Eric.Patterson@CMU-CS-H@sri-unix.UUCP (07/26/83)
To answer the question about the helicopter: I felt the reason they rode a jeep in was the same reason the U. S. Army couldn't get into its own military base in Strangelove: because its own men were preventing it. NORAD was a top-security complex, and so a helicopter flying into it would be shot down. But not a jeep with army personnel in it (as was the case). That's why the helicopter was not flown into the military base. I know the filmmakers took a lot of liberties to make the film more exciting, but this was not one of them. Lauren- The point of the movie was not that we, the audience, realize that nuclear war is futile. The point was for the computer, which was programmed to try to win the nuclear war, which could not realize the possibility of losing, to realize that nuclear war "is an interesting game. There are no winners." If the computer doesn't realize this, the world will be destroyed. That is why the ending was so riveting. So entertaining. Yes, entertaining. You have spent a whole summer ripping apart unpretentious entertainment like WarGames, and left films more worthy of criticism unscathed. So what if War- Games is not realistic? Are James Bond films realistic? Is Flashdance? Are any films real? I didn't go into WarGames expecting to be filled with fascinating in- sight into nuclear war. And when I left, I left satisfied that my $4 had been well spent. I felt I had seen something more entertaining than such highly touted films as Return of the Jedi. Too bad you were so caught up in technical details. You missed a damned good film.