So I'm watching "Sneakers"

[BootinUp]

a fun movie with Robert Redford leading a team of highly skilled thieves who have to steal a code breaking black box back from the mob. Redfords old college buddy is now working for the mob and they go head to head. Its playing on the Starz/Encore channel. Also in the cast: Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Ben Kingsley.

Check it out.

[XemaSab]

1. That is a terrific film

:D

[Mojambo]

2. Great movie.

One of my favorites.

[Zomby Woof]

3. Fun movie, and underrated

Wish Redford and Poitier would work together more often. Great chemistry. Solid cast in general.

[WolverineDG]

4. I love that movie

caught it the other night when it was on....hadn't seen it in years & it's held up well.

dg

[XemaSab]

8. It's held up especially well considering that it was filmed in 1993

but the technology is almost all still relevant.

:bounce:

[trof]

5. Shoot, I'm WEARING 'Sneakers'.

How cool is that?
:-)

[Flaxbee]

6. One of my FAVORITE movies!

My husband was an uncredited consultant; one of the characters is named after him (not Werner Brandeis) :)

We quote back and forth to each other James Earl Jones' best line, when asked by Whistler for "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Everyone", JEJ's character says "We are the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing!"

[XemaSab]

9. It's a quotable film in general

"Be a beacon." :D

[BootinUp]

11. lol, that scene, oh lordy.

[WolverineDG]

13. Best line:

The Republican National Committee has announced it is bankrupt.

:rofl:

dg

[XemaSab]

14. "...but not everyone's going begging.

Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and the United Negro College Fund have posted RECORD earnings." :D

[SanddancerUSA]

18. Morally, Financially or Intellectually?.

[phasma ex machina]

16. Never let him know that you know what he thinks you don't know that you know. You know? nt

[Orrex]

23. And give him.... help.

[XemaSab]

27. "Let's do what we did in Mexico City!"

:D

[kentauros]

7. It's a wonderful film!

I loved Aykroyd's conspiracy-buff needling of Poitier ;)

Did you notice the Cray computer they used as a bench? :D

[BootinUp]

10. No! I didn't see that.

will have to look for it now. :)

Aykroyd is great in this one.

[kentauros]

12. It's in Kingsley's "office" behind the glass panels.

Cray used to build their supercomputers that way, I guess to make them appealing to the eye as well as the computing ability. I think the "bench" portion concealed the cooling system.

[eppur_se_muova]

35. I think the power supply was in the outer ring -- known as "world's most expensive love seat".

(I may be wrong on that, as on anything.)

[phasma ex machina]

15. My Finite Fields prof recommended it when it first came out ....

for it turns out that Dr Gunter Janek's lecture exposits genuine theory.

...there exists an intriguing possibility for a far more elegant approach.
...over the rationals, and hence contained in a single cyclotomic field.
Using the Artin map, we might induce homomorphisms...
It would be a breakthrough of Gaussian proportions...
...and allow us to acquire...
...the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner.

[WolverineDG]

17. And Morgan Freeman plays a baddie! nt

[Orrex]

19. Is that the movie in which he played James Earl Jones?

:shrug:

[WolverineDG]

20. No...he has a very small role

I couldn't believe it, so I watched the credits. :)

dg

[Orrex]

22. Crazy!

At a glance, IMDB doesn't seem to have anything about his role. I'll have to watch it again!

[WolverineDG]

24. Don't blink, you'll miss him nt

[BootinUp]

34. He looks a little like Morgan Freeman

but I don't think thats who it is...

might be this guy

Rueben Tate, the father in "Zooman," played by actor James Craven, confronts his silent neighbors, hoping to prod them into coming forward with information.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/05/03/zooman/

[WolverineDG]

38. It's him; I read the credits nt

[BootinUp]

41. ok but so did I.

I think you are mistaken on this one.

[phasma ex machina]

25. Does Freeman play the mafia guy who impersonates an FBI agent and shoots Gregor? nt

[Flaxbee]

32. aha! Yeah, now I think I can picture him ...

that is probably the scene.

We have the DVD, I'm gonna have to watch it tomorrow.

[WolverineDG]

37. Yes nt

[phasma ex machina]

40. He looks so young! Despite a bit part his charisma made a positive impression on me. nt

[XemaSab]

42. Good call!

Somehow I never realized that! :o

[arcadian]

21. Kick ass film.

:thumbsup:

[Pryderi]

26. Great movie! Should've been a tv series. n/t

[Yavin4]

28. I Love That Movie's Soundtrack

Cannot find it anywhere, but it's truly great.

[BrklynLiberal]

31. check it out....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000028UQ/internetmoviedat/

[Jade Fox]

29. "If we turn ourselves in now we'll get 20 years in the electric chair!"

One of my favorite movie lines.

[WolverineDG]

39. You can have anything you want, & all you want is my phone number?

:rofl:

Kids.

dg

[BrklynLiberal]

30. Great movie. Loved David Straithairn. Ackroyd was my second favorite in that movie.

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[Jamastiene]

36. That is one of my most favorite movies ever.

Usually, though, anything that had River Phoenix in it was great. :thumbsup:

[applegrove]

43. Fun movie.