Yup, there I was....6th Missile Warning Squadron.
Posted on 07/18/2008 11:13:37 AM PDT by qam1
Think of some of the movies you really want a chance to see on the big screen. The Wizard of Oz? Lawrence of Arabia? Star Wars? Would you ever, ever put War Games, the 1983 Matthew Broderick thriller, on that list? No, me neither.
But, lucky us, we will have the chance to see War Games in theaters this summer—on July 24, the movie will screen for one night only in select theaters across the country, thanks to NCM Fathom, a company that specializes in special theater events. It’s the 25th anniversary of the movie, and the Fathom website boasts that never-before-seen interviews will be part of the July 24 screening, along with—brace yourselves—exclusive footage from the sequel. War Games: The Dead Code appears to be one of those direct-to-video sequels starring a bunch of people you’ve never heard of, so I guess we can at least be thankful they’re not remaking the original. Yet.
Honestly, I like the idea of bringing back a classic movie and turning it into a one-night-only event. Not that War Games is what I immediately think of when I think “classics,” but it’s a fun movie with a lot of nostalgia power behind it that could bring 80s kids to the theaters in droves. Here in New York, outdoor screenings of movies like Back to the Future and Goonies draw huge crowds, but of course, those are free. So dig up your Matthew Broderick pinups, cue up the old Macintosh Lisa computer, and get ready to cause havoc with some of the most primitive computer technology ever seen in the movies.
I don’t see the movie as all that anti-nuke. If anything, the computer comes to realize that mutually assured destruction is a real, effective deterrent.
Wasn't this pushed by George Lucas and ILM? I know they were wanting to push in that direction, and it will definitely cut the costs of distribution.
In the 80's they re-released 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm. It was an incredible experience to sit in a huge theater and watch the shuttle dock with the rotating space station. I want a chance to see that in IMAX.
Yeah, after George paid for his study of film handling and projection in the theater industry, the study that eventually lead to the curved screens. Basically once he quantified just how badly theaters were mishandling prints and how horribly they were scratching them in just a few days (I think his study declared most films unwatchable after 3 days) he proposed an electronic transmission to theaters largely to keep the films watchable into the second week of release. Of course at the time nobody thought terabyte harddrives would be purchasable at your nearest electronics store so the idea of storing movies on central harddrives for scheduled transmissions seemed silly. What a difference a couple decades make.
I thought that he was shooting the new Star Wars movies with the intention of all digital all of the way to the screens. It would save a tremendous amount of money in the distribution side. For example, it probably cost 30-50 million just to print all of those copies of Dark Knight to release to 4000 theaters.
Yup, there I was....6th Missile Warning Squadron.
He might have been aiming for that but there weren’t enough all digital screens at the time to make it possible. Might be do-able for next month’s Clone Wars animated movie.
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