Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!ut-ngp!pyle From: pyle@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Wargames (possible Spoiler) Message-ID: <373@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 01:06:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.373 Posted: Sat Jul 2 01:06:23 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jun-83 06:05:04 EDT Lines: 24 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 . . .!ucbvax!nbires!ut-ngp!pyle pyle@utexas-11