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July 8, 2008
One of my all time favorite movies growing up was Wargames. To this day it stands alone, as a movie the semi-accurately depicts what hacking was and what was involved. Our young hero David didn’t just click some keys really fast while a pseudo server graphically appeared and spun in circles while he beat his way into it. Instead they showed him spending months researching the network, it’s creator, all possibles connections. I especially loved the war dialing sequences. It was nothing less then a slice of Awesome!
So, in a further effort to destroy the happy memories of my childhood, Hollywood has decided to release this crap, and label it as a “sequel” to Wargames. It is called “Wargames : The Dead Code”. Here is the trailer.
Stephen Falken must be spinning in his grave, and probably wishes he had just let Joshua wipe us all off the planet the first time.
Ugh .. At least this is a straight to DVD experience and it won’t clutter up the theaters.
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July 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Love the Title, I completely agree… at least it is going directly to DVD. Wow, why must they continue to take good stuff from the 80’s and make it bad.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Ha Ha.. glad you liked it.. and welcome to plurk .
July 9th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Ok while I agree that WarGames at the time was a “geek standard.” But let’s not wax emotional and pretend that the original WarGames didn’t have a level of hoakey-ness.
I watched this Dead Code and it was pretty bad but I get the feeling it’s the modern day version of pretty bad.
Some movies just don’t survive the test of time.. while I was a huge WarGames fan I look back at some of the old movies and say to myself.. gee that was pretty horrible, what was I thinking.