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A decade later, the writers of _Wargames_ would write the '90s all-star heist classic _Sneakers_ - a perfect movie. *Highly* recommended.

Nominated for 3 Oscars: Best Original Screenplay Best Production Design Best Cinematography.

When I first saw this in the theater, it was a theater near Elmendorf Air Force Base. When it was named as a first target, the audience went wild.

In september 1983, coincidently just a few months after the release of this movie, a malfunction in the Soviet nuclear warning system showed that an American missile had been launched. If it hadn't been for duty officer Stanislav Petrov's suspicion of it being a false alarm and his decision to disobey military protocol by not reporting a nuclear attack, it's possible that his superiors would have ordered a retalitory nuclear attack against the US. There's a pretty good documentary about the incident called _The Man Who Saved the World_ if anyone's interested.

I can't believe that this film is 40 years old this year! 😮It's technically a Brat Pack movie, seeing how it stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, two of the most prominent actors of their generation.

This film was huge at least with all the people I grew up with. Still one of my favs. Lots of movies like this in the 80s (Back to the Future, Explorers, D.A.R.Y.L., Short Circuit, Real Genius, Spacecamp, The Manhattan Project, Flight of the Navigator, etc) inspired people like me to become scientists, engineers, technicians, or computer professionals. Broderick is also great in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Hey, MoneyJenny! The most well-known movie featuring each star: Matther Broderick in _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ (1986), and Ally Sheedy in _The Breakfast Club_ (1985). Both films are *must watch* status!

So happy you watched this! It's an all time classic that still holds up 40 years later. For another Matthew Broderick movie I suggest Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's hilarious and came out 3 years after this.

I've always loved the message of this movie, that even a machine can recognize the futility of war.

Fun fact, the computer voice 'Joshua' was played by the actor who played Professor Falken, just slowed down a bit. DEFCON 2 is the lowest DEFCON reached in the 60's during the Cuban missile crises (real), very nearly went to DEFCON 1. There is a great film depicting this crisis called 'Thirteen Days' a film i am sure you would love. Fantastic reaction Jen, I could see you were really into this film. Damm them 80's computers 😊😊😊😊

I'm giving the "Low-Key MVP" to Joshua. His character arc was inspirational 🤓

"Shall we play a game?" became one of those phrases that was used in every situation/other movie/ sitcom kind of like "I'll be back". Just ubiquitous with the eighties. it's also well worth digging into the Mathew Broderick rabbit hole he's done some good movies

Back in the days of this movie, video arcades still required people to put coins in their machines. Thus being a good player allowed one to really get to play for a long period of time. Plus it was cheaper of course.

Watch Ladyhawke with Matthew Broderick in it. Such an underrated picture!

When he was doing research about the software creator, he was looking through old newspaper and magazine articles that were stored on microfiche, typically at libraries and universities and government agencies. It was basically large spools of film with the article images imprinted on it (like old school film negatives) and you put them in a scanning machine to view the film by rolling them past a camera which shows the images on the large screen you saw on that screen. Nearly everything now is stored on computers (files or the cloud).

Actually putting on deodorant during a deodorant commercial? You're a beast Jen!

Love this movie, and it's easy to see where Ferris Bueller learned his hacking skills from! 😉

Synthesizer sounds ruled the early eighties. Nerd sounds imprinted on me from childhood, Howard Jones; Flock of Seagulls and the like. Couldn’t get away from the sounds and now I look back fondly at that era. Damn, I’m old.

This is one of my favorite movies from the 1980s, which is unfortunately so underrated. How can you get more tense than *Global Thermonuclear War* ?!? I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😁

Thanks for doing this. Back in the 80's we were all learning computers. PC's were now being sold at RadioShack for the homes. This movies is just great and one of my favorites at that time. It was on cable so I probabl;y watched it dozens of times. It fit so perfectly into our daily lives. Super fun!

Yes the payphone trick really worked. We had one in my junior high school lobby that you just had to put a straightened out paperclip 📎 in the middle hole of the handset and the keyhole of the coin box and then dial your number, or you could use electrical box punch outs, or small washers as coins of similar size to quarters and nickels for electrical box punch outs, and washers for dimes. You could also annoy people in the office that was about 20' away by using the paperclip technique to call the number of the phone and hang up causing it to keep ringing until someone answered it. Not that I ever did that, I was a good kid and never annoying. There was also a soda machine that you could hold down certain numbers on the keypad to put it into test mode and get free drinks, and a snack machine that you could put clear packaging tape on the edge of a dollar bill, let the machine take it in and as soon as it registered pull it back out and get free snacks, or if you wanted ones on the bottom row just reach in the drop area and pull the flap down and grab them, or so I heard, because I would never do that either 😂.

What an amazing coincidence that you're watching Dr. Strangelove & Wargames in the same week 😉.

My father use to guard the missile silos in late 70s up in north America, Wyoming and North Dakota, He was air force Police. He had some interesting stories. Love this movie. One if my favorite growing up

While everyone else is recommending his other movies, my favorite Broderick movie is GLORY about the civil war.

You know, Jen, whilst you're on a bit of a "World War III"/Nuclear War theme, you might want to check out "Thirteen Days". Its a drama based on the actual Cuban Missile Crisis.

"Wargames", "Ferris Bueller", and "Real Genius" - the three movies that influenced me the most as a teenager." "Real Genius", with Val Kilmer, would be a good followup to having seen the other two. Then I'd probably recommend "Sneakers", with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, and River Phoenix, from the 1990's.

Hey Jen, - The two actors in the bunker in the first scene are both famous. The older, higher-ranked one is the late John Spencer who gained fame in his role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the series 'The West Wing'. Spencer actually passed away as the series was in its final season. The younger one with dark hair is Michael Madsen who has been in a lot of films including Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs' as Mr. Blonde, and 'Kill Bill' Volumes 1 & 2 as Bud. And, as a heads up, appears as a CIA boss in the last Brosnan Bond film 'Die Another Day'. - Matthew Broderick movies: 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', 'Biloxi Blues', 'Project X', 'Glory', 'The Freshman', 'LadyHawke', and 'The Producers'. In both 'The Producers' and 'Biloxi Blues' he reprises roles he played on Broadway. He won a Tony for playing Eugene Morris Jerome in 'Biloxi Blues' and was nominated for one for 'The Producers' (but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane, who also is in the film). And, yes, Matthew was in 'Election'. - 15:35 - The voice of Joshua/WOPR was created using the actor who played Stephen Falken, John Wood. From what I remember, he had to read the lines in a variety of ways, then they ran the sound of his voice through a synthesizer, and cut together different readings to give the voice an artificial sound...almost like the voice synthesizer used by the late Dr. Stephen Hawking.

OMG Election is one of my favorite movies of all time!!! Watch it now!!!!!!

Amazing classic WarGames starring by Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman and Ally Sheedy. Thank you so much Jen great reaction😊😊😊😊

I'm so glad you're watching this!! Other Must See Matthew Broderick movies: Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Biloxi Blues.

Im so glad you got to this gem. This was a massive box office success and later, as video rental locations were exploding onto the scene, it was massively popular in homes everywhere.

My old people nostalgia sense is tingling. You gotta check out "Cloak and Dagger."

Happy you enjoyed this, that was lots of nostalgic fun and the ending is still very tense! High five for DEFCON 5. 🥰💜 Great Native promo! 👍👍 4:06 - 4.14 I hadn't seen this film in decades, wasn't previously aware that Michael Madsen was in the opening scene. This film is 10 years before Reservoir Dogs, but I see he's still quick to go all 'Mr. Blonde' in a tense situation. 😐 The director of Wargames, John Badham, directed a great cop/buddy/comedy/action film called 'Stakeout' (1987). I think you would enjoy it a lot. Two great male leads as the cops, a very charming and charismatic leading lady who you have seen recently and a great actor playing the villain. The film '13 Days' (2000) is the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the USA and USSR came to the brink of nuclear war. For realsies. :/ An unmissable Matthew Broderick film is 'The Freshman' (1990) - a crime comedy. The plot revolves around a young, somewhat naive, New York film student's entanglement with organized crime in an illicit business of offering exotic and endangered animals as speciality food items, including his being tasked with delivering a Komodo dragon for this purpose. You'll love the casting, they'll give you a performance you can't refuse. Other top Broderick picks are; Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Comedy Biloxi Blues (1988) Military dramady Glory (1989) US Civil War drama The Cable Guy (1996) Psychological thriller comedy. Dir by Ben Stiller

The Godzilla movie with "the Puff Daddy song" happens to star..... Matthew Broderick. I think you have to watch it now. I'm in the minority that actually enjoys that movie. It's VERY 90's.

Project X is a movie you should watch with Matthew Broderick. It's sad but really good.

You can tell who's seen this movie because they butter their corn with bread, it's like a secret handshake 🤣

"Would you like to play a game?" The synthesized voice they chose to use for the WOPR was the actor, John Wood, who played the AI's creator, Doctor Falken.

The movie is loosely based on the events of 9 November 1979, but it wasn't from an outside source. In NORAD/Cheyenne Mountain, exercise data was inadvertently routed to the various watch centers, but not tagged as exercise data. I was working in the mountain a few years later (~1985) on a program called SPADOC, and as a result of the 9 November 1979 event, we had to have two-person control on our test message media (big two-foot diameter disks) at all times. It was a major PITA. BTW, the tour thing is accurate too. Prior to 9/11 at least, there were always a couple of tours a day. We would always have to suspend tests because of the unclassified tours.

King’s Quest! I loved those games!!

The Freshman was a pretty good movie with him and Marlon Brando.

Great reaction, Jen! I'm glad you had fun with this one. I just realized that this came out in 1983, and the Terminator in 1984. So both Joshua and Skynet were planning humanity's demise at almost the same time! And speaking of AI, maybe I'm evil, but if I created an AI today, I'd name it Skynet, and I'd program it to tell anyone that asked why it was called that "I wanted a name of a fictional AI that I could be proud to emulate," just to freak people out.

Best movie from my 1980s childhood. Hi Jen.

Thank you for another incredible reaction! I was a junior in high school in 1983 when it came out. Loved it then and still do. Had such a crush on Ally Sheedy.❤

Jennifer you are by far the best and the most entertaining reactor, I tell everyone about your channel😊

Another AMAZING reaction, Jen! I had SO much fun watching this. From the dog to the 80s love I had the best time! I've missed your last few because of work life but I'll be binging the stuff I missed this weekend. Keep it up, Jen! You're still the best!

Jen after this , you should consider reacting to Ferris Bueller's Day Off: With Matthew Broderick,

After watching Matthew Broderick play the historic "Colonel Robert Gould Shaw " in 'GLORY" , we forget he was a comedic child actor.

Mathew Broderick is part of a star studded cast in the Civil War movie "Glory" (historical drama) where he is one of the leads. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (comedy) is probably his best known movie

I loved how tense you got, you were so focused on what was happening and what was at stake. A lot of people that are used to today's technology don't experience how real this seemed to us back when it came out. I was in college studying computer science and even back then AIR was a major topic of discussion in the computer world. Another tense underrated movie with Mathew Broderick is The Freshman. The only prerequisite for watching it is watching The Godfather, which I know you've seen. I think you would really enjoy the twisted Web of events in that movie.

Matthew Broderick was also in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. That is an awesome movie.

This film is an underrated classic! I've seen it several times and I love both the plot and the characters. Can't believe it's this old.

Best line of the movie? "You're listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don't act like one." More Matty B to check out: Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986) is the easy answer but there's also Glory(1989), The Road to Wellville(1994), yes Election(1999) is great, Godzilla(1998)[the same one you made reference to here], The Cable Guy(1996) is a two-hander with Jim Carrey, and The Producers(2005).

Funny you should mention watching Godzilla. Matthew Broderick starred in one of the Godzilla movies!

i was 14 when this came out, and it seemed very real, the news was full of the possibility of war at any moment. lots of teachers trying to educate us on how to survive, hide under the kitchen table and you will be fine!! but it is still a favorite despite the remembered feelings. it felt real at the time. glad you enjoyed it. :) Matthew Broderick was the up and coming star of the time. quite relevant i suppose considering the rise of AI. love the reactions as always. the novel, i think based on the film, was a lot more tense

Matthew Broderick’s most iconic role is in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”… an 80s classic and highly recommended.

“Nooo, Joshua, you bastard!!”. Jen is such a charmer.

Matthew Broderick was the lead actor in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Godzilla", which were probably his biggest films. I highly recommend both. He is still making movies.

the highest DEFCON in real life was DEFCON 2. once on January 15, 1991, in the opening phase of Operation Desert Storm, and once during the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 24, 1962 (but only the Strategic Air Command (SAC), while the rest of the U.S. Armed Forces remained at DEFCON 3)

Added notes: Matthew Broderick was in “Glory” a must react to movie for all. Of note: I worked in a secure facility similar to NORAD back in late 80s-early 90s called Site Raven Rock (Site-R). Of course there were No public tours, not would one find a recoding device of any kind (tape player, camera etc) inside. Security was mega tight with multiple Id/badge swaps and areas only those (not me) with the highest clearances & need to know could enter.

Great movie. I think this movie was an inspiration on the computer security terms like Backdoor and Firewall and change allot in computer industry . You should also see Mathew in Lady Hawk and Ferries Buller day off. Two other great hacking movies are Hackers 1995 and Sneakers 1992. Also see Alley Shadey in Short Circute

Matthew Broderick actually stars in the 1998 Godzilla, which had the Puff Daddy song you mentioned. It's a cheesey movie, but kinda fun at the same time. Broderick is incredible in Ferris Bueller's Day off. If you've never seen that, you absolutely should.

Matthew Broderick also headlines "Ladyhawke" (Richard Donner, 1985), in which he reunites with John Wood, and which also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rutger Hauer, and Leo McKern (if you ever saw "The Blue Lagoon.") Soundtrack is hit or miss. "Chariots of Fire" came out a few years earlier, and showed how "modern" music can fit in a period film. Ladyhawke tried to do something similar, and it ended up dating the score. But yeah, if you want more Broderick, check out "Ladyhawke."

man I love watching my childhood favourites with Jen - she makes them new again. I'm going camping now for 3 days and I have about 16 more of her videos on my phone so I have options.

If you are looking for another movie involving nukes then watch The Peacemaker, 1997, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. It is highly underrated and I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to it. Since you like Bond and Bourne I think you'd really enjoy it.

You mentionned the music a few times, if you want the same composer and same director with another technology related movie check out "Blue Thunder" from 1983. It stars Roy Scheider who was the police chief in Jaws and Daniel Stern who was one of the two "wet bandits" from Home Alone. For a nuclear theme movie you may want to check out "Miracle Mile" from 1988 it's a love story. It stars Anthony Edwards (Goose in Top Gun).

The movie I would recommend is "Thirteen Days", a 2000 film starring Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood. It also involves nuclear tension, but it is also an historical movie which answers your question about the highest our DefCon setting has ever been. The 13 days covered by this movie are the closest we have ever come to playing the game which cannot be won and must never be played...

5:00 “I wonder if there’s gonna be lots of explosions?” Jen always gets her priorities right 🤣

Election, Ferris Bueller's Day Off & Glory are all Matthew Broderick movies you need to watch IMHO 🙂

I subscribe to over 400 channels and Jen is easily at the top of the list as the most talented creator and all around super nice person of them all! What a great shtick she's created here. A delight to look forward to every time. Thanks Jen!❤😍

The actor who played Professor Falken was also the voice of Joshua/ WOPR

The young guy in the silo was Michael Madsen, star of Reservoir Dogs, and many other films. The guy in green trying to open the door after David jams it, is Judge Reinhold, one of the stars of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Dialing every number in an area to see which ones have computers was an actual thing that some people did. After this movie, it became known as "war dialing". However, it couldn't have worked as shown in the movie. David was using an "acoustical" modem, and while it COULD have dialed the phone by playing the tones for the numbers into the mic (that still works with landline phones to this day), it would have no way to hang up the line after each call. You needed a modem that you could directly plug the phone line into for it to be able to do what was shown. Yes, pay phone hacking was a thing. People also discovered special tones that would make the phone/company think that you had deposited coins and all sorts of other stuff. I had programs for my Commodore 64 to generate the different tones, but I never actually tried them out. The ending where the WOPR tries to guess the launch codes was badly written. The launch code was ten characters long. Typically, you have to enter the entire code for a computer to accept it and it would take even a super-computer a VERY long time to run through every possible combination made up of ten characters. However, it was shown that it could guess them one character at a time. Doing it this way should have taken about 2 seconds. With ten numbers and 26 letters, each character in the code only has 36 possibilities. Multiply that by ten characters and that's only 360 codes it needs to try. Even an 80s home computer could guess a ten character code that way in just a few seconds.

After this movie Broderick starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off another '80s classic. The '80s were full of nuclear death and destruction movies. it was basically peak Cold War with movies like Day After Tomorrow, First Strike, and Threads among others which show the aftermath of nuclear war in varying degrees of graphic detail which scared the crap out of the populace at the time.

I saw this in a theater in Seattle when I was 16. We all cheered when they showed the Seattle skyline at the beginning. It was almost a decade before the music scene put the town on the map and Seattle was really not well known for anything at that time. You’re right about “The Election”. Also.. Ferris Beuller’s Day Off Glory Biloxi Blues Project X

This is an older classic and I'm really glad that you did your reaction to it. Jen rules

I used to get this movie and The Manhattan Project mixed up. The Manhattan Project doesn't star Matthew Broderick, though. Wargames was loosely based on real events, as was The Manhattan Project. Manhattan was about the so-called "radioactive boy scout". In the film a kid steals plutonium, in reality he used americium. Matthew Broderick also started in another sort of similar type of movie called Project X that I only discovered about fifteen years ago. Wargames in 83, Manhattan in 1996, and Project X in 1987. Project X was also based on an actual government program testing whether chimps and bonobos could be trained to fly bombers on nuke missions. I'm about to turn 43. The 1980s were a wild time. The culture consisted of synth pop, cocaine, back to the future, and also omnipresent propaganda of the cold war which boiled down to nuclear paranoia. Thank goodness we live in a so much more enlightened time nowadays😐

One of my all time favorites! Great reaction, Jen! (As always 😉)

The type of program that David used to dial every number in Sunnyvale (looking for Protovision's computer) later came to be called a War Dialer, in honor of this movie. Yeah, those floppy disks are HUGE. I never used one that size (8 inches); I used the 5-1/8 inch size and then diskettes (the hard shell ones).

When I was little, this was on cable all the time - I absolutely love this film. One of the cool little things about it is that the director (John Badham) managed to deliver this AND Blue Thunder in the same year. Blue Thunder is a great "companion" to this film, by the way - another cautionary tale of technology.

I think that the reason that Professor Falkin wouldn't make the phone call was because he didn't have a phone. That was why Joshua called David at his home, because the computer assumed that David was Professor Falkin.

I appreciate butter, and I have used the technique in the movie to butter my corn several times, having learned from this film. Matthew is the lead actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where he also hacks into the school computers. He's also in Tower Heist (2011), which is set during a Thanksgiving time frame. That's not as well-known, but you like heists; he isn't the lead character, though, Ben Stiller is. His girlfriend in this film is in The Breakfast Club, among other films.

I could have sworn David Warner played Falken.

20:38 -- everyone seems to miss the subtext of John's relationship with his secretary...

NORAD is a joint U.S./Canadian organization, so when NORAD goes to DEFCON 5 both the US and Canada go together. The movie got the numbering backwards BTW.

If you watch 'Godzilla', either do the original Godzilla (1954) or 'Shin Godzilla' (2016). You can do the others in whatever order you like.

I'm a big old time computer game fan, and the King's Quest reference made my day! 😀

You might want to watch GLORY. Great cast with Broderick in the lead. Probably his best. 10/10.

For later Broderick I strongly recommend 2005's The Producers, with Nathan Lane. A pure giggle fest, silly and perfect. You deserve a treat after the nail-biting tension of War Games. I love that play so much I even saw a touring company do it live. The whole theater was mouthing the lines along with the actors.

They used a Moog synthesizer for a lot of the music.

Hi, Jen! The 80's were the era of nuclear war paranoia. Apart from this film, there was also "The Day After" and the NBC mockumentary "Special Bulletin".

On November 9th, 1979, a technician at NORAD mistakenly ran an attack simulation tape - that appeared to be a real attack. So could War Games happen? It almost did that day... we initiated a full nuclear response up to DEFCON 2, IIRC. On January 25th, 1995 the Soviets didn't get the word throughout their defense establishment that a Norwegian scientific missle launch would happen. When the missle launch appeared on their radar, they took it to be a submarine launched nuclear missle. We almost went to WWIII on that day too.

Love this movie. Saw it in theaters with my older brother way back when. When this came out, Nuclear War was a huge scare for years. Red Dawn and Day after Tomorrow(mid 80s tv version) didn't help. Check OOWT Weird Science, if you haven't already. Also, Real Genius

Hey Hey there Jen Murray. Yup, Wargames was a pretty big movie back then. The Cold War was a pretty depressing time. There have been a few times when we were really close to launching. I enjoyed your reaction, as always. Hope you have a perfect evening. 😉👌

"Glory", "Ladyhawke" and "Ferris Buellers day off" would be the obvious choices :)

Yes, the urination sign not only indicates it's happened multiple time, but also that there are other areas of the facility where it would not result in automatic dismissal.

☢☢☢Dropping everything at the moment in order to watch this! LOVE this movie !☢☢☢

A classic from my childhood.

I've seen this movie _many_ times, but I never noticed the urinating sign. That's hilarious! 😂

What most nostalgic movies about the 80's miss, is that the threat of nuclear war was always in the background. Threads, The Day After are a couple other films that address this threat.

How about a nice game of Jin Jen Joe... 😂 😂 😂 - sorry/not sorry.