WarGames

For a movie about technology, it holds up well even 25 years later.

Badham has made a film that succeeds as thrill-a-minute action, cautionary political satire, and intricate suspense.

Classic 80s entertainment. I have a soft-spot for this movie.

wargames owns hard

Here's a film that captures some of the reality of adolescence as well as featuring a misanthopic genius, a love interest I could see myself genuinely falling in love with, a paranoid atmosphere, and an omnipotent government which doubles as an unweildly bureaucracy: there are so many things I idiosyncratically love represented here that I had to get something out of it, though sadly it turns into a total disaster in the final act with a tossed-off finale that doesn't make a lick of sense.

Great movie, lots of great quotes such as, "How about a game of chess?" I still type this into espeak sometimes on my computer just because of how awesome this movie was.

Likable bit of high-tech fluff. Excellent performances from Broderick and the lovely Sheedy and a well-calculated screenplay that gets the maximum mileage out of its far-fetched (but not entirely improbable) premise help make this a lot more fun than some more recent teen-oriented cyber-thrillers I could name.

This is a real gem of a movie and Matthew was amazing.

Love the aesthetic, and the realistic portrail of phreaking/cracking. The innocent romance is sweet too, and the despairing Brit makes me chuckle.

It wasn't good when it came out, and it certainly hasn't aged well.

A guilty pleasure. Requires a whole lot of suspension of disbelief, but Broderick is charming and the ending is so goofily earnest that it's hard not to enjoy.

brilliant.

Watchable.

a great nostalgic computer flick

Doesn't get old as it gets old.

INteresting story, good characters, nice acting by the two leads and some nice directing and editing.

Decent movie, aged pretty well, and has a nice ending to it to boot. Well worth the occasional watch.

Excellent 80's computer sci-fi. I rewatched it recently and was impressed with the level of sustained suspense. Broderick does a fine job, but I often wondered if Sheedy's character was written in for any reason other than having a pretty girl on screen from time to time helps sell tickets.

Unrealistic computer problems always bother me, but there were enough fun ideas that I still enjoyed it. I've seldom laughed so hard as after "That's the wrong one Miss Stevens!"

Dial up.....now wait......getting data....please stand by................

The movie that spoke to the paranoia of hacking before there was. A Decent film from the period.

War Games is a wonderful 80s film that captures both the cold war fears and the budding hacker mentality. Mathew Broderick plays a geek teenager named David, who has fun hacking into open modems to noodle around with unidentified computer systems. He finds one computer that likes to play chess. Eventually, he finds this computer also likes to play Global-thermonuclear war. Unfortunately, while playing, he unknowingly starts the Strategic Air Command computer's countdown to thermo-nuclear war.

a very amusing movie, in a nostalgic and geeky fashion.

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Why did I love this so much? Why am I so attracted to Matthew Broderick? I don't have the answers, I just know this movie made me happy.

Love that IMSAI 8080

Would. you. like. to. play. a. game?