"i want peace on earth and goodwill toward men." "we are the united states government! we don't do that sort of thing."

first, some business items:
you were all such diligent voters this week that we have our AMT choices through june 10th! this is in part because of your voting, and also in part because we have a series of indy movies in may in preparation for our amt field trip to see the 4th indy movie. there will also be an amt field trip to see iron man in there as well. check out the calendar on the right side of the blog to see the choices. thanks for voting!

now, the fun stuff (in the form of loosely connected thoughts):
i do love dan ackroyd's conspiracy theories throughout the movie. and i love that sidney poitier definitely said "motherfuckers mess with me, i'll split your head!" and then there's my undying love for river phoenix, but that's all i need to say about him.
also, you know how i love taglines, and sneakers had a good one - "we could tell you what it's about. but then, of course, we'd have to kill you."
i also love the 90's, and this movie had plenty of good very "90's" moments, specifically in the appearance of computers, answering machines, and turtlenecks.
truthfully, i really enjoyed this movie. there was enough intrigue in it to keep me interested, even though it was 9:00pm and nearing my bedtime. ben kingsley was a great bad guy because he was hard to completely hate. the make up of robert redford's team was well done and allowed for some believability (in terms of skills) as well as pretty decent character development in spite of the fact that there were so many characters to focus on.
the most painful part of the film was when robert redford could only move 2 inches per second. there has been some argument among our amt group about whether or not sneakers is actually an action movie. i will argue that it is because it contains the following action movie traits (as have been identified during amt and in some previous posts): good one liners, speeding cars (though admittedly, there was no car chase), double-crossing, a one-dimensional female character, shots being fired, battles (in a loose sense of the word) with foreign governments, and pistol-whipping.