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Great 90s Spy Movies
Posted on 10/26/18 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 7:58 pm
Looking back, the decade is pretty top notch.
Goldeneye, Mission Impossible, Ronin, True Lies, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sneakers, even stuff like The Saint and Long Kiss Goodnight were very watchable...and of course Austin Powers.
Maybe it was because the cold War had just ended and Russia and old eastern bloc countries were seen as a entertaining antagonists, plus the there's the IRA stuff, and the 60s nostalgia, but whatever reasons, they just don't make em like this anymore.
Goldeneye, Mission Impossible, Ronin, True Lies, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sneakers, even stuff like The Saint and Long Kiss Goodnight were very watchable...and of course Austin Powers.
Maybe it was because the cold War had just ended and Russia and old eastern bloc countries were seen as a entertaining antagonists, plus the there's the IRA stuff, and the 60s nostalgia, but whatever reasons, they just don't make em like this anymore.
This post was edited on 10/26/18 at 7:59 pm
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Posted on 10/26/18 at 8:09 pm to Jack Ruby
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Posted on 10/26/18 at 8:11 pm to Jack Ruby
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The Saint
It looks like a spoof re-watching it now, but I love this movie and the soundtrack is awesome.
This post was edited on 10/26/18 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 8:47 pm to Ghost of Colby
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
I must call foul on this one. While released in 1990, that movie was a 10/10 on the "how 80s is this movie" scale.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:35 pm to Jack Ruby
Ronin isn’t a spy movie.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:37 pm to Jack Ruby
If looks could kill :)
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:01 pm to Jack Ruby
Harriet the Spy
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:49 pm to FightnBobLafollette
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Ronin isn’t a spy movie.
The movie is about the CIA tracking the case and a criminal enterprise in europe, by way of Deniro, claiming not to be a spook, infiltrating the group and gaining the trust of his partner... It's absolutely a spy movie.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 6:26 am to Jack Ruby
Those james bond movies
Posted on 10/27/18 at 11:50 am to 13SaintTiger
Was Spy Game in the 90’s? Loved that movie. Can sit and watch it over and over again.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 12:11 pm to Jack Ruby
Ronin has one of the better car chases in movie history for my money
Posted on 10/27/18 at 12:31 pm to kciDAtaE
Ronin had that old school feel about it, too. Even with the car cases, it was understated and just kind of eerie, paranoid feeling the whole film that was captured so well in those 70s espionage movies like The Conversation, Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man etc.
It's no coincidence that Frankenheimer was the director.
Mission impossible to a lesser extent, had it, too, but it was overshadowed by Cruise's starpower.
It's no coincidence that Frankenheimer was the director.
Mission impossible to a lesser extent, had it, too, but it was overshadowed by Cruise's starpower.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 1:33 pm to Jack Ruby
Was sneakers a quasi spy movie?
This post was edited on 10/27/18 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 10/27/18 at 8:33 pm to Jack Ruby
Mother Night (1996) is a good movie, but his Nolte's character's situation throughout it is frustrating. His postwar existence is so sad. I hated the end too, but it's still worth watching.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 9:15 pm to Jack Ruby
I love the scenea after Jean Reno's character takes De Niro's character to the old bearded guys place after he gets shot. The removing the bullet scene, the talk about the 47 Ronin story, and just the way the old enemies can have a discussion without really answering each other's questions, is the best part of the movie to me.
That old bearded guy is the Bond villain Drax from Moonraker. He has some great lines in Moonraker, but my favorite is when Bond , and his higher ups walk into that huge room where they had been manufacturing poisonous gas, wearing gas masks, and Drax says, "Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!"
That old bearded guy is the Bond villain Drax from Moonraker. He has some great lines in Moonraker, but my favorite is when Bond , and his higher ups walk into that huge room where they had been manufacturing poisonous gas, wearing gas masks, and Drax says, "Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!"
Posted on 10/27/18 at 9:39 pm to 632627
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Was sneakers a quasi spy movie?
It was an absolute spy Thriller. The team is made up of former spooks and espionage types who find a digital doomsday type device they have to then steal after it falling into the hands of an old foe.
The NSA, FBI, CIA, Russians, etc are all parties in the film. It's a total spy movie.
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