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War Games
(1983)
Is it a game, or
is it real?
Director: John Badham, rated PG
  Starring: Matthew
Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin,
Juanin Clay, Kent Williams, Dennis Lipscomb
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"Mr. McKittrick,
after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the
conclusion
that your new defense system sucks." –
Gen. Beringer
Why watch this?
If computers can ever do this, we ALL need to be concerned!
Plot Summary: A
young computer whiz kid accidentally hacks into a top-secret
military supercomputer while searching for new video games.
Unbeknownst to him, he begins playing a realistic game of Global
Thermonuclear War with the government's program. He must then
race against time to convince the authorities, and the computer,
that he was just playing a game.
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Dad's Preview:
As the cold war droned on in the 1980's, fear of nuclear war was
the subject of a lot media. This film took that possibility
to a potential (and quite scary) end. The USA's missiles are all controlled by a
massive central computer (called WOPR). The system suddenly goes to
Def-Con 4, people start scrambling to determine what the hell is going on.
The culprit is a bright teen who hacked to the system,
and thought he was playing a video game. WOPR considers it to be
real. If you are looking for a reason why modern AI is bad -
THIS IS IT! Watch the full movie
free with ads
HERE on YouTube. |
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United Artists,
Sherwood Prod.;
MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
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