Favorite early-80s "Oh-My-God-COMPUTERS!" movie?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

No "other" option for now as I'm probably forgetting some pearl of technological naivette.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Real Genius? Weird Science?

--p!

[usedtobesick]

2. war games

love that movie

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. Revenge of the Nerds?

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

4. oooo... toss up between Tron and War Games. Oh and Short Circuit!

[Systematic Chaos]

5. Tron beats out War Games by a hair with me.

Probably because I pumped enough quarters into the Tron video game to master it and flip the scoreboard at a million points. :D

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Definitely War Games

And why the Hell isn't that a $9.00 DVD at Costco yet damn it? Much worse movies of the era are available, but I haven't seen that one yet.

[Clintmax]

7. I freakin LOVED "War Games"!

:hi:

[Dukkha]

8. I just watched Tron last month

I forgot Wendy Carlos did the soundtrack. That movie actually still holds up today. a huge groundbreaking achievement in CGI.

[tridim]

13. I have it on DVD, it's the only bad movie that I love watching.

It's not terrible, but it's not good either. The graphic breakthroughs more than make up for it though.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Added Weird Science

Real Genius and Revenge of the Nerds were about general nerdiness.

Short Circuit was about a robot.

[tridim]

10. War Games Rocked! It had everything..

Modems, speech synthesis, hacking, phone phreaking, 8-1/2" floppies, radio controlled pterodactyls, self-aware supercomputers. All this at the same time I was first getting into BBS's. It was like crack to nerds. :)

I admit that I loved Electric Dreams when it first came out, but I saw it a few years ago and it SUCKED!

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. War Games had an IMSAI 8080

That alone qualifies it.



I also noticed that The Terminator's "vision" seemed to show 6502 Assembly code (probably Apple II or Commodore-64).

[crispini]

14. OMG LOOK AT MATTHEW BRODERICK!

Damn. We wus young then! :P

[tridim]

16. I was just thinking he looks exactly the same today

[crispini]

18. He looks like he's about 12 in that first pic.

The hair -- and so skinny! of course he could be 25 in that second one except for the hairline.

[evlbstrd]

12. 2001: A Space Oddysey

The HAL 9000
.

[Terran]

15. Hackers

Or was that in the 90's? Maybe by a year. The superdooper minicomputers those kids were using in that movie would have been like, what? IBM 286's?

[EC]

19. I'm with you

But you're right I think it was the 90's

[General Zod]

17. War Games

For you trivia buffs, that was The West Wing's John Spencer,as the Minuteman Squadron Commander who refuses to turn his key to launch the missiles.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. Humph, I've got a 1957 computer naivete classic for you:

Desk Set with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.

Those 1980s films are sophisticated in comparison!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

21. I guess 'Tron.' I can't remember much of 'War Games.'

[KitchenWitch]

22. Loved Jumpin' Jack Flash

But I love Whoopi....I would change teams for Whoopi!