Robert Redford dead at 89

His best role.

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I have grown up watching many of his movies. "The Way We Were" was the first one I saw, when it was released. I liked "Sneakers."

Also, the movie, "Truth."

But I have used his name today. We get sales calls on the phone at work. Someone called wanting to speak to who is in charge of janitorial services. (We have just enough office space to take me 5 minutes to vacuum it if I am being slow.) I said, "No, he can't. He is at Robert Redford's funeral."

Then I hang up. Always leave them guessing.
 
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The best baseball movie!!!
A very close 2nd for me personally for baseball movies, The Sandlot. It came out in '93, and I was REALLY into baseball in the '89-'92 time frame, so it really brought back a lot of nostalgia. Baseball somewhere in the neighborhood all summer long, every single day. There was one house, that all the kids were scared of, and all sorts of rumors abound like they killed dogs, kids that went down their driveway never to be seen again, all sorts of rediculousness, lol. There was always a couple houses that had dogs that we were terrified of, and the woman who jogged while carrying a bat. We'd see her, crack a window, and sing the batman theme song....except "batwoman", lol. I wish it was possible to have that level of imagination again, to be able to pretend again and the imagination for it to be great. Sit in a parked car and pretend it's a space ship, cops and robbers, whatever the game was, a fort in the trees, or on the ground, was as good as a midevil castle, and always.....no girls allowed. lmao.

I hope that my daughters one day will have nostalgia for a era long gone. Talk about the 20-teens fondly, call it the best era of their existence, much like I fondly think about the 80's and 90's.
 
One of my favorites is Electric Horseman. Having spent my teen years in the mountains of Utah, it brings back good memories. And my mom had horses my whole life.

Great soundtrack, too.
 
I agree that he was a talented actor and director and I loved his films. I did not like his environmental extremism/religion, but I'm sure that's what he was surrounded by his whole life.

It was ironic for me to see him play the role of the secret Hydra mole on the "World Security Council". He did a convincing job of believing that the totalitarian Hydra organization were actually the good guys because they were for order, and this completely reminded me of his environmental activism. In the movie he didn't mind murdering a few million Americans for "World Peace", just like the adherents to the Green Religion don't mind starving and impoverishing millions of people so they can feel good about their carbon footprint.