Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Wargames inaccuracy - maybe not so bad Message-ID: <234@burl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 19:11:29 EDT Article-I.D.: burl.234 Posted: Sun Jul 10 19:11:29 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 06:04:12 EDT References: <1248@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 21 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, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj