I love this movie. Frankly, it holds up pretty well.
Yes, the tech is dated, but it is the right tech to support the story, which is not dated much at all.
And what a cast!
Epic film, and one I tend to watch a few times per year.
Yes, the tech is dated, but it is the right tech to support the story, which is not dated much at all.
And what a cast!
Epic film, and one I tend to watch a few times per year.
I had to get a wiser roommate to explain that one. So naive.
No one yet has done anything for hacking like "Real Genius" did for nerdy Physics majors. (And even that film is flawed in a number of ways.) I would love to see a film set in the 80's that gets hacking/phracking right. The "Stranger Things" fans would go nuts for the cultural references.
Something like "Densha Otoko" (Train Man) meets "American Graffiti". (Holler if you're interested in me writing your script, ha ha.)
I'll find and watch the film again though. I may have relaxed a bit on my criticism of films depicting computer users.
I generally don't bother because that is not the intent of the film.
And it is the people. How they are. Why they are.
War Games