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WarGames - YouTube Version (Patreon)

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2023-08-06 12:00:03
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/tmy68NE4H6 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

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WarGames | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

Full length/Unedited: https://www.patreon.com/Cinebinge https://www.instagram.com/cinebingechannel/ Merch: https://www.cinebinge.ca BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/cinebinge.bsky.social Simone & George are reacting to War Games for the first time! Canadians React! 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - WarGames 30:57 - Discussion Subscribe | Like | Share | Comment Early Access & Full Reaction available on Patreon! #moviereaction #moviereview #wargames Instagram: @cinebingechannel Instagram: @simone.swan Movie Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakYDfILlxWOp8Rwm60i6s31 The Witcher Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakPpBOOSyThaEu9GBs7h5af Squid Games Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakSIA0kJIJkUmcxmms0m_Q0 Band of Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHanBD7cksu-blgCyxZOJrgT0 Blind Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHan3qPNF7wNbOvo653VjhxOR

Comments

Matthew Johnson

I just shouted “YES!” when I saw which movie you were doing and accidentally woke up my boyfriend lol

james wells

Lmao , I love the thumbnail always top notch

Kalak451

George, back in the day when AT&T hand a monopoly on all phone systems in the US, you could only plug AT&T owned equipment into the phone system. But they didn't make or sell modems for people using PCs in their homes. So we had "Acoustic Couplers." You would dial the upstream system with your normal phone and then place the standard AT&T handset and drop it onto the coupler. Data had to be turned into sound and back again to transmit/receive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler The other weird part of this is that before the AT&T/Bell breakup, in the US, you actually had to rent telephones in your house from the phone company.

pretzels4wetzel

Apparently when Ronald Reagan saw this movie when it came out he had some advisors investigate if something like this was possible and was told that the actual situation was a lot worse than portrayed in the film.

REDR58
>>114613538

I still remember the “property of Bell Telephone” on the bottom of our house phones. Ultimately I think my parents just bought the phones or otherwise kept them, because we had them long after the Ma Bell breakup.

jmundt33a

This is supposed to be a modem. Similar setup in Weird Science. And modified rig for Hackers.

jmundt33a

What was with 1980s movies and Grand Rapids Michigan? Maybe it’s just Ally Sheedy movies?

Byron

Glory would be a good movie to add to the TBW pile. In addition to Broderick, it’s got Cary Elwes in it (along with, like, everybody else ever).

Adam Wetstein

always a fun movie. it is too bad about Sheedy personal demons

A Red Mage Named Blue

I always quote this movie when people bring up Doki Doki Literature Club. "What an interesting game, the only winning move is not to play"

Michael

One of my favorite movies as a kid, so glad you both enjoyed it! The climax still holds up so well, no matter how many times I've see it. I'm going to recommend Project X (1987), another Broderick movie written by one of the writers of Wargames, since Simone specifically said she was curious for more from them=) Sneakers (1992) as well.

Anthony Harris

Some of us old farts saw this in the cinema. It is still so good 40 yrs later.

bfunk3778

80s movies often had a way of couching very serious moral and existential dilemmas within these charming story lines. This is a prime example. Nerdy high school kid wants to play a game and ends up almost causing WWIII If you want another great tech-nerdy 80s film watch Real Genius. It’s more of a comedy but like War Games it has real stakes.

Jeff I.
>>114618929

And it features Denzel Washington, who won his first Oscar award for it!

jmundt33a

True. And I think Real Genius might be another example of the modem mock-up. Quite a different role for Val Kilmer.

jmundt33a

And another vote for Sneakers. Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, River Phoenix, Stephen Toblowsky (before Ned Ryerson, there was Werner Brandes), and Ben Kingsley. Oh, and David Straitharn just chillin’. It was a Murderers’ Row back in ‘92 and the cast still holds up.

Gaius Frakking Baltar

The thumbnail graphics are top notch, as always. 😂 There's been multiple cases of missile launch false alarms due to technical issues over the years - note that these are separate from close calls due to miscalculation during times of high global tensions (e.g., the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis or the 1983 Able Archer incident). Probably the most famous one is the 1979 NORAD alert, when an officer at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex accidentally loaded a war games tape into a missile-warning component of Wimex, a massive computer defense network - basically the real life version of WOPR. The "History Guy" channel has a great video breaking down the 1979 false alarm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQITNbw7tc Btw, NORAD is jointly operated with Canada - so if WWIII is ever accidentally launched, it's half Canada's fault!

Simon Clifton

I suppose now’s the time to suggest Threads again? :)

Happy Hanukkah

Running over broccoli? I'd prefer Running Back Thru Canada. Sneakers (1992), mentioned in the comments, would be a good choice, but I'm more partial to Hackers (1995). It might not be as good a movie, but it's over-the-top fun.

Jeff Norwood-Brown

OMG my all time favourite film and you two liked it!!! I think the only thing not all that believable is the recording of the key pad with the dictaphone. But it’s been a while since I’ve been locked in the medical room of a nuclear command bunker. Thank you so much for enjoying it and validating my life. Now go watch Paul.

sarCC

Probably a longshot suggestion, but another 80s movie about videogame reality merging with the real world starring Dabney Coleman (and Henry Thomas, from ET and Haunting Of Hill House/Bly Manor) is CLOAK & DAGGER. Really fun movie.

punterjoe

The team who wrote Wargames also wrote a '90s caper movie called "Sneakers" (directed by the guy who did Field of Dreams) it's another hacker related caper movie & they hadn't lost their touch. It also has an all-star cast: Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier, and many other heavy hitters. Like Wargames it doesn't skimp on the comedy or awkward situations - while never watering down the suspense. If you liked Wargames, you'll likely also enjoy Sneakers.

Kinokind

"Sneakers" - a great film!

Kinokind
>>114630673

"Threads", "The Day After", "Testament", even "Miracle Mile" will scare the crap out of you. And we lived with this hovering over us for decades. Not comedies.

James Falato

The telephone hook-ups to computers were done by using Acoustic Couplers to transmit computer data over telephone lines... Very common in the 60s thru 80s...

Purple Dragon Knight

This movie came out when I was in 7th grade. Huge hit. First time we had heard a computer "talk" before. Very creepy & we loved it. I bet whenever someone says "want to play a game?", our age group hears in that computer voice "Would you like to play a nice game of chess?" Ok, maybe just me lol

Tipist

Simone making a King's Quest reference?!? I didn't think I could crush any harder, lol

Just_James

“Cloak and Dagger””The Manhattan Project” “Hackers” all movies that this movie/reaction made me reminisce about

John Richards

The thing David puts the phone into was an acoustic coupler. At the time, the Bell system owned the entire phone system - you could not buy a phone, only rent one from Bell. You were not allowed to connect non-Bell devices to a phone line, so a coupler was used to convert sound to data. After the phone monopoly was broken up, you could use your own telephonic devices, including a modem that the phone line plugged directly into.

John Richards

The basic principles of hacking used in the movie are still used, but rather than trying phone numbers, you try to connect to IP addresses and ports. The key part - social engineering to try and figure out a password is alive and well, with a few new tricks added.

Brian Kapellusch

That's definitely how it worked back them. The things he's doing, like calling every number in a prefix (Wardialing) to find other modems to talk to are things I definitely did back in the day.

Kenji Maeda

If you like this movie, there's actually a retro bar/arcade in Portland, Oregon called "Ground Kontrol" that has the main lobby area decorated like NORAD from this movie with the screens and blinking lights of WOPR around the bar counter. Worth checking it out if you're ever in the area.

Adam Barry

The first time I ever experienced the internet was a demonstration using an acoustic coupler and a phone handset in about 1989 or 1990, when I was about 8 or 9 years old doing a school extension program which had a computing element. Absolutely blew my mind, even though it was just an educational text bulletin board that probably no more than a few dozen users.

Andi Herr

I only watched this for the first time 1-2 weeks ago. Only the 80s could've produced a mix of teen comedy and cold war movie. And the weirdest thing is that it kind of works.

Andy H.

The cradle like thing he set the phone receiver into at about 8:38 is an original style modem (an acoustic coupler). You would be lucky to get maybe 150 bits per second with it.

Steve Arnold

The guy who wrote this also wrote the screenplay for „Sneakers“, a movie, which I think, the two of you would love. And I would love to watch you see it.

David Brophy

Back in the day analog /landline phones relied on audio tones. With old phone system you could play an audio recording of the tones into the mic to dial phone numbers. So, technically that security door with the tones trick could work. I used to play with the phone system in the mid late nineties and figured this out. You could also click the hang up button in numbered sequences to dial. 7 quick clicks for 7 and so on. Analog audio system.

David Martin

In the film Red Dragon (another one that should be on their list), Hannibal Lecter uses the "click the button" technique.

REDR58
>>114701711

I still have a few phones from my family home in the 1980s that we rented. Eventually my parents just bought them from the phone company if I remember correctly.