitable.

Such fugly websites!

True fact and very funny - I was an extra in that film many moons go when I was interested in acting. It was filmed in San Francisco. I just remember being excited seeing Sandy pass by on set. Of all the extra work I did at the time, I got the most onscreen time from this movie. I guessing it was filmed in 1994 when I was taking a year off from school. 1994/1995. I was in the scene towards the end where the employees of the company are evacuated when Sandy pulls the fire alarm. I’m the black kid in glasses and suspenders standing on the right side of the screen when the bad girl is waiting to get back in. I think I have like 1 or 2 seconds on screen. I haven’t seen it for years, but get a kick out of seeing 19 yo me from time to time.

^Neat, r28!

I just remember her ordering pizza online and wishing I could do that! Look at us now.

R28, did you get to fuck Jeremy N?

Everyone in IT and Security loves this movie - just to make fun of the inanity of it. Until the improbably awful CSI :Cyber came along, nothing was this awful

I had a college professor that supposedly knew Sandra Bullock. He was a theater teacher. He said she couldn't act for shit, but got acting jobs because she was so annoyingly persistent towards casting directors. He was a Narcissistic prick. He didn't even finish out the semester. He decided to go try his hand at acting instead.

How'd that work out? Was he annoyingly persistent?

This film is comedy gold!

I still love it. My least favorite part used to be when Dennis Miller gets the wrong meds and he gets sick, now I look forward to it considering he's such an asshole.

Have they done a 'The Net -- LIVE!!!' ala 'Point Break' yet?

r33 I haven't seen him anything, so I guess it didn't work out for him.

It's dated but some of the ideas in the script are even more relevant now. A reboot could be interesting - although like r26 points out anything based around technology is dated even before it's released.

The story is not that far from what would happen in the future. Identity theft, malignant hackers.

R39 - I remember that being scary and maybe 4 or so years later - boom I had identity theft from somewhere in Germany on my bank account. Fun fact, your bank treats you like shit and isn't helpful in slightest (if your bank happens to be Bank of America anyway). Thank God that I was still in college and didn't have all that much money take really. Their "advice" was piss poor and I was hit a second time. I changed banks soon after.

R25, No, Diane Baker.

It's dated, but not as dated as "War Games".

Someone up thread mentioned "The Pelican Brief".

Now that was a really, really stupid movie.

Law student Julia writes a brief suggesting who killed 2 Supreme Court justices and why. She gives a copy to her professor who passes it on to his friend in the FBI who passes it on to the powers that be. So, the "brief" is out there, seen by lots of people.

But the bad guys are spending their time trying to kill Julia because she wrote the brief. The brief that has been passed around to all sorts of people.

Why?

Makes no sense at all.

It was way better than Hackers! Sorry Angelina fans..

I loved War Games.

R43 is spot on. The Pelican Brief literally is a cure for insomnia. I can't make it through the film if you played it at noon.

This thread makes me wanna see it again just to see how it's held up.

#28, did she try to adopt you?

Along with 'Speed' and 'While You Were Sleeping,' this helped catapult Sandra into A-list.

i remember seeing it in the theater and it was soo cutting edge

[Quote] We really were not addicted to the internet back then (AOL, dial-up, Netscape, etc.).

So it was too early for asl?

r49, don't forget the one where she cries in a southern accent.

John Grisham based movies were all the rage in the 90's. To the person who questioned the plot...everyone who read the brief was killed except for the author.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but can someone start a Pelican Brief thread so we can get back to discussing Sandy and her internets woes.

It’s still better than that Keanu Reeves thing the same year.

Well, it' certainly no TRON

I didn't tell you about the second disk!

I love the ending. I won’t sit through the whole move though

I don't even remember how it ended, R58.

Enemy of the State is another one that's both dated and unsettlingly prescient. Unfortunately in the real world, Will Smith would have been discredited and Jon Voigt would have prevailed and ended up as a silent partner in some future tech giant and got them a massive government contract that would have guaranteed them market dominance. Gene Hackman would have met with an unfortunate accident.

I liked the movie.

$14 for a large, three-topping pizza in 1995? Ripoff.

Damn, Sandra was eating a whole large pizza by herself? And yes $14 was way too high in 1995.

The pizza had to come all the way from cyberspace, of course it was expensive.

I love when she smashes the computer in anger.

Didn't they make food out of real ingredients back then though?

Mozart’s Ghost, The most basic graphic interface to the secret Praetorian web accompanied by horrible music.

Jeremy Northam was such a beauty then.

Julia's acting was amateurish in The Pelican Brief.

I rewatched this recently when I was in the mood for a cheesy movie. It's hilarious!

r45, I loved War Games too

in 1983.

How insanely stupid was it to assassinate two Supreme Court Justices at the same time? The oil tycoon deserved to get caught.

It's actually not that bad if you know absolutely nothing about the Internet.

Should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.

They should remake it, shot for shot, with Sandra in the same role again and just update the tech. But, confusingly, they should call it The Net 2.0, even though it'll be a remake not a sequel.

I liked this movie even though it was silly.

My mother died of Alzheimer’s two years ago, I was her caregiver for the final year of her life. She loved "The Net". Whenever I needed a break or a quick nap, I would play it for her and she would be transfixed for roughly two hours. Worked every time. When I had her ashes buried, I included the DVD.

I loved the busybody neighbor when they were talking about temporary visas. "Do they do that? I don't think they do that!"

I walked out of the movie. Numbingly dull.

r80, wrong!

I love Annie Lennox playing wistfully in the background as Sanda orders a large anchovy pizza.

r76, they already made a "sequel" called The Net 2.0

This movie is DL catnip. A shut-in who gets swept away by a hot guy with a British accent.

Isn't she lez? And how disgusting to eat all that pizza as a character. I would never play anyone like that. I woulda had a rewrite done.

R64- And still looked good in a bikini.

Hot Northam.

[Quote] The most dated thing in the movie is Dennis Miller.

It's weird to see him in such serious movies like The Net and Disclosure. He should've stuck to stuff like Bordello Of Blood. At least he got to be the lead in that.

What in the world is she drinking at R82?

Magnesium Citrate with maraschino cherries.

Who would think The Net would be more well-liked on DL than The Big Chill?

r91 well I mean 'The Net' was the best movie ever made and 'The Big Chill' was middle aged yuppie bourgeois faux angst. 'The Net' had The Sweetheart playing a shut-in. And the 'The Big Chill' had Jennifer Tilly's sister and either John Hurt or John Heard, one of whom should have chosen a different stage name, and an inappropriately juxtaposed Motown soundtrack for a movie about a bunch of white suburbanites. 'The Net' had suspense and a shirtless Jeremy Northam and a pithy, bitter heroine. 'The Big Chill' had apologies. Who wouldn't prefer 'The Net'?

What's the movie where either John Hurt or John Heard goes into an isolation tank and devolves into protean man? They should have combined that script with the script from The Big Chill, if they wanted The Big Chill to be better. But maybe the combined version of those scripts is Jacob's Ladder.

Who was the actress playing the fake Angela? I don't recall ever seeing her in any other films.

I'm gonna smoke a joint and watch this film again

[italic]Altered States[/italic], r93.

Thank you, r96.

ya'll got me watching this.

[quote]Well, it' certainly no TRON

TRON has Jeff Bridges in his prime taking his shirt off with him and Bruce Boxleitner (also in his prime) playing frisbee and driving computer-generated race cars in spandex unitards. What does this movie offer in that respect by comparison?

I really liked this movie when it came out. I haven’t thought of floppy discs in forever...floppy dicks yeah, but not discs.

Dennis Miller? Bah!

LMAO @ r100

watta crapfest!

Y'all seem to be fuhgettin' that I did this same story first and bettah! Suck it, sugahs!

R104 sadly i didn't forget because i never finished watching The Bionic Woman.

R28 here. Yes I saw Jeremy Northam in person. And yes he did make me tingle down there. I also remember being struck by how much makeup actors wear to make them appear normal on camera. What appears as tosseled hair is actually maticulously crafted, mostly for continuity. It has to stay exactly the same for hours on end.

Even when I was on set, I was aware of how similar this was to Jumping Jack Flash, another great camp fest from the 80s no one has mentioned.

Jumping Jack Flash with Whoopie Goldberg is hysterical.

Better days.

Dennis Miller had such range in this movie. They should've just put him behind a desk in all his scenes.

I preferred hackers

Which episode of The Bionic Woman was similar in plot to The Net?

I wish we could go back to this time.

I miss floppy disks. It reminded me of the first time I jerked off.

The film responsible for my Jeremy Northam addiction!

He does some stage-work, but not enough. He's a classically trained thespian besides a film star.

A very sexy smoker, to put icing on the cake.

WIsh he'd do more stuff.... of various kinds, but he probably has a nice English upper-middle- class life and it doesn't get much better than that. I believe his father's an Oxford don.

“The Rural Juror” was the best movie adaptation of one of Grisham’s novels. So much better than “The Pelican Brief”!

It was a really fun movie. Of course it doesn't hold up that well, but at the time people knew nothing about the internet and it all seemed plausible enough.

I hope that when the scientists figure out how to unsplit the universe and send us back to a time when Berenstain was spelled Berenstein that they'll choose The Net's opening a weekend as our arrival location.