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- Critics Consensus Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive -- and genuinely suspenseful -- Cold War movies of the 1980s.
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Jun 1, 2018 · 1. THE ORIGINAL IDEA WASN’T ABOUT COMPUTERS OR HACKING. Before it became a story that blended the rise of hackers and personal computing with the ongoing threats of the Cold War, WarGames was an...
That is the message of “WarGames,” a scary and intelligent new thriller that is one of the best films so far this year. The movie stars Matthew Broderick (the kid from “ Max Dugan Returns “) as a bright high school senior who spends a lot of time locked in his bedroom with his home computer.
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
Jun 3, 2023 · What makes WarGames so good is that the killer AI here isn’t exceptional. Like the tech we take for granted today, the AI threat in WarGames is boring and ordinary.
- Ryan Britt
Jul 21, 2008 · It's a deceptively simple story: High schooler David Lightman (played by 21-year-old Matthew Broderick) is a digitally proficient goofball who wants to play an unreleased computer game — and...
High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War ...
WarGames is a soft-sell protest -- pro- people, anti-nuclear and anti-machine -- that entertains. It peddles neither the hysterics of Jane Fonda's "China Syndrome" nor the hopelessness of "Dr. Strangelove."
