Ok, my l33t haxx0rz! We’ve got a major kludge to pen test here so let’s get to it. We’re going to hack this week’s episode of “This Looks Like a Good Place for a Stickup,” 1992’s “Sneakers.” Coming off the “hacker mania” of the early 90’s (the Internet Worm, Operation: Sun-devil, and the horror that was “Mario Hotel”), this movie posits the frightfully tech-savvy question: “what if there was a magic box that could do magic things to every computer anywhere, all the time, in seconds?” So l33t! Very tech! Weird question? Well, what if some of the people who are trying to answer it are Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Mary McDonnell? No, seriously, those are just some of the big names in this cast. Surely the ever-so-computer-savvy minds of 1992 Hollywood would come up with something at least as believable as, oh, I don’t know, “Hackers,” right? They’ve got big, big names, so that’s got to be good, right? Well, give a listen and find out. End of line.
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So many ridiculous movies to choose from! 2012 and The Core are really out there but Moonfall might beat them. I find the film “Face off” to be REALLY ridiculous as well. I mean the two characters had surgery that exchanged thier faces and then we are to believe thhey can move into each other’s families and work positions. No one noticies their voices are differnet? Plus they are married, how do thier wives not know immediately that’s not the um… well lets say changing your face falls apart when you are naked with someone who knows what your body looks like! I went for more mainstream films since if we go for lower budget and “bad” movies we might be here all night!
Well . . . at least Travolta and Cage are almost the same height! Yes, totally different body types, facial structure, skin tone . . . but height! That’s gotta count . . .. right? Thanks, Vince!