WarGames

Pros: Well-written, culturally relevant
Cons: Too cute, perhaps?

This cute movie inspired thousands of would-be hackers to use their 8-bit computers to try and break into various computers throughout the country. Most of them, myself included, either got scared away by the authorities, or simply did not possess the...

Pros: Great cast, nostalgic
Cons: None

Wargames reminds me of the good days of playing Atari all day. Before there was Windows 3.1 or 95, before we had 64 bit video games with cd-quality sound. I miss them! People who know how to use a computer were something special back then! You were...

Pros: one of the best movies to come out of the early 1980's
Cons: none

There were many interesting movies that came about during the decade of the 1980's. "Wargames" is one of those movies. This movie was made in 1983, just as home PCs were becoming available and popular. Starring in this movie were several young actors ...

Pros: Some fun performances, good pacing, lots of techno-geek trickery, themes that will stay with you
Cons: Some awful performances, lots of continuity errors, some inplausible plot points

Way back in the mid 1980s, when I was just a naive college kid, when Ronald Reagan and a series of ancient Soviet leaders traded insults and threats on a daily basis, the idea of nuclear annihilation seemed so real and so imminent that I and many of my...

Pros: Wargames is an intelligent, well written and entertaining thriller.
Cons: The transfer could be better and the movie is a bit dated.

Back when I was a wee young lad kid, playing games loaded from an audio cassette on my Commodore 64, Wargames was a genuinely frightening film. Living in Seattle, just a stones throw from two major military bases and Boeing, the cold war was very ...

Pros: Good movie all around
Cons: Outdated

War Games is a movie about computers, the military, and the fear of war. The plot goes basically as follows: A teenager in the early 80's decides to tamper with some computer games. Through a modem connection, he finds several games created by a computer...

Pros: Entertaining movie with interesting plot.
Cons: Some things are a bit dated now.

Computers are a part of just about everything now and almost everyone has one but that wasn't always the case.  Before computers became common, there was a lot of fear about them having too much control.  WarGames, a movie made in ...

Pros:

mostly strong acting, good story, believable characters and scenarios

Cons:

very dated

During the height of the Cold War, another fear seemed to be evolving just as fast. That was the fear of surrendering control of so much of our lives and our defense over to computers. At a time before a PC was an essential part of every home, ...

Pros: Great soundtrack, nice film for the times.
Cons: Far out of date in the technology, and silly adults.

Long ago, probably before you were born, a computer was a complicated, mysterious device. A long time staple of science fiction, these could easily fill a room, and were thought to be capable of taking over the world. Or blowing it up, maybe. A young ...

Pros: Broderick, Sheedy, script, soundtrack, cinematography...
Cons: ... some pretty awful acting in places!

I loved WarGames as a kid and, watching it again recently, was mildly surprised to find that I still really enjoyed it. The technology shown, which was quite ambitious for the time, really does look dated nowadays but that manages to lend it a ...

Pros: Full of action, good plot
Cons: Some areas of realism could have been better

War Games starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy and Dabney Coleman. This movie is good, but is missing some realism. David a teenage hacker and problem student meets up with Jennifer, a student in his class. While on his computer searching for a...

Pros: Damn computer
Cons: Damn computer

Played off as a generally simple movie one wonders with all that is going on in computer land what is truth and what is folly. I actually enjoyed this movie even with its' unbelievable scenes of Matthew Broderick being dumped into the ‘war room' to...

Pros: Fun movie that exploits Culture Club-era technology
Cons: Not very suspenseful these days

This movie may have had some people going when it first came out, with its premise that superintelligent computers, large and clunky, may one day program and fight their own armaggedon. Now it seems more of a novelty, dated and thoroughly Reagan....