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Writers: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood
Genre: Thriller
About: A young computer hacker accidentally finds a back door into NORAD's military computer, the one that controls all the nukes! When the young man David (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly plays what he thinks is an innocent game with the NORAD computer, he starts the clock ticking on WW3.
Background: This movie actually inspired the U.S. Congress to create, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. A clip of this movie showing David hacking into another computer over the telephone was shown to members of congress as proof of the dangers of hackers. Of course now we know how ridiculous that is, without computers being networked a simple phone call from a 1983 home computer will not hack into NORAD. Still congressmen bought this movie as conceivable! And that speaks to the power of this movie from over 33 years ago.
WarGames (1983)
Director: John BadhamWriters: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood
Genre: Thriller
About: A young computer hacker accidentally finds a back door into NORAD's military computer, the one that controls all the nukes! When the young man David (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly plays what he thinks is an innocent game with the NORAD computer, he starts the clock ticking on WW3.
Background: This movie actually inspired the U.S. Congress to create, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. A clip of this movie showing David hacking into another computer over the telephone was shown to members of congress as proof of the dangers of hackers. Of course now we know how ridiculous that is, without computers being networked a simple phone call from a 1983 home computer will not hack into NORAD. Still congressmen bought this movie as conceivable! And that speaks to the power of this movie from over 33 years ago.
The set that was built for the NORAD command center for this movie was the most expensive set ever constructed, at the time and cost a cool 1 million to build. Even by today's standards the NORAD set looks amazing!
If you expect to see Ferris Bueller playing with war computers, you won't see it. Mathew Broderick plays his character serious and he never breaks the fourth wall. He does a good job at fitting into a very serious and exciting movie.
Ally Sheedy plays the girl and she's good at that.
I dig that scene with the cryptic numbers glowing on their chest. The mark of their responsibility.
War Games, surprisingly holds up well, and hey you get to see some antique computers too, how neat is that.
If you expect to see Ferris Bueller playing with war computers, you won't see it. Mathew Broderick plays his character serious and he never breaks the fourth wall. He does a good job at fitting into a very serious and exciting movie.
Ally Sheedy plays the girl and she's good at that.
I dig that scene with the cryptic numbers glowing on their chest. The mark of their responsibility.
War Games, surprisingly holds up well, and hey you get to see some antique computers too, how neat is that.