The movie Sneakers 1992

[Gingerbread Demon]

Starring Robert Redford.

This is one of my all time favourite movies. I hope we can discuss it.

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This is a really fun little movie and every years I watch it once or twice, and in recent times I have found the movie to be very telling about the times we now live in and information being the new form of warfare...

I wonder if back in 1992 when this film was made they knew what the world of the 2000s would be like?

Anyway anyone else here like this movie as much as me and let's talk.

 

[MacLeod]

The line I remember from this film is

"I can't Kill my friend, kill my friend"

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Setec astronomy.

 

[MacLeod]

Haven't watch this movie in several years, though it is in my collection.

 

[Reverend]

One of my favourite films. Great all star cast, fun chemistry, an interesting premise and the all time greatest use of a James Earl Jones ever (yes, including 'Star Wars' and 'Coming to America'!) Highly re-watchable.

The line I remember from this film is

"I can't Kill my friend, kill my friend"

Poor Pencilvester.

 

[Tosk]

Setec astronomy.

COOTYS RAT SEMEN

Love Sneakers. One of my absolute faves. Could never understand why it wasn't better known/loved.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^I almost joined the NSA, but they found out my parents were married. lol

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The line I remember from this film is

"I can't Kill my friend, kill my friend"

Yeah that was a fun line. Cosmo still wanted to be friends but I think he was internally torn. His friend did kind of betray him at the start of the film.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What about the films themes?

NSA spying on Americans, encryption, information warfare?

 

[Tosk]

So much of the dialogue from this movie is in my head permanently. My name Werner Brandis. My voice is my passport, verify me. Be a beacon? There isn't a government on Earth that wouldn't kill us all for that black box. I leave message for you on service but you do not call.

And an all star cast that doesn't feel like a self-consciously all star cast. Everyone is just on-point.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So much of the dialogue from this movie is in my head permanently. My name Werner Brandis. My voice is my passport, verify me. Be a beacon? There isn't a government on Earth that wouldn't kill us all for that black box. I leave message for you on service but you do not call.

And an all star cast that doesn't feel like a self-consciously all star cast. Everyone is just on-point.

I wonder how people would have felt had this movie been made today exactly as it was but with a more modern setting.

 

[Starkers]

"A computer matched her with him? I don't think so."
"We are the United States Government. We don't do world peace."
"Did I ever tell you why I had to leave the FBI? My temper."

I love this film. It's really the best Mission Impossible film ever made. Funny, clever and, as people have said, with a cast to die for. I'd have loved to have seen the further adventures of those guys!

It is kinda freaky to realise that the suave eastern European computer expert behind Setec Astronomy is now Harvey Bullock in Gotham though

 

[Tosk]

Pa Kent and 30 Something are real assholes.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I saw that movie many times in theaters.

 

[arch101]

Thought it was a great movie and wondered why no sequels? The team was likable enough and, let's face it, worse films have gotten multiple sequels. A missed opportunity.

 

[Guy Gardener]

One of the nerds on Halt and Catch Fire, a drama set in the past, spent an episode recently obsessing on this movie but right now, RIGHT NOW in my minds eye I just realized that the blind guy is the professor X character from Alphas.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

COOTYS RAT SEMEN

Love Sneakers. One of my absolute faves. Could never understand why it wasn't better known/loved.

Because that is what they want you to think, it was well documented that Regan had the CIA quietly pull the movie from theaters before it's time because of the fact that the actual code breaker in the movie was a real thing the CIA were in the proccess of completing, and this movie was simply hitting too close home for them, that and of course the fact that Aykroyd charactors bit about cow lips for alien tech had been a open secret that even Russia in 87 knew about and wanted in on....or are you going to tell me The Wall was brought down due to cooling cold war tensions, and not the fact that it was blocking micrwave signals that had been used to control sleepers in East Berlin since 1923, from alien tech found by Uk spys living in the Tunguska region in 1908........yes, you see, now that i point it out to you you can see the pattern.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Because that is what they want you to think, it was well documented that Regan had the CIA quietly pull the movie from theaters before it's time because of the fact that the actual code breaker in the movie was a real thing the CIA were in the proccess of completing, and this movie was simply hitting too close home for them, that and of course the fact that Aykroyd charactors bit about cow lips for alien tech had been a open secret that even Russia in 87 knew about and wanted in on....or are you going to tell me The Wall was brought down due to cooling cold war tensions, and not the fact that it was blocking micrwave signals that had been used to control sleepers in East Berlin since 1923, from alien tech found by Uk spys living in the Tunguska region in 1908........yes, you see, now that i point it out to you you can see the pattern.

That would not at all have been out of place in the actual movie.....

And Banks do operate on pure perception. Cosmo was right.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Thought it was a great movie and wondered why no sequels? The team was likable enough and, let's face it, worse films have gotten multiple sequels. A missed opportunity.

River Phoenix died in 1993, which might be one reason.

 

[cardinal biggles]

In more recent years, I've started to wonder if Aykroyd was acting at all, or if he was just being his own batshit crazy self.