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Post by deadzoneleaperhero on May 31, 2006 0:00:46 GMT -5
2 GAH actors appear briefly in the 80's movie WarGames...
William Bogart (Carlisle) plays Matthew Broderick's dad and look fast for Jesse Goins (Cyler) towards the end as a NORAD technician (you'll see him just before they cut to Broderick and Ally Sheedy racing to NORAD in a jeep
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Post by HoudiniDerek on May 31, 2006 11:04:03 GMT -5
Good catch...it is always hard to spot Jesse. I knew he was in it, but I can never remember where.
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Post by MelMac on May 31, 2006 17:25:05 GMT -5
Never knew about the GAH references, but this movie was pretty fun to watch. I got a kick out of seeing the old green screen computers again, complete with the silly simple games. We had an apple IIe at one time, and one of hte games was the Olympics. We had a blast playing it and trying to make the characters fall. "Family Feud" was fun too as it would give ou all sorts of dumb answers.
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Post by GAH Geek on Jun 19, 2006 23:36:09 GMT -5
wow, it's been a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong while since i've last seen that movie
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Post by Maxwell - F.B.I. on Sept 20, 2006 10:09:16 GMT -5
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Post by billswoman on Sept 21, 2006 13:39:26 GMT -5
I started watching this a while back, and noticed "Torchy" Tanner of "Good Samaritan" is on this as well.
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Post by culpkatt on Sept 30, 2006 0:02:45 GMT -5
Am I the only GAH fan who noticed that Wargames is somewhat of a ripoff of 'Operation Spoilsport?" I also feel that way about "Beast In The Black' and Poltergeist. It just seems to me that the ideas were too similar to these two films that would be produced a few years later after these episodes aired. I'm not suggesting that they intentionally stole these two ideas from GAH, however, between these two episodes and the two films mentioned, there is a significant amount of similitude.
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Post by billswoman on Sept 30, 2006 8:24:44 GMT -5
culpkatt, unless you brought it up a long time ago, no, you're not the first. We've talked a lot about how Wargames totally rips off O:SS, which of course was out first. Okay, maybe not a TOTAL rip-off, but close.
Mel, as for those cool old (antique?) games, one of my favorites to this day was Weather Wars, played on an old Tektronix in the math lab in college. You and your competition (the computer) would try to destroy each other's weather shacks with lightning, tornadoes and hail (the least damaging, obviously). Lightning did the most damage, because it was harder to target (had to use pinpoint accuracy to hit with it). I wish there was a modern-day version of this game, the way computer graphics have improved. I'd love to slam someone with an F-5 tornado, wheeeeee!!!! (Wait, this IS the OT area, right?)
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Post by MelMac on Sept 30, 2006 10:05:50 GMT -5
Very much so, though I have a tendency to slightly go OT everywhere.  That game sounds cool, and my Dad had one on his computer that had two gorillas and exploding bananas. You had to select the angle and velocity you wanted to throw the banana at your oponent. Sometimes, you'd throw it too hard and it go into outerspace, or a bad angle and speed and it fall on top of you. Been a while since I've seen WarGames, so I can't comment much there. From what I remember, it was pretty good though. |
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Post by billswoman on Sept 30, 2006 19:21:52 GMT -5
I found spotting location errors in "Wargames" entertaining. In one shot, they're supposed to be in one place, but they're actually at the Clinton side of the Clinton-Mukilteo ferry run. I also like the line where Broderick's character admits he can't swim, and Sheedy's character asks, "What kind of a****** grows up in Seattle and doesn't know how to swim??"
I think the above-mentioned locale was supposed to be down by the mouth of the Columbia River, that divides WA and OR for a while. But it wasn't even close.
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That game sounds cool, and my Dad had one on his computer that had two gorillas and exploding bananas. You had to select the angle and velocity you wanted to throw the banana at your oponent. Sometimes, you'd throw it too hard and it go into outerspace, or a bad angle and speed and it fall on top of you.