The best thing about technology is that it always advances; it never stands still. One of the beneficiaries of technology is the film industry. Technology has advanced the film industry in the way movies get made. Everyone involved in filmmaking can admit how technology has made their work far easier.
For an audience, one doesn’t need to go to a theatre to watch a film, for streaming services have allowed viewers to enjoy streaming their favorite show at the comfort of their home. One genre in that technology has had a big role in filmmaking is the horror genre, for it consists of lightning techniques that play a huge role in filmmaking.
If you are a fan of the horror genre, you will find top horror movies on Hulu. There, you will have a selection of great horror movies.
Films that concentrate more on technology and get it right are mentioned below.
Ex Machina
Director: Alex Garland
Writer: Alex Garland
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
A young programmer gets selected to participate in a scientific experiment involving robots. There, he sees himself as a human component to test Ava’s level of consciousness of artificial intelligence (A.I.).
Ava is a beautiful robot lady who they come to realize that she’s self-aware in a way that they couldn’t have imagined. The technology in the film shows what would be needed to create something like Ava.
While We’re Young
Director: Noah Baumbach
Writers: Noah Baumbach, Henrik Ibsen, Wallace Shawn
Cast: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver
IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
Josh (Ben Stiller), together with his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts), is having a boring relationship. They suffer from not having children. So, things haven’t been working out well for the two. But it all changes when they befriend a young married couple, Jamie and Darby.
The film shows how technology affects us and the difference between the young and the old approach. The film shows all about technology and observations about it too.
The Net
Director: Irwin Winkler
Writers: John Brancato, Michael Ferris
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller
IMDb Rating: 6.0/10
Angela Bennet (Sandra Bullock) is a computer expert. She’s never far from a computer. The only time she’s not on her computer is when she has visited her mother. She has a friend named Dale Hessman (Ray McKinnon), who she only talks with online or via phone. He needs her help as he has a glitch program and needs her to debug it for him.
Afterward, a program puts her life and those around her in great danger.
Office Space
Director: Mike Judge
Writer: Mike Judge
Cast: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) works in the software company Initech. Peter, together with his two friends Samir and Michael Bolton, all hate their jobs. Peter realizes that his best friends will be demoted, and the three decide to plant a virus in the banking system in an attempt to steal money from the company.
In the attempt, Michael makes a big mistake. Unfortunately, the Office Space shows how a simple technology mistake can prove costly.
Robot & Frank
Director: Jake Schreier
Writer: Christopher Ford
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Frank is a former jewel thief who suffers from dementia. He lives all alone, though he has a son named Hunter who tries to take care of him from afar. Hunter decides to get him a gift to help him look after his father. He gets him a programmed robot that helps take care of his needs.
Frank comes to realize that the robot can be very useful to him. So, he goes back to his former ways of being a thief and introduces it to a life of crime, and both build a heist team.
The Social Network
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Aaron Sorkin, Ben Mezrich
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Mark Zuckerberg, is a programming genius; he created a social website that would later be known as Facebook. Things turn on him as two twins suggest he stole their idea and sue him for it. Here, he gets a lawsuit.
The Social Network is a film that concentrates on technology. However, it also shows all about coding and hacking.
Her
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Spike Jonze
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson
IMDb Rating: 8.0/10
Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a letter writer; he writes letters for other people. But, unfortunately, he’s heartbroken and all alone after his marriage ends. So, he buys an artificial intelligence by the name of Samantha to help him with his writing.
He comes to realize that Samantha isn’t just an A.I. but a consciousness. Samantha has a playful personality, something Theodore was missing. Theodore starts to fall in love.
Sneakers
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Writer: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
A security expert sees his past coming back to haunt him when they are given a task to retrieve an important item.
The movie was spot on as to how the government information technology worked. The movie Sneakers was listed as the best technology movie of all time.
Conclusion
The above mentioned are the films that managed to get the technology right. However, some of the films above also consist of lessons that we can learn from technology.