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10 Things You Didn't Know About WarGames 

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@kennylong653
@kennylong653 Год назад
My secret fan theory is that WarGames and The Terminator are in the same universe. WOPR was the first failed Skynet.
@mauricemaple1430
@mauricemaple1430 Год назад
Thats awesome!! You should become a writer. 😊
@Aaron-lc9cx
@Aaron-lc9cx Год назад
Ripley is mentioned in the sequel
@alexhydell3608
@alexhydell3608 Год назад
Well you aren't very good at keeping secrets 😊
@cincin0722
@cincin0722 Год назад
I'm definitely picking up what you're putting down
@kateblair291
@kateblair291 Год назад
Canon accepted
@DocPeril
@DocPeril Год назад
Two things from a USAF veteran who saw the film in the cinema when it was released (3 years after leaving the military). First, arguably the greatest hero in history, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov of SOVIET Air Defense, refused orders to launch nukes as a response to a faulty report of a US first strike attack. And this was in 1983. Eerily (and perhaps meaningfully) similar to the story of Wargames. Second, when watching this in a cinema during its first release, the actual, IRL tensions inside the US were horrific. (I get emotional just remembering this.) We were watching the 'fun, fell-good, action romp' as it got closer and closer to the suspenseful ending. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS! We were on the edge of our seats, to some extent, but in the actual times, we lived in a permanent state of terrified readiness (actually, in dread because readiness could do little in an actual scenario of nuclear war, and many of us knew this). When WOPR says the game was interesting because "The only way to win is not to play," at least a quarter of the audience of 100 or so people jumped to their feet and shouted with joy and affirmation. We were wound so tight in those days, without always knowing it, that this simple, but momentous line made people jump and cheer at the message. Do not, under any circumstance, play Global Thermonuclear War. I like to think that the film may have contributed to some policy makers of the time, and decision makers in actual missile siloes, backing down from a figurative DEFCON 1. So, yes, it was a nifty little fluffy film which, in all reality, spoke of and to a time when the risk of a devastating WW III was no joke. Thanks for a great reaction, as always, Minty.
@brothergrimaldus3836
@brothergrimaldus3836 Год назад
I was born in '80. People don't realize the cloud over the world during that decade. When the wall fell in '91, the collective sigh the world took, younger people just don't understand it!!!
@taddurrenberger3672
@taddurrenberger3672 Год назад
IRL?
@jonathanstancil8544
@jonathanstancil8544 Год назад
​@@taddurrenberger3672In Real Life
@mickeypye2593
@mickeypye2593 Год назад
such a tale !!! nice one fella ;)
@johnmunro4952
@johnmunro4952 Год назад
I saw Threads ( the movie) in 83 aged 7! ( Far too young) and obviously developed a dread fear of nuclear holocaust. My 8th birthday was 26/09/83. I've always been very grateful to a certain Soviet officer for not ruining my birthday.
@timrprobocom
@timrprobocom Год назад
My favorite story about War Games has to do with the NORAD Operations Center. When this movie came out, NORAD was just beginning the process of completely overhauling their operations center, but no one really knew what they wanted. The totally fictional operations center in the movie showed them what could be done by a creative team, and it actually influenced the design of the revamped NORAD.
@pretikewl76
@pretikewl76 Год назад
This movie is a main reason I got my education (and later jobs) in the computer field. Very inspirational.
@simonhadley8829
@simonhadley8829 Год назад
I recently rewatched this after thirty years and was amazed at how well it held up, not to mention how eerily prophetic it was.
@DonLekei
@DonLekei 11 месяцев назад
War Games was a pivotal piece of technology cinema. I saw it opening week with some colleagues from the computer company I worked for at the time. It showed that password aging is a severe security risk over 35 years before Microsoft (and earlier NIST and FTC) finally issued advice to avoid using password aging because it can lead to people writing down passwords. Then in the phone booth scene, we were all going... "It's a dial phone booth... find some metal. Yes! The pull-tab!" to a chorus of "Shhhh"s. The movie inspired "War Dialers" that exposed so many systems that just used unlisted "security through obscurity" numbers with guest logins, and later used to find fax lines to end spam faxes to.
@Mad-Bassist
@Mad-Bassist Год назад
Greatest line ever: "I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good." Saw it in the theater around age 15--classic!
@robertholtz
@robertholtz Год назад
Fun fact: That line was ad-libbed by Barry Corbin.
@brianbaker3731
@brianbaker3731 11 месяцев назад
My dad’s favorite line from the movie
@emuhill
@emuhill 6 месяцев назад
From what I understand some people have actually peed on a spark plug for real. All while the spark plug was getting energized. Let's just say these people are clearly not all that bright to try something like that. From what I understand the shock you get from a spark plug is similar to the shock you get from an electric fence and is quite painful.
@dark14life
@dark14life 5 месяцев назад
@@emuhill Mythbusters busted that "peeing on electric things" myth. A urine stream breaks up before it contacts the electrified object. You'd have to be inches away to get any sort of shock. Or, have the most robust stream of piss that anyone has ever had in human history.
@domomitsune5920
@domomitsune5920 Год назад
WarGames is one of my favorite movies. And the kid going up against a military super computer to decide the fate of the world, was a pretty nifty idea. And how they ultimately trick it into stalemate itself until it decided to give up, was brilliant.
@MrSupro
@MrSupro Год назад
When you mentioned Space Lasers I thought of Spies Like Us. Can you please do that one? It holds up surprisingly well.
@KabukiKid
@KabukiKid Год назад
This still stands as one of my favorite 80s movies. One thing that is so impressive about this film is that almost all of the tech stuff and hacking/phreaking you see in the movie was completely legit and realistic for the day. They definitely did their nerdy research for this one. ;-)
@seanryan3020
@seanryan3020 Год назад
When dial-up modems you had to plug a phone receiver into were cutting edge!
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218
He did not hack anything. He set his unrealistic home pc to auto dial phone numbers. WOPR just answered.
@KabukiKid
@KabukiKid Год назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 He did the proper research to figure out potential passwords. Sort of social engineering without direct interaction with the subject. And what was unrealistic about his home PC setup? That was a legit PC of the day... it was an IMSAI 8080... it was even sort of old in 1983.
@christopherpetit1718
@christopherpetit1718 11 месяцев назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 I remember a general angrily yelling that "the phone company screwed up. They left a line open," which neatly explained how he got in.
@rgarito
@rgarito 11 месяцев назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Back in those days, many of us actually DID do things like that. It wasn't unrealistic at all. In fact, because of the movie, it was named WarDialing. Typically we were more looking for BBS's but we did find things like banks and computer timeshare companies (Tymnet is one I remember finding). And just like wargames, once you got in, you really had no clue what to do next, so some experimented a bit.
@jeffreycohn6407
@jeffreycohn6407 Год назад
My dad’s oldest childhood friend was William “Billy” Bogart, who played Matthew Broderick’s dad. He was a well known Broadway actor, and one of the earliest spokesmen for IBMs very first personal computer in the very early 1980s. They grew up across the street from each other on Cedar Lane in Woodmere, Long Island. Billy’s wife Erin was one of the very first Muppeteers with Jim Henson on Sesame St and the Muppet Show. Billy died fairly recently, about 5 years ago.
@MatthewHarrold
@MatthewHarrold Год назад
I'm 52, saw it in a Hoyts cinema in grade 7 the same year my dad purchased a Commodore 64, acoustic coupler modem, dot matrix printer, and an amber screen (like a green screen, only orange). We were already "logging in" to the local university computer and Gopher looked exactly like the War Games interaction (without the voice). It felt real, almost as if I could hack into government computers and start Robodebt Wars. $0.02
@Aaron-lc9cx
@Aaron-lc9cx Год назад
I saw it before it was released on pirate video. Got a commodore for my next birthday. Couldn't wait to write a program that infinitely repeated a word or drew a line. Those were the days.
@crusader.survivor
@crusader.survivor Год назад
Those things are built to last! My uncle still uses his Commodore 64 monitor as his tv screen!
@rolling-roadkill
@rolling-roadkill Год назад
​@@crusader.survivorI just fired up one of my old C-64's that has been in storage for about 20 years. Started up right away as if it was brand new. I love computers from the 80's. 😄
@crusader.survivor
@crusader.survivor Год назад
@@rolling-roadkill The 80's was the height of American culture! I miss those days.
@markramirez3920
@markramirez3920 Год назад
C64 ? The same computer hacktivist Julian Assagne learend computing ?
@LearnAboutFlow
@LearnAboutFlow Год назад
"Shall we play a game?" was a HUGE meme/catchphrase of the time and everyone was saying it.
@Diggy22
@Diggy22 Год назад
WarGames is one of my favorite tech movies. The hacking scenes are the most practical and believable for its time. Rather than just having a teenager type in random code on his computer, they have the hero using passwords carelessly laid out, and dialing up numbers to software companies. This movie had such an impact on me, when I got my first Chromebook about 5 years ago, I slapped a WarGames sticker on the back of it. One fact I'm surprised that you didn't mention was that the Galaga game that Matthew Broderick was playing was gifted to him to practice on for the movie. So yeah, Matthew Broderick had a Galaga machine in his house thanks to WarGames.😊
@specialagent4575
@specialagent4575 11 месяцев назад
This movie got me to install a war dialer back in the day and then a port scanner later on. There were (are?) a lot of vulnerable systems out there.
@Choralone422
@Choralone422 Год назад
Wargames has always been one of my favorite movies! Even when I was too young to fully understand it back in the 80s. It's a movie that I still go back and watch a couple of times a year. I knew about the 2008 sequel and even watched it. It's basically a made-for-TV movie in quality. Not completely terrible but doesn't hold a candle to the original!
@antdude
@antdude Год назад
My colony and I saw it in the theater as a callow. I didn't understand it, but did when I was an adult since I became a computer geek/nerd. :)
@burns4246
@burns4246 11 месяцев назад
lol, what u said could have been my comment word for word. i also love war games, i have seen the 2nd and it was not good but not horrible as well
@edgartenbruggencate939
@edgartenbruggencate939 11 месяцев назад
don't forget the weird role W.O.P.R. had in the sequel at the end.
@futuree.d.o.podcast604
@futuree.d.o.podcast604 Год назад
I met the WOPR (prop) in LA on a live sound gig years ago. It was covered in dust all by itself in the corner of an empty warehouse in east LA. It was one of the most random and coolest things I'd ever seen. I was laterally star struck by a prop. It was in one of those industrial areas that had been converted to artist flats. There was a big warehouse separated from the flats, which contained the iconic WOPR. It was just this big empty dusty space. One of the tenants was kind enough to show me this hidden treasure...enticing me with something like, "you wanna see something cool?" ...Its condition was not the best of shape, but still going strong. This was 15 years ago. I wonder where or who is taking care of the WOPR now...but in retrospect, I wonder, what the hell was it doing there...like shouldn't it be in a museum?
@tammasus
@tammasus 11 месяцев назад
Damn! Wish you had gotten pictures
@futuree.d.o.podcast604
@futuree.d.o.podcast604 11 месяцев назад
@@tammasus man I think I did actually. I gotta go dig in my old photos and see if i still have them. If so I'll post 'em and flag it here!
@aaronm9478
@aaronm9478 11 месяцев назад
There is an old, dusty WOPR in the "sequel"...Idk if it is the original WOPR or not, but it looks just like it. Maybe they found it and have it preserved somewhere now.
@basketvector7311
@basketvector7311 11 месяцев назад
sweet. i would be star struck.
@mattfinleylive
@mattfinleylive 11 месяцев назад
@@futuree.d.o.podcast604 !
@trevorbrown6654
@trevorbrown6654 Год назад
This was a huge sleeper hit in the summer of 1983. I remember it happened to coincide with the first generation of affordable home computers that kids ( of which I was one) could get their hands on. I also recall Octopussy was it's big rival release that summer and both films were released by United Artists. Scary to think this was 40 years ago now. What you missed mentioning was that Matthew Broderick's father died towards the end of filming,. John Badham and the cast were very sympathetic towards him however he bravely soldiered on in order to get his scenes finished.
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218
Fun semi-fact- that computer he was using was not something a family would purchase.
@markramirez3920
@markramirez3920 Год назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 I wasa lucky to get some kids computer summer camp at a collegue ...
@rgarito
@rgarito 11 месяцев назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Actually the IMSAI 8080 was pretty popular but not cheap. Home computers back then were much most expensive (adjusted for inflation) than they are today. My first computer back then was a TRS-80 which cost $1000 (and the printer cost about another $1000). That was a LOT of money back in the early-mid 80's
@johnphantom
@johnphantom 11 месяцев назад
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Real fact: he wasn't using a PC. It was a dumb terminal.
@lloydmilton9808
@lloydmilton9808 Год назад
My wife and I still watch this movie every few years and continue to enjoy it. I absolutely loved the Wargames Defcon 1 game on the PS1. A friend and I used to play it every time he came over trying to beat each of the different scenarios and getting through to the end.
@Ojisan642
@Ojisan642 Год назад
Space lasers was the plot of Real Genius
@casinodelonge
@casinodelonge Год назад
"Id piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help". Classic line.
@grapeshot
@grapeshot Год назад
Global thermonuclear war. I always liked that scene when all the missiles were flying out of the Soviet Union and the United States. And the computer said no winner.
@astrocohorsclub
@astrocohorsclub Год назад
I don't know if this already has been mentioned, but I mention it anyway: one possible translation for "hawk" in German language is "Falke". So basically "Falken" is the name "Hawking" transliterated into German.
@5roundsrapid263
@5roundsrapid263 11 месяцев назад
Wow. That’s why a hawk is also called a falcon in English. I never thought about that…
@jimday7812
@jimday7812 Год назад
I remember it being said a few times that the jeep crashing into the fence wasn't a part of the script. It just happened and when Broderick said "are you OK" to Sheedy, it was out of genuine concern and not one of his lines. It all was kept in because the director liked it.
@robyee3325
@robyee3325 8 месяцев назад
Seemed out of place
@JoeyLevenson
@JoeyLevenson Год назад
One of my favorite movies as a 80s kid. Ive seen it probably 30+ times.
@gagarin777
@gagarin777 Год назад
Wait... lasers in space you say? That's the plot of Real Genius [1985] with Val Kilmer
@sid2112
@sid2112 Год назад
Ally Sheedy in the jogging pants still haunts my dreams.
@Venejan
@Venejan 8 месяцев назад
Yes, I've been in love with her character for a full forty years now! She's the very quintessence of what a young guy thinks a girlfriend should be...
@GrinderCB
@GrinderCB Год назад
I loved how he dialed all the phone numbers in the Sunnyvale area to find just the computers. Just call the phone company and ask for all the prefixes in that city, then run the program to auto-dial all 10000 per prefix and save the computer toned ones. And for getting out of the big phone bill, as he said, "There's ways around that."
@Mordraneth
@Mordraneth Год назад
That's called Wardialing, and it was a genuine technique used by hackers pre-Internet.
@joshuagibson2520
@joshuagibson2520 Год назад
I used Terminate! V1. 4. It had a built in wardialer.
@gorillaau
@gorillaau Год назад
​@@MordranethThere is a modern spin off of that one which is Wardriving. It's where you drive around untill you find an open (passwordless) WiFi access point. Just make a note of it and move on to find others, or the same one but a stronger signal. Later you come back and explore this new system that you have found. These days, you need to crack the WEP or WPA keys which is not impossible but takes a lot of the fun out of it. Manually cracking those keys? Well there are ways around that also.
@STSWB5SG1FAN
@STSWB5SG1FAN Год назад
@@gorillaau Actually the terms you used, "war-dialing" and "war-driving" owe their existence to the film.
@LOWROLLER72
@LOWROLLER72 Год назад
"You can go to jail for that.. only if you're 18" LOL 😁
@cosmodigi1
@cosmodigi1 Год назад
It’s hard for me to fathom this was 40 years ago n still holds up in its own way. What Minty said about current AI is also kind of alarming in how true his statement is.
@Chuck-he1jd
@Chuck-he1jd Год назад
AI is Hollywood... not what you think it is ,,,,fake
@badkitty4922
@badkitty4922 Год назад
There's an actual computer software company in Asia (China, I think) called Cyberdine. When I heard that my first thought was Rut Roh! Shit's about to get real!
@GrinderCB
@GrinderCB Год назад
What really put the hook in me was the opening sequence with the Missileers in the silo control bunker who get the go-code to launch their missiles, not knowing it was a test.
@biguglyskunk1248
@biguglyskunk1248 Год назад
And one of them being Michael Madsen...😂
@richardnicholas2957
@richardnicholas2957 Год назад
One of my favorite all time movies. Still holds up very well.
@SchizoGenius
@SchizoGenius Год назад
One of the crazier aspects of the timing of its release would be the whole Stanislav Petrov incident took place that same year, but it wouldn't be revealed for decades afterwards.
@Vim-Wolf
@Vim-Wolf Год назад
In terms of the technical side of the film, Wargames was so far ahead of its time. They spoke with actual hackers to get their info, and a lot of the methodology is still relevant now.
@trevorbrown6654
@trevorbrown6654 Год назад
I think that was part of the reason it was so successful. It was a totally original, entertaining and well made film. The story was, as you say, years ahead of its time.
@gregpettigrew7908
@gregpettigrew7908 Год назад
As a 12 year old in 1983 it resonated plenty. I think most kids of the early 80s figured they would all die in a nuclear war. “The Day After” was another movie that brought the point home. To make things even worse, we also lived in the Colorado Springs (home of NORAD and at the top of the Soviet target list)…
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218
The Day After was eerie for when it was released. Watching it now as an older adult, there are a lot of things about the movie that are not that great. 1st, the launch sequence of the Minuteman Missiles from in front of the residence halls on the KU campus makes no sense because the US Air Force would never have silos in that location and 2nd, minuteman missiles were never deployed in Kansas. Also the detonation scene with the Dr. On the highway-if that were the case, him ducking down would have done no good as for the distance he was to that large MT warhead, his car would have been obliterated.
@vincentanzelone8705
@vincentanzelone8705 Год назад
One of my all time favorite films. I saw this as a kid in theaters and was fascinated by the computer technology. This led me to a very successful 25+ year career in IT.
@geoswan4984
@geoswan4984 Год назад
Lichtman's computer, in the film, is an Imsai 8080. The Altair 8080 was the first computer an individual could purchase, as a kit, and assemble at home. The Imsai was the second kit computer. Producers tried to negotiate with computer retailers, for a product placement, and product placement fee, without success. So, they decided to use the Imsai. Imsai and Altair computers had toggle switches and flashing lights, on the front panel, just like the old big iron computers. Each individual flashing light was on or off depending on the current content of the CPU's address, arithmetic and status registers. My older brother paid something like $1000, in 1976 dollars, to purchase an Imsai kit. It took him months to solder all the components on to the motherboard. When it was finally finished I thought he would be excited, trying it out, putting it through its paces, making it do interesting things. But, in fact, he was very disappointed. He found that the kit just hadn't shipped with enough memory. It shipped with a big 1 kilobyte of RAM. Not megabyte, not gigabyte. Kilobyte. For another $1000 he could unsolder and replace his 1K chips with 4K chips. Another one of my favourite RU-vidrs has a couple of videos where he plays with a kit that emulates one of those 1976 computer kits... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ko6W_zuHgfE.html
@MrDuneedon
@MrDuneedon Год назад
One of my favorite childhood movies, and I still love it today. Really struck a nerve with me all those years ago, right smack dab in the 80s Cold War era.
@notbanksy8294
@notbanksy8294 Год назад
Whoppers, also a candy. Malted milk balls covered in artificially flavored chocolate. Another good one Minty, thanks.
@5roundsrapid263
@5roundsrapid263 11 месяцев назад
In the UK there’s a copy called Maltesers.
@ACBMemphis
@ACBMemphis Год назад
The opening credits of Edge of Tomorrow show the control room from WarGames. Also I think the idea for the movie Sneakers was discovered while making WarGames. Not to mention, the method used to find the computer's phone number was real! I had a program for my Apple II literally called the "War Games Dialer" that used the modem to find other computers by auto-dialing. Anyway, great video!
@davidc6032
@davidc6032 11 месяцев назад
Great cast and writing that went beyond the main leads. Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin as the General were fantastic. Both of those actors always delivered.
@Ozymandias1
@Ozymandias1 Год назад
The hacker scare bit was why the recently departed Kevin Mitnick was punished so severely in the following decade. Abd why the judge even banned him from making phone calls because he was convinced that Mitnick could launch nuclear weapons by whistling into a phone (in the 70s it was actually possible to make free phone calls by using a whistle from Captain Crunch cereal boxes, a guy who called himself that was involved with that as were a certain Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak). When the majority of Mitnick's "hacks" involved social engineering, exploiting human weaknesses to gain access.
@jecelassumpcaojr890
@jecelassumpcaojr890 Год назад
When Kevin Mitnick (who died last week) was arrested, he was kept in solitary confinement. The argument was that he could launch nuclear missiles if he had access to the phone system. Guess which movie the judge was thinking of when he agreed to this. About the sequel, I don't remember much about it but WOPR does make a short cameo as does the character of Dr. Falken with a different actor.
@sketcharmstrong8491
@sketcharmstrong8491 Год назад
I remember my dad renting this movie over and over back when. At the time I didn't know what it was about and thought it was supposed to be some kind of intro to Ferris Bueller or something, considering the main character fiddles around with keyboards in the beginning. Little did I know years later while watching this as an adult. But yeah, a rad trip back to the 80s....
@paradox7358
@paradox7358 Год назад
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
@koppadasao
@koppadasao Год назад
- Who invented asexual reproduction? - Er... Your wife?
@kenholuta1352
@kenholuta1352 Год назад
As always, it's fun to learn about what went on behind the scenes of our favorite 80s and 90s movies. Back then we had to rely on movie magazines like Cinefantastique, Starlog, and others to give us the scoop on production details and gossip about the actors and directors. Now we have Minty.
@iamthesnowgod
@iamthesnowgod Год назад
Minty, your videos are amazing. You keep us entertained and informed. Hitting those 80s classics.... icing on the cake my friend. Keep it up!!!!
@martinrenner2992
@martinrenner2992 Год назад
I saw this at least 3 times in a theatre when it came out. Masterpiece!
@Juohmaru79
@Juohmaru79 Год назад
Brings back nice memories and a bit of nostalgia for an era gone for good...In my mind makes a great double feature with D.A.R.Y.L.
@kirbymarchbarcena
@kirbymarchbarcena Год назад
Ah, yeah, another original '80s movie that an '80s kid like me has enjoyed because of the computer games
@charlesrainey1076
@charlesrainey1076 Год назад
Minty bro, the imagine joke /pun was A+! Truly one of you best displays of your mastery of the comedic arts. Love your work and thanks for being you. Joy, peace, and abundance upon you friend.
@wstine79
@wstine79 Год назад
"Shall we play a Minty game?"
@kennykimbler9816
@kennykimbler9816 Год назад
Great movie, I remember watching this as a young kid. I loved it then and its still a good movie and thanks for the trip down memory lane. Those where the good times seting in front of HBO cable T.V.
@flipnap2112
@flipnap2112 Год назад
Crazy. I was 14 when it came out. the Arcades were the place to be. It was an amazing time and I dont think its even possible to imagine what it was like if you were born decades later. The excitement was visceral and it was an obsession. The home computer market was blossoming yet no GUI existed yet. You had to write code just to launch programs. I had an apple II and programmed in BASIC to mimic the films "Airline ticket reservation" scene. My friends would come over and they thought it was real ha ha. Imagine never even conceiving the idea of an "internet" and then seeing a kid on a movie dialing into "the internet" to "hack" games. These terms and concepts were so radical and new. I fell I love with Alley Sheedy and then began my love of girls with crooked teeth :) I remember her saying in an interview that hollywood asked her to fix them and she said "Nope!". Thats a rarity in hollywood these days.Anyway I could go on and on so ill stop here. Thanks for covering it Minty. Im so glad I was 0-10 in the 70's and 11-20 in the 80's. I won the decade jackpot!!
@heathhacker8948
@heathhacker8948 Год назад
I miss BASIC !! I hate C++ although I love a SPELL CHECKER being built into the program editor new generations never have to deal with a syntax error and i still think in GOTO .
@flipnap2112
@flipnap2112 Год назад
@@heathhacker8948 ha ha yeah man, the good ol'.. 10 Print "I Am Awesome!" 20 GOTO 10 😄
@taliesinllanfair4338
@taliesinllanfair4338 Год назад
So glad you did this video of an almost forgotten gem of early 80s cinema.
@Legoisjustsogood
@Legoisjustsogood Год назад
I remember first seeing War Games in computer class in high school, and it has since then become one of my all time favorite movies
@DavidLLambertmobile
@DavidLLambertmobile Год назад
I liked Wargames as a kid: 1980s but as a older adult, 2020s there are big flaws-parts I'd change, redo.
@markpjf85
@markpjf85 Год назад
Wargames is a good film Computer hacking Computer called Joshua releasing the codes to start world War three
@TheBlindDyslexic
@TheBlindDyslexic Год назад
While investigating War Games, the idea for the 1992 movie Sneakers was created. War Games was also the name of the 1969 episode of Patrick Troughton's last adventure. Where the 2nd Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe help ferret out a fellow rogue Time Lord the War Chief, who was aiding the race the War Lords. This would also be the adventure that would give Name to the Doctor's race, and be the second time where he would encounter one of his own people (the first being the Monk from the William Hernell serial the Time Medler).
@Slammy555
@Slammy555 Год назад
Missile Command is the best video game based on War Games, it came out several years before the movie.
@SevenOfNine-7
@SevenOfNine-7 Год назад
Always loved how Ally Sherry's character is portrait as being utterly gormless throughout. Literally just there as teen eye candy and to hold open doors for Broderick. Also love how NORAD were pissed off because they movie showed them as a high tech installation filled with computers and banks of huge displays where in reality it was just a couple of black and white TVs with a reel to reel computer from the 50s.
@jamesmoss3424
@jamesmoss3424 Год назад
Matthew Broderick is brilliant as David Lightman and Ally Sheedy is brilliant as Jennifer Katherine Mack.😀👍
@RominaJones
@RominaJones Год назад
100%, this is one of the best cast films!
@jamesmoss3424
@jamesmoss3424 Год назад
@@RominaJones I agree. 😀👍
@XpappaedgeX
@XpappaedgeX Год назад
WG2 wasn't horrible. I was living back in San Diego when it came out, and saw it in a small video store. I had to watch, loving the first one at 10 years old. I didn't hate it. Some good Easter eggs in it.
@LawrenceW78
@LawrenceW78 Год назад
I remember seeing WarGames: The Dead Code on like a off brand movie channel one time and only caught the back end of it, when I saw it I was like "They made a sequel, the hell???"
@TheREALJosephTurner
@TheREALJosephTurner 11 месяцев назад
Even though this came out when worries over nuclear annihilation were extremely high, the movie had two of my favorite things of the era: the beginning of home computers and Ally Sheedy.
@jamesroseii
@jamesroseii Год назад
The hacker method that David uses to find other computers, that is, writing a program that has his computer call all possible phone numbers looking for other computers and then modifying the phone records so as to not get charged for long distance use, was a novel way to do it. In fact, it was such a good idea that actual hackers began doing just that because of this film.
@Mordraneth
@Mordraneth Год назад
Correct you are. That's why we..errm they called it Wardialing. They'd also left screen capture on because some BBS's had their security info or client type flash on screen for a single frame and was too fast to see, Screen capture allowed them to go back and see the screen grabs and glean everything from ports open, to the type of software they were using and what version. That allowed exploiting software backdoors instead of using brute force hacks. Allegedly.
@jamesroseii
@jamesroseii Год назад
@@Mordraneth Awesome! Thanks for the info!!! Also, RIP Captain Crunch.
@cpconstantine
@cpconstantine Год назад
@@jamesroseii john draper is still very much alive
@jamesroseii
@jamesroseii Год назад
@@cpconstantine You are right. I confused him with Kevin Mitnick.
@jeffhulrich
@jeffhulrich Год назад
I was there. I was 17 years old at the time. I was also an aspiring computer programmer and quite natural at it I must say. I was already a regular on the computer bulletin boards, using my whopping 300 baud modem. Back then, you would find text based command prompts at random phone numbers. We used dialers to hunt those numbers. When I watched this movie, I saw something quite potentially real because of my experience at the time. The movie has been remarkably memorable.
@notRusl
@notRusl Год назад
My fantasy ending is connected to the present ending.... So when everyone is happy that tic-tac-toe has worked, the WOPR has actually launched the missiles anyway. It ends when the general's face has stoic fear all over it, staring into the abyss...
@merafirewing6591
@merafirewing6591 8 месяцев назад
A little too grim.
@TimDaleMusic
@TimDaleMusic 10 месяцев назад
I read the novelization of WarGames back in 83, and it's opening line was so striking that I remember it to this day "The world ended not with a bang, or even a wimper, but in complete silence". The writer had obviously followed the rule that a book needs to grab it's reader from the first line. (The line was a reference to a non-working computer game that Broderick's character was writing.)
@nimblehealer199
@nimblehealer199 Год назад
Fun Fact: the scene in the missile silo is dead on accurate.
@DavidLLambertmobile
@DavidLLambertmobile Год назад
As a 1980s 1990s era Army MP enlisted 🪖 I found the film Air Force, SP-MP parts a tad unrealistic. In reality, especially after 09/2001 the USAF & DoD are SUPER rigid, strict about 🛰🚀📡💻 stuff. No open tours, no buses, no pranks, no detaining trespassers(un monitored or with no restraints). I can tell you Air Force Security Forces & OSI 🚔 are no joke!
@TheAlchaemist
@TheAlchaemist Год назад
@@DavidLLambertmobile He is talking about the initial silo scene, the opening scene, where they were conducting a training test in a silo without knowing if it was training or not.
@robertmcghintheorca49
@robertmcghintheorca49 Год назад
Maybe do 10 things you didn't know about "Suspiria" or "The Entity".
@mickeypye2593
@mickeypye2593 Год назад
only seen suspiria in the last 6-8 months. brilliant show ... a deft hand upon its rudder :)
@ndarkie
@ndarkie 11 месяцев назад
One other thing that you might not know about the movie. The hack used to make the telephone call without having any money is based on something real. While the real hack was a bit more involved, it absolutely worked if you found the proper type of pay phone back in the 80s.
@kaylacolgan
@kaylacolgan Год назад
I remember I first watched this movie on The Hub channel when I was 15 almost 16 back in 2013.
@pilotman012
@pilotman012 Год назад
Are we not going to mention the "How to butter a corn cob" scene?!! 😂
@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm
David's Mom: "Is your little friend staying for dinner?" Jennifer is sitting in a chair. When David attempts to get past her she traps him between her legs, smiles and says: "Little friend?" 😂 One of the most innocently erotic (or erotically innocent) scenes in movie history! Ally Sheedy said that she had no idea how suggestive that scene was until she saw the completed film for the first time!
@Lesley_RedRhody
@Lesley_RedRhody Год назад
I was nine and my Brother was ten when we saw _WarGames_ premiere on the big screen. As kids, we’d never previously heard of SAC or NORAD. We didn’t know what a DEFCON was. But let me tell you, we felt the weight of the World on David’s shoulders when he realized he almost started World War III! That, of course, was due in no small part to the performances given by Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. John Wood was equally brilliant and tragic as Dr. Stephen Falken! I was happy to see Wood and Broderick team up again in _Ladyhawke (1985)._ Speaking of improv, which Minty mentioned was encouraged by Director John Badham, the best improv’d line, hands down, came from Barry Corbin as SAC General Jack Beringer: _”Goddamn it, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!”_
@Lesley_RedRhody
@Lesley_RedRhody Год назад
PS: As someone who only watched _The Dead Code_ because it came included with my DVD copy… It sucked! I can’t remember anything about it except what was horribly done to the only returning character: Dr. Stephen Falken. Also I was completely disinterested in the main protagonists.
@NateB1976
@NateB1976 Год назад
Love this film!!! I was really young but I did see it in the theater with my family (born in 76). Also remember watching it many times in the 80’s on HBO. Still enjoy it to this day.
@alanmike6883
@alanmike6883 Год назад
There's something to be said about 80s movies 😊
@dmac7128
@dmac7128 Год назад
WarGames was a fun movie to watch and looking back it captured the zeitgeist of the early 80's perfectly. And it had something thoughtful to say. Some of the aspects of man in the loop decision making vs automation explored by the film are even more relevant today. Plus its a good spring board to studying nuclear warfare. Perhaps the one point brought up in the film is the incredibly short amount of time the President has to make a decision to launch after detecting suspected inbound warheads which could be a matter of minutes. The doctrine of launching on warning was a real thing. Its a wonder that we haven't nuked ourselves yet.
@jeremiahrose4681
@jeremiahrose4681 Год назад
I watched this about a week a go and STILL love it.
@JoeySeverini
@JoeySeverini Год назад
Minty! I love your videos. FYI, on WarGames you missed a great fact that the tunnel used in the beginning of the film (especially at the 8 minute mark of the film) is the same tunnel from BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 and for Toon Town in ROGER RABBIT.
@edkeaton
@edkeaton Год назад
Very interesting video as always Minty. This was also released the same year as John Badham's other hit movie "Blue Thunder". Can you please do a segment on that film? That was an awesome film like "Wargames". Thanks always for your content. 😎👍
@snowcat8971
@snowcat8971 Год назад
I loved Wargames as a kid when it came out. Great video, though I am a little surprised the cast wasn't talked about more. Michael Madsen (Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs) had one of his first roles as being in the nuclear bunker with John Spencer (The West Wing). Dabney Coleman (9to 5, Cloak and Dagger, Tootsie) was terrific as McKittrick. Barry Corbin (such a great character actor) was great as General Beringer.
@Jimmietwotimes
@Jimmietwotimes Год назад
Barry Corbin was great as the Warden in Stir Crazy. Also the geeky hackers, Maury Chayfkin (Dances With Wolves) and Eddie Zeesan (Eugene in Grease) as well as James Tolkan(Back to the Future, Top Gun), William Bogart (The Interviewer in Dave Chappelle's great skit about Clayton Bigsby) and Michael Ensign (The smarmy hotel manager in Ghostbusters) and others etc etc etc
@DavidLLambertmobile
@DavidLLambertmobile Год назад
Watching the film as a teen, 1980s. Then as a 50yr old: 2021 put a different spin on it. I was also a 1990s era(Cold War) Army veteran. The movie and military 🪖 bits are WAY off in some scenes. The 3rd act is flawed too in my view but overall the movie is +.
@Jimmietwotimes
@Jimmietwotimes Год назад
@@DavidLLambertmobile LOL was thinking the same upon rewatch. It was believable for a minute but scrutiny finds a million inconsistencies and plot holes. Still a fun ride in spite of them. Plus I could watch Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin spar with each other all day lololol
@markelijio6012
@markelijio6012 Год назад
@@Jimmietwotimes Many veteran actors were hired to do John Badham's WarGames, because the supporting parts were totally superb. All thanks to the film's casting director Wallis Nicita.
@Jimmietwotimes
@Jimmietwotimes Год назад
@@markelijio6012 Why you fkn wit' me, bruh? I made an innocuous comment and you just have to shit on it. I dunno what's wrong with you ppl but goddam it's hard to comment on these videos. Ok, Sparky, you win. Feel better. I know more about his movie than you do (for various reasons) and have no time for grouses who just cant's stand it unless they shit on someone's good time. Hope you have a great day, JA.
@clangerbasher
@clangerbasher Год назад
One of my favourite films. Only rewatched it a few days back.
@philsherrer
@philsherrer Год назад
What I really respect about the movie is the research put into understanding the real-world technology, culture and plausibility of hacking the variety of targets exploited.
@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145
@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Год назад
*unofficial Terminator prequel! WOPR is the "father" of Skynet! 😂
@matthewbesson5367
@matthewbesson5367 Год назад
We had a tape of this movie when I was a kid and I watched it back to back for days it seemed. I loved this movie. The teenagers were really authentic.
@jamesredman462
@jamesredman462 Год назад
I first watched WarGames when I was 8-9 years old in the mid 1980's, and it was great. It sure did give me an idea on how computers and technology should be serious. Involving teenagers with a world threat also made it real different and interesting. I still watch it today and like it.
@joshuaburba1048
@joshuaburba1048 Год назад
Great review as always Minty. I love this movie. Just rewatched it for free a few weeks ago on RU-vid, in fact. Two more actors who deserve a mention are John Spencer, who shared the opening scene with the young Michael Madsen (some might remember him from "The Rock," when Sean Connery's character hangs him over a ledge and he says his arm is about to be broken), and the great Barry Corbin, who was always fantastic in every role he played. See ya.
@RonBaker456
@RonBaker456 Год назад
Fun content. The thought of Lennon playing the doc is so interesting. You should do one on Real Genius (which did use the space laser motif). Thanks for taking the time.
@DoubleDguitar
@DoubleDguitar Год назад
Real Genius is a classic. Pretty sure Minty did an episode on it.
@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS
@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Год назад
@@DoubleDguitar Yep, I think he did that classic
@dobey8249
@dobey8249 Год назад
WarGames Defcon 1 was also available on PC, simply titled WarGames, and had a complete genre swap to real-time strategy. They also managed to distribute some copies of the game with a virus on the CD, which infected the user's PC if they registered the game.
@mickeypye2593
@mickeypye2593 Год назад
watched this again at the weekend past, love this movie. holds up well
@TheSourKraut
@TheSourKraut Год назад
I remember spending a ton of money renting that movie over and over on VHS (plus a rental player because I couldn't yet afford to buy a vcr) after it was finally released on tape. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember it wasn't in theaters for long, for some reason. (Yes, I spent too much on theater tickets for that movie, too) I hope they NEVER do a remake of this classic
@aussiepie4865
@aussiepie4865 Год назад
Omg I had a huge crush on Ally Sheedy at the time. Such a beautiful young woman.
@Venejan
@Venejan 8 месяцев назад
Agreed!!
@xocab
@xocab Год назад
It's one of my favorite movies of all time! Thanks for covering it, Minty!
@snackbarqueen
@snackbarqueen Год назад
I was 9 years old in 1983 when War Games came out and i remember watching it and being fascinated and terrified by the WOPR computer 😳 I still watch it whenever i catch it on, one of my favorite movies from the 80's 😊
@GrinderCB
@GrinderCB Год назад
I saw WarGames2 a few years ago on cable. I also had never heard of it before. The premise was absurd, that the WOPR computer which had previously been used to control NORAD's defenses ended up running a power plant. Seems to me that an outdated nuclear war computer would be completely disassembled rather than just pawned off into the private sector.
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Год назад
Dunno about that one. Lots of silly mistakes happen with military hardware!
@coreyhendricks9490
@coreyhendricks9490 Год назад
Good morning Minty, cool video as always, keep up the good work, you have a nice day sir
@vladyvhv9579
@vladyvhv9579 Год назад
"Whopper" is also a term for a large fish, when fishing, and a brand of malted milk balls covered in chocolate, and a "very large fib" (a "whopper of a tale"). In some cases, it can also be used as you did here, to indicate that something is "of epic quality" so "a whopper of a film" does indeed work just fine for a movie people should see.
@fathercheese01
@fathercheese01 10 месяцев назад
I played Wargames on the Coleco system, and I loved it. You could count on 1 hand how many strategy games there were on those old school systems back in the day, so I really liked this one.
@chassisskirts6967
@chassisskirts6967 3 месяца назад
Coleco holds a special place in my cold dead heart
@AdamaSanguine
@AdamaSanguine Год назад
I watched The Dead Code on TV. The plot was actually interesting, but I kept waiting to Mathew or Ali make a cameo. The original will always have a special place in my heart. It was another one that I watched with my dad in the theater.
@jamalvargas6146
@jamalvargas6146 Год назад
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