Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers?

Hacking is for the most part automated and boring. The movies make it way more exciting than it really is. True there is a rush when you accomplish something but most of the time is spent l learning about what defense the network you are trying to breach and trying to find something you can exploit. Movies don't show the 100 times a hacker fails they show the one time they succeed!

Because what they do would make most people's eyes gloss over and the movie would bomb. I know because I have tried to explain some of what they do to military leaders and learned there really isn't much I can tell them that they would understand or be interested in.

Still, I do find it annoying to watch movie depict a hacker who can "tap" into virtually any system, regardless of the network it would likely run on, in seconds. Not only can they break in, but they automatically seem to have the software to view the data they need (which they automatically know exactly where to find), shortly after breaking in.

Because they don't know any hackers... and a movie of a hacker sitting on his nerd chair typing away at a keyboard drinking my dew code red is more boring than Warhol's movie e empire... 8 hour still of the empire state building set to classical music