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Enemy of the State (Patreon)

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Mike FromOz

Speaking of chicken places with funny names, here in Western Australia we have 3 main chicken restaurants - Red Rooster, KFC and Nandos. However, back in the day, a small competitor tried to try their hand, and of all names called themselves "Mighty Cockrel". It didn't take long for people here to start taking the piss over the name. And the sign out the front was vandalised repeatedly, starting out as "Mighty Cockrel", which soon became "Mighty Cock", then "Mi Cock" and eventually just "Cock" 😅 Their business didn't last, as I don't think anyone took them seriously.

Jedi Lounger

I hope you check out Spy Game (2001), Unstoppable (2010), and Crimson Tide (1995) eventually. Also True Romance (1993) but I know Simone has seen it already.

Tall Paul

Just on Simone's musing about names for chicken, there are generally more words in English for animals than French because English started with the old Anglo-Saxon words and incorporated the French words when the Normans invaded. It is often the case that the common name for an animal is an Anglo-Saxon root - Sheep, Cow, etc but the common name for the meat is a French root - Mutton, Beef, etc which tells you something about Socio-Economics in 11th Century England. Anyway, I suppose I ought to watch the film and not get too caught up in the into.

jmundt33a

Runaway Jury is good for a villainous Hackman role.

jmundt33a

A shoutout. Yay! Kinda hard to believe Tom Cruise would sign up to play Mitch McDeere again….with Hackman(?) six years later.

AlixFrost

Yeah, knowing french canadians, those names are 100% on purpose.

C_Drew

Yay for Unstoppable!!!

Matt Dellarosa

I like George and Simone. Yalls videos are my happy place. Good reaction. Lol, I love that yall are too young to recognize an El Camino. Its a classic car, they dont make those anymore. Tom Cruise was actually in a movie with a similar premise to this one called The Firm. Yall would probably like it, its one of his earlier films. More serious than this one and not as much comedy, and also starring Gene Hackman....and Wilford Brimley. Lol, hes the diabetus guy.

Jay Johnson

So George lives in the Montreal area and from what I gather, Simone lives "in the boonies" somewhere in western Canada (they've mentioned a few hours time difference), perhaps somewhere in BC? (I'm not trying to find out specific or anything, just curious about the general region)

Matt Dellarosa

Just a follow up comment. Just go to YouTube and type in Diabetes cat. Then watch the first short video that comes up. Its called Diabeetus cat.. It will be the best 5 seconds of your day.

Mike Kay

The discussion before the start on this one is 100% approved by The Todd (scrubs)

John

Just a few other Gene Hackman movies worth watching: The Conversation, The French Connection, Hoosiers, Crimson Tide (also directed by Tony Scott and Starring Denzel Washington and early Aragorn and Tony Soprano), The Royal Tenebaums

Dan

Chandra? A different Chandra or Maplenuts Chandra? Is this all some Canadian Youtube reactor mafia conspiracy?

Elvenwitch

How messed up is it that in 2026, you could remake this movie and only change that they are after the housekeeper for being undocumented? Swap out NSA for ICE and voila. Same amount of money spent, and equal amounts of civilian casualties.

m

that movie really wasn't that prescient in any regard. Lots of tropes and all that... because that's how reality worked and has been working ten years before the release, with Echelon just marking the beginning of digital spying. The NSA has been what, fourty years old at that point and already plenty known for their general agency fuckery? It feels like it was novel, but none of it is surprisingly out-there if you have been reading the right novels and articles. It's well-made and everything, but really, it's was an educated observation made movie plot. Which, I suppose, goes to show how little we still care collectively about civil liberties just about anywhere, it seems like that is a hardcoded flaw in human society, at least without properly intervening and mediating "entities", as it were. Whatever those might be, lmao Also, the closest we can approximate obscured 3D reconstruction is via wifi, and we're obviously dealing with an insane noise floor here to get remotely that actionable data. Funnily enough, that (kinda) is something we had thirty years ago or so... just not in a way that would make the reconstruction scene not be the usual enhance bogus

JBK405

This film is viewed as a spiritual successor to the 1974 film "The Conversation", which starred Gene Hackman (And I see has already been recommended for viewing in other comments). That film also revolved heavily around surveilance and paranoia. Several critics advanced the theory that it's a direct sequel, and Hackman is playing the same character. Nothing official has been stated to support that, but a picture of "Brill" from his NSA file here actually uses a screenshot of Hackman's character from that film. This film isn't "prescient" in the sense that it predicted the future, they were ALEADY dealing with these issues at the time. It just feels prescient because we're STILL dealing with these issues, and it's hard for us to accept that it was already a problem 30 years ago.

Alexrandom

As a french speaking guy I'm deeply offended by the cock comments. We love cock and there's absolutely nothing funny about it. Great film, can't wait to rewatch it with you guys !

Mastervodo

I really did not know Canadians loved cock so much.

Alexrandom

I'm personally not Canadian. I think it's the speaking french that makes you love it.

Robert Cooper

I love Tony Scott, but this is my least favorite of his movies. "Unstoppable" is fantastic. Should be on a list. Also, attorney means "delegate". If you give someone "power of attorney" they can represent you in all things. "Attorney at law" means they represent you legally, but can't, say, sign a contract for you or spend your money.

SmallWoodenDuck

My brain is so broken. I would have bet my savings on the fact that I had watched you guys react to this ages ago. Whelp.

Jonathan Eaton

They have Jason Lee fleeing on a bike? Why not a skateboard!? Wasted opportunity or too on the nose?

Matt Dellarosa

Its not my favorite either. But he does have some great ones. Specifically Deja Vu. Which i would love to see on the channel. And Crimson Tide.

Dan

Dan

It's not realistic in the details but I do think of this movie when I encounter someone supporting a cashless society.

Vez

Those Québecois chicken places know exactly what they're doing. Jack? Jacques? Le Coq is 100% aware.

Hans Czajkowski Jørgensen

We were blessed with a heartfelt 'Jeepers!' from Simone in this one. Can't remember the last time that happened. Or maybe my long-term memory doesn't function too well? :) hehe.

REDR58

That’s what they want you to think!

Phosphorus

Oh yes. Spy Game. And Crimson Tide.

Holy Squire

The Patriot Act was passed October 26, 2001 as a response to 9/11.

Belekai

Typical, when i write cock on the outside of a building i get arrested, others it seems make money. Go Figure o.0

Phosphorus

As others have pointed out, even at the time we (some of us anyway) were well aware: what caused a bit more of a "this is ridiculous" reaction is the "rotate 75 degrees" scene.

djKENTO

Still bummed NOBODY reacts to The Conversation before this movie.

djKENTO

not just the same type. it's intentionally suggesting they're literally the same dude. They literally use a photo from The Conversation in his NSA file.

Life in the cave of Garanoga

Smith's breakout role as a serious actor was probably "Six Degrees of Separation" 1993 Which I HIGHLY recommend. That was when the highbrow community even started acknowledging he was a very capable performer who could be a top lead. A 25 year old Will Smith in a room with Ian McKellen, Donald Sutherland, and Stockard Channing and his charisma is easily on par with all of them was just an undeniable sign that Smith was a star.

SnabbKassa

Another movie full of people who you recognize NOW, but who were nobodies at the time. They probably earned peanuts from this movie, but it got them seen.

Jay Johnson

one main difference is likely that you aren't the owner/legal occupant of the building (and they spell it "coq")

Dee

Italian-Americans call black people eggplants/moulinyan/moolies because their skin can look similar to the vegetable.

Jonathan Eaton

Some movies with a similar vibe: Eagle Eye (2008) Deja Vu (2006)

Jay Johnson

Simone has mentioned a number of times that she is friends with the Maplenuts. I wonder if Cinebinge inspired Chandra and Jordan to start their own reaction channel or perhaps they just made acquaintance through the reaction community after they had both started independently. I dunno.

OddThomas

Personally I think Deja Vu or Unstoppable are better Tony Scott movies (both star Denzel)

Jonathan Eaton

They say it several times on The Sopranos.

djKENTO

The Conversation is a 1974 espionage thriller by Francis Ford Coppola starring Gene Hackman. It touches on all the same themes in this movie and it is directly implied that Hackman's character is the same in both films, they even use a photo from The Conversation in his NSA file in this movie. It's a tonally VERY different film, but it's my 2nd favorite Coppola after Dracula (I acknowledge the brilliance of the Godfather films, I just do not care about gangsters and never have).

Kevin Cormier

My friend moved to DC after college and Jason Lee runs across the roof of her apartment building during the chase scene. She had no idea until she saw the movie in the theater (they filmed during the day while she was at work).

Brandon

Great reaction! If not for this, I probably would never have revisited this movie. Why do so many conspiratorial-themed movies from this era seem a lot more plausible now? It's also interesting to me how a movie can be filled with relevant themes nearly 30 years after it came out... and still be completely absurd in its execution. 😆 Seth Green, Jack Black and Jaime Kennedy on the enemy surveillance team only works if you're fond of their work. If not, it can be hard to take any of the scenes with them seriously. Jack Black slipping in that line about women not shaving their legs being hot is what he'd say in one of his 2000's-era comedies. I would bet that he felt like improvising that line and Tony Scott was just cool with it. I love it when comedic actors appear in more serious films, but not when a director can't reign in their quippy nature. He did reign in Will Smith from doing the same thing, so I shouldn't complain. Overall I like this movie, but things like that make it really uneven.

OddThomas

Jake Busey. The Frighteners. Let's do this

Brandon

I felt the EXACT same way when I saw 'Uncle Buck' on next week's schedule. I thought they did it a couple years back.

REDR58

My father, who is an insurance agent, not a lawyer, but is an “attorney-in-fact”: “An attorney-in-fact is an agent authorized to act on behalf of another person but not necessarily authorized to practice law; e.g., a person authorized to act by a power of attorney. Therefore, an attorney-in-fact, which is not necessarily a lawyer, is a pure fiduciary: an attorney-in-fact does not require special qualifications. An attorney-in-fact can be a beneficiary’s acquaintance, in which case it is usually a friend or family member. For example, Person A might give a power of attorney to Person B that allows Person B to manage Person A's bank accounts. In this example, Person A is the principal, and Person B is the attorney-in-fact.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/attorney-in-fact

Matthew S

The writing in this movie is genuinely impeccable. Every detail has meaning and connects to something. Such a good a movie.

Maiki

Plus Last Boy Scout (1991). And a continuation of the Beverly Hills Cop series would be great too, with Scott directing the second one (and my personal favourite).

James Wilson

@JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy going to have a lot of fun with this video. Looking forward to hearing, "Why would you choose cock?" in an out of context Cinebinge song.

Belekai

that makes more sense, from now on ill only tag the outside of my own home :D

OddThomas

This is basically an updated digital version of The Conversation, which was 70s/analogue - also with Gene Hackman; likely why he was cast in Enemy

Stanley Etienne

You guys need to watch The Conversation I know others have already recommended it, but it's that important that you see it. Even if it doesn't win the polls see it anyway lol

Paul T Hewes

The car Brill/Gene Hackman had, was a an El Camino, from the 70s/80s. A car truck hybrid.

djKENTO

Okay for educational purposes only I'm going to explain the eggplant slur thing cuz it's handled poorly and a simple line change would clear it up. Racist Italian Americans would compare black people's skin to the color of an eggplant. But they wouldn't say "eggplant" in English. They'd say "moolie" or mulignan which is short for mulignana which is Eggplant in Italian. You will hear this more on The Sopranos in the future and now you'll now they're basically saying the n-word in Italian. It doesn't have the bite, because it doesn't have the long history attached but in some cases, the intent... still the same. So yeah when you hear it on the sopranos... don't go repeating it. It's not great. To fix this line all Will Smith had to do was say "the proper slur would be eggplant or what you'd call mulignan"... would have been more correct and made him seem even more informed. Cuz in 1998... not common. Not a thing you'd hear a lot unless you grew up in a fairly racist Italian household.

PIG

Sheriff! You are violating my territorial bubble.

Carla Davis

If you really liked this, then check out No Way Out 1987 starring Kevin Costner and yes.. Gene Hackman, also The Firm and YES again, also starring Gene Hackman, Nick of Time, and as many others have already suggested, Eagle Eye. Trust me on this, NO WAY OUT is the same level of intensity with a great payoff at the end. Honestly, you could watch several other Gene Hackman movies from the 80's and 90's, and most of them will have the same type of intensity. He was just good at these types of movies.

Jacob Colson

Deja Vu.... Hell yes to that one! And Unstoppable... another fun thriller that never lets up!

Jacob Colson

Ok, I know Seth Green was in Buffy.... who was the other actor? Simone said there were two actors from Buffy.

REDR58

It’s really shame they didn’t watch “The Conversation” first because a lot of people recommended it before watching this movie. But they should definitely check it out at some point.

REDR58

Yes, it is a “spiritual sequel”/“sequel in all but name.”

REDR58

Speaking of Wi-Fi, Xfinity/Comcast offers a feature where they can detect motion in your house via interruption of Wi-Fi signals in a room. In this way, you can have a smart lightbulb or something turn on when you enter a room. I actually tried it in my house, but it’s not very reliable.

OddThomas

A Seth Green film Simone would love is Idle Hands (1999)

Dan

Ah, that seems plausible but isn't what I'd heard.

OddThomas

Ivana Milicevic I think

WhiteHawk

“No cock for you”

James Wilson

Oh man, yeah Lance Reddick would've been so good as Sazed. I am so happy Sanderson was able to find a studio that gave him so much control over the adaptations. I couldn't be more excited for the Mistborn movies and Stormlight series. Also, definitely agree with Simone on Zane and Vin. I personally wasn't a fan of Elend or his arc.

Glenner7

Here on the south shore of Montreal we have Le Coq Rapide...

OddThomas

Jack Black had bit parts like this in the 90s (The Jackal, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) but it wasn't really until High Fidelity with John Cusack that he got noticed. Then School of Rock was a huge hit a couple years later.

Donna Castellano

I didn't see it mentioned in the comments - the tech guys and, I think, Busey and Scott Caan's characters, genuinely believed it was a training OP. When Loren Dean's character, Voight's #2, asked what they should tell the team, Voight replied, ""Tell them it's a standard training OP". I think you guys were talking about something else when that remark happened.

Stoodles

This is one of my favorite movies that I think a lot of people don't know about. The other one is "Fracture" with Ryan Gosling and Anothony Hopkins. I feel like its an amazing movie that nobody ever talks about. That needs to get a reaction.

REDR58

At the beginning of the movie, the uncredited Jason Robards’ character “Congressman Phillip Hammersley” talks about The Washington Post. Robards starred in the 1976 movie “All the President’s Men” where his character is associated with that newspaper. Tom Sizemore, Seth Green and a number of other actors are also uncredited in this movie. Lisa Bonet, other than formerly married to Lenny Kravitz and being Zoë Kravitz’ mother, is probably most famous for playing Denise Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.” She was also in “High Fidelity” with Jack Black. Scott Caan was in the “Ocean’s Eleven” movie and its sequels. The reference to Bob Woodward is he was one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal story (also the subject of “All the President’s Men”). Gabrielle Byrne who is the fake Brill in the cab was in “The Usual Suspects.” The distinctive, white-tiled tunnel in that Will Smith runs through while in “Washington D. C.” is the 2nd Street Tunnel in Los Angeles, CA and has appeared in *many* films. You’ve seen it in “Blade Runner,” “The Terminator,” Lethal Weapon 2,” “Sneakers,” Demolition Man,” “Kill Bill,” and “Transformers.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Street_Tunnel The video game system that Eric had is an NEC “TurboExpress” (actually non-working props based on real such handhelds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqmUaTpNd7E The game system could be used as a small color TV by using a separate TV tuner. I have one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErVtuw7Ma8 You could see propane tanks when they first entered Brills building. There were some in the stairwell. That is why is building exploded so vigorously.

akaTheBAY-AY-RON

Per Simone's interest in Mistborn fan fiction, here's my take on some for those who like their fan fiction smut bite-sized to be read on the go. Vin and Zane are running through the woods from Inquisitors. They're like super lost though. It's dark, rainy... and overall kind of sexy in a way. Then they saw it. A log cabin. Just sitting there. In the rain. All wet and shit. Doesn't seem to have been entered by anyone in a long time. But then suddenly, they totally do. Vin says, "Thank goodness we found this log cabin for shelter." Zane replies, "Awesome that the fire was already lit." Vin has a longing sultry look on her face and says, "Our clothes are soaking wet, we should take them off before we get pneumonia." Zane is taken aback, but in a super sexy way. He replies, "But won't that make us want to hook up? Society won't approve." "Fuck society." swooned Vin, and the two totally started hooking up. It was crazy hot. They were no longer Mistborn, they were kissborn, because they were kissing... HUARD They continued to hook up for 15 minutes. It was fine. Fade to black.

maikeru

The Jackal is so good, with a chameleon badass Bruce Willis, fun to watch. And the thing that happens to Jack Black in that film is horrific and kinda funny at the same time^^

m

Yeah, in customer electronics, those expectations sink drastically anyway. Basically you need a massive amount of energy to get even vaguely resolving imagery/3D clouds out of such a noise input, and at that point you stop being covert basically by virtue of you microwaving your targets and everyone in their vicinity. It's not necessarily intuitive, but probing always requires some energy to be put into a system, the smaller the features, the more of it you need - to the point where some apparent hard limitations in measuring the tiniest possible lengths towards planck would mean you'd need to spontaneously create black holes, widely considered a "dealbreaker" in most applied engineering departments and enterprises around the world. The current stack allows you to do nifty things like pose estimation, i.e. seeing how bodies might be arranged behind walls or other forms of obscuring geometry on basis of limb hierarchy (that is, you get a skeleton with a pose) - but that still obviously won't synthesize data we never managed to capture in the first place. You can do nifty stuff by bouncing around IR and inferring a sampled regions diffraction to some degree... which theoretically would allow you to actually reconstruct a hidden, round-the-corner surface; but still, until we basically map entire rooms with arbitrary nano-machines so tiny they're basically suspended in air like an insect might be in honey, this all is fairly out there. Still no "four hands on one keyboard"-hacking or anything, but goofy nonetheless. DensePose from Wifi or Wivi (the latter weirdly enough being also an acronym for "violence detection" classification model lol - I think they classify "violent motions" alongside the wifi Channel State Information algos we've been exploring for a while now to get those particular features) are still the state of the art as far as I know, and out-there approaches like non-line-of-sight visual reconstruction still shouldn't be computationally feasible. And while we're "dunking" on a Tony Scott/Bruckheimer production for no reason other than it being easy enough: that's not how spy satellites work, either. If you want to see faces or license plates, you gotta be in low earth orbit at a couple hundred km altitude. Being that close means it has to be on the order of low five-digit kphs (30k? chuck that into your favorite thinking llm) to stay in orbit, meaning there is only a window of minutes, not hours to do anything with that satellite. And if you use a geostationary satellite, It's a very fluid film, it all is plenty reality-adjacent, but then you suddenly get that super neat schematic view of the building perfectly tracking a signal that would sap a button cell in no time at all, perfectly transmitting the position through multiple, thick concrete walls. But the actual "backend" stuff was fairly spot on, what they can do with your information, what they can do to your reputation, parts about the keyword flagging operations and such (with lots of liberties still but hey)... it just isn't exactly Mr. Robot in regards to how accurately the technical aspects are represented.

maikeru

I watched this on the big screen when it came out and enjoyed every minute of it, fun ride. It was probably the first time I watched a Tony Scott film and I liked his style since. Wish he didn´t feel the need to end his life like that and I wish he was still around and doing projects for many years to come. also: please don´t tell me G&S don´t know Gabriel Byrne :/ .. but then.. they're sometimes kinda bad in recognizing actors^^ We need Byrne flicks on polls, there are many good ones I feel like

REDR58

Oh and the use of the foil potato chip bag to block the signals is a real thing, maybe not with such thin, plastic/foil but you can buy a variety of “Faraday” bags to store a cellphone or the like if you are concerned about its signals 😄 https://youtu.be/XvEJplw6W-0?si=AGkN5SCl4L3iN7Lc

maikeru

most likely. I suggested that a couple of times in the past, I feel like I haven't watched that film in twenty years, but I remember liking it^^ I also like watching Devon Sawa acting in all those 90's films, he's unique in a way

maikeru

@Odd Thomas yeah, she was the lingerie store clerk

Happy Hanukkah

Rage Against the Enemy of the Finite State Machine

maikeru

not a movie for ten year olds though^^ sometimes when ppl write they watched some violent, gory shit as a 6/8/10 year old, especially WITH their parents, I´m like okaaaay xD some parents are wild^^

Joseph Schiller

I like that the Lingerie shop is the most unrealistic part of the movie

FranciscoGios

On this reaction it’s time to talk about in todays terms and I know some of us know how the world works, the Enemy of the State was always Gene Hackman’s character, it was never Jon Voight’s character because you can see it this way: the only time a politician is killed mysteriously is because he was FOR THE PEOPLE and not AGAINST. Of all the laws pass in every part of the world is only for us to follow not for the people on Top, this is why the Epstein Files are out there and nobody has been charged because the members are them the Elites.

Skyruff Creative

based on this, you two will love "spy Game" (2001).

Skyruff Creative

I love how Simone (and so many others) knows to do a 'Valley Girl' accent when being silly, even though "valley girl" is no longer the accent used by teen girls in the San Fernando Valley or anyone else these days. One of the many "gifts" my generation has given the world. Like yeah, totally dude.

Huckleberry lobo

This was a great one. Y'all gotta check out Will Smith as an alcoholic disgruntled superman in Hancock starring opposite of Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. Bendiciones 🙏🏼

dlpheonix

Saying tom cruise wouldnt capture the comedy is super weird since quite a few of the 80s films are comedic. I kinda wish he would do more those films again but the studio will to produce those kinds of films is sadly lacking.

bdennis2004

As a teenager, my family went to the cinema. My brother and I watched this movie while my parents went and watched some crappy rom-com... You've Got Mail. (Sorry, Simone. I couldn't help it)

Jacob King

A Christmas movie is any movie where Christmas is integral to the plot making this technically a Christmas movie

Luca Spurgeon

Totally random but regarding the food ordering story at the beginning of your reaction... I had to ask haha - George, how many languages do you speak? :)

Luca Spurgeon

Also - new channel content idea? Include a book you guys are already reading or read at the beginning of the month, and do a live, or like a review reaction at the end of the month to react to said book or just talk stories in general. Maybe something like say its Feb 1: "we'll be talking about/reviewing chapters (you guys can decide on length) of books of YOUR guys' choice. Sounds like you. guys read as much as watch movies and I would love to hear more about what y'all are into. Just another idea for the channel I think would be pretty cool. It would be like your guys' own online book club maybe? haha

Hasan Ahmad

please also watch Arlington Road. If you liked this, you will love that, one of the most under rated movies of the 90s

Jeff Norwood-Brown

When you’re my age, it’s so rewarding because, every 5 years or so, you remember how good this film is and get to watch it again with almost the same amount of joy as the first time you watched it. Even if does star Slappy McSlapson.

JarHead0351

I think they would really like that movie too.

Jay S

Highly recommend Crimson Tide

Juley

If you think this 1998 movie was prescient, you have to check out another 1998 movie — The Siege. It’s really amazing! Well worth the watch! And the short answer is “Yes”, we did know about all the technology the NSA was using on us when this movie came out. You know that when the World Trade Center was taken out in 2001, the whole world changed because we saw how vulnerable we could be on U.S. soil. But most younger people aren’t aware that terrorists blew up a bomb in the World Trade Center in 1993. Obviously, it wasn’t powerful enough to substantially damage the buildings. But we were acutely aware that the government was pulling out all the stops to listen in to everyone and prevent the next attack. Clearly they failed.

Juley

I’m from DC and a ton of the film was done in my old neighborhood. Will Smith ran through a restaurant three doors down from me and past my apartment. They shut down the street to film it and I watched from my window. I also watched them film a scene with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver in the film Dave from my window. Unfortunately, I wasn’t looking out the window when DC Mayor Marion Barry bought crack outside my apartment in a sting operation that destroyed his political career! Sigh, I miss that apartment. Never a dull moment.

DonkyDave

Real shame you haven't done Crimson Tide by the same director, banging movie!

Jacob Colson

Simone, please do the audiobooks to your boyfriend's werewolf erotica novels. Lmao

REDR58

Yup. If not for the purchase of Christmas gifts the story wouldn’t have played out like it did.

REDR58

Oh jeez now that you’ve brought it to mind, Simone and George TOTALLY have to watch “Valley Girl” (1983) with Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman! And the unrelated but relevant Frank and Moon Unit Zappa “Valley Girl” song from 1982: https://youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I?si=n_6wjmD2KnUfyeOd

Thall

A civilian being disappeared/killed by namless, faceless government agents that don't need to identify or follow due process, because the civilian uncovered crimes perpetrated by the upper class. Well shit, talk about a realistic premise

Donna Castellano

Every time I see Lisa Bonet, I say, "is that Peter phuckin' Frampton??!!". I hope they watch High Fidelity. It reminds me of a friend - who is no longer here - who was a music "snob" like those in the movie. At least it introduced me to The Beta Band.

REDR58

It's a such a wonderful film. I would love to see S&G react to it.

REDR58

Speaking of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" I really did not like that movie *at all* when I first saw it, but I went back to it years later and it's also one of my favorite Coppola films now. Despite the issues with a certain someone's accent, It's such a marvelous film and Gary Oldman is simply amazing in the movie. I think it's some of his best work.

REDR58

Jack Black's character (I think it was him) even acknowledges the problem of the satellite not being at an angle to see the detail of Brill's face (or someone else, I forget now and am too lazy to go back and look) at one point! I didn't spend much time messing with the Wi-Fi motion detecting but here's a reddit thread about it (it requires the WiFI router and another compatible smart devices with something moving between them for it to work and I have cheap Zigbee motion sensors/presence detectors for all my smart bulb control so it's not particularly useful to me even if it did reliably work; all my smart home stuff is locally-controlled and is pretty much rock-solid. I only use Wifi for phones and tablets and every other device in the house that can be hardwired is done so via ethernet I ran all over the house. This is also because I run several media servers for my ripped Blu-ray and music collection and I can see/hear it all via any screen or audio system in the house): https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/1ey3m4o/new_from_xfinity_wifi_motion/

Marty McGee

Yeah the late 80's and the 90's were full of terrorist activity both foreign and domestic. Kansas City, WTC, Atlanta Olympics bombing, anthrax mail scare, the unabomber, abortion clinic bombings, etc. Not to mention the FBI fuck ups of Ruby Ridge and Waco. It was a crazy time looking back on it.

Ashkaun

If you like Tony Scott and investigative films like this, then you should DEFINITELY watch ‘Deja Vu’ with Denzel Washington.

BigGuy209

This is an awesome spy thriller I saw this in the year when I was 10.

StonyD

Some things are sadly timeless

Logan Kerlee

Really enjoyed this watch! Great movie for sure and an awesome reaction to everything. :) I don't have much to say with this one, but I just wanted to say how much of a fun time I had watching this!

Logan Kerlee

I'm in FULL support of this! :) I love hearing about what others are reading - could push me to do more reading!

Logan Kerlee

Tom Cruise is no longer built like a funny dude. No - now he looks like an older fella who's in great shape. What sort of role do you see him playing? I'm having trouble picturing something that would actually work.

Logan Kerlee

haahahahaa, for real though!

SnabbKassa

he was saying "coq", I think.

SnabbKassa

it's true that they didn't know it was about covering up the murder of a Congressman until Brill said it. They just knew their bosses wanted "the tape", actually a PCMCIA card, for some reason, not what was on it.

Happy Hanukkah

I definitely enjoyed Knight and Day (2010) but it was generally regarded as a relative failure. And so we got Mission Impossible XXIV. (Heck, in 2017's American Made, Cruise is crucial to injecting humor into what is actually a serious and even tragic story.)

Jean-Dominic Lapointe

But seriously Jack le Coq is delicious! A bit expensive for fried chicken, but really tasty

dlpheonix

Yeah some of his recent work show cases his acting range fairly well outside of the MI franchise. I know he enjoys action but he still loves humor and drama. Rock of ages and things like that. Action movies still pays the bills i guess.

ArcadeAndy

If "Why would you choose coq" doesn't show up in wakeyshakeyjakeyboy's next video, I'll be writing a very stern letter.

David

Dylan, Will Smith's sons friend, is also young Tony Soprano.

Angela D. Mitchell

Cruise has always been able to balance comedy and drama. For stuff in the 2000s, there's Tropic Thunder or Rock of Ages, plus there's a ton of comedy deftly handled in Jerry Maguire, as well as Edge of Tomorrow. Even Top Gun: Maverick had some comedic moments. So while I think he's certifiable and culty personally, I do think the guy has range.

Angela D. Mitchell

It was so much fun that you guys enjoyed this, and especially that George was so pleased with the writing. I agree that it really starts with realistic tension and never, ever lets up -- to the point where I was doing the same thing near the end, going, "There's no way out of this for them." But very smart thinking by Smith's character! I always love seeing Gene Hackman, who was predictably great in this -- and the cat just completed the "grumpy guy with a heart" picture. I especially love how prophetic this movie is, and how much of the spyware, privacy invasion, and other tech was either already available -- if enhanced/compressed for movie purposes -- or on the horizon (see also the Snowden documents). WAMI (Wide Area Motion Imagery) is fully realized now via satellite, now augmented with video, CCTV, and facial recognition as a "panopticon" across America. And I love the little details like Hackman making an impromptu Faraday bag out of a bag of chips to block the signals, using their own bugs and cameras against them, etc. I was so glad the cat made it through. I was seriously attached to that cat by the end. Last but not least, RIP Tony Scott. And Tom Sizemore.

Angela D. Mitchell

PS -- Also, Regina King is of course stellar here (if wasted) in her usual early "wife" role. I really hope you guys react to The Leftovers and the Watchmen TV series, because they're superb, and Regina is absolutely stunning in both.