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news Sometimes terrible movies -- the ones with such bad acting, wow gold dumb dialogue and cheesy special effects that they're unintentionally hilarious -- are the ones we remember the most. No genre is immune, wow gold but movies about technology -- ominous Web sites, evil hackers and so on -- seem to fail more often than not. Maybe that's because it's hard to dramatize someone sitting at a computer. Maybe it's because Hollywood doesn't understand tech. So that got us thinking about the worst tech movies ever made. Not science fiction movies, with their planet-killing asteroids, journeys to the Earth's center, and homicidal dinosaurs, but movies about the digital world. Movies with technology that, even by Hollywood standards, is ridiculous. For help, we enlisted some people who either know about movies or technology or both: Steven James Snyder, a film critic for Time magazine's Techland; Matt Atchity, the editor-in-chief of Rotten Tomatoes, the movie site; and Sidney Perkowitz, a physicist at Emory University and the author of "Hollywood Science: Movies, Science and the end of the World." "There are good movies that have bad tech in them," Atchity says. "And then there are bad movies with bad tech." Read Steven Snyder's list of the best sci-fi movies of the decade Bad movies, bad tech -- here's our list, which is by no means comprehensive or definitive. You probably have strong opinions about what movies should and shouldn't be on this list. So, post your comments below and we just may include them in a future story. Antitrust (2001) Ryan Phillippe is a computer whiz kid who's hired by NURV, a software company led by a guy named Gary Winston (played by Tim Robbins). Winston has ambitions of constructing a giant communications system which will transform the world. Winston -- a character who appears to be based on Microsoft's Bill Gates -- turns out to be a ruthless man who'll "stop at nothing" to launch his project. Milo learns the meaning behind the movie's tag line: "A good idea can get you millions. A great idea can get you killed." Despite the argument it makes about open source software, what earns the movie a spot on the list is the absurdist ends it takes the stereotype of the evil, massive tech corporation bent on destroying anyone in its path. My favorite line in the movie, to quote Winston: "This business is binary. You're a one or a zero -- alive or dead." ...

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