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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

Setec Astronomy. My voice is my passport. I love this movie.

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

I can't believe I'm the first to post this - Slate did a whole celebration for Sneakers' 20th anniversary with a series of articles on various aspects of it: https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-20th-anniversary-how-the-robert-redford-caper-inspired-a-generation-of-fervent-fans.html

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

*Sigh* Goes looking for Sneakers to watch for the first time.

This kinda made me feel like when Michael Schur spent a month hyping Midnight Run and I finally relented and watched it and enjoyed it.

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It's pretty cool when a movie can serve as both a time capsule and as timeless and you elucidated some of the ways in which it did. Great stuff.

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Jan 12, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

Coming back here a day late because I work for (large tech company) and a guy with a vague sounding SVP title just casually mentioned in a slack chat that he was a consultant for the script for Sneakers (also war games and minority report)

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

I would keep reading essays about Sneakers. I love this movie.

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

Sneakers is a classic. We rewatched it with some friends a few months back and it still holds up.

My current “what is a subject you could give a 30-minute speech on with no preparation?” is the overwhelming greatness of the recent Mission Impossible movies. If you've heard someone in a bar yelling “Look I know you don't love Tom Cruise but he's HANGING ON TO A PLANE that's taking off FOR REAL" then you know I'm off to the races.

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

You know where to find it? Is it streaming anywhere? We're laid up with the 'rona and running out of stuff to watch. This sounds promising

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Jan 10, 2022Liked by Scott Hines

I love that someone else loves this movie as much as I did and still do. One of those hidden gems, it's a stop and watch every time. Thanks Scott!

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I'm not sure I liked the movie or didn't like it. Think the tech stuff was why I would not have liked it (most tech scenes are so bad), while the actors are why I would have liked it.

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when watching the first time I missed the clue about black box because my mom routinely called answering machines "answering services" so I thought it was just a thing that people did.

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I did not care for the film tbqh!

It's....fine?

It's laughably dated, being a technology heist movie when the pinnacle of technology was, like, the VCR. That's probably a selling point if I'm being honest though.

It is low stakes Ocean's 11 with less character rapport.

You're overselling it imo.

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