Why that movie hasn’t been a bigger deal is beyond me.  Every single person I know (plus all AVC commenters) who has seen it thinks it’s fantastic.  What an absurd cast for a middle-budget heist movie.

For a guy with a 180 IQ, he wasn’t very quick on the uptake.  But otherwise I find that movie about perfect.  Love Kingsley’s “WHY IS IT SO HOT IN HERE?!” exclamation as he comes to realize something’s really off.

There was a guy caught some years ago stealing computer equipment from businesses (can’t find the details now, it was a pretty small but funny story), and had gained access to various buildings by wearing work coveralls and carrying a ladder. No one questions the guy carrying a ladder.

The “passport” thing bothered me. Why didn’t Mary McDonnell’s character pretend not to be able to think of a common word instead? “I’m heading to Europe this summer and have to get my... crap, you know, that little... book thing renewed. The ID thing. Why am I blanking on this?” It would have made both characters look…

Having worked in security, Robert Redford scamming his way into a building without proper ID by looking harmless, carrying stuff for a birthday party, and River Phoenix being more annoying at the same time as a delivery driver... yes, that would have worked. I have not seen it since it was in theaters and hope that my…

This article doesn’t mention the films that AV Club folks probably most remember him for - namely Sneakers and Shoot To Kill. Sidney Poitier and Kirstie Alley had some CHEMISTRIES.

I was going to say the same thing. Even if the explanations weren't completely accurate it looked real. Green screen, ascii, command line, all that. Compared to "Hackers" it was an Intro to Comp Sci class.

Both Sneakers and Wargames are among the most accurate “computer movies” made.

Much of the computer stuff is total nonsense, but in a way that works for the plot and is easy to ignore as a standard unrealistic trope (the same way we ignore that silencers do not make gunshots sound like a cat sneezing, that people cannot get shot multiple times and beaten severely and then engage in a high-speed…

I don’t know, kicking the shit out of the two armed guards (one of which had just called him “midnight”) to the shock and awe of Dan Aykroyd was pretty good.
I would’ve been happy with a two-hander spin-off of Mother annoying the shit out of Crease with his constant stream of batshit conspiracy theories (back when…

Poitier could do so much with a single word:

Plus, Ted was going to be put in the IRON MAIDEN.

John Wick has a dead wife and a dead dog.  That’s not an existence you’d want to step into.

Hmm well Wick has to live in a world filled with too many assassins and a convoluted mythology. Neo, gets to live in a post apocalyptic hellscape, but also has super powers in a digital world a lot like our own.

I’d go Neo.

No. There were people who thought it was icky at the time

In both the real and your hypothetical scenario, the interviewer still has an ethical obligation that you’re completely ignoring. Yeah, put some blame on the parents and the company for using the kid like that. But that doesn’t absolve the journalist/cop for putting the onus of this shit on the literal goddamn child.

My read on people in general is that anytime a new relationship starts within a few months of an old relationship, at least 15% of folks believe that the new relationship definitely started before the old relationship ended and that any amount of time in the interval is just an attempt to hide the cheating that…

Did he actually cheat on her or is it hearsay? Because a google search tells me that someone maybe allegedly heard his ex-wife maybe allegedly talk about it on some unnamed possible podcast, and another tells me that he actually allegedly maybe cheated on Olivia Munn, not his ex-wife, and another link is Perez Hilton…

100%

I mean, “clean-cut”. Mulaney works blue as hell and has been doing bits about being addicted to cocaine from a young age for a long time. It seems to me like people just had no idea that the dude is, well, a normal dude with problems.