Talk:The Net (1995 film)

critical response
The part about ordering pizza and IP addresses is irrelevant to the critical response to the movie.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.215.129.59 (talk) 14:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

dot-wrld?
When Angela searches for Praetorian, in the Jeff Gregg file is the email address JG@gms.wrld

Let's meet Wikipedias struggle to quality by wikifying
Let's wikify this. A wall of text hurts the eyes. Boring. Painful to read.

IP Address of Greg WhoIS Search
Does anyone know the IP address that Angela Bennett searches for on the software company's network? It was used for the whois lookup that she conducted during the building evacuation. I could have sworn I saw .345.200 at the end. Can anyone confirm this? -- Tuvok  ^ Talk 18:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I just watched it, and I think so, yes. 97.104.129.174 (talk) 05:15, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

on the beach
I removed "and some sort of connectivity device (perhaps an early cellular modem)." from where Angela is on the beach with her laptop because she says to Devlin, 'where can I plug in my modem', implying that she's not connected.

cultural references?
i'm just watching the film. there are some points i'm realizing:


 * Angela works for Cathedral Software, somehow remembers me of the cathedral and the basar from e.s.raymond! Anyone else? (Well i don't know if that was published then yet, it could be a link nevertheless)
 * The way the Gatekeeper Software gets adopted by everyone seems like when people and corps started switching from home brew (mostly un*x) systems to well Microsoft Windows platforms.

The ip getting whoised (at the end, in cathedralsoft at fake-Angelas Workstation) is 23.75.345.200 BTW.

Hairmare 20:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, finally! Thank you! I could have sworn I saw an invalid IP there. I suppose the directors wanted to make sure they didn't use a real IP. IPs only go up to 255. -- Tuvok  ^ Talk 20:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * They should have used a real IP - one that pointed to the movies official website (they had those back then, right?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.100.52.87 (talk) 04:50, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Wrong cast list
I edited out Christopher Lloyd and Gilbert Gottfried from the cast list, because they were clearly not in this film.--Ccoolidge 21:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wolfenstein 3D
Interesting fact about the making of this film:

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7149/johncarmackthenetsandra.png —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.99.28.223 (talk) 02:10, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

What is the statue/monument seen at about 2:25?
I noticed that as the secretary suicidally fires the gun, the view is panning up to a monument in the park that he chooses to die at. Is there an article for this monument, and is the monument of any significance to some abstraction that's meant to be drawn, like maybe how the secretary is drowning in sorrow/regret? At any rate, if there's an article, I think this article should link to it. --Macks2008 (talk) 18:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

It's a sculpture named "The Awakening" at the National Harbor near Washington DC.The_Awakening (sculpture) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.18.1.126 (talk) 02:57, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Sequel\ Spin-off serials
The page states that The Net 2.0 is a sequel, whereas The Net (1998) is a spin-off. I don't exactly get why, since the '98 serial follows the same protagonist - Angela - whereas The Net 2.0 is about a completely different character in a different setting. Should it be changed?--92.114.148.141 (talk) 09:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Homage to "Notorious" 1943
Watch "The Net" immediately after "Notorious" to appreciate the many references to the 1943 film. Annathefilmbuff (talk) 18:41, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Correction: "Notorious" is 1946 film, not 1943 Annathefilmbuff (talk) 18:59, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Please review WP:NOTCHAT. Talk pages are for discussing improvements to the article, not just discussing the subject. If you're proposing we add information to the article to this effect, it would be helpful to know whether any reliable sources have discussed these references. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 19:15, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

I would like the information added to the article. Nobody ever seems to mention it but it is blindingly obvious when you watch the two films one after the other. Annathefilmbuff (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Cool, but doing so without an RS would be original research, no matter how blindingly obvious it may be. DonIago (talk) 01:41, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

OK. It is verifiable though, simply by watching the two films. I won't bother you again! Annathefilmbuff (talk) 07:33, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * When we discuss comparisons between two films, or films and their novelizations, or what-not, we include reliable sources both to establish that what we're pointing out has been verified by either someone involved with the production of the film or at least a professional critic or such (i.e. we're not just seeing something we want to see), but also that the comparison we're discussing was considered significant enough to merit some discussion in sources. Otherwise, for instance, every article discussing an episode of The Simpsons would end up buried in pop culture references made by editors trying to "catch 'em all", if you will. Hope this is helpful! DonIago (talk) 12:40, 28 September 2021 (UTC)