War Games

First things first, I really liked the movie, its plot is a little crazy but the way that all the events in the movie happen and the way they are portrayed I think was very entertaining. As far as accuracy goes, I don’t think they did or even intended to do much about it. There’s clearly a sense of simple-mindedness to how stuff ends up working. Although some parts I believe are very close to what was actually possible with the equipment of the time, most feats are not only impossible but kind of silly. For example, the machine that’s playing the games, that kind of sophistication is far beyond the technology of our time, let alone the time the movie was filmed. And the fact that from playing tic-tac-toe it understands the concept of futility and applies it to another unrelated area is not something that could even be conceived right now, it’s far too human for a machine, even if it’s one that learns. I think this movie tries to show a scary side to computers and technology that might have been more common when it was filmed, I think that the general consensus on opinion about computers was pretty much like the air force general in the movie. That of disdain and lack of trust for even simpler tasks like accepting the codes at the launch sites. I might be wrong, but while I was seeing it that’s the feeling I got, like computers were something to be afraid of because you never know what they will do which is a laughable concept to someone like us that understands how they work, and the multitude of limitations that they have that would make a scenario like the one portrayed in the movie very improbable to say the least.