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From: pyle@ut-ngp.UUCP
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Subject: Wargames (possible Spoiler)
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Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 01:06:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  2 01:06:23 1983
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I saw Wargames this afternoon and thought it was quite good.  Some
random comments:

As noted in someone else's message, I wish film-makers would quit
having equipment explode/short when a logical impasse is reached.
Of course, the impact of a CRT displaying an error message would be
substantially less on the general viewer.

As to the existence of a dial-up line, there was a brief mention made
by one of the FBI types that it was a connection that existed during
the development and testing of WOPR (aka Joshua) for use by one of the
contractors and that the phone company had screwed up and not removed
it as ordered.  Of course, someone should have checked for just this
sort of oversight.

There was some very good casting, particularly in the two guys our hero
consults in the university (I assume) computer center early in the film.
I also liked the NORAD general (takes a plug of Redman just as things
start to heat up and later "I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would
do any good.")

Keith Pyle    . . .!decvax!eagle!ut-ngp!pyle
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