*Sneakers*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

What a fun movie! Just finished watching this 1992 spy movie with a light heart...(mostly)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Good ensemble cast, lots of action, crazy plot that is highly improbable, to say the least...

I loved it!

[Yavin4]

1. Rememer this Clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKprr3tEBew

Reminds me of Wikileaks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I knew it reminded me of something!

Of course...Wikileaks!

Thanks for the clip, my dear Yavin4...

[Flaxbee]

2. Peggy, that is one of my all-time favorite movies!

Love it! My husband worked on the script; we quote from it frequently :) :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Flaxbee!

He DID?

How very cool!

A very smart, stylish, timely story!

:hi:

What was your husband's role?

[Flaxbee]

7. actually - it wasn't official

he met one of the writers on a plane and they went over the script; my husband recommended some changes, including some technical stuff, and the writer named one of the *key* characters after him. ;) My husband wasn't named (didn't want to be).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. And how cool is that?

I'm dying to know which character your husband was named after...

PM me if you don't want to say it out loud!

[Sentath]

5. did you notice?

The title of the movie is the only part of the title sequence that was not anagrammed. I wonder what could be made from it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Sentath...

You know, you're right...

And I didn't notice.

That was a really clever opening sequence...

I felt as though it allowed you a peek at how the movie would unfold, what sort of spirit it has.

And indeed, what can the word sneakers be made into?

:hi:

[Taverner]

9. Loved Dan Aykroyd's character in that flick

"Oh JFK is dead, he just didn't die in Dallas.."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear Taverner!

The movie is just full of great lines...like that one!

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

11. You've never seen it?

I saw it in the theatres & loved it! Loved Dan Ackroyd as the wacko conspiracy theorist. :)

dg

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear WolverineDG!

Oh, we did.........years ago!

I think we must have seen it in the theater too...

We kept remembering bits and pieces of it last night...

It was great!

:hi:

[Auggie]

12. Just saw it a few weeks ago...

I totally agree.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear Auggie...

Even though it's almost 10 years old, it is still relevant!

[Auggie]

15. I believe you meant 20 but it feels like 10...

Movies are like that.

Just saw the Siskel & Ebert review on YouTube. They didn't have a high an opinion of the film, but judging from their comments I don't think they really "got" it either.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. No, alas, I did mean ten...

I cannot add! 1992 is nearly 20 years ago, isn't it? :dunce:

Our book on movies by Leonard Maltin gave it a rather poor review too. Two and a half stars.

I don't think he "got it" either.

[Flaxbee]

29. It's a fantastic, funny movie, and as much as I like Ebert, he's a bit of a

stick in the mud about some things. Not getting this movie is part of his general stickiness.

[progressoid]

17. Ahem...

It's almost 20 years old.

I remember seeing that when we first got cable!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Now I know, my dear progressoid!

I am a doofus, especially when it comes to numbers!

:dunce:

[progressoid]

33. It's Friday.

We're allowed to be doofuses on Friday! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Thank goodness for that!

Now, what do I do about the rest of the week?

:P

:hi:

[trof]

18. I would watch Redford read the Manhattan phone book.

Seriously.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. I hear you, my dear trof!

He's something else!

[pokerfan]

21. I remember that

Dick Gordon: National Security Agency.
Martin Bishop: Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
Martin Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's communications, we try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.
Martin Bishop: Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is... Dick.


Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Martin Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
Bernard Abbott: All right, I'll see what I can do.
Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. My dear pokerfan!

Those two dialogues are among my favorites in the movie!

But there are so many cool dialogues...

:hi:

[NoGOPZone]

22. Good Movie

Kingsley and Redford are two of my favorites, so I really liked the scenes with both of them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. My dear NoGOPZone!

Their scenes are among the most incisive and taut in the whole movie.

They felt genuine.

[kentauros]

30. Like when they were sitting on the Cray super-computer?

:o

I wonder how many people even knew that that was back then... ;)

[bigwillq]

23. I really enjoyed that movie.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. It was really fun, wasn't it, my dear bigwillq?

:hi:

[Luciferous]

27. I watched that movie about a billion times when I was a kid...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. I must still be a kid at heart, my dear Luciferous!

[kentauros]

28. "A cocktail party?"

"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person." :D

Yeah, I've seen it a few times, too :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. My dear kentauros!

That scene just cracked me up!

:hi:

[Orrex]

35. I thought that the nudity was gratuitous and ill-timed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. There wasn't any nudity, my dear Orrex!

:P

[Orrex]

37. What about the scene with Salma Hayek?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. She's not in THIS movie!

You're pulling the same stunt you did when I talked about Secretariat...

;-)

[Orrex]

39. You're full of baloney.

Salma Hayek wasn't in Secretariat. Believe me, I'd know.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. ROFL!

You have won.

I concede.

Hat's off to you, my dear Orrex!

:rofl:

[lildreamer316]

41. Love it!

Wish they had done more like it..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. Oh yeah! How much fun that would have been!

:hi:

[datasuspect]

43. ah, the golden age of "avatars," refresh rate being linked to hacking, and virtual reality

or maybe I'm confusing this with another movie.