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The title is “WarGames.”
The Soviet loving dupes were used by Andropov to scream and howl against the Gipper’s placement of nuclear missiles into Western Europe, where they could hit Soviet targets.
The left made movies like this back then openly implying that the dangerous US would cause or even wanted, a nuclear war. They never did admit they were wrong, and now they bring back their flawed thinking as nostalgia.
Last Friday it was Red Dawn, this Friday WarGames.
I do a really funny impression of the computer from that movie, but it doesn’t translate well non-verbally.
“Would you like to play a game?”
See, not funny. In person, a non-stop laugh riot.
Sorry Katey, it wasn’t a Mac Lisa, it was a IMSAI 8080.
I’d love to see old movies on the big screen again as they were intended. The problem is that the care and attention cinematographers/directors invest in images all but disappear when their work is projected at the local multiplex. Prints tend to be crappy and poorly projected. Also, I swear most multiplex theater projection systems are not throwing out enough candlepower for the distance...but maybe I’m wrong.
WarGames was stupid. I’d rather see “The Right Stuff” which can out at the same time.
Coll! I don’t think Dabney Coleman has been up on the big screen for decades!
That movie made at home hacking popular.
>>Lawrence of Arabia?
Actually, this was remastered, restored, along with half an hour cut from the original commerical version and released limitedly in full 70MM glory around 1989.
Magnifico!
I can remember taking my girlfriend to see Wargames at a theater in a Chicago suburb.
As the movie let out, a loud thunderstorm over Lake Michigan was raging.
Lots of distant booming and backlit clouds.
A very cool special effects add on, courtesy of mother Nature.
Teacher: "Can anyone tell me who came up with the idea of reproduction without sex."
Kid: "Your wife?"
Mr Ed Alert: Did Sarah J. really think nobody would notice???
Boston Herald | 7/16/08
Posted on 07/17/2008 12:40:51 PM PDT by llevrok
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047087/posts
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.