WarGames 1983 * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary 

Yeah this movie is a classic. Love the 80s vibes! Did you know there was a real incident back in the late-70s I think. It was in Russia. They had a new system to detect inbound nukes and a human had to be at the controls to launch theirs back. One day it was a new guy fresh out of training who was just watching the screens for an hour or two. He got a launch detection but it didnt seem right for some reason. He called his superiors and they said its his call and to make it quick. He decided to wait for another minute. Suddenly the screen cleared and it was revealed the "inbounds" were actually clouds reflecting sunlight. Good thing the new guy wasnt all gung-ho. We would not be here today. You can Google all this. You cant make this stuff up.

That is the same actress. She was also in St Elmo’s Fire and now plays a mom in the Hulu show Single Drunk Female.

Dabney Colman plays in 9 to 5. YES, that's Ally Sheedy from the Breakfast Club.

I grew up in the 80s under the threat of nuclear war and now it's here again. Nothing changes.

Hey India! Cute movie. Most people's introduction to hacking.

Loved this movie

yes, that is ferris buehler himself, 3 years beforehand.

The best engineering in this film is David's father converting a slice of bread into a corn on the cob butter applicator.

They had the DEFCON #s reversed in this movie. DEFCON 1 is war.

"I can't swim." "You can't swim?" "No, I can't, okay? Wonder Woman, I can't swim!" "Well, what kind of an asshole grows up in Seattle and doesn't even know how to swim?" "I never got around to it, okay? I always thought there was gonna be plenty of time!" "Sorry." "I wish I didn't know about any of this! I wish I was like everybody else in the world, and tomorrow it would just be over. There wouldn't be any time to be sorry... about anything. ...Oh, Jesus! I really wanted to learn how to swim! I swear to God I did." Fun Fact: The film is still a favorite in Silicon Valley. Google held a 25th anniversary screening in 2008. Historical Fact: This movie inspired Congress to create the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. Democrat Rep. Dan Glickman (KS-04) opened the committee meetings by showing the movie. What Script Fact: According to John Badham, the jeep trying to crash through the gate at NORAD and turning over was an actual accident. The jeep was supposed to continue through the gate. They added the scene of the characters running from the jeep and down the tunnel and used the botched jeep stunt. Computer Enthusiast Fact: The computer in David's room is an IMSAI 8080. According to the person who supplied the computer, Matthew Broderick saved a shooting day by figuring out a programming sequence for the keyboard on his own after instructions were lost. It could do everything shown in the movie (see: Historical Fact). The movie includes the first cinematic reference to a "firewall" concept, a security measure used in computer networking and Internet security. Location Location Fact: The NORAD command center built for the movie cost $1 Million, making it the most expensive set ever constructed at the time. The producers were not allowed into the actual NORAD command center, so they had to imagine what it was like. In the DVD commentary, director John Badham notes that the actual NORAD command center isn't nearly as elaborate as the one in the movie. The tunnel and exterior used for the entrance into NORAD is located in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California. The same tunnel was used to enter and exit Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and in the climax of Back To The Future Part II (1989).

This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. My brother was WAY into computers when he was young and unfortunately did learn a few things from this movie. I heard it so many times because he used a tape recorder to record it when it was on TV before owned VCR. My husband worked a factory job at a tannery cutting leather for years with no A/C. Luckily he didn't do it that long. They sent the jobs overseas and then tried to trick people out of unemployment by paying them a "settlement" of only $300. They even made a Wargames reference in season 4 of Stranger Things.

DEFON is short for defence condition

One of my favorite movies. So very 80s. And in fact someone has hacked the pentagon tho it was invited by the pentagon, to figure out how they'd do it probably. And point of fact, they'd probably offer David a job after graduating school in this movie! Lol Also just to know we're seldom at defcon 5, we're usually at defcon 4. Right now however thanks to russia, we're currently at defcon 3.

When you turn the keys, you launch 10 missiles. All armed with atomic warheads aimed at Russia (at that time). The launch commander refused to obey the launch order.

I forgot only a fifth of those chosen to turn the key refused to do so. That’s WAY too low considering it was offing *20 million people* and probably many more in the aftermath and retaliation lol. Also probably a fairly realistic percentage. The issue for me with AI is as always the humans. People here wanted to use AI simply to give the powers that be more control. Because they were apparently willing to off tens of millions. In the end, the AI was far more reasonable and adaptable than humans. It actually learned to not be a totally destructive monster in a few minutes as opposed to humans who still haven’t learned lol. Also reading future predictions made in like 1899 lol made me sad about how we’ve used technology. (Though we’ve done it this way before then as well!) Instead of new technology making things better for everyone, it’s feared because it takes away jobs! It can also of course make services and products worse and far sloppier, but apart from that, if the tech replaces jobs, at least SOME of it should not stay at the top!! People envisioned a world where we were able to have more free time, not less.

25:30 ... OMG we are learning something "new" ! (struggles to find a public phone ANYWHERE)

There are pluses and minuses to computer controlled versus human controlled missiles-But of I understood it right, even before putting the WOPR Computer in charge, the man operated missiles still had computers somewhere in the chain.

That is a wicked Alice in Wonderland Poster you have. How did you obtain it?

Missile launch controllers are generally on duty in 24 hour shifts.

16:11 You trying not to sound dumb in the beginning and you got that math right. Here you are figuring out the password without the movie telling you. You are not dumb hun.

I enjoyed this, I wish you well. Good luck with your channel.

I tried the bread/corn thing. Easy way to get it done for sure... but the bread tasted wild bad

But credit for guessing the password

1. The authorization code tells the operator if it's a drill or the real deal. That mistake wouldn't happen IRL. 2. Barry Corbin (General Beringer) also played Ed in Anger Management. One of Charlie's wacko patients. 3. Raw corn. 🤮 4 You cannot get phone connectivity with a can top. 5. If you would like something in the same genre but a little lighter you should do Ally Sheedy in "Short Circuit" Finally: Ally Sheedy is my FUTURE EX WIFE. Since Hollywood marriages are short the week long honeymoon would work just fine by me.😍💕 Too bad she's a vegetation. 6. FUN FACT: John Lennon was going to play Falken but didn't make it. 😇

Great movie from the 80's.

Our missiles are still controlled by the same technology as in this movie; a good no really knows programming codes that old to break into it bad because it would be very costly to upgrade.

"chest"?! Really?

I am Gen X and the one phrase that every Gen X'er knows is MAD which stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. To my generation and the Boomers, the threat of nuclear war was real. Something the younger generations have no knowledge of which is a good thing. I remember when I was in grade school, we practiced hiding under our desks in case of a nuclear war and my school had a bomb shelter. I think you can still find bomb shelters in old abandoned schools. I was 15 when this came out and there was a lot of talk about nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament. Luckily, it never came to nuclear war but there were some very tense times and the threat of nuclear war didn't really start to alleviate until the fall of the USSR.

Another entertaining hacking movie is Hackers (1995). It stars Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie and Fisher Stevens.

Hi India, I love this one! If they come for you, they will have to go through me😂

Hello there! Great reaction!!! I have loved this movie as long as I can remember. I was 9 when it came out and my family and I used to watch it all the time! Although, our 1# Matthew Broderick is Ferris Bueller's Day Off! My brother IS Ferris Bueller... and Will Smith's character Alex in the movie Hitch!!! LOL

You’re so right about hating robots taking away human jobs. And we let it happen. We don’t have to use the automation. We don’t need to put the workers out of work-We could choose against the machines and for man.