Hack the Planet

Okay so we have "hacking" and then we have "hacking as done by Hollywood" and thus one might imagine "hacking as done by Bollywood". So. Much. Dancing. Hacking (or what passes for it) sometimes appears in computer games, though this can be a difficult fit as the frictonless spherical gamer of uniform density may lack the necessary domain specific knowledge and also the (in part due to the education system maybe not teaching) creativity to really test or learn a system. Gamers can figure things out (possibly on account of playing games, and maybe not so much the corporate widget factory) but that still leaves the domain specific knowledge for particular hacks, like what is this stack thing and why would I care? Hence games usually reaching for a mini-game, a puzzle or some sort of graph traversal with complications to learn and manage.

EVE hacking minigame with commentary in comic sans

One might see parallels with "sieges" and "sieges as done by what passes for Hollywood these days" on account of reality differing from where one has a story or vibe to sell. There can be degrees where the good stuff is both reasonably accurate while still entertaining, or then there's

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    <@dalenacio> Right lol. No one wants to watch a movie where they just
                 sit in Helm's Deep for six months bored out of their
                 skulls.
    <@smartledore> Someone watched Rings of Power? Amazon must be happy.