Hacker Cinema
8MM
1999 · Film · 123 min
Directed by Joel Schumacher
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
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I have no problem to defend Drive against Fugitive, Fugitive aged really bad and it feels like cheap TV movie, Drive is obviously much newer, has great cinematography, great score, atmosphere, nice action and aged really good despite being 11 years already (but I am not really some big fan of Drive, just saying it's better than Fugitive). Btw. just because something is "stupid action flick" it doesn't mean it can't be good at it, you can have good stupid action flicks and you can have bad stupid action flicks. I don't usually watch stupid action flicks (I'm more (social) drama guy), but when I do I want to watch the good ones.
I'm recently rewatching movies starting from 90s and while The Rock was still enjoyable even in 2022 (8mm or Absolute power were meh, same as already back then), I remember Fugitive being pretty bad already many years ago. Movies like Die Hard, Speed, Con Air, Mission impossible, Enemy of the state, were all better than Harrison action movies, which always felt like cheap TV movies with low production value. Meanwhile we have 2 year newer Heat, which is still for sure in top 5 best action/crime movies ever and aged amazingly and could easily beat any day any new action/crime movie. The production value and director skills are on completely different level than Harrison action movies. I just checked the most famous Harrison action movies I remember from 90s - Fugitive, Clear and Present danger, The Devil's Own and Air Force one - all 4 have different director, 3 directors nobody remembers and 4th only thanks to Das Boot.
Early? Current internet has bum fights, killings, maimings, decapitations, prostitutes pissing on produce in grocery stores or masturbating with beer bottles from the shelf, people in India committing suicide by high voltage line (no ide a why, but very popular there), moped drivers falling into oncoming truck and getting popped like an ant, etc etc. Its all available now in greatest number to date, some of it you can even pay someone to make you tailor made snuff movie. theync is a real life 8mm (1999) times 100 every single day.
If there is a fetish or interest in a specific topic, there will be sites faking the shots for more sales - all about supply and demand. There are then obviously also the people with real content that are looking to share that as well. It's like the movie 8mm - they are searching for proof of a snuff film, and while everyone says they don't exist, and all the ones they find are fakes, they finally uncover the one they are holding on to is indeed real. The majority of those sites will be fake - but there will be some that are real as well.