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“Hey dad, do you know the movie War Games?”

Posted by spamlet May 14 '21, 12:46

Dammit, kid.

Teacher made reference to it in class. No kids got it so she said (jokingly) their homework was to watch it and report back. We now have Saturday night plans.

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could be worse, she could want to watch the "sequel" from the 2000s. -- nm - tRuMAN May 14, 13:17
it also has my 2nd favorite movie montage ever. (Scarface #1 of course) -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:15
Double header with Sneakers. -- nm - Max May 14, 13:11 9
- I thought about Hackers. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:36 5
  - I hated that movie for the sole reason that at the time they had dialog that talked about Pentium (Intel) chips inside obviously Apple computers - oblique May 14, 13:38 4
    - I mean if you’re gonna nitpick the movie… -- nm - spamlet May 14, 14:23
    - *nobody notices the obvious hacker icon on their computer desktop* -- nm - The Net (1995) May 14, 13:40 2
      - Electric Dreams! -- nm - Dano May 14, 13:45 1
        
        We'll always be together -- nm - JD May 14, 13:48
- I just watched Sneakers maybe 2 weeks ago. Still solid. -- nm - oblique May 14, 13:14 2
  - Also the pre-space scene opening song to Real Genius is perfect. -- (link) - Max May 14, 13:37 [youtube] 1
    - Not streaming anywhere last I looked. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 14:24
next week...Last Starfighter! -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:07
this movie also features eating raw corn. -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:07 1
- and Ally Sheedy at her most cutest. - Jovian May 14, 13:09
Children are never too young to learn about thermonuclear dread! - Roger More May 14, 13:05 4
- They’re studying the Cold War so it was at least topical. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:36 2
  - then I guess real genius would be topical too. -- nm - tRuMAN May 14, 13:58 1
    - Yes but not streaming and I don’t own it. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 14:45
- lol yep -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:14
I've never actually seen it. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 13:04 4
- ok *you* of all people need to see it. -- nm - Remlik May 14, 13:07 2
  - make it so. -- nm - tRuMAN May 14, 13:30
  - indeed. -- nm - mud May 14, 13:30
- I see something like this and my brain goes haywire. I can cite almost this entire movie verbatim. - Jovian May 14, 13:06
"Wow! It's in color?!?" -- nm - JaxSean May 14, 13:02
"Can you explain the removal of your user account on June 23 1973?" -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:02
Joshua, what are you doing? -- nm - JD May 14, 12:59
Nice -- nm - oblique May 14, 12:55
now i kind of want to watch War Games. -- nm - Andie May 14, 12:49 3
- Remember the modem?!?! - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 12:55 2
  - Acoustic coupler -- nm - JD May 14, 12:56 1
    - and the 8" floppy disks -- nm - Jovian May 14, 13:05
Jeez, how old is that teacher. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 12:48 1
- Probably a geriatric Millennial. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 12:54

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