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    War Games

    War Games
    Director: John Badham
    Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin
    Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $14.98
    Buy Used: $3.45
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    New (59) Used (50) Collectible (1) from $3.45

    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 reviews
    Sales Rank: 13439

    Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
    Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
    Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
    DVD Layers: 1
    DVD Sides: 1
    Picture Format: Letterbox
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 114 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
    Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

    MPN: 907056
    ISBN: 0792838467
    UPC: 027616705624
    EAN: 9780792838463
    ASIN: 0792838467

    Theatrical Release Date: June 3, 1983
    Release Date: April 29, 1998
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Product Description
    A YOUNG MAN FINDS A BACK DOOR INTO A MILITARY CENTRAL COMPUTER IN WHICH REALITY IS CONFUSED WITH GAME-PLAYING, POSSIBLY STARTING WORLD WAR III.

    Amazon.com
    Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this movie, though. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh


    Customer Reviews:   Read 141 more reviews...

    3 out of 5 stars one of the first computer hacker movies   June 6, 2009
    R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
    As unlikely as it seems a young high school computer hacker
    logs into a government super computer that controls
    ICBM launching across the United Stated.
    The resulting trouble almost causes WWIII with Russia
    when the AI in control of the super computer wants to play games.
    Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    , Sneakers (Collector's Edition) and Hackers are some of the movies Hollywood has made to exploit this gold mine of the personal computer.



    5 out of 5 stars WarGames   April 19, 2009
    Juana M. Caballero (orange county, ca)
    Order was received within a few days of ordering. The DVD was in excellent condition and plays very good. I would definitely order from this person again. Thank you


    5 out of 5 stars It's stood up well   April 13, 2009
    D. Thomas Longo Jr. (Delmar, MD USA)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    The last time I saw this movie must have been at least 20 years ago, i.e. still during the real Cold War. I saw it recently again out of curiosity and it's stood up well. How to explain those tens of thousands of U.S. and Soviet nuclear warheads on hair triggers to youngers who have no personal recollections of those times? If you lived during those times and/or served in the military then, you knew that hair-triggerism was damn real. When toward the end of the movie the war room screens go wild with their portrayals of the thermonuclear strikes, my blood did run cold. Yeah it's only a movie but yeah too, the means then were such that it could have happened.

    On the lighter side, 20 years ago I knew squat about computers. DOS was Boss and utterly alien to me; I began to get my feet wet with Windows 3.0 around 1992 at 50 years of age. It was fun to see in the movie the relatively primitive state of home computers and even mainframes. Monochrome CRT screens? Dot-matrix printers? REAL floppy disks? Quaint.



    4 out of 5 stars Muy buena pelicula   March 26, 2009
    C. CHACIN
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Una pelicula que muestra mucho de la tecnologia de vanguardia que actualmente tenemos,es buena para recordar como han evolucionados los sistemas, buena tematica. saludos.


    5 out of 5 stars War Games   January 8, 2009
    James C. Hilton (Colorado Springs, Co, USA)
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    Good movie.
    My wife and I have enjoyed this movie very much.

    Jim



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