WarGames Filmmaker Uncut Movie Reaction!
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Interesting take. Never thought of it like that. The last part you said. Now Im going to look at the old 80s movies with that in mind. Hm.
pkleo73
2024-01-01 21:22:28 +0000 UTCThis was the machine that I used in high school, to play nuclear war and print out playboy ASCII centerfolds in 1973/1974 - At a reunion, we toured the school and got to claim credit for being among the first to "download" 'porn' at the school! LOL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81GyMKH7zw
Kim Murphy
2023-04-20 17:01:57 +0000 UTCIn the early-70s, the state of Minnesota (The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium), put a computer terminal in every school in the state and we used the same type dial-up/handset modem to connect to the University of Minnesota mainframe. Along with ASCII Art Playboy centerfolds, a favorite game was Nuclear War. No fancy computer monitors, or voice modulators (like in the movie), just a teletype machine with paper 8 bit wide tape to save downloads on...but it had strategy games - USA vs USSR, kind of a computer version of "Battle Ship" - What a great way to spend a study hall hour for a 15 year old! Sitting in the Xerox room, downloading "porn" (search ASCII ART CENTERFOLDS and see what I mean!), and playing Global Thermonuclear War.... right next to the Principal's office door! I think that there was only one teacher who knew how to use it (or even cared about it), and he was busy teaching Chemistry and Physics most of the day! BTW, that The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) program was responsible for Apple computers to become the preferred computers for schools, Teachers in Minnesota created software programs and the state of Minnesota gave any school in the world a license to use them (such as Oregon Trail), for free. Schools bought Apple computers because they could use the free MECCA Minnesota software! Now, 50 years later at age 65, I'm enjoying the fact that we have not blown ourselves up! My hometown is SE of the missile base in War Games. I remember our Civics teacher saying that we would not do well in a nuclear war, because the wind normally comes from the NW, where Minot & Grand Forks North Dakota missile/B52 airbases are. He said of the 150 missile silos like the one in the movie... "That is a lot of bulls-eyes for the Russians to aim nukes at!" - Also, I connect with the movie because I've lived in Seattle for 35 years, and work in the UW building where Lightman goes to find the computer nerds for help.
Kim Murphy
2023-04-20 08:34:55 +0000 UTCIt was great to watch the full length with you. I haven't seen this movie in a little over a year, but I watched it a lot since I was a kid (in the 80s). The thing I like about movies like Wargames is that it was one of the positive ending films. The type where people put things aside and worked for the better. We had quite a few of the more pessimistic view films, such as The Day After, Red Dawn, etc. But then we'd get movies like this from time to time, remind us that it's not totally hopeless. Living through the 80s was scary AF a lot of the time and you really see that in the films.
Donna Castellano
2022-05-03 04:01:11 +0000 UTCLove Matthew Broderick, also would love for James to react to Ferris Bueller's Day Off
breanna
2022-03-22 12:41:03 +0000 UTCThat is one young Michael Madsen in the beginning of this movie.
Damian Christopher
2022-03-21 21:14:07 +0000 UTCAlways loved this film. This was directed by the same Director of Saturday Night Fever. Also, the actor that played the hacker kid, Matthew Broderick, is an underrated actor. He is known his performances in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Glory. His most famous work though is that he was the voice of Adult Simba in The Lion King.
Cody Price
2022-03-21 19:03:27 +0000 UTCI thought it's Bourne-Monday :D
Ivan Vas
2022-03-21 18:37:48 +0000 UTCThe 80s. What a time!
James
2022-03-21 18:36:09 +0000 UTCOne of my childhood faves. Damn i had a mad crush on Ally Sheedy :-)
Rasmus Kristensen
2022-03-21 17:43:56 +0000 UTC
