“How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?”
I love that line.
The fact that the computer couldn’t be shut off or even the launches disabled was kinda stupid. They couldn’t just disable the missiles by ripping out wires or something?
They explained that. WOPR had control of all the missile silos across the country and, if they disconnected WOPR, the silos would think that NORAD was destroyed and fire the missiles at their programmed target.
EDIT: And the missiles themselves could not be disabled because there was not enough time to disable over a thousand missiles.
Just saw Transformers 2, just another typical Michael Bay movie with infinite use of CGI, hot woman in tight clothes and American flags waving proudly while you watch military activities in the background.
How can you mention Michael Bay but not explosions?
Transformers 2 was awful.
Stop the presses.
Identity
Bound from 1996. two lesbians have sex with each other and then decide to rob the mafia husband of one of them. bunch of shootings and blood. I guess this movie has it all.
Haha you’re joking right
Megan Fox is fucking ugly.
Anyway, a while ago, but I went to see the Expendables with about 7 other friends. It was almost too much manliness to handle.
There’s at LEAST one man on duty for every five missiles 8)
That was the claim given:
McKittrick: General, the machine has locked us out. It’s sending random numbers to the silos.
Healy: Codes. To launch the missiles.
Beringer: Just unplug the goddamn thing! Jesus Christ!
McKittrick: That won’t work, General. It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD. The computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions. They’d launch.
Beringer: Can’t we disarm the missiles?
Healy: Over a thousand of them? There’s no time. At this rate it will hit the launch codes in… 5.3 minutes.
fuck yes
So their point is redundant.
Besides, who hands their entire nuclear arsenal over to an unsecured computer??
Edit: I forgot, the Russians did that. If you nuke them, this guys in a bunker has to hit a button and the US is screwed. Apparently it’s still running.
Remember, this was in the days that not many people had access to computers with network capabilities and the network guy in the movie said that he got in through an oversight in a branch in Sunnyvale. “The phone company screwed up!” said the tech guy.
Thank You For Smoking
I love that movie. It’s so dry and sarcastic. The writing and character interaction are superb. It’s a lot of fun, and yet no one is shown smoking a single cigarette…
not really the last movie i saw but i just stumbled over this site again (i used to know it like 2 years ago):
if you have like 3 people guessing it can go on for like hours
awesome shit
Iron Man 2
Generally a bit confusing I think but it had some nice action scenes at least.
Also the whole vulnerable thing was just lame.
Yeah and daddy issues. sucks.
A couple of films from off the beaten track…
L’Immortel (aka 22 bullets)… Jean Reno goes on a revenge rampage after an unsuccesfull attempt on his life. Pretty violent but a keeps up a good pace 8/10
Exit Through The Gift Shop… film by Banksy, UK graffiti artist, about the street art scene and, in particular, a bit of a mad french documatary maker who becomes an artist 8/10 also
Death Wish 1 through 3.
Ocean’s 11 through 13.
The second one sucked major ass and only the first one was any good.