WarGames [Blu-ray]

This is a great classic movie. A teenager accidentally stumbles upon a US computer war system, and starts a chain reaction that he then needs to stop.

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great movie, picture is great. This is one of those movies I buy every time there a new format. I know there are two newer formats. lol

I love WarGames so much, and Matthew Broderick does such a fantastic job in his role, that I get really nostalgic for those good old days before the Web. Broderick's character is a bored computer nerd in the early '80s with a sweet computer system and 300 baud modem which he uses to dial into places like his school system to change his grades. When he hears about a computer game coming out, he can't wait and sets his modem to "war dial" mode, auto dialing telephone numbers within a certain prefix so he can hack into the gaming company's computer to get this great new game. In the process, he finds that he succeeds and has broken into a high security system where he unknowingly finds himself in the Defense Department's main computer. He thinks he's in the game company's computer and is only looking for games, and he finds one amazing sounding one called "Global Thermonuclear War." He asks the computer to play it with him and he takes the side of the Russians, gleefully launching nuclear missile attacks at cities throughout America. Meanwhile, the staff at NORAD is freaking out, thinking the Russians have launched and they go on high alert, ready to launch American missiles in response. Broderick shuts down his computer before the "game" ends and the missiles disappear from NORAD's computers. They don't know what happens, so a huge manhunt takes place to find out what's going on and who the source of the hack is. I won't go any further, but to say that in my opinion, this is a great action movie and the plot moves along quite well. Even though some of the film isn't totally realistic, enough of it was cutting edge enough to make you believe as you sat in the movie theater, and let's not forget that the Cold War was still a reality, so it was a frightening movie. After seeing this movie, I started accessing BBS's around the country and using my modem to war dial prefixes myself, and enjoyed "shaking hands" with many other computers around the world. It was an awesome experience, and I think today's computer geeks will never know the true excitement generated by old school hacking and phreaking. It's just different today, and today's hackers are malicious, which was never the intent back then. This is a great film, very enjoyable, and if you're into computers, it's definitely one to watch. I never get tired of it. Highly recommended.

A high school kid who is into computers hacks into a military computer system that was just set up to automatically trigger nuclear missles when given the go-ahead. The computer thinks it isn't a game and actually triggers a launch sequence to destroy the US, since the kid decided to play on the Russian side in the game. First off this was a movie that showed an America that was kinda still America. It showed kids dressing like kids and not prostitutes and showed them interested in something other than behaving like they were in a porn movie. You even saw the family still married and sitting down at the dinner table albeit for a brief moment. Anyway it was a good movie in that it was seemed kinda fresh all these years later, even with its green screens and floppy disks, and despite its liberal anti-war nothing can come of nuke build up rhetoric and moralizing. While I remember this movie back then in the theaters and coming out on VHS I was never into such computer movies or nuclear war movies as those were not something I was into. But I'm glad I saw it all these years later. You get to revisit the 80s a for a brief moment. You can even see Matthew Broderick acting instead of acting like he is acting or being aware that he is acting

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Glad to have found this favorite on DVD

This should be required viewing by anyone thinking about, or, currently, working in AI.

I remember the day my father took me to the cinema to see this movie. Several months before going to see it I was very fortunate to have been bought a Commodore 64 computer (ask your parents) by my parents as a birthday present. My young mind was full of possibilities after seeing that movie, I recall standing in the foyer of the cinema after the screening talking to other kids around the same age as myself at that time (15 y/o) and fantasizing about what we could do with our computers! This was I suppose the first ever movie to cover the issue of "hacking" whereby you gain access to another computer system illegally. This was long before the advent of the Internet as we know it today. It was a era when these issues were only dreams and fantasies of admirers of technology back then. One thing was for sure, I never looked at a computer in the same light again. The performances of the main characters David & Jennifer (Broderick & Sheedy) were quite believable back then. I suppose there was a lot of virgin technology that the characters had to get to grips with making the fluent dialogue sound quite realistic. Mathew Broderick was only 19 years of age when appearing in Wargames and just fitted the part of the computer nerd perfectly. If this is your kind of film you may also be interested in these titles: "Battle Beyond the Stars" and "The Last Star Fighter" both of which I have been able to buy on Amazon bringing the memories of my childhood on to my home cinema system today. Great movie for it's time. Yours Kevin Burke from Glasgow Scotland UK

Es un clásico moderno. La ví en el cine y posteriormente en video la ví muchas veces más. Aún hoy en día la disfruté enormemente. No se siente pasada de moda. La calidad de audio y video es buena. Sobre todo si consideramos que la tecnología de los ochentas todavía estaba en pañales. Lo que más me gustó fue el documental sobre cómo la hicieron, que venía como material adicional. Tenía muy buena información y no abusaron de los clips de la película como ocurre con otros documentales. La duración fue exacta, y en general está muy bien hecho. Muchas veces viene información poco relevante y es muy aburrido. Pero en este caso estuvo estupendo.

Not quite in the sci-fi genre, this 80's movie has held up well and it was great to be able to watch it (for a very reasonable price) in cinema quality. Kids now seeing the phones (rotary dial, payphones) and the cars think it is really old. The sight of an 8" floppy disc and dial-up modems seems incredible and from a completely different era - which it was. However, the basic story, of hope and faith in people, that runs through it, are a applicable now as then. So while the technology is very old and quaint, the story has not lost its strength and younger audiences seem to enjoy it as much as when I saw it at the theatre years ago. It was great to watch it again and the video/audio quality was excellent.

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Ce blu-ray est absolument indispensable pour qui aime ce film et possédait ou pas le dvd, qui était en format 4/3 letterbox, horrible. Un de mes meilleurs achats blu-ray car contrairement à beaucoup d'autres films cultes qu'on aime et qu'on rachèterait pour avoir une meilleure qualité d'image par rapport au dvd, ici non seulement la restauration est super, avec des couleurs plus belles mais c'est surtout qu'on a enfin un format d'image normal et agréable à regarder! Voilà un blu-ray absolument indispensable et un des plus précieux de ma collection, il ravive mon édition dvd délavée qui n'a vraiment plus lieu d'être aujourd'hui! Si vous n'avez jamais vu WarGames, c'est dommage mais il n'est jamais trop tard. Il faut juste se replonger vraiment dans l'ambiance du début des années 80, l'époque des vieux modems et des vieux ordinateurs qui faisaient des bruits bizarres, de l'époque ou l'on s'imaginait que l'on pouvait aller dans l'espace avec un simple ordi (merci l'ignorance et l'imagination de l'enfance et des films comme "Explorers") et de l'époque où l'on rêvait des films sur nos vieilles VHS...