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Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: WarGames
Message-ID: <210@ucbtopaz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 16:06:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.210
Posted: Mon Jun 27 16:06:17 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 02:35:58 EDT
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I can see where you have cause for complaint about
the technical veracity in WarGames, but as far as
movies go, it's no worse, and much better, than Star
Wars.  Space ships shouldn't act like they're in an
atmosphere when they fly around making tight
inertialess turns and going "WHOOSH! ROAR!" in a
vacuum.  I'd say that 2001 was the last movie that
attempted definite veracity as far as outer space or
computers went.  WarGames comes somewhat closer than most.

It's also a sugar-coated propaganda flick.  That's what
its maker intended.  He was tired of leftist filmakers
making films that only leftists, or strongly anti-war people,
or what-have-you, would go to see.  Why preach to the
converted?  So he made this movie to catch people at
least nominally unawares, and come away feeling good
about stopping nuclear holocaust.  Everyone enjoyed the
anti-war sentiment at private screenings except the 
high government officials he showed it to.  They got
all grumpy.