One of the great things about Sneakers is that the McGuffin's core concept still holds up as reasonably credible 30+ years later.
I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it sparked a mild fascination with how cryptography (specifically, RSA) works, that arguably influenced my career path.
Definitely in my top 5, if not first. Feels right seeing so much appreciation for it here—very fitting for HN.
meifun · 2h ago
This movie helped me:
1. Relate to a blind student in our school when they could hear things differently than the rest of us.
2. Realize that social engineering is thing and I tried to practice it in high school to gain access to computer rooms where the "fancy" computers were.
3. Realize that a government can steal or in general can be sneaky/secretive.
xattt · 1h ago
Re: negative re-masters
I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette.
For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for.
I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to video tape. Were studios really that reckless with their properties?
zimpenfish · 6m ago
> I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to video tape.
Happens more than you'd think (in the past, at least - it's obviously much easier now with digital storage.) Couple of examples I remember off the top of my head:
re: Adrian Maben making a Director's Cut DVD of "Live In Pompeii"[0]
"While searching in the French and English film laboratories for the unused negative we learnt of a disaster. On the initiative of the French Production Company, MHF Productions, the 548 cans of 35mm negative and prints of the rushes had been stored at the Archives du Film du Bois d’Arcy outside Paris. One of the employees, a certain Monsieur Schmidt, "le Conservateur," unfortunately decided that he wanted to make extra storage space on his shelves for more recent films and that the Floyd footage was without interest or value. The 548 cans of negative and the prints of the Pink Floyd unused rushes and outtakes were incinerated."
re: Dr Who missing episodes[1]
"Further erasing of Doctor Who master videotapes by the Engineering Department continued into the 1970s. Eventually, every master videotape of the programme's first 253 episodes (1963–69) was destroyed or wiped. The final 1960s master tapes to be erased were those for the 1968 serial Fury from the Deep, in August 1974."
The X-Files went the opposite way: The streaming release was remastered from higher quality originals that had been prepared ahead of time for the eventual arrival of higher resolution TV.
I’m not surprised that some shows were never archived at higher quality, though. The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry. Many classic series were not instant classics, they were shoestring operations trying to get a product out the door on too little budget. Getting anything across the finish line was the objective, not archiving the highest quality for future generations.
bayindirh · 24m ago
> The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry.
I think another reason, in addition to yours, is that the entertainment industry sees their products are disposable, or want them to be disposable. This way they can pull the drain plug from the pool, so they can pump in new content into it. Otherwise, listening same good old songs will inevitably eat into profitability of the new releases, because you can watch/listen for so long in a given time.
BTW, I don't share the same views with "the entertainment industry". You can't get the good old albums from my cold, dead hands.
bredren · 27m ago
Sometimes it happens by accident. See the 2008 Universal Studios fire, which destroyed music and film masters:
> Were studios really that reckless with their properties?
Some were. Once the film made its money in the theaters it was then put in a vault and forgotten about. The theaters were supposed to return the release prints but sometimes the projectionist would "lose" them. The studio vault those films sat in sometimes catch fire or water leaks in. If the originals are destroyed then hopefully a few release prints are floating around in the hands of theaters, individuals (where those lost prints end up), or television stations. If not, then its gone forever.
al_borland · 53m ago
I believe Technology Connections on YouTube did a video on film vs video where he touched on this. Film was much more expensive, and people weren’t always thinking about remasters 30 years later. If something was being shot just to air on TV, sometimes VHS was all they did.
sgt · 1h ago
Speaking of, I am desperately trying to get hold of Then Came Bronson that is of reasonable quality. Great and well known TV-series that came out in 1969. It's simply impossible to get a good rip though.
The only copy that exists (as far as I know) came from a VHS recording of a TV-channel in the 1980s. But surely the film rolls still exist?
bayindirh · 1h ago
> But surely the film rolls still exist?
I just watched a video revealing that many multichannel masters of big artists have gone up in flames in a big warehouse fire in 2008 [0] [1], and a comment told that a film company burnt down their silent film archive to get insurance money.
Also "Live At Pompeii"[0] (although to my disappointment, it's the cinema version with the DSOTM studio clips - my original experience was the Laserdisc and VHS versions which omitted those because IMO they're not interesting and just get in the way. I'd probably watch "Pink Floyd: DSOTM: BTS" as a standalone thing but it has no place, for me, in "Live At Pompeii".)
When I was a kid we had a VHS recording of Sneakers, with the beginning of an episode of Letterman at the end. I remember my mom liking it. Fond memories. I need to watch it again.
*after apparently inconveniencing Liz, the group is walking out*
Cosmo: We'll call you a cab.
Liz: "Thank you. This is my last computer date."
*Cosmo stops walking, falling behind*
Cosmo: "Wait."
*the group stops and turns*
Cosmo: "A computer matched her with him? I don't think so."
*Liz's face falls as Cosmo's henchman start slowly walking up behind her.*
*dramatic music as we cut and zoom in to Cosmo's face*
Cosmo: "Marty."
*Cosmo turns and runs toward his office*
sbarre · 2h ago
I saw Sneakers when it first came out in theatres and at the time I was in high school and working part-time in a shoe store..
I had learned from the store owner that you can tell so much from someone's shoes, often more than from their clothes.
Combined with that line in this very formative movie (for me), I still to this day can't help but check someone's shoes when I first meet them.
Ntrails · 1h ago
> you can tell so much from someone's shoes
You can make educated guesses based on apparel of all sorts - but you are always guessing.
AStonesThrow · 1h ago
Yes but many times, these can be quite valuable inferences.
Shoes are indeed a valuable source of information about a person. I knew at least one BH case manager who really paid attention to them.
Shoes are expensive, very durable, and typically one of those items that people have only a few pairs of. So while someone can easily change their outfit to match a situation, place, or mood for the day, they may be less likely to change their shoes to match more than a basic purpose.
And shoes tend to accumulate evidence of where someone's been. Are they muddy, dusty, spit-polished?
Personally, I own about five pair of shoes. I have a pair of Oxford dress shoes, a very nice pair of white New Balance with hook-and-loop, some hiking boots I picked up at JC Penney, and a few others. My clothing, on the other hand, is mostly Adidas and Columbia and some tee shirts, but I don't own any Adidas or Columbia shoes. So you can tell a lot about me, no matter what I'm wearing, by studying my shoes for a while.
I met another BH professional who said he owned 52 pairs of Crocs. He said that he'd kicked an addiction habit, but it seems he traded something unhealthy for perhaps a less-detrimental dependence on collecting shoes. To each his own, I suppose, and surely a lot of information could be gleaned about this fellow if you paid attention to which pair of Crocs he'd selected for the day.
piker · 48m ago
BH professional?
lsaferite · 38m ago
My best guess is Behavioral Health
heyflyguy · 1h ago
I still remember that goofy looking run, haha
sgt · 1h ago
Dude, your mom just wanted to see Robert Redford. The guy was a chick magnet.
pwrrr · 24m ago
One of my favorite hacker movies! Saw it in at the cinema and numerous times on dvd. Will definetely get this.
The comment about the shoes, stick with you ;)
int0x21 · 46m ago
I was pretty sad the other day when I chose 'Setec Astronomy' for a trivia team name & nobody got the reference
voxadam · 5h ago
My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
nullify88 · 5h ago
Heavily referenced in Uplink, the hacker video game by Introversion Software.
richrichardsson · 4h ago
Just before I left the UK in 2018 there was starting to become this trend for voice verification on some services, in one particular one I had to go through the setup of (perhaps it was Virgin Media? I forget), they had me say "My voice is my passport" to train it on how I sound. I smiled to myself.
chedabob · 43m ago
I had to do it on either Atom Bank or Starling (signed up for both at a similar time).
Monzo also have you recite something but it's something far less exciting like "My name is X and I bank with Monzo".
al_borland · 43m ago
Charles Schwab does this, but tweaked it to, “my voice is my password.”
One of my cover/shell companies for privacy purposes is an anagram of that phrase. :D
sgt · 1h ago
Let me guess your password...
"Too many secrets"
MiscIdeaMaker99 · 15m ago
This came out when I was in high school and it's been one of my favorite movies ever since. I still watch it from time to time.
jph · 6h ago
Sneakers and Setec Astronomy became my go to for example encryption code for years. If you're not familiar with Setec Astronomy, you're in for a treat. <3
ghostDancer · 6h ago
I think you keep too many secrets.
sixtram · 5h ago
The question is, can you guarantee my safety?
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glimshe · 5h ago
Setec Astronomy is also the name, obviously inspired by the movie, of a successful MIT Puzzle Hunt group.
stuaxo · 5h ago
"The dialog is clear, sharp, stable, and easy to follow." if we didn't already know it was an older film this would be the thing that nailed it.
bbarnett · 2h ago
That, and its cousin the shaky cam.
"Let's make things difficult to see and hear. That makes for better cinema!"
Jackie Chan once discussed action scenes in US movies versus his movies. Western films: cut before the punch lands, maybe cut a few more times. Hong Kong moves: just show the action in one scene.
nullify88 · 2h ago
A great example of this is Hard Boiled 1992, the Hospital Shootout.
I think audiences are beginning to appreciate continuous scenes and are becoming more frequent in western films. The most recent one I can think of is John Wick 4, when it goes top down.
Some of the recent Michael Bay movies are so aggressive when it comes to cuts, the average shot length must be 2 or 3 seconds.
RHSeeger · 1h ago
Michael Bay are basically not worth watching for me. Things move around the screen too fast to know what's going on. The Transformers movies are especially bad due to it because it can be hard to tell which robots are on which side; and , if you're bouncing all over the screen so you never get a chance to focus on one, it becomes impossible.
xattt · 1h ago
Gasland was unwatchable for me.
gittes · 7h ago
Great movie! So many big named actors in it! The director also did Field of Dreams!
BLKNSLVR · 6h ago
I'm not a fan of baseball, but I liked Field of Dreams (at the age I was back when it would have made it to Australian TV).
johnwalkr · 2h ago
I am a fan of baseball, and in 2021, there was a real MLB game played at the original filming location. It started with Kevin Costner leading the players out of the cornfield.
jprd · 1h ago
I had goosebumps, they nailed it.
BLKNSLVR · 6h ago
Ironically, I think this movie is better suited to being watched on VHS quality.
InsideOutSanta · 4h ago
If you have a high-quality digital version of a movie, you can use one of the CRT shaders from modern emulators to make it look like any old TV you want.
beeflet · 6h ago
I just watch it with my eyes closed
legostormtroopr · 1h ago
It sounds like a cocktail party.
jpecar · 5h ago
Indeed, sound mix is rather amazing. Incredible stereo picture and depth, something you seldom hear in modern movies.
VMG · 40m ago
the audio quality of the popular streaming versions is pretty bad
Dowwie · 25m ago
my voice is my passport
nullify88 · 5h ago
There are some great stills from that movie. In particular the close up of a person's face with reflections of computer text in glasses often sticks with me.
I know Timecop also has a similar scene just after the time jump. I think it looks really cool.
My brain is weird.
firefax · 2h ago
I always liked how they framed the gun being jammed into Gregor's back at the opera, the entire scene carries a certain tension that modern films often fail to sustain or rely on things like explosions or handcannons rather than a .38 and a well acted angry whisper that you will be quietly exiting this theater or your brains will be exiting your fucking skull that is a much more accurate depiction of what it's like to operate under non-official cover.
Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays.
To swing the discussion back to cinematography:
I'm going to avoid spoilers despite it being an older movie since a disturbing amount of folks in the hacker scene have not seen it but the later scene in the tunnel, arm extended was another great cinematic... shot :-)
peeters · 1h ago
> Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays
But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?
firefax · 17m ago
>But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?
StackOverflow has this feature that when you write a new question, it tries to fuzzy-match that up against existing questions. I wonder if an approach similar to yours, using search, could be employed on HN as well to reduce the number of dupes?!
This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.
nielsbot · 7h ago
Wonder if ML could help automate merging of duplicate (or similar topic) threads? (I don't know much about ML)
LLM's would be absolutely amazing at this actually. With their current ability - it's basically their sweet spot.
ctxc · 6h ago
I was kinda hoping it was manual (sorry). I was fired up at the opportunity to build something tiny that solves a pain, but...man you have a solid setup there :D
mosselman · 6h ago
Wow that is cool! Any chance you could share that Arc extension?
ccheever · 5h ago
I work at a company whose legal name is Monterey's Coast, Inc.
sneak · 2h ago
Here I was thinking I was clever also naming one of my companies an anagram of that phrase.
inanutshellus · 4m ago
1. relevant username ... since 2010. you found your thread for sure
2. hey man you can still be clever, you just... also have birds-of-your-feather out there. :D
cantrecallmypwd · 5h ago
oystermen coast ;)
amnesty scooter
coyote smartens
economy tasters
losthobbies · 4h ago
I love this movie so much. I know there are parts that don't make sense but everyone in it is excellent and it's very quotable.
"Practice, Practice, Practice"
"You...won't know...who to trust"
"No more secrets"
The soundtrack is great too.
duxup · 2h ago
The parts of the soundtrack are on one of my coding playlists.
nailer · 1h ago
Sneakers could absolutely be remade with the box being a quantum computer. ‘No more secrets’ being breaking all the pre-quantum encryption.
api · 1h ago
I wouldn't fully remake it. It's a classic. Just watch it with that explanation in mind. It makes it more plausible.
Maybe what the mathematician did was crack a gigantic outstanding problem in scaling quantum computers that allowed e.g. extraordinarily effective quantum noise reduction at scale.
SamuelAdams · 2h ago
Awesome, now do one for the Die Hard series, particularly Live Free or Die Hard.
I know the first Die Hard is 4k, but the others are not.
sgt · 5h ago
Anyone noticed that streaming services start to compromise on quality? With Netflix it's been like that for a while. Apple TV+ seems to be the best. I really want to get into Blu-ray now, looking for a decent player.
voxadam · 4h ago
Life is great on the high seas. I've spent nearly 16 years "Passing the Popcorn" and couldn't be happier.
dmos62 · 3h ago
Question: what's the streaming budget for the big platforms? Can they offer 50-100 mbps? For example, a 70 gb video for a 2.5 hour movie would need 67 mbps to stream. Having access to a rip like that for a popular movie (meaning new or classic) is normal "on the high seas" and it has a detectable difference on my budget-tier setup compared to a ~20 gb rip. I'm wondering if streaming platforms can afford to offer something like that.
russelg · 3h ago
Sony Bravia Core has movies up to 80mbps.
xienze · 2h ago
Sure, they could. But given that the average consumer really doesn’t care that much about picture quality (DVD _still_ outsells Blu-ray for example), why would they bother? Increased storage and bandwidth costs, for what exactly? To cater to the small group of consumers that have good enough hardware (and eyes) to distinguish/care about 20Mb versus 100Mb? Those people are probably buying physical media anyway.
dmos62 · 2h ago
Is it self-evident to you that that's not cost-prohibitive with what people pay today?
sgt · 2h ago
How is the life on the private tracking seas? I mean, I'm asking for a friend.
pimeys · 3h ago
Some butter with your popcorn? Here let me pass.
foobarbecue · 4h ago
Yeah. I see overcompression on a lot of shows. Dark scenes and star fields tend to make it obvious. Three Body Problem was the worst -- I imagine it would have been consistently visually spectacular if they hadn't compressed it to shit. I've seen it on Apple TV too though-- e.g. really visible on Silo title screens. Love, Death and Robots on Netflix quality was great.
dmos62 · 3h ago
In my experience, HDR format makes the most difference. There's a dramatic difference between HDR10 and DV.
sgt · 2h ago
And sometimes you just hear it. They compromise on everything, and a lot of people won't complain if the audio quality is low.
hudo · 3h ago
Netflix is "4K Ultra HD: Up to 7 GB per hour".
Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers. Typical movies are 35-50GB.
So, BR, and think even DVD still looks much better than any streaming service!
criddell · 3h ago
Sony’s streaming service is 80 Mbps or 36 GB per hour.
We’re going to have to disagree about DVDs though. They look awful on modern (big) televisions.
alias_neo · 3h ago
> Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers
Are pressed Blu-Rays limited compared to writeable ones?
I have 100GB BDXL blanks (single-sided) I use as one of the archives for my family photos/videos.
Couldn't a film BluRay also be 100GB on a single side?
On a site that I am a member of there are nearly 1300 BD100 rips available.
sgt · 2h ago
A lot more practical than having to deal with physical media. I'd even pay them for it, to have that kind of premium access.
fredoralive · 1h ago
100GB discs won’t work on standard Blu-Ray players, the basic standard predates BDXL discs. Ultra HD 4K player can play them.
sgt · 2h ago
And Netflix HD (1080) is hardly what one would expect. It may be technically 1080p but the bit rate is often quite low. Most people don't notice or care.
theshrike79 · 4h ago
They all give you "4k", but ATV+ has by far the best bit rate.
nullify88 · 5h ago
I mostly see a lot of stuttering. Either during high action scenes or when there's little happening at all. It's especially noticable on HBO / MAX at 4k DV. I assumed it was due to aggressive encoding.
sixothree · 4h ago
I would describe Disney as barely 720p when used in any web browser.
foobarbecue · 4h ago
Seems to vary between shows. Been watching Andor on a good system (LG OLED 4K) and it's spectacular. No compression artifacts or splotchy dark areas.
GCUMstlyHarmls · 3h ago
That might be a DRM thing, I know some streamers will only send 720 to Linux x Browser combos.
PS. The quote on "goowill not being something the government does" reads so poignant now ...
Karellen · 5h ago
Part of my headcanon for Sneakers is that Agent Abbot (Jones) is actually Admiral Greer (Jones' character from The Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger), set a bit earlier in his career, and going under a codename while working CyberOps for NSA ;-)
Bluestein · 20m ago
That is just so spot on :)
(There's a whole James Earl Jones "pluriverse" out there, ain't it? ...)
polycaster · 3h ago
I’m sorry, but could someone please elaborate on the significance of this post?
BLKNSLVR · 3h ago
Sneakers is a very popular movie in the HN community. It's a great movie, well written, well cast, well acted, suspenseful, interesting, funny.
I was surprised to read they're not affiliated with Blu-ray RTM (registered trade mark) - I guess Blu-ray RTM are unusually choosing not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Sneakers is a popular show with folks interested in tech.
If you haven't seen it I think it is worth a try. Great cast, from that exciting age of computers when everything felt like it was just on the edge of possible.
Even for folks not of that time, the cast and script are so good it's worth a watch.
mortarion · 3h ago
The best movie about physical pentesting and grayhat hacking in general.
geerlingguy · 2h ago
It was the previous generation's "Mr. Robot"
sgt · 1h ago
In a movie format, like they used to. Not a series that keeps on going... seemingly never ending.
aa-jv · 5h ago
I never understood the love for this movie, it just seems lame to see all of these caricatures being created that reinforce hacker stereotypes - and not even in a good way.
glimshe · 5h ago
The movie was partially responsible for creating the stereotype. This was 1992 and hacker culture wasn't yet mainstream.
aa-jv · 4h ago
Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first.
I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
digger495 · 34m ago
_incorrect_ stereotypes?
Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.
glimshe · 2h ago
The movies you mentioned were far from any type of hacker culture. They were much more about the power of computers, then a mysterious machine people knew little about.
duxup · 1h ago
I feel like those films were sort of "along side" the hacker world. Sneakers to me was more on point.
duxup · 1h ago
Compared to stereotypes I thought it was an interesting mishmash of lively / different characters.
I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it sparked a mild fascination with how cryptography (specifically, RSA) works, that arguably influenced my career path.
Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
1. Relate to a blind student in our school when they could hear things differently than the rest of us.
2. Realize that social engineering is thing and I tried to practice it in high school to gain access to computer rooms where the "fancy" computers were.
3. Realize that a government can steal or in general can be sneaky/secretive.
I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette.
For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for.
I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to video tape. Were studios really that reckless with their properties?
Happens more than you'd think (in the past, at least - it's obviously much easier now with digital storage.) Couple of examples I remember off the top of my head:
re: Adrian Maben making a Director's Cut DVD of "Live In Pompeii"[0]
"While searching in the French and English film laboratories for the unused negative we learnt of a disaster. On the initiative of the French Production Company, MHF Productions, the 548 cans of 35mm negative and prints of the rushes had been stored at the Archives du Film du Bois d’Arcy outside Paris. One of the employees, a certain Monsieur Schmidt, "le Conservateur," unfortunately decided that he wanted to make extra storage space on his shelves for more recent films and that the Floyd footage was without interest or value. The 548 cans of negative and the prints of the Pink Floyd unused rushes and outtakes were incinerated."
re: Dr Who missing episodes[1]
"Further erasing of Doctor Who master videotapes by the Engineering Department continued into the 1970s. Eventually, every master videotape of the programme's first 253 episodes (1963–69) was destroyed or wiped. The final 1960s master tapes to be erased were those for the 1968 serial Fury from the Deep, in August 1974."
[0] https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/adri...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
I’m not surprised that some shows were never archived at higher quality, though. The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry. Many classic series were not instant classics, they were shoestring operations trying to get a product out the door on too little budget. Getting anything across the finish line was the objective, not archiving the highest quality for future generations.
I think another reason, in addition to yours, is that the entertainment industry sees their products are disposable, or want them to be disposable. This way they can pull the drain plug from the pool, so they can pump in new content into it. Otherwise, listening same good old songs will inevitably eat into profitability of the new releases, because you can watch/listen for so long in a given time.
BTW, I don't share the same views with "the entertainment industry". You can't get the good old albums from my cold, dead hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
Some were. Once the film made its money in the theaters it was then put in a vault and forgotten about. The theaters were supposed to return the release prints but sometimes the projectionist would "lose" them. The studio vault those films sat in sometimes catch fire or water leaks in. If the originals are destroyed then hopefully a few release prints are floating around in the hands of theaters, individuals (where those lost prints end up), or television stations. If not, then its gone forever.
The only copy that exists (as far as I know) came from a VHS recording of a TV-channel in the 1980s. But surely the film rolls still exist?
I just watched a video revealing that many multichannel masters of big artists have gone up in flames in a big warehouse fire in 2008 [0] [1], and a comment told that a film company burnt down their silent film archive to get insurance money.
So, I don't bet.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9eXk4o35UI
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m...
The first two seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were almost erased because the BBC wanted to reuse the broadcast tapes. [0]
[0] https://www.cracked.com/article_42008_monty-pythons-flying-c...
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Uncle-Buck-4K-Blu-ray/342214/...
[0] https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pink-floyd-at-pompeii-mc...
A couple of scenes:
And another:I had learned from the store owner that you can tell so much from someone's shoes, often more than from their clothes.
Combined with that line in this very formative movie (for me), I still to this day can't help but check someone's shoes when I first meet them.
You can make educated guesses based on apparel of all sorts - but you are always guessing.
Shoes are indeed a valuable source of information about a person. I knew at least one BH case manager who really paid attention to them.
Shoes are expensive, very durable, and typically one of those items that people have only a few pairs of. So while someone can easily change their outfit to match a situation, place, or mood for the day, they may be less likely to change their shoes to match more than a basic purpose.
And shoes tend to accumulate evidence of where someone's been. Are they muddy, dusty, spit-polished?
Personally, I own about five pair of shoes. I have a pair of Oxford dress shoes, a very nice pair of white New Balance with hook-and-loop, some hiking boots I picked up at JC Penney, and a few others. My clothing, on the other hand, is mostly Adidas and Columbia and some tee shirts, but I don't own any Adidas or Columbia shoes. So you can tell a lot about me, no matter what I'm wearing, by studying my shoes for a while.
I met another BH professional who said he owned 52 pairs of Crocs. He said that he'd kicked an addiction habit, but it seems he traded something unhealthy for perhaps a less-detrimental dependence on collecting shoes. To each his own, I suppose, and surely a lot of information could be gleaned about this fellow if you paid attention to which pair of Crocs he'd selected for the day.
The comment about the shoes, stick with you ;)
Monzo also have you recite something but it's something far less exciting like "My name is X and I bank with Monzo".
https://www.schwab.com/voice-id
COOTYS RAT SEMEN
"No, I don't."
"No. No."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GutJf9umD9c
"Too many secrets"
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"Let's make things difficult to see and hear. That makes for better cinema!"
Jackie Chan once discussed action scenes in US movies versus his movies. Western films: cut before the punch lands, maybe cut a few more times. Hong Kong moves: just show the action in one scene.
I think audiences are beginning to appreciate continuous scenes and are becoming more frequent in western films. The most recent one I can think of is John Wick 4, when it goes top down.
Some of the recent Michael Bay movies are so aggressive when it comes to cuts, the average shot length must be 2 or 3 seconds.
My brain is weird.
Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays.
To swing the discussion back to cinematography:
I'm going to avoid spoilers despite it being an older movie since a disturbing amount of folks in the hacker scene have not seen it but the later scene in the tunnel, arm extended was another great cinematic... shot :-)
But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany are now allies?
Were they?
Sneakers – The Team's Demands [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493927 - Sept 2024 (2 comments)
Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213 - Dec 2023 (54 comments)
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776 - July 2023 (257 comments)
Happy 30th anniversary to ‘Sneakers,’ a cult classic that was ahead of its time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32788136 - Sept 2022 (47 comments)
Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31378418 - May 2022 (76 comments)
Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840802 - Jan 2022 (198 comments)
Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620095 - Dec 2021 (7 comments)
Sneakers (1992), the Film - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111977 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)
Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643270 - May 2016 (54 comments)
Sneakers - movie about pen testing, crypto/nsa, espionage, and deception (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6196379 - Aug 2013 (5 comments)
What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498985 - Sept 2012 (46 comments)
Sneakers (Film, 1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499298 - July 2010 (1 comment)
Joybubbles: the blind phreaker whom Whistler was based off of in Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443241 - June 2010 (1 comment)
This question comes up a lot - here's an answer that goes over it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40564558
This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.
2. hey man you can still be clever, you just... also have birds-of-your-feather out there. :D
amnesty scooter
coyote smartens
economy tasters
"Practice, Practice, Practice" "You...won't know...who to trust" "No more secrets"
The soundtrack is great too.
Maybe what the mathematician did was crack a gigantic outstanding problem in scaling quantum computers that allowed e.g. extraordinarily effective quantum noise reduction at scale.
I know the first Die Hard is 4k, but the others are not.
We’re going to have to disagree about DVDs though. They look awful on modern (big) televisions.
Are pressed Blu-Rays limited compared to writeable ones?
I have 100GB BDXL blanks (single-sided) I use as one of the archives for my family photos/videos.
Couldn't a film BluRay also be 100GB on a single side?
Very out of date list: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=294596
On a site that I am a member of there are nearly 1300 BD100 rips available.
... particularly sadly, at Earl Jones' passing.-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493927
Greatest movie :)
PS. The quote on "goowill not being something the government does" reads so poignant now ...
(There's a whole James Earl Jones "pluriverse" out there, ain't it? ...)
It beautifully captures the golden age.
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...
If you haven't seen it I think it is worth a try. Great cast, from that exciting age of computers when everything felt like it was just on the edge of possible.
Even for folks not of that time, the cast and script are so good it's worth a watch.
I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.