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"Sneakers" is such an entertaining watch for anyone that's never seen it. Well worth your time. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/ https://www.imdb.com/titl
by uptown 1y ago
"Sneakers" is such an entertaining watch for anyone that's never seen it. Well worth your time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHe more or less was everywhere when I was growing up in the 1970's. "The Sting", "All the President's Men", etc. "The Great Waldo Pepper" was often on T.V. "Jeremiah Johnson" though is still a favorite of mine. Got me into blackpowder. And surprised later when watching The Twilight Zone and he turned up as "Death": https://youtu.be/9tfyv4BZRug https://youtu.be/9tfyv4BZRug
- JdeBP 1y agoAnd, of course, "Three Days of the Condor", ending in the middle of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen".
- mstade 1y agoGreat scene, thank you for sharing!
- scjon 1y agoJeremiah Johnson is one of my favorites of all time. Such a great movie. "You'll do well, pilgrim"
- nobody9999 1y agoDon't forget Three Days of the Condor[0] in which he's supported by a fabulous cast as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
- mrexroad 1y ago“Spy Game” is one of be one of the best spy films I’ve seen in terms of recruiting and handling assets.
- uncircle 1y agoThanks for the recommendation. If you want realistic, modern spy show, I strongly recommend “Le Bureau Des Legendes”. I heard there’s an American remake, which probably makes it over-the-top for their audience, but the original is top-tier TV.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoPlus one on the French, "The Bureau". Amazing series on spy-craft, double-think, and of course the risks.
- mrexroad 1y agoThanks for the rec! Will check it out. While a bit of a general bend (and not Robert Redford), I also felt Andor was a terrific portrayal of spycraft— the asset recruiting/handling, opsec, counter intelligence, etc.—and would still hold up equally well if extracted from SW and dropped into a contemporary setting.
- geerlingguy 1y ago"My voice is my passport. Verify me"
- sgt 1y agoMy first thought when I saw his name. I love many of his movies but Sneakers has to be my favorite!
- duxup 1y agoIt's such a "old fashioned" kind of film, the key scenes are so memorable.
- wpm 1y agoNo more secrets, Marty.
- CrulesAll 1y agoA friend of mine that was in Desert Storm taught me this. Of course, he was on the other side One of my favourites. Great cast. Kingsley and Redford on the roof: "There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information"
- ascagnel_ 1y agoThey're not on the roof for that scene; they're in his office, using the computer room's air conditioning as a sound mask (and using a Cray Y-MP as a bench). While the movie takes some very early-90s liberties with technology (especially the scene where they use the chip), it's remarkably respectful of hacking -- there's a stronger emphasis on social engineering then the purely technical, and my "head canon" is that the chip itself is a quantum chip capable of breaking any then-known encryption.
- PhotonHunter 1y agoNo, the roof: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0Mzci2Sks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0Mzci2Sks
- ascagnel_ 1y agoI'm thinking of the scene where they talk about the corrupting influence of money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJMFqSV7ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifJMFqSV7ic
- ionwake 1y agoI love the way you confidently relied on your 80s film trivia memory to correct someone online without double checking. Im not being sarcastic its kinda cool.
- parenthesis 1y ago
- nailer 1y agoIt’s also one of the few hacking movies that stands up - assume ‘the box’ is a prototype quantum computer. Better yet assume it has a production process with such a high failure rate they’ve been churning these out for years just to produce a single working instance.
- braum 1y agojust a few days ago I had an idea for a shirt and sent it to a designer on fiverr. I was very pleased with what I got back. "Secrets are Power" was my nod to one of my favorite movies Sneakers! Rest in Piece Mr. Redford. http://bit.ly/3Ip3tr3 http://bit.ly/3Ip3tr3 link to the shirt if you want to look at it. there is a message encoding in the background.
- wslh 1y agoI think it is one of the more realistic hacker movies. You can read also about Leonard Adleman's participation in the movie[1]. Adleman is the A in RSA. Also, Lawrence (Larry) Lasker[2] was the writer of Sneakers AND War Games! [1] https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/ https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lasker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lasker
- greesil 1y agoOh my. Those two movies always had a similar vibe to me and now I know why.
- IndySun 1y agoHaven't rewatched since it was first released. As an audio person I was particularly impressed with a scene whereby someone who was locked in a trunk determined their location by remembering the sound made by bumps on a specific road. Is that right? Or am I thinking of the last time I was kidnapped?
- booleandilemma 1y agoThe sounds that cars make over the different bridges iirc. Cool scene!
- uptown 1y agoYou've got it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM
- keitmo 1y ago"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."
- asveikau 1y agoThis tends to be a favorite scene of Bay area nerds. There's not too many other Hollywood mentions of the San Mateo Bridge.
- xarope 1y agoI think you are right. What did it sound like? The road? When you were in the trunk, the last time you were kidnapped, what did the road sound like? /j
- hbarka 1y agoThere are moments when I’m driving over the San Mateo Bridge and I instantly think about this movie.
- greesil 1y agoAny time I'm visiting and am on the Embarcadero. It's funny watching it, you can still see workers in the background cleaning up the median which used to have a freeway over it from the '89 quake.
- hedgehog 1y agoGoing to a cocktail party?
- hbarka 1y agoWhy, yes. At the reservoir. RIP Mr. Redford and Sidney Poitier.
- gdubs 1y agoNot to mention one of the most ridiculously stacked casts — it's incredible how many greats are in it. And it's one of my favorite hacking movies of all time.
- vinkelhake 1y agoI first watched it back when it came out. At the time I was living in a different country and San Francisco was just another US city to me. I just happened to re-watch it yesterday (it still holds up) for the first time since moving to the bay area. It was interesting hearing the names of the locations and bridges that previously meant nothing to me (except the golden gate). It's free to watch on youtube at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9XYQBBIJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9XYQBBIJ4
- booleandilemma 1y agoI saw it as a kid and it was one of the movies that inspired me to get into software. I hope there are still movies being made today that inspire the next generation of programmers. It feels like it's all Marvel now.
- ppcdeveloper 1y agoSneakers is one of the main factors that got me into computing from Mathematics. Cryptography was new to the main stream when this movie came out. RSA was big time. Spy Games, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and especially Jeremiah Johnson all bad ass.
- pramsky 1y agoSomeone released this a few years back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776 https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
- castillar76 1y agoInterestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves, the methods for conducting their various heists, even the inclusion of the post-Soviet Russians as a player are all still valid today.
- indigodaddy 1y agoJust FYI for anyone that wants to watch Sneakers, it's free right now on YouTube. And no ads if you have YT Premium/Music.