One of my favourite films and a great retrospective. I learnt quite a few new things about the production process. This is a movie that if it comes on TV I say I'll just watch a few minutes but have to watch the whole thing. It has charm, it has interesting characters, it has thrills, it has great pacing and it has 8 inch floppy disks. Seriously though, 12 year old me found this thrilling when it came out. I was a nerd who had just got to touch his first computer in school (and then got told off for trying to take it apart). Suddenly there was this film that showed why these things were so important and what the possibilities there were, whilst everyone else saw it as a reason to mess about for an hour and type rude words. I do love the innocence of Broderick's character. That was many of us at the time, just the endless possibilities of this new medium. It reminds me the first time I used the internet in '90. This definitely influenced me into believing this was something you could make a career out of.
I especially like the infomation on the beginning and the ending Putin pick is a good touch. I enjoyed watching the movie when it came out. There was a lot of talk about it. The Smithsonian did make a flying model of a flying dinosaur, similar to the one depicted in the movie. They tried to show it off during an airshow at Andrews AFB, MD. It flew for a few seconds then crashed.
Thank you, thank you thank you for posting this video. My feelings towards this movie are the same ones you expressed here, having been labeled as a geek and a nerd; preferring to tinker with my old TRS-80 color computer instead of going out with my brother’s friends; washing cars and mowing lawns in order to save money to buy my first PC (8088), etc. To this day, this movie still speaks to me and I still remember it fondly. Edit. This is the first time I click “like” before watching the video… 😂
Good review. After many viewings, one thing that I noticed in the movie is the character named Pat Healy played by Juanin Clay. She is the assistant to Dabney Coleman's McKittrick. This minor character does a lot in the movie. At the beginning during the meeting about the test, she writes something on a pad and shows it to McKittrick and he then suggests using the WOPR to get the men out of the loop. She is the one that escorts Falken, David and Jennifer into NORAD (she was in the crashed jeep and I think I remember her saying "Hold the damn door" when the main door was closing. Later, she gives the estimate on how long it will take for Joshua to get all of the launch codes. The writers got a lot out of character. Of course for the story, she is the sidekick for McKittrick to talk to and give us plot points. She also allows the McKittrick character to stay where he should be and bring in the heroes for Colman to react to when his character sees them.
"Alright, Lightman. Maybe you could tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex." "Ummm... your wife?" By God, I love Barry Corbin in this movie. In my mind, he adlibbed all of his great lines. Don't ruin it for me... Supposedly, "pencil" was the first computer password to ever appear in a movie when David found it in the high school office to change his grades. BTW, if you ask people for the launch code from this film, don't expect a lot of hits. I'm like 0 for 10,000 or something. How hard is it to remember CPE 1704 TKS? I'm starting to think these people don't know anything about movies...
I can confirm that Corbin ad-libbed most of his best lines. The “piss on a spark plug” line forced the production to a stand still because everybody got stuck in a laughter loop.
“My friend down the street…”. Ah, memories. We killed that poor VHS tape! I still love this movie. As always, great inside info that I never knew! Hope our friend isn’t behind anything else nefarious!
I have Falken tyres on my car and every time I am checking tyre pressure a computer voice in my head says "greetings professor Falken". One of my favourite movies obviously 😂
One of badhams best movies, showing my age but remember real event that triggered this. And without been overly blunt it scared the piss out of me. Broderick and sheedy make a likeable believable couple. The late John wood as Falcon steals the show as that "he's like 40...really old" and woods stinging rebuke to dabney Coleman "I see your wife still picks your ties..." It's such a time capsule of real justified nuclear war paranoia around at the time (funny how cyclic the world military power-games never stop) Barry Corbin is another scene stealer in a admittedly clichéd role which he manages to make believable. My biggest complaint is the finale (in part) the rubbing Broderick's hair and ignoring the little sod had nearly started ww3.
I must have watched this movie ten thousand times throughout the 80s, and I probably haven't seen it once since then. It's definitely a big part of the reason I ended up in software. I should dig it out and have my kids watch it on our next 80s movie night...
What's even more hilarious about the Air Force balking at the film is that NORAD had, indeed, seen false alarms that put SAC on high alert not long before the film came out.
I had a funny thought while I was watching northern exposure and there was Barry Corbin. Maybe his caricature changed his name and moved to Alaska after the events in war games.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek I will be looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it. I keep hoping to see it on a streaming service but evidently I am going to have to break down and buy the DVD. I always thought it was fantastic and rather unheralded.
I’ll write it here… My brother had this on tape. I watched it a few times, and feel this was the film, along with Bueller that made me dislike Broderick. Good film though.
Yeah, you're right. That's what I get for not double fact-checking. 🤷♂️ (I was wondering how long it would take to get called on it. Apparently, it's a week!)
This is a very entertaining movie good story, well acted & directed as well as @ times...a frightening movie, the thought WW3 could possibility happen due to a E-malfunction. It's bad enough that human being alone can cause this...all by ourselves! There was also an event in 1979 when US defense satellites wrongly detected a Soviet Union first strike. Like the great band "Devo' once sung..."It's a beautiful world we live in, a strange & romantic place...!".
Actually, after that learning experience it probably would have been safe to leave WOPR in place, unless someone did a Hard restart of him and he was back to day one in terms of experience.
I thought that the story was also commentary on the real horrors militaries go through without any consequences. Watch another Martin Sheen movie Nightbreaker. A fictionalized story of true events. The army marched sildiers to ground zero directly after a nuclear bomb test knowing the damage to the soldiers.
This movie has one of the best insults I have ever heard Matthew Broderick to his biology teacher “Who first suggested asexual reproduction ? Reproduction without having sex.? Your wife
One of my favourite films and a great retrospective. I learnt quite a few new things about the production process. This is a movie that if it comes on TV I say I'll just watch a few minutes but have to watch the whole thing. It has charm, it has interesting characters, it has thrills, it has great pacing and it has 8 inch floppy disks.
Seriously though, 12 year old me found this thrilling when it came out. I was a nerd who had just got to touch his first computer in school (and then got told off for trying to take it apart). Suddenly there was this film that showed why these things were so important and what the possibilities there were, whilst everyone else saw it as a reason to mess about for an hour and type rude words. I do love the innocence of Broderick's character. That was many of us at the time, just the endless possibilities of this new medium. It reminds me the first time I used the internet in '90.
This definitely influenced me into believing this was something you could make a career out of.
I especially like the infomation on the beginning and the ending Putin pick is a good touch. I enjoyed watching the movie when it came out. There was a lot of talk about it. The Smithsonian did make a flying model of a flying dinosaur, similar to the one depicted in the movie. They tried to show it off during an airshow at Andrews AFB, MD. It flew for a few seconds then crashed.
Thank you, thank you thank you for posting this video. My feelings towards this movie are the same ones you expressed here, having been labeled as a geek and a nerd; preferring to tinker with my old TRS-80 color computer instead of going out with my brother’s friends; washing cars and mowing lawns in order to save money to buy my first PC (8088), etc. To this day, this movie still speaks to me and I still remember it fondly.
Edit. This is the first time I click “like” before watching the video… 😂
Good review.
After many viewings, one thing that I noticed in the movie is the character named Pat Healy played by Juanin Clay. She is the assistant to Dabney Coleman's McKittrick. This minor character does a lot in the movie. At the beginning during the meeting about the test, she writes something on a pad and shows it to McKittrick and he then suggests using the WOPR to get the men out of the loop. She is the one that escorts Falken, David and Jennifer into NORAD (she was in the crashed jeep and I think I remember her saying "Hold the damn door" when the main door was closing. Later, she gives the estimate on how long it will take for Joshua to get all of the launch codes. The writers got a lot out of character.
Of course for the story, she is the sidekick for McKittrick to talk to and give us plot points. She also allows the McKittrick character to stay where he should be and bring in the heroes for Colman to react to when his character sees them.
"Alright, Lightman. Maybe you could tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex."
"Ummm... your wife?"
By God, I love Barry Corbin in this movie. In my mind, he adlibbed all of his great lines. Don't ruin it for me...
Supposedly, "pencil" was the first computer password to ever appear in a movie when David found it in the
high school office to change his grades.
BTW, if you ask people for the launch code from this film, don't expect a lot of hits.
I'm like 0 for 10,000 or something.
How hard is it
to remember CPE 1704 TKS?
I'm starting to think these people don't know anything about movies...
I can confirm that Corbin ad-libbed most of his best lines. The “piss on a spark plug” line forced the production to a stand still because everybody got stuck in a laughter loop.
“My friend down the street…”. Ah, memories. We killed that poor VHS tape! I still love this movie. As always, great inside info that I never knew!
Hope our friend isn’t behind anything else nefarious!
May have to pick this up on 4k
Man, I’m SO glad you made a new video cuz I started rewatching your videos I already watched. That’s how desperate I was for your new content🤣🤣🤣
I have Falken tyres on my car and every time I am checking tyre pressure a computer voice in my head says "greetings professor Falken". One of my favourite movies obviously 😂
Thank you for sharing this great movie review. 10 year old me was in constant fear of Nuclear War in the 80’s.
In the Mad Magazine spoof, Matthew Broderick is playing a video game called "PUKE MAN".
Wow, I honestly had not heard about the John Lennon connection, I guess I missed that piece of trivia somehow. That would have been very cool.
This is one of those 80’s classics I’ll still watch. It’s got a good feel to it. Nice pace.
One of badhams best movies, showing my age but remember real event that triggered this. And without been overly blunt it scared the piss out of me.
Broderick and sheedy make a likeable believable couple.
The late John wood as Falcon steals the show as that "he's like 40...really old" and woods stinging rebuke to dabney Coleman "I see your wife still picks your ties..."
It's such a time capsule of real justified nuclear war paranoia around at the time (funny how cyclic the world military power-games never stop)
Barry Corbin is another scene stealer in a admittedly clichéd role which he manages to make believable.
My biggest complaint is the finale (in part) the rubbing Broderick's hair and ignoring the little sod had nearly started ww3.
Ally Sheedy was in it because the movie exists in the Short Circuit universe.
Yeah. Ally Sheedy was in both WarGames and Short Circuit, both of which had the same director.
I must have watched this movie ten thousand times throughout the 80s, and I probably haven't seen it once since then. It's definitely a big part of the reason I ended up in software. I should dig it out and have my kids watch it on our next 80s movie night...
Having not seen this I would love maybe a fuller picture of the story before lengthy casting and production insight.
What's even more hilarious about the Air Force balking at the film is that NORAD had, indeed, seen false alarms that put SAC on high alert not long before the film came out.
A great underrated movie that was pre Ferris so I definitely want to re visit it thanks to your video!
I had a funny thought while I was watching northern exposure and there was Barry Corbin. Maybe his caricature changed his name and moved to Alaska after the events in war games.
@8:34 in a true Reservoir Dogs pose, Michael Madsen!!!
Have you ever reviewed "Colossus The Forbin Project"?
A movie from my childhood that absolutely disturbed me.
Not yet, but it’s high on my list.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek
I will be looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
I keep hoping to see it on a streaming service but evidently I am going to have to break down and buy the DVD.
I always thought it was fantastic and rather unheralded.
I’ll write it here…
My brother had this on tape. I watched it a few times, and feel this was the film, along with Bueller that made me dislike Broderick.
Good film though.
Strangle in both movies he hacks the school computer. Coincidence I think not.
Heh heh... Heh heh! You said 'Martin'!!! & it's funny... I just had this weird dream that the Cold War was heating up again... Dnnnn AH!!!
I think you may find that the film's usage of DEFCON levels is not backwards.
Yeah, you're right. That's what I get for not double fact-checking. 🤷♂️
(I was wondering how long it would take to get called on it. Apparently, it's a week!)
This is a very entertaining movie good story, well acted & directed as well as @ times...a frightening movie, the thought WW3 could possibility happen due to a E-malfunction. It's bad enough that human being alone can cause this...all by ourselves! There was also an event in 1979 when US defense satellites wrongly detected a Soviet Union first strike. Like the great band "Devo' once sung..."It's a beautiful world we live in, a strange & romantic place...!".
Yet again, your Kung Fu is mighty! Thank you!
Actually, after that learning experience it probably would have been safe to leave WOPR in place, unless someone did a Hard restart of him and he was back to day one in terms of experience.
Nothing to disagree with this time. Now 'I'd really like to re-watch the film.
" Mr. Lightmen, can you tell me who came up with the idea of reproduction without sex?"
"Your wife?"
great video.
I thought that the story was also commentary on the real horrors militaries go through without any consequences. Watch another Martin Sheen movie Nightbreaker. A fictionalized story of true events. The army marched sildiers to ground zero directly after a nuclear bomb test knowing the damage to the soldiers.
Yeah the jeep accident was obviously an accident, it just looks more real then usual
This movie has one of the best insults I have ever heard
Matthew Broderick to his biology teacher
“Who first suggested asexual reproduction ? Reproduction without having sex.?
Your wife
Allie Sheady is such a cute girl in this.
shall we play a game
Never laugh at the future.
This movie needs to be elevated to the status that stupid and dumb karate kid currently is as I think it is a much better film