War Games (1983)
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War Games (1983)
Directed by John Badham
The key scene, however, has nothing to do with Matthew Broderick's computer whiz character; it's the first scene, taking place in one of those underground control rooms in which two military personnel sit & wait for the moment that they may have to turn a couple of keys and launch some missiles. I remember this scene the best; after I first saw it back in '83, I actually forgot from what film it was after a few years; but that scene stood out - it was very intense and probably hit home the point more than any subsequent scenes.
The rest of the cast is also good; Dabney Coleman is the civilian in charge, championing machine over man; Barry Corbin is the fat general; Maury Chaykin is great (and young in an early role) in his one scene as another computer whiz; and John Wood is the mysterious creator of Joshua, this film's version of a.i. which would be shown in an ever-more-darker light in films like The Terminator. This ends up as the light side of machine intelligence and nuclear war, where everything ends up nice and OK, with a rather transparent lecture on how to avoid the worst case scenario. BoG's Score: 7 out of 10
War Trivia: there was a very early role here for Michael Madsen, in the first scene with the two military men.
The jeep crash in the final act was real and changed the way the planned sequence proceeded.
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