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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 368869" data-attributes="member: 23">WarGames (1983)

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How this one passed me by as a kid I have no idea. I heard about it, of course, but that was as far as it went. Perhaps it&#039;s because as a child I wasn&#039;t particularly interested in computers. Or international relations.

I expected this film to feel dated, a feeling borne out by the very Eighties electronic calculator red font used for the opening titles. Certainly, most of the tech looks very old school.

Still, the writing holds up well, the subject is (sadly) as relevant as ever, and casting is great. I believe this is the second Ally Sheedy film I&#039;ve watched (after finally doing The Breakfast Club earlier this year). Matthew Broderick is... fine. There were an awful lot of familiar faces, most of whom were in the war room: Whitey from One Tree Hill (AKA Fenton Washburn) had some meaty scenes; Cagney &amp; Lacey&#039;s Inspector Marquette (AKA the nice black doctor who told Karen Mackenzie she was going to die) was also present, as was the mean sexist from both Nine To Five and Tootsie. It took me ages to place John Spencer - L.A. Law&#039;s Tommy Mullaney - who appeared in the tense pre-credit scene (the film&#039;s best sequence, in my opinion) as the man who refused to turn the key to launch a missile strike.

Overall, expectations were fairly low. I expected to tick the box of having seen it and to get a slice of Eighties nostalgia along the way. I&#039;m happy to say it both met and exceeded expectations. There&#039;s a nice postmodernism running through the film that makes it really work today. The scene where &quot;Joshua&quot; dials up David at home is genuinely chilling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 368869, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]WarGames[/SIZE][/B] (1983) [IMG width="634px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moriareviews.com%2Frongulator%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FWarGames-1983-poster.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=d21021937e6e992d0ef8d7ede28929a066e9ee3abc93997a0a161a55279e785d&ipo=images[/IMG] How this one passed me by as a kid I have no idea. I heard about it, of course, but that was as far as it went. Perhaps it's because as a child I wasn't particularly interested in computers. Or international relations. I expected this film to feel dated, a feeling borne out by the very Eighties electronic calculator red font used for the opening titles. Certainly, most of the tech looks very old school. Still, the writing holds up well, the subject is (sadly) as relevant as ever, and casting is great. I believe this is the second Ally Sheedy film I've watched (after [U]finally[/U] doing [I]The Breakfast Club[/I] earlier this year). Matthew Broderick is... fine. There were an awful lot of familiar faces, most of whom were in the war room: Whitey from [I]One Tree Hill [/I](AKA Fenton Washburn) had some meaty scenes; [I]Cagney & Lacey's[/I] Inspector Marquette (AKA the nice black doctor who told Karen Mackenzie she was going to die) was also present, as was the mean sexist from both [I]Nine To Five [/I]and[I] Tootsie[/I]. It took me ages to place John Spencer - [I]L.A. Law's[/I] Tommy Mullaney - who appeared in the tense pre-credit scene (the film's best sequence, in my opinion) as the man who refused to turn the key to launch a missile strike. Overall, expectations were fairly low. I expected to tick the box of having seen it and to get a slice of Eighties nostalgia along the way. I'm happy to say it both met and exceeded expectations. There's a nice postmodernism running through the film that makes it really work today. The scene where "Joshua" dials up David at home is genuinely chilling.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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