War Games: First primary target: Las Vegas!
I stumble upon a fun movie that I enjoy watching: WarGames. But I tuned in just as David and Jennifer broke into the computer system, initiate the Global Thermonuclear War simulation, and select two targets: Their hometown of Seattle, which was their second choice, and Las Vegas.
What the hell do people have against Las Vegas?
I mean, I get the 'joke' of a biblical ending to 'Sin City', but is a biblical ending really how people think about Las Vegas?
Quote: DJTeddyBearLater in the movie, Dr. Falken had a comment, "I loved it when you nuked Las Vegas. Seems to have given a biblical ending to it."
I mean, I get the 'joke' of a biblical ending to 'Sin City', but is a biblical ending really how people think about Las Vegas?
That was 25 years ago, most people couldn't afford Vegas and had never been here. To most of the country it represented the Mob, prostitutes, and quickie marriages and divorces. And gambling, of course. Vegas hadn't reinvented itself yet.
Quote: EvenBobThat was 25 years ago, most people couldn't afford Vegas and had never been here. To most of the country it represented the Mob, prostitutes, and quickie marriages and divorces. And gambling, of course. Vegas hadn't reinvented itself yet.
Good answer. That is my favorite scene in the movie.
Quote: WizardGood answer. That is my favorite scene in the movie.
I almost forgot the most important 'sin', female nudity. Vegas was famous for its nude shows and strip clubs in the 70's and 80's, they were everywhere. Those joints are long gone, thank god. They left when the Mob left. There are a few still a around, but nothing like it was.
Quote: WizardGood answer. That is my favorite scene in the movie.
Most people want to nuke Las Vegas only after they've gone there for the weekend and blown the house payment.
From roughly the same time period, Stephen King, in his novel, "The Stand", chose Las Vegas as the capital of the demon Randall Flagg's earthly empire, and the climax of the story is when one of Flagg's minions accidentally incinerates the city with a nuclear device he brings there from Indian Springs.
That movie, "War Games", was faintly amusing, but also kind of dumb and simplistic. It featured no less than three tired tropes from the 80s/90s era of mass entertainment:
1. The Rogue Computer That Has Human Characteristics and Thought Patterns and Rebels Against its Makers.
2. The Wesley Crusher Effect: The Teenage Boy Who Proves Himself Much Smarter Than All the Dumb Adults, Solves the Crisis, and Fixes Their Computer, Too.
3. The Hollywood Liberal Let's-State-the-Obvious Unsubtle Political Message: War is Bad, and Reagan is the Devil.
Quote: mkl654321Most people want to nuke Las Vegas only after they've gone there for the weekend and blown the house payment.
From roughly the same time period, Stephen King, in his novel, "The Stand", chose Las Vegas as the capital of the demon Randall Flagg's earthly empire, and the climax of the story is when one of Flagg's minions accidentally incinerates the city with a nuclear device he brings there from Indian Springs.
That movie, "War Games", was faintly amusing, but also kind of dumb and simplistic. It featured no less than three tired tropes from the 80s/90s era of mass entertainment:
1. The Rogue Computer That Has Human Characteristics and Thought Patterns and Rebels Against its Makers.
2. The Wesley Crusher Effect: The Teenage Boy Who Proves Himself Much Smarter Than All the Dumb Adults, Solves the Crisis, and Fixes Their Computer, Too.
3. The Hollywood Liberal Let's-State-the-Obvious Unsubtle Political Message: War is Bad, and Reagan is the Devil.
In the 70's and 80's, Vegas represented to the world everything that was wrong with America, so it was an easy target. And 'War Games' was a smash hit, a good story and decent acting. Of course today its dated as hell, but when it was made it was cutting edge. Nobody had computers in their homes, nobody that I knew anyway. I got my first one in '92, it cost a fortune and was a piece of crap by todays standards. And that was almost 10 years after War Games came out.
"The movie was a box office success, costing US$12 million, but grossing over $70 million after five months in the United States. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards." Wiki.
