Network (1976) and films that have become more relevant since their release

I'm not going to act like this is my idea, so let me just go ahead an credit The A/V Club, but the movie Hackers was both a product of its time and ahead of its time:

A vast swath of “The Conscience Of A Hacker,” a.k.a. the Hacker Manifesto, is read verbatim in Hackers...touting a borderless world, one free from the biases of national, religious, and racial identity, and committed to taking down the powerful. Phrases like “the beauty of the baud” may root the quote firmly in another time and place—a time and place where computer whiz kids marvel at the cheetah-speed of a 28.8-baud modem. (If those born in the year Hackers came out were ever forced to operate at a 28.8-baud rate, they’d likely jam an icepick into their skull.) But the basic principles of digital rebellion haven’t changed from 1995 to 2012, and with the ascendancy of Anonymous, WikiLeaks, LulzSec, and other chaos agents, Hackers is the rare film that’s both amusingly dated and eerily prescient. And that’s to say nothing of the elfin charms of a young Angelina Jolie.

Wired said something similar about Fight Club:

Fight Club has yet to age; indeed, its time may still not have truly arrived. The movie addressed build-your-life-around-our-brand consumerism well before the cult of the iPod was founded, and it provided an inadvertent blueprint for the sort of decentralized, shits-and-giggles anarchy that would later be adopted by web collectives like Anonymous. When people watch it 50 years from now, they’ll probably assume it was made in 2011 or 2021 or whatever bleak period it will have turned out to presage.

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