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War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures! Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is “brilliant…funny…and provocative” (New York)a fast-paced cyber-thriller. Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and mastereven the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department’s war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportionsWorld War III! Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (Tony AwardÂ(r) winner John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent…and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.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 film’s set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it’s not hard to predict what’s going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the “hands” of machines talking to one another. Thus we’re stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this movie, though. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. –Tom Keogh
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about 1 year ago
Review by Shelley Gammon for War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
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This was an instant teen classic. Far more than a movie about romance, lust or “parents who just don’t understand” …. this was a great flick and it still is.Matthew Broderick introduced the masses to the world of hacking, phreaking and global thermo nuclear war.The average person at that time had never heard of a phone phreak, but we see the lead character get free calls on a payphone and stealing software via his 300 baud modem before anyone knew there was software worth stealing.Not only are his parents affluent enough to supply him with a computer, he gets discarded computer hardware from friends at a local university to make the super-duper hacking machine that ends up getting him in big big trouble.While a lot of this story is pretty improbable, some of the plot was dead on for the time. There were no minature computers and cameras and while the government had satelites, they couldn’t count your eyelashes from the stratosphere like they can today.Nuclear war with the Soviet Union was a real threat when this movie came out… all of my friends talked about it and posters with mushroom clouds were all over our school. Sting came out with the song “Russians” and we all peed in our pants when the show “The Day After” aired on prime time TV.It was a scary time and this movie masterfully played on the fear of nuclear threats and the real likelihood (and nowadays a reality) of having formerly human-manned stations automated by computers.Lots of excitement, great background music and lots of 80s nostalgia abound in this film. If you’re in your late 20s to early 40s and you haven’t seen this film, it’s your duty to get it!I wish the DVD had more features, such as out-takes and interviews with the stars and perhaps others (like folks at NASA or other famous computer geeks) who may have been influenced by this film. The DVD platform isn’t taken advantage like it should be, especially w/ a film of this genre. Nonetheless, it’s a better format than VHS and definitely watchable over and over again.
about 1 year ago
Review by L. Shirley for War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
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This review refers to the MGM DVD edition of “War Games”……”War Games” is a film to be enjoyed by the whole family. Only the very young may not find it entertaining as it may be beyond their comprehension.Take a trip back to the early eighties. There may have been “a car in every driveway, a chicken in every pot..”, but definately not a computer in every teenager’s bedroom.David Lightman(Matthew Broderick) is a high school slacker. He is highly intellegent but for the most part an underachiever when it comes to his school work. Not a problem though. He only has to go home where he has a very high tech computer set-up for the time period. Once there he justs hacks his way into the school computer and changes his grades! Brilliant! So brilliant in fact, that one day he finds that he has broken into a high security system, and finds himself in the Defense Department’s war computer. He was only looking for games, and he found one…”Global Thermonuclear War”!The computer starts playing the game with him, he thinks it’s a blast(excuse the pun)he even takes the Russian side, until he realizes…this may be no game. The military is perplexed by what they see on their big screens and they immediatley go into a defense mode.The only hope now is to find the creator of this game and hope he can make the computer stop playing before WWIII begins!You’ll be riveted by the thrilling and high tech action as David and his girlfriend(Ally Sheedy) go on the run with the FBI close on their heels, and try to prevent this terrible tragedy from occuring.The young stars steal the show in this one, but it is rounded out by fine performances by Dabney Coleman and John Wood. It was directed by John Badham who keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout.A very nice DVD. You’ll view all the action in sharp colors and an outstanding picture. You have the choice of widescreen or standard.(No need to figure out which side it’s on, you make that decision at the beginning of the film)Very good sound in Dolby Dig 5.1. There is feature length commentary by the director and the writers. Be sure to GO BACK to RESUME after pressing on this choice to get to it.It also includes a nice booklet and may be viewed in French or with subtitles in English, French or Spanish.This is one everyone in the house should be happy with.. and may even take up Chess afterwards…enjoy…Laurie
about 1 year ago
Review by Erwin S. Andreasen for War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
I won’t praise the movie further, but I want to highlight the commentary audio track: the director, John Badham and the two writers, Lawrence Lasker and Walter Parkes comment every scene in the movie. It’s really great stuff, not the usual junk you might hear actors say about their own role in the movie (that seldom sounds convincing) but lots of technical details about how the movie was made (for example, the initial blizzard scene was apparently created with the help of helicopters) to exactly what sort of computer equipment was used (a TRS-80) and why. The commentators are having lots of fun and manage to share a lot of trivia (for example, W.O.P.R. was considered named PSIOP(sp)).
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Watching this movie again brings back some great nostalgic feelings — back in these days computers were *special*, something amazing and almost magical. Being a software professional, I often yearn for those times again, where we weren’t something as boring as “IT professionals” but “wizards”. Reading an old copy of BYTE from 1980 or watching WarGames helps
about 1 year ago
Review by Chris Schmidt for War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
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This is a review of the 25th Anniversary Edition.
This DVD was made from a full screen version where the left and right sides were cropped. From that image, they cropped the top and the bottom to produce this so-called widescreen version. The image you see when watching this DVD consists of a small rectangle cut from the center of the original movie. If you could find a full screen version, you would see more of the original movie than if you watch this so-called widescreen version.
The package says “widescreen”. In the past, the term widescreen meant that you see the entire original image. More and more, when a DVD package says widescreen, that means they cropped the top and the bottom so the image will fit a modern TV. Whereas in the past, widescreen meant you see more than with full screen, now it means you see less.
Why all the positive reviews here for this horrible product? Please, we can find movie reviews on imdb. Here on Amazon, we need critiques of the DVD. If everyone here would give mutilated movies the lowest rating, maybe the DVD makers would get the message and stop mutilating the movies we like. At least it would warn people against buying them.
about 1 year ago
Review by Bill J. Thomann for War Games (25th Anniversary Edition)
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In spite of what it says on both Amazon & DeepDiscount this is a ONE disc release. It’s chock full of some great features, and has very nice audio/visual quality (anamorphic ws). It’s only $9.99 at Best Buy & $9.72 at DD which should’ve tipped me off that they’d cut out one disc. Overall I would still highly recommend it though.