In answer to a question upthread: Lawrence Lasker, one of the writers on this movie, wrote WarGames.
And he spent something like five or ten years hanging around with hackers and computer security people in order to get the tech right.
In answer to a question upthread: Lawrence Lasker, one of the writers on this movie, wrote WarGames.
In answer to a question upthread: Lawrence Lasker, one of the writers on this movie, wrote WarGames.
And he spent something like five or ten years hanging around with hackers and computer security people in order to get the tech right.
I don't really consider it sci-fi either, but Sneakers is a lot of fun. The final scene with Abbott is a riot, especially when Whistler tells them what he wants:
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will towards men.
Abbott: We're the United States government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I don't really consider it sci-fi either, but Sneakers is a lot of fun. The final scene with Abbott is a riot, especially when Whistler tells them what he wants:
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will towards men.
Abbott: We're the United States government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Or the exchange about the blonds number...
Bishop: "Abbey, the CIA would get him twins."
Abbott: "Enough!"
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This movie is not only highly entertaining, but consistently very clever and witty. It deserves to be more remembered.
This is also one of the more quotable movies around, second only to The Princess Bride.
"Figi is not in Europe!"
"Organized Crime?"
"Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized."
This movie is not only highly entertaining, but consistently very clever and witty. It deserves to be more remembered.
This is also one of the more quotable movies around, second only to The Princess Bride.
"Figi is not in Europe!"
"Organized Crime?"
"Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized."
"Give him head?"
"Be a beacon."
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This is also one of the more quotable movies around, second only to The Princess Bride.
Redford is 72 now and Poitier is 82. I don't think they or any of the original cast would be doing much sneaking these days.
Redford is 72 now and Poitier is 82. I don't think they or any of the original cast would be doing much sneaking these days.
Okay..Redford has a cameo and you have someone younger, Brad Pitt, and a new team...in fact, maybe Kingsley's character had a son, and he is the new bad guy (Jude Law)
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I seriously doubt a sequel could work. Theoretically the "Sneakers" world of 2009 would be unrecognizable from our own. The original ended in 1992 with Martin Bishop's first efforts at changing society with the decoder chip. He bankrupted the Republican Party. Think of those ramifications. What else might he have done for the greater good, a greater good that he himself defined? Sure the ending was tongue in cheek, but Martin actually took the first step in becoming exactly like Cosmo.
I never really put any thought into that last scene before. Looking at it the way you do, it suddenly becomes a much darker, edgier movie, doesn't it?You know... I always took that as sort of the end message of the movie. About how power corrupts. He took the chip from Cosmo because he knew no one should have that amount of power. He kept it from the NSA because he knew that they shouldn't have that power...
Then he fell into using that power he knew no one should have.
It's the ultimate moral of the story.
I never really put any thought into that last scene before. Looking at it the way you do, it suddenly becomes a much darker, edgier movie, doesn't it?You know... I always took that as sort of the end message of the movie. About how power corrupts. He took the chip from Cosmo because he knew no one should have that amount of power. He kept it from the NSA because he knew that they shouldn't have that power...
Then he fell into using that power he knew no one should have.
It's the ultimate moral of the story.
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