A few years ago my company's system administrator hired this type of company to see how hackproof the employees' login passwords were. She told us if they were able to hack in, "you'll be hearing from me directly." All I could think of was this movie.
someone figured out how to get Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and David Straitharn into the same movie and then added Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd, and James Earl Jones and I remain in awe of whomever did that.
Very different movies about people dealing with their choices during the hippie era and the lives they have in the 90s. Both have themes of, it's not the 60s anymore. But somehow we haven't really moved on from that era as grown ups. They are almost coming of age films for adults.
Not at all. Father of the Bride is a midlife crisis film, Kevin Costner and Robert Redford don't have a crisis of conscience, they have a literal "their past has come back to haunt them." I wouldn't say they change their views on anything that drives the plots, they are more adventure films.
One of the first movies I can remember that clearly showed that information was even more powerful than money. Saw this in theater when it first came out. Is awesome.
A couple of months ago, someone from my former company asked me why I entered “Setec Astronomy” in a contact record of a person I thought was schizophrenic.
"Peace on earth and goodwill toward men"
"We're the United States government. We don't DO that sort of thing." - James Earl Jones
One of my favorite lines from this awesome sleeper!
don’t get me wrong. i LOVE that sneakers is understated and mature and realistic; that everything looks and feels totally normie.
so so so glad they didn’t go for that overwrought wannabe cyberpunk green wash and corbijn graininess and pink hair thing.
but to my ear, it sounds more like a particularly cheeky episode of remington steele from 1983, rather than the sharp, sophisticated, subtle 1995 hacker thriller that it is.
it had far too much elevator-smooth sentimentality, too much wink/nudge bounce, too much cop-show-cliché rat-a-tat.
a bit more edge and restraint for me, please and thank you.
definitely NOT saying it should have been scored by trent reznor.
but it could have at least sounded like it took place in a world where NIN exists, y’know?
"There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!"
Also:
"I cannot kill my friend"
*to henchman* "Kill my friend"
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
..
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
As a kid my dad rented that and copied it but screwed up the last maybe 2 or 3 minutes, which didn't bother him because he had seen it. Us kids had not and my dad was too cheap to rent it again. It was a good year or two before I finally got to see the end when it aired on cable.
His sudden paranoia is *entirely* justified but he’s been such a self absorbed creep that when he suddenly turns menacing it’s totally believable that he’s dangerous.
Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic. I saw Sneakers when it came out, and it didn't do much for me.
For a serious (& imho, more meaningful) techie conspiracy/thriller, see The Conversation starring Gene Hackman, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. (One of many, many films inspired by Blow Up.)
Such a great film, I'd watch it again just for Sideny poitier's character getting more and more frustrated, by Dan Akroyds, as he's coming up with all the different conspiracies.
Poitier is consistently funny this whole movie. The way he keeps re-engaging with Akroyd to argue conspiracy theories, only to get flustered and storm away again.
A few years ago my bank started using the phrase "my voice is my password" for voice recognition security on their telephone banking, and I couldn't have been more thrilled.
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Tried to get my kids to watch in lockdown and they walked out of the room after half an hour 🙄
No More Secrets
Wish I had one of these!
-W: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
-A: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
So glad for you.
Sorry
"We're the United States government. We don't DO that sort of thing." - James Earl Jones
One of my favorite lines from this awesome sleeper!
the score.
dopey and meek, yet still somehow intrusive.
so so so glad they didn’t go for that overwrought wannabe cyberpunk green wash and corbijn graininess and pink hair thing.
a bit more edge and restraint for me, please and thank you.
but it could have at least sounded like it took place in a world where NIN exists, y’know?
Also:
"I cannot kill my friend"
*to henchman* "Kill my friend"
A reward is offered to the Sneakers.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
..
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-tr/album/4dqN4T8sj9xgWgD99CkZAR
I need to rewatch, but I’m always worried shit won’t hold up.
Batman 1989, does not hold up. It’s held together by Jack Nicholson.
Love that man.
For a serious (& imho, more meaningful) techie conspiracy/thriller, see The Conversation starring Gene Hackman, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. (One of many, many films inspired by Blow Up.)
Love this movie
“I was but they found out my parents were married.”
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