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Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the...( read more 
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MCT:May 11, 2008
A true child of the 80s this movie combines a cast of really familiar faces of that time with some early computer graphics and a story of cold war and atomic threat into a pretty decent thriller. The soundtrack and look of the early computers, floppy disks and screens alone is worth seeing this for nostalgic reasons but especially the second half of the movie is actually pretty exciting. In the end the message is clear: there'd be no winner in an atomic war. Kids of today may sit through this movie in disbelief how things looked and worked 25 years ago. Those who saw this movie back then or at least lived in the 80s may appreciate it for the cheesy factor.
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MCT:May 2, 2008
80's geekiness at it's very best or worse, however you want to look at it. I can say that this was one of my favorite movies as a kid.. along with Short Circuit and Batteries Not Included.
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MCT:May 2, 2008The early 1980s was a time of high paranoia as East and West faced off against each other in an increasingly complex game of nuclear brinksmanship and Hollywood definitely took notice with a series of movies that seemed to fortell just how dangerous such machinations could be. Another genre popular in the early 1980s was films centered around the booming possibilities of computers, from Tron to The Last Stafighter, so it perhaps should not surprise anyone that these two genre's would be combined.
But what was surprising was that the final product, the 1983 movie WARGAMES starring a pre-Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick, would be so entertaining and skillful in its execution. In fact the movie is perhaps the most consistently watchable and best thriller from the era, transcending its natural audience of teenage boys to encompass a more general appeal with its fast pace, technological wonders, interesting characterizations and tight plotting that remains to this day one of my favorite movies.
Although the computers and technology looks somewhat primitive by today's standards it was cutting edge for its day (a fact which leaves Broderick having to explain the process of computer networking to Ally Sheedy's character and the "computer geeks" explaining program back-doors). In fact in these days when home computers were in their infancy the plot seems incredibly tech savvy.
The movie starts with the arrival of two men at one of the sites tasked with launching nuclear missiles. Suddenly a message comes through ordering them to launch and believing the order to be genuine (its actually a training exercise) they prepare to follow out the command. The near-apocalyptic judgment and the hesitancy of the men in the silos lead the military to remove men from the sites and replace them with computers - a decision they will soon regret.
Switch to Broderick's character, a very smart high school student who is attempting to access a series of new computer games by connecting his computer to his telephone line and having it dial every number in the computer companies area code. Waiting for it to find another computer signal (anyone who ever had to sit through a dial-up connection will recognize the screeching sound of one computer talking to another) Broderick's character comes across what he believes to be the right number. And proceeds to play a game with the rather chilling title "Global Thermonuclear War."
Unbeknownst to him his "game" is a tactical scenario for the computer in charge of the United States' nuclear weapons silo's and his choice to play the part of the Soviet Union has set alarms ringing at NORAD.
What follows is a quite exhilirating against time to stop global Armageddon. There are no car chases, no shoot-em-ups - just good solid suspense and tension. -
MCT:April 27, 2008
Funny and exciting! Matthew Broderick is excellent in this wonderful thriller that everyone can enjoy! It really keeps you on edge the entire time!
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A computer genius named David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) hacks into a military central computer with game-playing WOPR Simulations named Joshua is only way to win but not to play.
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