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From: rcj@burl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Wargames inaccuracy - maybe not so bad
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Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 19:11:29 EDT
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Some other things need to be considered here.
One of the complaints that I have heard is that the kid is talking
over a modem to his school computer at what looks like about 9600
baud.  Sure that is impossible, but do you want to (or did the
director want the audience to have to) sit there while he does
what he did at 300 (MAYBE 1200) baud???  I don't think that it
detracts from the movie one bit to help keep the action moving
with a small inaccuracy like that.

As for the comment about Falken owning the island and yet the ferry
stopped there -- who said that he owned the whole island??  He made
his cryptic little comment about "About face, down path, open gate,
through gate, close gate, ..." or something like that; but that
did not indicate to me that he owned the WHOLE island.

Come on, folks, give a halfway decent movie a break and confine
your blazes to Superman III and the like,
-- 

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