AI is Scary | War Games (1983) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction
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- A 80's teenager, bored by traditional high school subjects like biology but fascinated by computers, accidentally taps into the Pentagon's top-secret AI (Artificial Intelligence) computer...the USA's NORAD system. He starts what he innocently believes is a computer game called "Global Thermonuclear War," but the "game" is real. The Pentagon's best minds cannot shut down or reprogram the supercomputer that is readying a missile attack against the USSR, and thereby unleash Armageddon. The teen and his girlfriend attempt to aid the helpless Pentagon and, in a frantic race against a ticking "doomsday clock," try to persuade the computer to end the "game." War Games (1983)
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin
Director: John Badham
Genres: Drama
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War Games : mom is a real estate agent and her son breaks in tto school computer.
Ferris Bueller: mom is a real estate agent and her son breaks in to school computer.🤔
Same time Broderick was in Ladyhawke with the Professor Falken actor. He has no parents in that but does break out of prison….and then back in kind of.
@@tempsitch5632
He doesn't break back into the prison, that's the church - both are connected to the sewer system.
This movie scared the beejesus out of most people. The thought government computer systems could be hacked or that a computer could launch weapons actually caused Reagan to evaluate the systems.
Yes, I've heard about it in Ed Helms pocast "SNAFU" they have a whole episode just about the movie "WarGames": "Bonus Episode - Ed speaks with actor Matthew Broderick, and director John Badham about their time on the seminal 1983 classic, “WarGames” and how it played a part in the cultural zeitgeist of the Cold War."
More like he asked his joint chiefs (military advisory council to the executive branch) if it was possible and after an investigation they determined that indeed some aspects of the films plot bore kernels of truth to vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure of the DOD.
That being said, at this point in time very few residential households even had computers, let alone modems to dial into remote computers which even fewer households had.
So ye it's interesting, but at the same time it was people used to wealth thinking about this stuff rather than the average Joe who probably couldn't even afford it.
@@sirjohnmara
"and how it played a part in the cultural zeitgeist of the Cold War"
The Cold War lasted for nearly 4 and a half decades.
This film on the other hand came out literally just 6 years before the Soviet Union collapsed.
It's definitely a part of the 80s zeitgeist, but hardly the cold war as a whole.
@@mnomadvfx Hi! Yes, that was a quote from the podcast. I agree with you...
It wasn't illegal to hack back then either as such... cuz it wasn't really a 'concept' yet. Like how using insider-info for stocks wasn't illegal until after Trading Places with Eddie Murphy.
For the time, the computer and phone hacking in this movie is very accurate. The dialing program he uses was nicknamed a war dialer after this movie.
I had a war dialer in the early 90s.
@@3DJapana lot of us did
What's not realistic is the amount of equipment for a kid in that time period. Wasn't like China was cranking out hardware, it was expensive! I know, I was selling PCs in the 80s for a major manufacturer. He might have built his own, but that was still expensive.
@@kristinb5121 It's realistic enough if he was really that into computers.
That's the principal from "Back to the future". Jesus, didn't that guy ever have hair?
😂
WAR GAMES, came out back in 1983.
Matthew Broadwick, and Alley Sheedy were the actors and made this movies way before the breakfast club and Ferris Bueller day off
Way before?
2-3 years is hardly way before.
Breakfast Club was 1985 and Ferris Bueller was 1986.
The 80s were just so thick with movies that it seems longer.
Movie studios were literally just throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the box office to see what made money.
"Broderick" and "Ally". You could have at least researched the names.
@@eatsmylifeYT I’m sure my talk to text didn’t know that, and I over looked it myself. Take it easy, and Peace🕊️
@@fairydust-weepthewildwinds "overlooked"
When they refer to 'confidence', they're not referring to their own confidence as a morale booster. They are referring to how sure they are that what they are seeing is real and accurate.
this movie showed us the perfect way to butter corn on the cob... using piece of bread and butter on it then wrapping it on the corn
But for god’s sake, cook the corn first! That’s the other lesson that came with that scene.
@@maxnorton1209 haha true
@@maxnorton1209 But how are you supposed to taste all the vitamins?
@@vaikkajoku 🤣
@@maxnorton1209 Raw corn on the cob is very scary. 😬🫣
One of the greatest lines ever. It still gives me chills: The only winning move is not to play.
But the most scary line was: "What's the difference?".
In 1983, if any cigarettes were $6.99, it would be for a carton. A pack was definitely less than $1 in 1980, and closer to $0.50. You could get a carton for less than $5. I remember going to the store for my parents with a note and 2 packs were about $1.
I was in high school when this came out, and saw it with family. Loved it! It dies a good job of capturing the feeling of being a teen in the Cold War-helpless to do anything about world events, but fully aware of the consequences if things went bad.
Even though back in the day the risk wasn't that high as many things were still in human hands, nowadays it looks much worse. We do have increased the security, but AI has become extremely powerful. Keep in mind that AI is now in the position to convincingly faking videos. So it could even impersonate any leader / president. Visual and auditive confirmation really is not good enough anymore.
Hi James! Good to see you again. I have a lot to say about this movie, so I hope you'll bear with me.
I got my first computer (Commodore 64) in 1983. After seeing this movie a year later, my grandmother (who bought all of my computer hardware) refused to buy a "Modem" for the system, because she believed I might do something like David did (change the grades). In later 1985, I finally talked her into letting me get one. I was going into my senior year in high school, and had to promise not to hack the school's computer. I told her flat out that I didn't think they even had one that was "online", and that the only way it COULD be hacked would be in one of the offices in the school. I was nowhere NEAR brave enough to break into the school itself just to change a grade. Besides, I don't think that would really work, as teachers still had to "sign off" on the final report card after it had been printed.
6:25 - DUDE! You say you're into "retro games", but didn't recognize Galaga? For shame, James. For shame. ;) Also, I literally lived in an arcade/pool hall from 1980-1984 (when the place burned down). I have, in my home, TWO of the arcade games that survived that fire. Pole Position and Lunar Lander. I also bought (about a decade ago) a Super Pac-Man and a Dig Dug (cocktail table). All 4 of those games are in my dining room because there was no way to get them anywhere else in the house. If you ever need proof that my wife loves me, it's those refrigerator sized games in the dining room.
8:10 - This will tell you how OLD that system is. The floppy disks he's using are 8". My system used 5.25" disks, and later on 3.25" (the larger the disk, the less data it held back then). So, even for 1983, that system was pretty much "old tech". You'll also note the monochrome monitor (displays one colour). My Commodore could display up to 32 colours. While we DID have "text based" games, we also had decent games that used sprites, similar to the arcade games of the time. The C=64 was an 8-bit computer, but it could run some really good games for the era. I recommend looking into that, as well as its successor, the Amiga computer line. Without those systems, we wouldn't have the PCs we have today. That's a fact.
9:55 - Yes. Also, we had what was called a "Wargames Dialer" (yes, and "auto-dialer) which was named after this scene. It literally dialed phone numbers sequentially in search of computers that were online. While I didn't use it for any nefarious purpose, I *DID* manage to find a lot of local BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) that way. As for "Long Distance" dialing, I didn't get into that, but I did know of people who used methods to obtain "free" calls to pretty much anywhere in the world (it was called "Phreaking" at the time), but I was close enough to 18 that it wasn't worth it. That is my story, and I'm sticking to it.
11:00 - This was actually a "side effect" of auto-dialing. ANYONE that had a computer with a modem that could receive incoming calls would pick up and be recognized. I found a few of those in my search for local BBS numbers, but never bothered with doing this kind of thing.
11:45 - The guy who knocks on the window and says "Hello, Lightman!" is played by Eddie Deezen. After this, he had a starring role in the Disney movie called "Midnight Madness". He also auditioned for a role in the movie "Revenge of the Nerds, but was turned down because he was "too nerdy". I shit you not. I have him as a friend on Facebook, and have met him in person. He is a really nice dude, but he has some "mental health issues". He has taken a sabbatical from Social Media for the last couple of years, for that very reason. He is a really nice person, and I wish him all the best.
13:00 - Oh, you don't know! I didn't have a bi-directional printer. Mine was "one-direction" (and I don't mean the Boy Band, either). So, it took twice as long to print something out. (model MPS-801, if you want to look into it, made by Commodore, of course)
14:55 - Yeah, that "voice box" was actually kinda rare back then. VERY few people actually had them, and they translated ALL speech on the screen into Speech Synthesis, not just what "came in from the outside". So, everything that David typed should have (from a continuity standpoint) been "said" as well.
16:15 - Technically, yes. But this wouldn't actually be the ONLY time that "missiles were detected" during the Cold War. In fact, it was fairly common for mistakes like this to be made. There was an incident where Russia/Soviet Union detected "incoming US missiles" that turned out to be a false radar image. Had it not been for one Soviet soldier who questioned it, we would have lived through a nuclear war at that time. Look it up, I'm not kidding.
17:00 - Show us that Mom works for Century 21, without SAYING she works for Century 21.... (hint: Gold Jacket)
20:55 - At this time, "World War III" was synonymous with "Nuclear War". That would change in the public perception when "Red Dawn" was released a year or so later. "The Day After", which also aired on TV in 1983 scared the bejesus out of most people. I remember having to "discuss" our thoughts on that (made for TV) movie the day after it aired. I was 16 at the time. Between these early 1980s movies, it kinda cemented the attitude that Generation X had at the time. "If we lived through the initial onslaught, we were going to survive whatever happened after that."
23:00 - In theory, yes. In practical application... I'm not fully sure. Recording the tones that the door would recognize likely would work. It's no different, really, than the "tone dialing" of a telephone (which I have some experience with). My only real question is how he figured out the input circuits for doing that.
24:40 - I never tried that trick.
26:05 - Alley Sheedy was also in the movie "Bad Boys" (1982) as Sean Penn's girlfriend. Highly recommend that movie!
27:35 - Actually... given that I've gotten older and disabled... I'll take the "millisecond of bright light, and then being vaporized" over trying to survive the aftermath. Were I still in good health.... that would be different. At this point, I'll take the quick way out.
29:30 - Meh, I've gone hauling ass up a dirt road in the back of a pickup truck.
31:25 - Also, I forgot to mention this: When this movie came out, the US government freaked out about the set of "NORAD" to the point that a full investigation was done. Apparently, the set as designed wasn't too far off from what is actually in NORAD, and there was cause to believe that the set designers (who had been denied access to the real NORAD) had somehow gotten ahold of legitimate plans for the place.
yep great analysis. and yes..I hated being near a primary target (Valparaiso, IN-they were only company in the world that made ball bearings for our B-52s), but now, after covid took me out of work force and heart problems, give me the millisecond of bright light. I dont want to be stumbling around with millenials and Genz people who couldnt survive on the land if they wanted to. lol
Here a really fun fact: At the time, The US military refused to show the movie makers its facilities (understandable, of course), BUT what's fun about it is that the movie makers built what they thought the Nuke centers looked like, but as it turned up, they built a set that was, for that time, much more expensive and advanced than the real Nuke centers were.
Quick thing for folks who are not aware...NORAD is only the place where air defense of North America happened back then...they had no control over the launching of missiles. It was SAC that had control of the bombers and ICBMs, and control of all that was from the Strategic Air Command operations center or from SAC's airborne command posts. The Navy had launch control of the SLBMs on the subs.
"General, you are listening to a machine! Do the world a favor and don't act like one."
Something like the first scene actually happened in the Soviet Union right around the time this movie came out; their warning system erroneously indicated that the U.S. had launched nuclear missiles and a man named Stanislav Petrov disobeyed orders to launch a counterstrike. He is a little known hero who literally saved the planet by choosing not to start a nuclear war.
True. He hesitated in contacting his superiors as his training demanded, knowing the full consequences of doing this. But he as it turned out rightly concluded that the US would send over a massive missile strike and not the 5 or so missiles his system showed. It turned out it was a system failure of some sort and yes he prolly did indeed save us all from nuclear annihilation.
The event that inspired this movie took place in 1978. The incident you are referring too happened 4 years later in 1983.
@@USCanthony Okay but I never said the 1983 event inspired the movie, how would that even be possible?
@@USCanthony 👍
"Shall we play a game" iconic line
Somebody at NORAD needs to hire that kid! But seriously, when Regan saw this movie, he asked the National Security Council if the scenario depicted in the movie could actually happen and they responded that technically, it could. And with that - the Cybersecurity Division was born!
an Iowa Farmer and no one has requested "Children of the Corn" yet
LOL @ early 90s BRO its early 80s
If you look closely, you can see 1982 as the current date on the school computer.
One of my favourite movies from the 80's..another good film to check out from the 80's...D.A.R.Y.L
The director John Badham would have another techno comedy hit with Short Circuit in 1986... Which features shots from one of the greatest movies ever also made by him, Saturday Night Fever. Check out both!
And Ally Sheedy is in Short Circuit too.
'Red Dawn' an 80s classic, a must-see.
Yeah. We need that reaction!
Red Dawn is terrible. And I say that as someone who was a teenage boy when it came out.
You should sit down and watch that movie today. It’s really bad.
I like that movie a lot
Makes me think of my first job doing data entry in the early 80's big CRT screens floppy disks, dialup, dot matrix printer.
Funny how an old movie like this I haven't seen in forever. Then one CZcamsr watches it, then another, then another, then another. I have seen four review it in a week. Crazy.
Was thinking this must be a reupload because I swore he saw this already, but maybe it was another reactor because I have seen this several times recently.
The entire pool is very very shallow for some reason. Not only are they watching the same movies but some of the worst movies ever made. (Not teferring to WarGames)
I know. Wasn’t long ago that there were only 2-3 reactions to this on all of CZcams.
@@tempsitch5632 My theory is that the people who want certain movies reacted to are the same ones willing to pay a little more and are Patreon members of the same reactors.
A hot needle through the finger nail to let the blood out...OUCH, I have never heard of that before.
Oh yeah, very common in the carpentry field. It releases the built up pressure. You could probably search CZcams for a couple of examples.
@@AwesomeUSMoviesSounds like a good idea for a form of torture the CIA would use lol.
I had it done once. The pressure that had built up under my fingernail was so strong there was a blood splatter on the _ceiling._
@@BlazingstokeOuph!
Years before this, there was a bleak movie called Collossus: The Forbin Project, which was a similar theme. Well worth watching.
Also a very good film on this theme of nuclear destruction, Fail Safe staring Henry Fonda.
I'll tell ya, I worked at a hospital in LA as recently as 2018, and one of its labs still used a dot matrix printer literally from the 1980's. It worked flawlessly. Can't say that about a modern day printer.
One of my favorite Ally Sheedy movies is 'Only The Lonely' with John Candy.
Such a great mostly forgotten film. Watched it last year for the first time in decades. It'd be nice to see someone react to it and for it to be seen by more people.
Awesome movie! That’s one of my favorites too!
"A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY." And with that, Joshua had learned what the missile commander in the opening scenes already knew.
Hi James, in the 90’s, the 3.5 in floppy disk were the most prevalent. The big 5 in floppy disk were mainly in use in the 80’s. The movie came out in 1983 and was filmed in 1982.
Every time you said "90's" and "Oh those are the five inch floppies!" I felt just a little bit old. This movie was _very_ 1983, I was _six_ at the time, and I thought that IMSAI 8080 was the bomb. (Pun only intended if it worked as one.) It was apparently a four year old POS by that point that my TI-99/4A could keep up with (and that had 16 KILObytes of RAM. 48K with an expansion box as big as the rest of the computer. And it stored programs on cassette tape) but I didn't know it at the time. And those were EIGHT inch floppies. To contrast that with the computer my family got in 1990, we had a 3.5" A: drive (and those floppies didn't flop), a 5.25" B: drive for backwards compatibility, and a 20 meg hard drive as the C: drive. With good old CGA graphics! Woot!
The actor who portrays Melvin (Eddie Deezen) is the same actor who provides the voice for the "know-it-all" kid in The Polar Express.
He's also the actor credited for creating the nasal nerd with glasses character so prevalent in 80s movies
"I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it do any good" 😆
In high school I had a Commodore 64, which had one of the bigger floppy disk drives. Then in college I upgraded to a MacPlus and a 3.5 inch floppy, as well as an external hard drive. Fun times!
You are about 10 years off on the year 😂
Great movie!! Watched a million times in the 80’s and it actually was the inspiration to become an Air Force guy…best 27 years of my life!
The floppies in David's computer were not 5" but 8".
This movie coined a term--wardialing. That is where you call every single number in a given prefix.
This was a great movie back in the day and funnily has the most realistic hacking of a computer movie. Thanks Steph. Hackers (1995) is a great movie as well although also rather fantastical
1983. I saw this in high school. Smack dab in the Cold War. Great film.
Ally Sheedy 🥰 Also loved her in "Short Circuit"
"Stephanie. Changed color. Attractive, nice software."
1983 was the year this little flick was released⭐️I remember seeing it opening weekend.
I remember watcher that movie in the packed theatre back then. Everyone applauded at the end. Nuclear holocaust was hanging over our heads for years, as was the the notion of technology replacing people. I was nice to see a positive vision at the end of the film.
*_WarGames is a must see for anyone aspiring to be in the military or politics and an excellent entertainment!_*
*_If you are looking for more Cold War era, nuclear power drama, I highly recommend: The Manhattan Project (1986); and, just so that there are no misleading expectations, No! It is not about the making of the first Nuclear Bomb at Los Alamos, even if the movie bares the same name as the code name for that project_*
It's amazing how far technology has come since this came out.
This movie was inspired by real events. I was part of those real events. I have told this story before on other CZcamsr's pages so you may have read this before but here goes...
In 1978 I was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, Wa. At that time, Fairchild was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base. As such, it had 5 B-52 bombers each loaded with 10 Nuclear bombs on alert 24/7 365 days a year. There were also 10 KC-135 refueling tankers on alert as well. I was a Nuclear Systems Security Specialist which is a fancy way of saying that I was part of a force that was responsible for keeping the alert aircraft and the nukes safe from attack or possible theft. The alert B-52's were in their own double fenced off area that was highly alarmed (fence disturbance sensors and buried ferromagnetic detectors that would detect any type of metal passing over them). The entry to this area was highly controlled and how it was all done is classified. The alert tankers were also in their own area nearby with lots of security but not as in depth as the alert B-52's. The year was 1978 but I am not sure if it was late October or early November (too much time has since passed). I was assigned to work a swing shift that day and was part of a two-man roving patrol for half of the flightline with the call sign of Delta-1. Shortly after our daily briefing my partner for that patrol (he was a staff sergeant and I was an airman first class) and I relieved the outgoing personnel and took possession of the Dodge pickup truck that was our patrol vehicle for our shift. My partner was armed with an M-16 and 9 30 round magazines for a total of 240 rounds for the M-16. I also had an M-16 with 240 rounds but also had an M-60 machine gun with 3 500 round ammo cans (each can held a 500 round belt of ammunition) for a total amount of 1500 rounds for the machine gun. Once we started driving down the flightline my partner informed me that his daughter (middle school aged) had called him at the squadron and informed him that she had forgotten her house keys and was locked out of the house. He lived in base housing so we were just going to sneak off of the flightline real quickly and he was going to let her in the house. He out ranked me by 3 ranks so I wasn't going to argue with him even though we would be out of our assigned patrol area once we left the flight line. We mage our way into base housing and I was sitting in the truck parked at the curb while he went up to his house to open the door for his daughter. He was up at his house for a few minutes when the radio crackled to life and an alert was announced. At that same time the bases klaxon horns started sounding. My partner had his portable radio with him so he came running and we took off for the flightline. At this point in time we just figured that this was just another unannounced practice alert to test the bases readiness but we were still concerned that we were out of position and it was going to take a few minutes for us to get back to the flightline. During an alert condition it was the responsibility of Delta-1 to go to the top of the runway and then sweep down the runway with the machine gunner in the bed of the pickup who was to shoot at any unidentified devices that they may see near the runway to blow-up possible bombs planted by saboteurs. We were supposed to do this within a certain timeframe and since we were off of the flightline, we were not going to get it done within the specified time. Since we just assumed it was another test (because it not being a test meant WWW III), we were not overly concerned about this but if the Inspector General or the Wing commander were observing, we would have to answer for it. As we were coming up a ladder taxiway that would take us to the head of the runway, I got my first look at the B-52 alert area and saw that the alert aircraft were moving to the taxi gap where there was a large gate to let them taxi down another taxiway that connected to the hammerhead (staging area) at the top of the runway. It was not a usual thing but was also not unheard of to have the alert aircraft roll down the runway (at slow speeds) during a test but it usually signified that the IG was there testing our readiness. We knew at that point that we were barely going to make it to the top of the runway ahead of the B-52 aircraft. There certainly was not going to be time to stop and let me get in the bed with the M-60 and ammo cans. At that point I started feeding the M-60 and ammo cans out of the passenger window and into the bed as carefully as I could and then I climbed out of the window (holding onto the lightbar on the roof of the truck and threw myself into the bed at around 40 MPH. These Dodge trucks couldn't go faster than 45 MPH because of all of the built-up carbon in their engines which was a product of always travelling at around 30 MPH for their whole life. I was lucky to get myself into the bed of the truck before my partner had to slow down just a little bit and make a right hand turn onto the runway. We were heading down the runway with me in the bed and the M-60 propped up on the lightbar when I noticed my partner take a look in the rear-view mirror and his eyes grow very large. I took a look over my shoulder and saw the first few B-52's roaring down the runway with tons of exhaust belching from their engines. I yelled at my partner to floor it and he yelled back that the peddle was already to the floor. It was very questionable if we were going to make it to the end of the runway before the B-52's overtook us. At the end of the runway, he was supposed to stop and let me out of the bed where I was supposed to deploy to one side of the runway while he would then go to the other side and deploy, and we would be in position to defend that end of the runway if it was called for. We made it to the end of the runway ahead of the B-52's but there was no time for him to stop to let me out. He simply slowed down and I jumped out of the moving truck with the M-60 and 1 ammo can. He then scooted across the runway with the landing gear of the first B-52 clearing the lightbar of the roof of the truck by about 10 to 15 feet. The other 4 alert B-52 followed and then the 10 alert takers also took off. It is important to note at this point that none of the alert aircraft were ever supposed to leave the ground unless we were at DEFCON 1 and WWW III had just started. The Soviets had satellites and it would panic them if they saw our alert aircraft launching. It took a good 5 minutes after all of the aircraft had taken off for all of the exhaust smoke to clear enough to be able to see my partner on the other side of the runway. We both looked at each other with WTF looks on our faces but our radio network had since gone silent, and we were left to believe that the end was very near for us. As a SAC base, Fairchild was a primary target for the Soviets. I knew we only had 16 to 18 minutes (depending on when we detected their missiles coming over the pole) before their missiles exploded over head. I had not looked at my watch when the klaxon sounded so I wasn't sure of the exact timing, but I figured we had roughly 5 more minutes to live. I sat up from the prone position I had been laying in as did my partner. We looked over at one another again unsure of what to do next. It was at that point that the sunlight bounced off of something in the sky above Spokane's International Airport and it caught my eye out of my peripheral vision. I turned to concentrate more on what was reflecting the sunlight when I noticed that it was the lead B-52 circling around to come back for a landing. It was followed by the other 4 B-52's and the alert tankers. It took another 15 minutes, but they all landed and then rolled past us to the ladder taxi way to return to the alert areas. As each aircraft passed us by, we could see the pilots screaming and pumping their fists in the air. We were jumping up and down and pumping our weapons in the air. It was later that evening while watching a rebroadcast of the 11 o'clock news where I saw a news story that talked about how the military of the U.S. went on alert early that day due to a computer malfunction. The news story never said anything about how close we all came to WWW III and that we had actual launched our alert aircraft. It was later that I learned that it was not actually a computer malfunction. Someone at NORAD had accidently inserted a training tape into a computer at NORAD that then simulated a Soviet missile launch on the main screens at NORAD. By the time they figured out it was a training tape simulation, we had already launched our alert aircraft and were warming up our ICBM's.
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Thanks Steph for the private Patreon request. You’re Awesome!
This was an ALL STAR cast! People I noticed: The guy who played the doorman on "Crocodile Dundee". Professor from the movie "Real Genius". Lucy's boss from "While You Were Sleeping and of course the principal from "Back To The Future"
You know, those 'Floppy Disk' he put into his IMSAI System were 8-inch floppies. I used them in my third job that use PDP-11/03 and PDP-11/34 mini computers (I worked for them from 1980 until 1987). I also had one of the 1st Home PC available at the time, an Atari 1040-ST with dual monitors (one B&W High Res, and the other Color). I was in my late 20's with two children and a 3rd on the way.
I remember trying to talk to my C64 like this, when i was a kid. 40 years later i am talking to PI. Unbelievably ahead of its time this movie. Greetings from Germany
That’s also the ship captain from Top Gun that tells Maverick that if he doesn’t shape up he’ll have him flying cargo planes full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong. 😂
At one point in time, all the rubber dog s--t in the world was made in Hong Kong. All the world's other bad, useless, low-quality crap, too. Nowadays, after all the bottom of the barrel dredge manufacturing has moved elsewhere, I don't know what the hell they do over there...
@@lennyvalentin6485 Party
Also in Back to the Future.
@@billallen1307 That’s who James mentioned in his reaction. Was adding to that.
And he didn’t have hair then, either
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One of my favorite classic movies. I got my first computers right around when this movie came out. First a Timex Sinclair 1000, followed shortly be a Commodore VIC-20. Then the ever awesome Commodore C64.
My first only foray was using a 300 baud modem to access BBS's.
By the way, those were 8" floppy disks Broderick's character was using, not 5". And yeah, they were huge and delicate.
His was not your typical consumer level computer.
The key to my bedroom was a flat head screwdriver, remember those days ??
You should add the movie "Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb" to your list. If you think trusting humans over computers is better, this movie will offer a counterpoint.
I was in college and saw it in the theatre. This came out close to the time of a (more?) serious TV movie about the Bomb called 'The Day After' and a British one called 'Threads' that was even more horrifying. Plus the President referred to the other side as "the Evil Empire'. Plus PCs were coming in everywhere. A good movie to put you very much in the atmosphere of the time.
(I also grew up without TV and I read books all the time, but we purchased a TV in 1981, plus I lived in a city.)
I just noticed the mom's reference to 'creative financing'. I lived in OC, the center of the savings-and-loan disaster. Also part of the times.
I was a child when this film came out. I enjoyed it because the opening grabbed your attention and relatively cheap home computers were becoming available. It also made you think what if?
Although I'm from the UK, the city that I lived in was expected to have more nuclear weapons detonated on/over it per square mile than any other place on the planet. I remember a few years later someone accidentally activated the nuclear warning sirens locally. It was probably the longest minute of my life!!!
Anyway thank you for an enjoyable reaction, or should I say domo arigato? I hope that you had a nice trip to Japan if you're back home.
I remember when my dad took me to see this when it came out in 1983, it’s been one of my favorites ever since.
This came out before I was born. I only saw the end on TV a few times. Haven't watched the whole movie.
@@tabathacarruthers5122 well you need to go remedy that.
It's pretty funny that there having a tour going through norad
When I started college in 1992 and majored in information systems, we had a course called introduction to the Internet. My first computer, a 386, cost $2500
19:57 I guess he was thinking: "That kid is a slacker"
Imagine being a Freshman a year after this came out, just starting computer classes for the first time 😯. We were all a bit freaked out lol
When my daughter was 6 years old. She started asking a lot of personal questions about me and my wife. Turned out she was social engineering her parents to figure out the PIN for the tablet. She suceeded by getting up at night testing date of birth from my wife. 😂
1983! CAN YOU WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THAT? This movie blew our minds when it came out.
I bet it did
You are about 10 years off an estimation of these computers… Wargames was out in the 1983
Yes you are correct the video game at the beginning was called "Galaga".
James, Info about the actual real life computer that David uses in the film: The IMSAI 8080 is an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 (and later 8085) and S-100 bus.[1] It is a clone of its main competitor, the earlier MITS Altair 8800. The IMSAI is largely regarded as the first "clone" microcomputer. The IMSAI machine runs a highly modified version of the CP/M operating system called IMDOS. It was developed, manufactured and sold by IMS Associates, Inc. (later renamed to IMSAI Manufacturing Corp). In total, between 17,000 and 20,000 units were produced from 1975 to 1978.
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Hard for reactors who didnt live through the Soviet Union and the Cold War to get the true intensity of this movie. Kinda like Rocky IV. Still a good movie, but if you didnt live through it, it cant be as good for a younger audience.
I was so in love with Ally Sheedy…
I was a teen living on a military base in Japan when this movie came out… I worked as a student hire, programming in an Air Force office creating reporting software.
Shortly after this movie came out, we got a LOT of attention for what we were doing with computers and I had several visits from OSI (Operations Security Investigations)
I decided to leave shortly after that and they replaced the job I’d been doing with a full time airman with security clearances
I graduated high school in 1985. Yes, I had the 5" floppy disks. In college I finally moved up to using a MacIntosh with an 8" screen (not in color) and it used 3" hard disks. I thought it was the best thing ever. I still have my entire MS thesis on about 10, 3" disks. They're in storage somewhere.
Great reaction James to a 80s classic this movie could come under horror more than thriller to me hehe quite frightening
I got the book version of this in middle school. Must be early eighties
Hija James :)
Finally a reactor in the right Age . Some of the younger 'uns don't know the Tech( whats a landline, a modem or a Floppy disc) or the Mindset of the 80's ( Coldwar ,etc) , and congrats for recognising the 2 Main Actors , You're improving ;) :)
yea, these reaction are better when the reactor gets the references
Thanks
It's a floppy disk... short for diskette. Then there are compact discs.
One of the first movies to touch on the subject of a computer going rouge and taking matters into it's own hands was "2001: A Space Odyssey". When the computer HAL attempts to destroy a space mission.
James Check out Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick. You will love it. A comedy set during WW2 but there's no blood and guts. Just basically a coming of age comedy. Also stars Christopher Walken.
My first computer had a tape recorder to safe data. I could also put the tape into a normal player and it made funny noises.
Yeah I got into programming and computers in 1980 when I was 11, and would type and save programs I'd get out of magazines on to cassette tapes. A lot of the store bought games would be on cassette as well. Then we got a couple 5-1/4 disk drives and I want to say the drives were numbered drive 0 and drive 1 rather than letters like these days..
Very fun review.................You are one a few that understand the spark plug reference.
Thanks.
So many movies entertained us with warnings of AI taking over. Yet in real life, we’re running towards AI as fast as we can.
This was tech from the 1970s. Those were 8 inch floppy disks which were not common for home computers. At the time, the few home computers that existed primarily used cassette tapes.
Cigarettes, $6.99 per CARTON...
Another great reaction. Glad you enjoyed the film. One minor disagreement though. I flew multiple times as a minor in the 80s with no accompanying adult and never had an issue. I even flew well into the 90s using someone else's ticket and never had to show ID. So that part wasn't as farfetched as it may have seemed.
I think the NORAD set is one of the coolest in movie history.
Well, you also recognized the principal from Back to the Future, so that's 3 people. There was also Dabney Coleman (The guy whom the general said his system sucked), who played in dozens and dozens of movies throughout the 70's and 80's. The General is Barry Corbin, who was best known as Maurice Minnifield in the 90's TV show, Northern Exposure, which by the way, is a great series, starting with the third season.
Another 80s Broderick movie with checking out is ‘Project X’ -1987
Each launch control station (the guys in the beginning of the film) controls ten missles - and back then they were MIRV’d - so that’s a lot of warheads.
Early 90s??? 90s???? Oh my sweet summer child. So many many many easily recognized early 80s items from the big floppy disks to the arcade game to the cars, the ages of Broderick and Sheedy, Pan Am still being in business, literal picture of President Reagan on the wall at NORAD (21:38), …and the wardrobe. That’s clearly the early 80s.
Long, probably too long, establishing shot of Seattle skyline with Space Needle (5:59-6:05) before introducing the kids…they laugh mischievously at nuking Seattle…”Seattle Public School District Datanet” is the header on the screen while David hacks into his grades, “Seattle Schools” on the sides of the buses at their school. And yet, “wait, I thought they were in Chicago!” 🤦 Oh, myyy.
Yes, NORAD, at the time, was inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. Yes, they arrested him in Seattle and transported him to NORAD. He nearly started WW3 and suspect him of espionage - they weren’t gonna take him to the King County lockup.
Did you notice the similarity between the computer name, WOPR, and "whopper"? It was a whopper of a computer. That got a chuckle when I saw it in the theater.
Toy Soldiers from 1991 with Sean Astin and Louis Gossett Jr was pretty good. In the future Land of Bad was super good just saw it in the movies.
James- "Does it come with bacon and cheese??" LMAO!!
The computer I had as a teen was a 1982 IBM XT with two 5" floppy drives. No hard drive. Most of my software came from a big box of floppies I found on the curb. They were all covered in snow so I had to lay them all out across the floor to dry before I could use any.
Love this story
How the News got that story so damn fast I will never understand lol. Government would cover that shit up so fast. Especially once they realized they got fooled and freaked out over nothing, why would they release ANYTHING to the news, it would just cause panic lol.
11:53 hey...it's him. From silence of the hams.
Don't sell yourself short. You also recognized James Tolkan from back to the Future.
And though you didn't recognize him here, you're going to start seeing Dabney Coleman if you do more 80s movies
I love Dabney Coleman. He's gotta see 9 to 5.
@@disconnexionsdotcom guarantee there's at least one person in 9 to 5 he will recognize immediately even if he's never seen them in a movie before
He also saw Dabney in You’ve Got Mail.
@@elainewilliams6537 oh yes. I had forgotten that., but apparently so did James
Came out in 1983. Considered the first 'cyber' or 'internet' movie. 10 years ahead of it's time.
Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks, Greetings from Finland
Great...do the black and white oldies. You'll find much of what you see today is either junk or remakes.
Start with something good and simple: "The Bad Seed '57, Night of the hunter" 57 or 60s good ol' goldies
If this one scared you, then you probably don't want to see a movie made more than 10-yrs earlier - 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' (1970), watching that one can really clear out digestive system, if you know what I mean 😉
I flew international in the later '80s and had to make connections and layovers with the distances involved and the planes of the time not having the range they do today. Longest direct flight I can remember was from the Twin Cities to Frankfurt, Germany. Flying from Seattle to Paris would require connecting flights at the time.
You are a full decade off this is early 1980s. Computers in this movie are top of the line.
A few more from around this time are- Taps, Teachers, Mask, Ordinary People, 9-5, Tootsie, Arthur, and Seems Like Old Times. The early 80’s had awesome movies.
I had games on floppy disks. I think Oregon Trail and Wolfenstein were on floppies but i dont remember. I love WarGames i grew up with this movie!
James Tolkan, the principal in Back to the Future, was also Commander Stinger in Top Gun.
Oh yeah forgot that role