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Oh, SNEAKERS!!!! What I love about these lists of yours is how many Things I Have Loved And Mostly Forgotten items it returns in all their shiny nostalgic glory. It's definitely time for a re-watch.

Also, I think we pretty much scarred some friends of ours for life when attempting to watch the first SO AWFUL Abrams Star Trek remake years ago... We get emotional and bellow at screens around here as well and the pandemic just made us worse. We have henceforth limited films to the drive through or home alone...

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Yeah, I know that there are certainly Complaints that can be made about the Age of Streaming—one of the big ones being when companies pull content and then it's not available ANYWHERE, not even on DVD, which has prompted me to start stockpiling DVDs again, just in case? Like, I am out here buying DVDs like some people are buying food for their bomb shelters, which seems backwards, but we all find comfort in different places, LOL—BUT the Age of Streaming HAS resulted in my ability to go back and find all this older stuff that I've either never seen or haven't revisited in a long time. Diving into all of the 60s/70s eurohorror, in particular has been a revelation. It's been amazing to discover a whole subgenre that feels like it was made SPECIFICALLY for me, hahaha.

And I am delighted/unsurprised to hear that your household also gets Very Involved in what you're watching—I don't *think* the pandemic made us worse, but we haven't watched anything with anyone else in such a long time that MAYBE? Whenever we start a movie, I mentally add at least an hour to the runtime to account for pausing to discuss/rant, pausing for bathroom break, pausing for ice cream break, pausing for more discussion/ranting. I suspect that some Cinema Folk would say that we are The Problem, but I'm going to watch movies the way I want to watch movies, thank you very much. (Also, depending on what we're watching, sometimes the pausing acts as an Emotional Breather, because whew, we do get INVESTED.)

well, this turned into Blocks of Text by way of DIGRESSIONVILLE, but I'm just gonna hit the Enter key

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Sneakers is the best heist movie OF ALL TIME and is still incredibly relevant and I will never not giggle over the final scene where they shake down James Earl Jones. I love it so much.

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I think part of why it holds up so well is that they kept the computer stuff pretty simple, instead of using Cool Graphics that would have been dated in five minutes. I love how Sidney Poitier is doing like TOUGH GUY ACTING from a hard-boiled cop movie, and love River Phoenix just being generally adorable. So great.

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Yes - it's much more about the ideas than the specific technology. And all of the performances are brilliant (with the possible exception of Ben Kingsley's weird attempt at an Italian accent).

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And yet somehow his little techbro ponytail totally works. (I love that one of his henchmen ALSO has a little ponytail, I only noticed that this time around and immediately imagined the henchman proudly looking in the mirror like I'M GOING TO IMPRESS MY PONYTAILED BOSS WITH MY OWN PONYTAIL and it made me laugh.)

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HAHAHA! I will totally look for that next time.

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