Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 12, 2021 16:40:16 GMT
I loved it when it came out. It would probably seem very dated now. I should watch it again some time.
I am scratching my head about the release date. I had a friend around that time who was in the habit of telling tall tales. One of them was that he had gone on holidays with his family to California and that he had been spotted by a talent agent and signed up with a Hollywood studio to star in an upcoming big-budget sci-fi movie. Another one was that he had inadvertently hacked into the Pentagon and was now afraid that they would come after him – pretty much the plot of “War Games”. The naïve teenager that I was believed him! The thing is, we were only in the same class in 1981/82. I never saw him again after that. Later, whenever I remembered this story I always assumed that his “inspiration” was War Games, but if the movie only came out in 1983 that couldn’t have been the case (unless of course he got to read the script during his very brief Hollywood career).
I am scratching my head about the release date. I had a friend around that time who was in the habit of telling tall tales. One of them was that he had gone on holidays with his family to California and that he had been spotted by a talent agent and signed up with a Hollywood studio to star in an upcoming big-budget sci-fi movie. Another one was that he had inadvertently hacked into the Pentagon and was now afraid that they would come after him – pretty much the plot of “War Games”. The naïve teenager that I was believed him! The thing is, we were only in the same class in 1981/82. I never saw him again after that. Later, whenever I remembered this story I always assumed that his “inspiration” was War Games, but if the movie only came out in 1983 that couldn’t have been the case (unless of course he got to read the script during his very brief Hollywood career).