We always talk about technology and advancements in
technology. But one field that is most benefited from the development of
technology is film industry. Every year Billions of dollars are spend on technology
by the producers to make their movies as effective as possible. Many movies come
with the technology that we can see in future and the possible development in
the field.
Let’s see few movies which are based on the latest
technology and hacking. This list is made by me and no further explanation will
be provided.
Matrix
series:
Release:
The Matrix – 1999 8.7/10-IMDb
The Matrix Reloaded – 2003 7.1/10-IMDb
The Matrix Revolutions – 2003 6.6/10-IMDb
DIRECTOR: The Wachowski Brothers.
CAST: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne
Moss, Hugo Weaving. Jada Pinkett Smith,
Harry J. Lennix, Harold Perrineau.
PLOT: These movies present a totally different and
new idea of the World in the year 2199. According to movie entire world is a
computer program called MATRIX. Entire earth is being controlled by Machines
and the population of real human beings is very less. Human beings live on a
different place and they are fighting against the machine. There are many
hackers in the systems who are trying to get out of the system and help the
Mankind. There are some protectors of the system also but one of them turned
into a virus and tried to destroy the entire system. The entire movie is
posturized in very innovative and technology based manner.
Flash
of Genius:
Release: October 3, 2008
IMDb Rating: 6.8
DIRECTOR: Marc Abraham.
CAST: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan
Alda.
PLOT: This movie is all about an inventor who spent
his entire life to invent a device called modern intermittent windshield wiper.
After the completion of the device he took it to several Automobile companies
but all of them reject his device, but after some time they (automobile
manufacturers) introduce that device in their vehicles. He then went to the
Supreme Court against the companies and after a long fight he finally got $30
million for the Automobile Company.
TRANSFORMER:
Release:
Transformers (2007)
IMDb Rating: 7.1
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(2009) IMDb Rating: 5.9
Transformers: Dark of the Moon(2011) IMDb Rating: 6.3
DIRECTOR: Michael
Bay
CAST: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese
Gibson, Rachael Taylor, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson
PLOT:
It is a series of American Science fiction action film. In
this plane some creatures from other planet comes to Earth. They have a very
unique feature to transform their shape and size. Mainly they found in the
shape of automobile. Director Michael Bay has present very innovative ideas.
The whole story is based on the problems that the people of earth faces while
accommodating these creatures here. Sometime creatures from other planet also
came in the search of these and cause a lot of trouble form humans. The
technology shown in the picture is outstanding and the technology used is also
awesome. Producers spend Millions of dollars to give perfect look using
Technology.
DIE
HARD 4.0
IDMb Rating : 7.3
DIRECTOR: Len
Wiseman
CAST: Bruce
Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan
Sadowski.
PLOT: This
movie presents a new mean of terrorism - "THE INTERNET". Instead of
using physical weapon like gun or bullet some hackers are getting involved in
crime using Internet. These criminals attack the entire government of U.S.A.
They took traffic light system, Communication, broadcasting Stock Market and
many other basic requirements under their control. After that they start
blackmailing the government. In this movie an old fashioned cop John McClane
(Bruce Willis) try to stop the attacks with the help of another hacker. This
movie gives us a clear idea of the crimes that we will encounter in coming
future.
EAGLE
EYE:
IMDb Rating: 6.5
DIRECTOR: D.J. Caruso
CAST: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson,
Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton.
PLOT: In this thriller movie Director D.J. Caruso has
shown a very advanced technology. According to the movie after 9/11 U.S.A. develops
a system with the help of which they are able to keep an eye on each and every
citizen. The system takes the input from each and every camera installed in the
country and tries to find out if there is possibility of any crime in advance.
In this way two strangers become the victim of the system. They are innocent but
due to the fact that the system thought they would be involve in the crime they
have to run and become the most wanted criminals in the U.S.A. the movie shows
how these two fight against the system and get justice. This movie presents
ugly part of technology.
TRON
Legacy
IMDb Rating: 6.8
DIRECTOR: Joseph
Kosinski and John Lasseter
CAST: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde,
Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Beau Garrett, Michael Sheen, Anis Cheurfa.
PLOT: This movie deals with very advanced computer
game. According to movie Kevin Flynn a software engineer and CEO of ENCOM
International disappears in 1989. Twenty years later his son Sam becomes
ENCOM's major shareholder and takes interest in the company. An ENCOM executive
and friend of Sam's father Alan Bradley asks Sam to investigate a strange
message that he received from his father's shuttered video arcade. Sam discovers
a large computer in a hidden basement. Soon he finds himself in a virtual world
which was created by his father. And very soon he became a part of "THE
GAME". He was playing game in this virtual world but once he got injured
and starts bleeding then the real problem starts. He has to fight for his life
and try to get back in the real world again, for that he has to will the game.
The action is super awesome.
INCEPTION
IMDb Rating : 8.8
DIRECTOR:
Christopher Nolan
CAST:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe,
Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Pete Postlethwaite.
PLOT: This
movies presents a very high level technology. In the movie Dom Cobb (Leonardo
DiCaprio) doesn't steal things; he steals ideas, by projecting himself in deep
minds of a subconscious person. In the movie Dom Cobb went to many level of
dreams to project himself and make everything realistic. Till the end it was
not very much clear that weather he return back from the dream or not. This
technique was a kind of weapon for him, but every weapon has its weakness and
he loose everything in his life.
Iron
Man Series
IRON MAN - 2008
IMDb Rating: 7.9
IRON MAN 2 - 2010
IMDb Rating: 7
IRON MAN 3 -2013
IMDb Rating: 7.4
DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau
CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff
Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb and Samuel L. Jackson .
PLOT: This movie is all about an inventor and billionaire
Tony Stark who is the owner of STARK INDUSTRIES, which deals in weapons. In
some bad condition he was able to make a huge robot kind of structure and after
that he try to develop it as much as possible. There were many people who try
to copy that model and try to do some evil things but TONY STARK(IRON MAN)
stand against them and protect the people. In the movie they present many
autonomous bots that just follow the orders. The technology used in this move
is really outstanding.
Avatar
Directed By: James Cameron
Written By: James Cameron
CAST: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver,
Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi.
PLOT: This movie is set in mid-22nd century, when
humans start mining for a precious mineral "UNOBTANIUM" on a
different planet Called Pandora. Humans develop a technology by which they can
be transformed in the creatures that will look like exactly as the habitants of
Pandora. Humans try to talk to the people of Pandora but when they didn't agree
to migrate from their planet they started planning to use weapons to remove
them. Some of the human beings were against of this so they went in between
Pandora people and try to agree them. But when Jack was there with Pandora
people he fell in love with the princess of Pandora. He also finds their
culture and way of living is very much dependent on the place where they were
mining. So, he decided to fight for the Pandora people. The technology used in
the movie is really outstanding.
WALL-E
IMDb Rating: 8.4
Director: Andrew Stanton
Story: Andrew
Stanton and Pete Docter
Release date: June
23, 2008

Plot: It is an computer animated movie. According to the
movie around year 2105 there will be no place for the human to live on the
Earth due to excess decades and used wastage. Then the mega-corporation Buy 'n'
Large(BnL) evacuates Earth's population in very advanced spaceships. The BnL
promised that they will try to restart the life on this planet again and so
they assign the works to various robots called Waste Allocation Load Lifter -
Earth (WALL-E). But they abendone the people of earth and shut down the WALL-E
program. But one bot remains active and it try to survive and continue doing
it's basic work. After 700 years that is in 2805 one spaceship along with a
very advanced bot was send by BnL on Earth to check the possibility of life.
WALL-E fell in love with this advanced bot called EVE. Then they fight against
BnL and again try to bring human beings of their own planet EARTH.
Conclusion
:
If you think that we have skipped any movie which should
come under top 10 list, then you can add them in comments below. Because we all
love varieties. Also tell us which movie you like most.
Author’s Bio
Prince Kumar is pursuing a degree in
B.Tech in electronics and communication engineering from VIT University. He has
a keen interest in latest developments in the field of communication engineering and a strong passion for robotics and automobiles. His posts are
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