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War Games

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:52 pm
by jfko6
WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy.

The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III.


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Re: War Games

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:21 am
by lnschnei
I love this movie. Kind of reminds me of a more modern day version of Fail-Safe.

Re: War Games

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:42 am
by jfko6
Saw Larry Hagman in 2006.

Re: War Games

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:44 am
by jfko6

Re: War Games

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:56 pm
by lnschnei
jfko6 wrote:Saw Larry Hagman in 2006.
Very cool -- he did a great job in Fail-Safe. Powerful film.

Re: War Games

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2023 10:16 pm
by jfko6
‘WarGames’ anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer

CNN Article on original release of film

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/entertai ... index.html