WarGames [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of WarGames [VHS]
Movie Review: Great release but it's NOT 2 discs!
Summary: 5 Stars
In spite of what it says on both Amazon & DeepDiscount this is a ONE disc release. It's chock full of some great features, and has very nice audio/visual quality (anamorphic ws). It's only $9.99 at Best Buy & $9.72 at DD which should've tipped me off that they'd cut out one disc. Overall I would still highly recommend it though.Movie Review: OR, get it cheaper EVERYWHERE else!
Summary: 3 Stars
You can play the Amazon pricing games here, and get it for $13, OR, you can get it for $10 at Best Buy, or even LESS at Deepdiscount. AND, FREE SHIPPING. When will Amazon learn. I know, I know, you HAVE to milk as much revenue out of people who don't know how to shop as possible. It's the Retail Motto, take advantage of those who don't know. Why get ripped off??? STOP PLAYING THE GAMES! As for the movie, it's a classic. Lots of fun and nostalgia, get it, just get it where it's being offered for a reasonable price. Oh, don't worry, the price here will go up and down up and down over the next few weeks. It's the retail way. Funny though, the cost of it to the sellers doesn't change. GO FIGURE!Movie Review: A Film to Help Students to Think
Summary: 5 Stars
The Cold War ... what the heck is that? This film helps to reveal to high school students the magnitude of this worldwide crisis. (You know that there are tens of thousands of ICBMs still out there?) Of course, most high school students relate mostly to the characters, but soon some begin to understand that this is about the survival of us all. Questions follow, and we can slip in a few concepts that may hang around after adoloscence. Movie Review: amazing movie about being careful, trusting computers, security
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing movie starring Matthew Broderick. Shows what happens when you leave computers unsecured, and give them too much power and control over your life. Movie Review: How much things change and how much they stay the same
Summary: 5 Stars
Someone else has beat me to the punch on the special features, so I shall stick to the film's contents. In 1983, a very intelligent but socially isolated teenager programs his computer to dial up a large series of telephone numbers in search of game programs. He finally gets a hit - unfortunately it happens to be a military computer that is programmed to constantly play war games. The teenager decides to play the most interesting looking game on the roster - global thermonuclear war. He thinks it is a game, but the computer is actually looking to "win the game" and launch an attack on Russia. After 25 years this film shows how much things change and how much things stay the same.
What is the same? There will always be some country or some group from which the U.S. fears an imminent attack. Teenagers will always feel a disconnect between their own generation and that of their parents. Younger people will always be quicker with new technology than older generations. However, they'll continue to fail to see the far-reaching implications of their more creative uses of that new technology until often it is too late.
What is different? The Russian empire as it existed in 1983 is no longer the threat it once was. At this time in history, people were genuinely scared of a nuclear war breaking out between the U.S. and Russia since Reagan had upped the ante via defense spending and rhetoric during his first term.
What is really different? In retrospect, it is obvious that neither the U.S. nor Russia actually intended to use their stockpile. Both sides were just using their arms as part of a joint bluff. Although the Russians have a history very different from the U.S., we were basically dealing with a group of people (the Russian leaders) who had a good thing going and, in the end, did value their own skins above all else, just as most Americans do. Thus the real concern was that some mistake would set off some perfect storm of events in which both sides would end up launching all of these weapons that were never intended to be used. That is the subject of this movie.
Today our enemy wears no uniform, has nothing to lose, is not centrally organized so that we can negotiate, and doesn't mind losing their own lives in the quest to end those of many others. That is really really different from 25 years ago.
Don't let my serious review make you think that this film is all dark and fatalistic. It has lots of fun parts to it to contrast with the serious parts. Highly recommended.