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WarGames [message #54837] Fri, 03 May 2013 17:51
Eric.Patterson is currently offline  Eric.Patterson
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Date: Tue, 26-Jul-83 11:38:41 EDT
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To answer the question about the helicopter:

	I felt the reason they rode a jeep in was the same reason the U. S.
Army couldn't get into its own military base in Strangelove: because its own
men were preventing it.  NORAD was a top-security complex, and so a helicopter
flying into it would be shot down.  But not a jeep with army personnel in it
(as was the case).  That's why the helicopter was not flown into the military
base.  I know the filmmakers took a lot of liberties to make the film more
exciting, but this was not one of them.

Lauren-

	The point of the movie was not that we, the audience, realize that
nuclear war is futile.  The point was for the computer, which was programmed
to try to win the nuclear war, which could not realize the possibility of
losing, to realize that nuclear war "is an interesting game.  There are no
winners."  If the computer doesn't realize this, the world will be destroyed.
That is why the ending was so riveting.  So entertaining.  Yes, entertaining.
You have spent a whole summer ripping apart unpretentious entertainment like
WarGames, and left films more worthy of criticism unscathed.  So what if War-
Games is not realistic?  Are James Bond films realistic?  Is Flashdance?  Are
any films real?
	I didn't go into WarGames expecting to be filled with fascinating in-
sight into nuclear war.  And when I left, I left satisfied that my $4 had been
well spent.  I felt I had seen something more entertaining than such highly
touted films as Return of the Jedi.
	Too bad you were so caught up in technical details.  You missed a 
damned good film.
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