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1983
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false…
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The 1983 film WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, looks like a fun Cold War time capsule on the surface. Dial up modems. Big beige computers. A teenager who can hack his way into anything with a keyboard and curiosity. But underneath the nostalgia, this movie is carrying a message that still hits hard today, and it is very clearly anti war in the smartest way possible. At its core, WarGames is about how close huma…More
Greetings Professor Falkan. Shall we play a game? A film that aired around the time Cuba was a serious threat for America when there were discussions on the table over nuclear war. I think this film was a cultural response to that facade. However, eventually the threat died down and America entered their most prosperous era since they were founded. But this film is nothing short of a classic. Every computer nerd aro…More
Without a doubt, this was a very excellent choice for this week's contest, vintage technology in old cinema has always been very exciting, as they say in the famous series The big bang theory, many technological and scientific inventions have been inspired by these types of movies, so, since I am a fan of these themes, I would like to start with a classic, which I assure you you will like if you have not seen it yet…More
When Cold War films are mentioned first things that come to mind are James Bond adventures, Ramboesque action, intense political drama, bleak spy films or apocalyptic visions like *The Day After*. However, one of the most important and the most iconic Cold War films belongs to a different genre. It is *WarGames*, 1983 techno-thriller directed by John Badham, also known as one of the rare examples of the genre market…More
Memories are a weird thing. We have them, we swear by them, we fight over what they tell us sometimes. Memories sometimes lie to us. That is where I am with Wargames , a classic example of “It was the 80’s” movies. You see, I rewatched it earlier this week because I am on vacation from my day job and wanted to watch something fun. Something I thought I knew but could not remember many of the finer details. Turns out…More
This post contains spoilers. This is not a review but more of a mini-analysis. I assume you’ve seen the movie. This is just my interpretation. You can watch the trailer at the end of this post. WIth all the talk of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula and both America and Russia making competing claims to greatness again, I thought it was time to revisit the 80's classic Wargames . The film is directed by John Badham…More
