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Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by zombot »

ynniv wrote: post #173
jackgavigan wrote: post #106

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. Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.…

"There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing"

By now they just declare encryption illegal and order backdoors everywhere.

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Post by aa-jv »

glimshe wrote: post #77
aa-jv wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

War Games is literally about a hacker.

Tron is literally about a hacker.

Sneakers is about spooks wanting to be hackers and hackers wanting to be spooks.

Sneakers is the point where the militarization of hackers became mainstream.

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Post by dmos62 »

inanutshellus wrote: post #131
dmos62 wrote: post #66

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Is it self-evident to you that that's not cost-prohibitive with what people pay today?

Capitalism doesn't care whether it's cost-prohibitive. It needs to make extra money or lose money in order to affect change.

We're misunderstanding each other. I take what you say to mean that Netflix could offer me unlimited bandwidth for 5 euros a month or whatever they're charging.

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Post by zimpenfish »

dymax78 wrote: post #190
zimpenfish wrote: post #130

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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".) [0] https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pink-floyd-…

The newly released blu-ray includes both the 85-minute and 60-minute cuts.

Excellent news, ta

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Post by nailer »

api wrote: post #199
nailer wrote: post #157

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I do the same thing with Prometheus - I watch the Weyland TED Talk before the film and view the film as a man that considers himself a god trying to meet god.

That movie was so weird. It had flashes of brilliance but also a really dumb "idiot ball" plot in a lot of ways. Astronauts would never be as stupid as they're depicted in that film, things like "oh gee I think I'll take my helmet off around all this potential biohazard." It also doesn't really work in the Alien universe at all. It would have been much better had it been set in an entirely different 'verse, maybe eve…

Yes re: cute snake scene, those same scientists are depicted as being super conservative in prior scenes as well.

Likewise, the Weird running away from the rolling circle by running forwards into the future path of the circle.

Both of these things are frequently fixed by fan edits.

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Post by icedchai »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #267
icedchai wrote: post #263

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Hackers had more of a cheesy feel to it, for sure. Sneakers felt more serious and believable.

This comment is one of the best examples of understatement I've ever come across. (This is a compliment by the way. I agree, but with at least 10x more force than I feel from your comment ;)).

Haha. Thanks. I enjoyed both those movies

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Post by meifun »

aksss wrote: post #257
meifun wrote: post #71

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.

2 & 3 for me came from War Games with Matthew Broderick

another good movie!

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Post by dredmorbius »

dylan604 wrote: post #245
rbanffy wrote: post #239

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They might be unable to release it, but they can still preserve it.

for what purpose? waiting for the copyright to expire, and then hope to cash in on it in the public domain? if the content is unreleased, there's other complications. you'd then be using the likeness of any talent involved whether that's their voice performance for animated content or for live action their full person. you'll be susceptible to those issues for releasing it.

Internet Archive regularly puts out calls for such works, and maintains several of those archives.

As a registered library, they can do this, and even make (at least some) works publicly available.

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Post by dredmorbius »

invalidlogin wrote: post #265
ynniv wrote: post #169

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Once you accept that a movie isn't a documentary, Hackers is a lot of fun. The editor of 2600 consulted on it (and lent his nym)

What is an nym?

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