Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!joe From: joe@cvl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: WarGames: A minority opinion Message-ID: <454@cvl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 17:23:50 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.454 Posted: Fri Jul 1 17:23:50 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 07:37:12 EDT References: <2621@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: U. of Md. Computer Vision Lab Lines: 24 Of course, it's just a movie. But if you're going to argue that we shouldn't critically evaluate it on the grounds that "this is a science-fiction/fantasy/monster film," well...I don't have any interest whatsoever in such films. What you really mean is it's a B-movie bug-eyed monster film. And a bunch of reviewers are going around talking about it as if it weren't. Completely disregarding the technology, there was still absolutely NOTHING believable about WarGames. The characters were one dimensional, the plot was silly, the actions had no visible motivations, and moral was subtly revealed with a sledgehammer. There's no question of "realism" here. But if you can't suspend disbelief, then what's the point in sitting through the movie? If the film was really about giving control to human beings instead of computers, then it did a poor job of demonstrating the "favored" alternative. I'm sorry, but the way the human beings in WarGames behaved, I sure hope that the computers are in charge. At least they don't do things without SOME sort of justification. Yours for a sane society, joe pallas