Genius can be so lonely

The Net. My beloved was kind enough to check out the public library's VHS copy. There was actually quite a wait for it. And yet no one I knew cared to watch it with me. So, here is what I love about this movie, and possibly what the creep who checked this out before me loves about it.

1. Sandra Bullock. Once upon a time I said she was my favorite actress because she was so perfectly mediocre. One should understand that to call her perfect is actually inaccurate because to be perfectly mediocre, she'd have to be mediocre at being mediocre. But she was better than mediocre, so she wasn't the perfect example of mediocre, so that means she actually WAS the best at being mediocre. She was great to watch - a likable and capable actress in unremarkable roles that she executed perfectly. Just delightfully bland and comfortable, like a blissful hour of sitting still in your own tepid bathwater.

2. I find the computer screens and commands to be refreshingly accurate. And in the flashes of DOS command screens, I think I saw Crystal Castles.

3. Angela is not saved by a man, and she ends up alone.

4. Angela does smart stuff!

5. The evil British man says "clever girl."

6. Remember when Dennis Miller was in movies? Yeah? He's in this one.

7. Angela's clothes suck and she is always showing off her mid-drift.

8. Carnival chase scene! There's a merry-go-round! Love 'em! Ooh, remember The Crush? And what's that other campy thriller...Strangers on a Train.

9. This movie is still relevant today! As Angela Bennett says, "Just think about it. Our whole world is sitting there on a computer. It's in the computer, everything: your, your DMV records, your, your social security, your credit cards, your medical records. It's all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It's like this little electronic shadow on each and everyone of us, just, just begging for someone to screw with, and you know what? They've done it to me, and you know what? They're gonna do it to you."