I remember the first time i watched The Conversation I didn't have a big reaction to it but I rewatched it like four years ago and it kinda blew me away i dunno what changed. it's a neat little conspiracy thriller but it's also so haunted and sad.
Also i remember thinking who is the forty year old actor who could play that role today? all the guys i could think of who would be good fits are like twenty years older than Hackman was there like Giamatti or someone. Today it'd be Gyllenhaal or Gosling uglying themselves or whatever.