Wargames [Blu-ray] [1983] [US Import]

Great

A great Matthew Broderick film. Exciting, clever, and amusing it’s a great movie.

Mainly this is one of my favourite films because of nostagia. It is a very well made film and has excellent acting, cast, direction etc, etc, but the obvious flaws lie in the technological gulf between the 80's and today (2012). For me the old computers and equipment are a hazy hark back to the carefree days post mobile phones, social networking and when there were only 4 tv channels. Today it stands as a filmic stepping stone as opposed to groundbreaking but I suppose that at the time the technology was state of the art.But then the film itself is extremely good. This was a well made action (ish) thriller blockbuster. Yes at times it seems a little too easy for Matthew Broderick's David to escape from high security govt installations but it was more of a romp than a true expose' of the times. But it was a precursor to such films as most of anything Shia Leboef has been in, as the geeky underdog wins the day. And Joshua as a character is also extremely well realised, even today.A sub-classic of sorts, and one I will always watch fondly. But it's probably only for those who grew up in the 80s.

I remember the day my father took me to the cinema to see this movie. Several months before going to see it I was very fortunate to have been bought a Commodore 64 computer (ask your parents) by my parents as a birthday present. My young mind was full of possibilities after seeing that movie, I recall standing in the foyer of the cinema after the screening talking to other kids around the same age as myself at that time (15 y/o) and fantasizing about what we could do with our computers! This was I suppose the first ever movie to cover the issue of "hacking" whereby you gain access to another computer system illegally. This was long before the advent of the Internet as we know it today. It was a era when these issues were only dreams and fantasies of admirers of technology back then. One thing was for sure, I never looked at a computer in the same light again. The performances of the main characters David & Jennifer (Broderick & Sheedy) were quite believable back then. I suppose there was a lot of virgin technology that the characters had to get to grips with making the fluent dialogue sound quite realistic. Mathew Broderick was only 19 years of age when appearing in Wargames and just fitted the part of the computer nerd perfectly. If this is your kind of film you may also be interested in these titles: "Battle Beyond the Stars" and "The Last Star Fighter" both of which I have been able to buy on Amazon bringing the memories of my childhood on to my home cinema system today. Great movie for it's time.Yours Kevin Burke from Glasgow Scotland UK

This was one of my favourite movies of the '80s, but which I had somehow neglected adding to my DVD collection until now. I expected to find it juvenile, and rather naive regarding technology, but in fact found that it still holds up surprisingly well as a thriller. I had no problem believing in any of the characters or their motivations. I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again with a friend the following evening, both of us enjoying a bit of movie nostalgia.Listening to the excellent commentary even answered one of my old minor objections to the movie: you see I was then (and still am) a computer programmer. I could see that most of his equipment was years obsolete even when the movie came out, but the commentary pointed out that this was deliberate, after all this was a schoolkid - no income, so all his kit was hand-me-downs that others were throwing away.My personal standard for a 5 star movie is, will I still want to be watching this in a few decades time? Since this movie has already met that test the score must be automatic! So 5 stars it is.

The Wargames dvd arrived in perfect shape.I love the fact that I am able to watch the film in other languages besides English.

It may be an old film now but its still a cracking good story that has stood the test of time very well.We are so used to computers now that its a bit easy to forget we didn't always have pcs,we may have had some sorts of computers but nothing like we have now so its a gentle reminder of how far we have progressed in technology.The U.S. DO play wargames,as do the Russians,as did we when we were a significant nuclear power.Now we are but a shadow of our former slightly aggressive and distinctly prickly selves,its somewhat reassuring to know that such wargames are practised by the one power in the world that is not totally without honour,they do at least have the sense to put themselves first and to hell with trying to please everyone,its a damn shame we don't have the courage to follow suit.

There was a time when Matthew Broderick was Hollywood's go-to guy for charming teenage reprobates, and he seemed a ubiquitous presence on the big screen when I was an adolescent. Ally Sheedy was another of the unofficial `brat-packers' who was regularly cast as `kooky girl next door', a role she plays with aplomb here, as she and Broderick's character David proceed to embark upon a mischievous attempt to hack into a computer game designer's account, in the process inadvertently triggering what seems to be an imminent nuclear war between Russia and the USA.Once the initial premise has been delivered, the film becomes all about David's attempts to escape the military compound where he is inexplicably taken after his hacking has been discovered. A race against time to track down the computer's reclusive creator tells the story of the second half of the movie, and the denouement is fairly standard. Overall then this is a daft but amusing creation by director John Badham, and a nostalgic treat for those of us who grew-up with Broderick's impish slacker in those halcyon days of 80s teen dramas.

Ce blu-ray est absolument indispensable pour qui aime ce film et possédait ou pas le dvd, qui était en format 4/3 letterbox, horrible.Un de mes meilleurs achats blu-ray car contrairement à beaucoup d'autres films cultes qu'on aime et qu'on rachèterait pour avoir une meilleure qualité d'image par rapport au dvd, ici non seulement la restauration est super, avec des couleurs plus belles mais c'est surtout qu'on a enfin un format d'image normal et agréable à regarder!Voilà un blu-ray absolument indispensable et un des plus précieux de ma collection, il ravive mon édition dvd délavée qui n'a vraiment plus lieu d'être aujourd'hui!Si vous n'avez jamais vu WarGames, c'est dommage mais il n'est jamais trop tard. Il faut juste se replonger vraiment dans l'ambiance du début des années 80, l'époque des vieux modems et des vieux ordinateurs qui faisaient des bruits bizarres, de l'époque ou l'on s'imaginait que l'on pouvait aller dans l'espace avec un simple ordi (merci l'ignorance et l'imagination de l'enfance et des films comme "Explorers") et de l'époque où l'on rêvait des films sur nos vieilles VHS...

Teenager David Lightman hackt sich in ein Computernetzwerk des Pentagons, von dem er fälschlicherweise glaubt, dass es sich um eine Videospielfirma handelt. Dabei findet David eine Liste von Spielen im Netzwerk - unter anderem eines mit dem faszinierenden Namen Global Thermonuclear War. Aber als er anfängt, es zu spielen, aktiviert das Spiel den neuen Supercomputer des Pentagons - bekannt als WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), um einen tatsächlichenCountdown zu einem Krieg zu beginnen. NORADs General Beringer und Dr. McKittrick glauben, dass die Bedrohung real ist. Als David dies erkennt, muss er den zurückgezogenen Co-Designer des Computers, Stephen Falken, aufzuspüren, um sie alle von der Wahrheit zu überzeugen.Der 1983 veröffentlichte WarGames mit Mathew Broderick in der Hauptrolle ist auch so ein Film aus meiner Kindheit, den ich recht gerne schaue. Die Botschaft dahinter, wie weit wir einer künstlichen Intelligenz, vor allem wenn es um weltweite thermonukleare Kriegsführung geht, vertrauen sollten, ist heute aktueller denn je.„WarGames“ sollte ursprünglich viel düsterer angelegt werden, Regisseur John Badham „Saturday Night Fever“ entschied sich aber dagegen und wollte, dass Mathew Broderick und Ally Sheedy die Rollen etwas lockerer angehen. Die beiden spielen wirklich gut und werden dabei von einigen weiteren Schauspielern der damaligen Zeit unterstützt. Vor allem Barry Corbin („Yellowstone“) spielt seinen Technik-misstrauenden General Beringer wirklich unterhaltsam.„WarGames“ macht auch nach so langer Zeit immer noch eine Menge Laune und unterhält die gesamten 112 Minuten. Ich mag diese Mischung aus Thriller und Komödie, die hier einfach stimmig ist. Darüber hinaus bietet er auch eine großartige Schlussszene, in der das Produktionsdesign, der Schnitt, die Musik und die Kinematographie des Films nahtlos zu einem einzigartig spannenden Höhepunkt kombiniert werden.Zusammengefasst ist „WarGames“ immer noch ein Prudukt seiner Zeit, ein 80er Jahre Sci-Fi-High-Tech-Thriller vor dem kalten Krieg Thema, mit einem witzigen Mathew Broderick als gewieften „Hacker“.Nun zum 4K Dolby Vision Bild.Der Film wurde damals noch auf 35mm gedreht und das vorhandene Material wurde für die 4K UHD neu gescannt.Das resultierende Bild im 1,85:1 Vollbild Format bietet viele gestochen scharfe Details und eine feine Texturierung, obwohl einige Innenaufnahmen ein wenig softer daherkommen. Die Bitrate kann dabei auch schon mal über 100Mbits hinaus gehen. Filmkorn ist sehr fein aufgelöst, sieht aber jederzeit organisch aus. Die Farben sind kräftig und natürlich , mit einem leichten Hang ins warme. Die Highlights wie auch das gesamte Bild sind angenehm hell ohne zu überstrahlen und die tiefen Schwarzwerte verschlucken auch keine Details und machen das Bild so etwas plastischer. Ich würde das Bild der UHD nicht als 4K-Referenzqualität werten, aber sie ist sehr gut geworden und bietet sicherlich die beste Darstellung dieses Films seit je her - insgesamt eine große Verbesserung gegenüber der vorherigen Blu-ray.Der deutsche DTS-HD MA 5.1 Ton ist, im Gegensatz zum früheren 1.0 Ton der Blu Ray Erstauflage, erstaunlich räumlich und sauber. Dialoge kommen klar aus dem Center während Umgebungsgeräusche wie auch der Score von Arthur B. Rubinstein kommen auch schon mal aus den hinteren Lautsprechern. Dennoch spielt sich das meiste vorne ab. Für das Alter aber überraschend hochwertig und ebenfalls ein Upgrade zur alten Blu Ray.Vielen lieben Dank fürs Durchlesen! :)

I love WarGames so much, and Matthew Broderick does such a fantastic job in his role, that I get really nostalgic for those good old days before the Web. Broderick's character is a bored computer nerd in the early '80s with a sweet computer system and 300 baud modem which he uses to dial into places like his school system to change his grades. When he hears about a computer game coming out, he can't wait and sets his modem to "war dial" mode, auto dialing telephone numbers within a certain prefix so he can hack into the gaming company's computer to get this great new game. In the process, he finds that he succeeds and has broken into a high security system where he unknowingly finds himself in the Defense Department's main computer. He thinks he's in the game company's computer and is only looking for games, and he finds one amazing sounding one called "Global Thermonuclear War." He asks the computer to play it with him and he takes the side of the Russians, gleefully launching nuclear missile attacks at cities throughout America. Meanwhile, the staff at NORAD is freaking out, thinking the Russians have launched and they go on high alert, ready to launch American missiles in response. Broderick shuts down his computer before the "game" ends and the missiles disappear from NORAD's computers. They don't know what happens, so a huge manhunt takes place to find out what's going on and who the source of the hack is. I won't go any further, but to say that in my opinion, this is a great action movie and the plot moves along quite well. Even though some of the film isn't totally realistic, enough of it was cutting edge enough to make you believe as you sat in the movie theater, and let's not forget that the Cold War was still a reality, so it was a frightening movie. After seeing this movie, I started accessing BBS's around the country and using my modem to war dial prefixes myself, and enjoyed "shaking hands" with many other computers around the world. It was an awesome experience, and I think today's computer geeks will never know the true excitement generated by old school hacking and phreaking. It's just different today, and today's hackers are malicious, which was never the intent back then. This is a great film, very enjoyable, and if you're into computers, it's definitely one to watch. I never get tired of it. Highly recommended.

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Es un clásico moderno.La ví en el cine y posteriormente en video la ví muchas veces más.Aún hoy en día la disfruté enormemente. No se siente pasada de moda.La calidad de audio y video es buena. Sobre todo si consideramos que la tecnología de los ochentas todavía estaba en pañales.Lo que más me gustó fue el documental sobre cómo la hicieron, que venía como material adicional. Tenía muy buena información y no abusaron de los clips de la película como ocurre con otros documentales.La duración fue exacta, y en general está muy bien hecho. Muchas veces viene información poco relevante y es muy aburrido. Pero en este caso estuvo estupendo.