WarGames (10/11) Movie CLIP - Tic Tac Toe With Joshua (1983) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
David (Matthew Broderick) teaches Joshua the no-win game of Tic Tac Toe and, in the process, averts global thermonuclear war.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in Wargames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. Wargames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1983)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin, John Wood, Ally Sheedy
Director: John Badham
Producers: Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Bruce McNall, Leonard Goldberg
Screenwriters: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green

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[Horkslair]

"I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd help!"
"After careful consideration, I have concluded that your new defense system SUCKS!"
Best lines from this movie.

[hobbes]

I love how the professor hesitates for a couple seconds before telling how to get the computer to play against itself. Do I really want to stop nuclear holocaust.... fine, I guess so

[RonInbar]

Fun fact: you can’t crack the launch codes digit by digit. It’s not like a safe.

[stevekalis]

They should make a movie that would connect wargames with terminator. Like a backstory on how the WOPR gets replaced with skynet

[popeye]

If you play tic tac toe logically (i.e. anticipating the other player's moves, and also accounting for geometrical symmetries like flipping or rotating the same game) the number of permutations is actually very small,  so it is a bit over-dramatized how many times this computer would play it to learn it cannot be won between two logical players. Even if you count permutations of winning/losing there are only about possible combinations, which even in the 80s was a relatively low count for a supposed 'super computer' of the time.

[lar]

Wow my computer would have gone to the blue screen of death by now.

[paulscott]

Gotta say, the editing in this scene is on point. Especially 1:25 to 1:29. It actually tries to fool you that the missile ignited for just the smallest fraction of a second.

[ballybunion]

I like the way Falken seems to find the whole thing amusing.

[Silavite]

So all they had to do was make a looping program to take enough memory to crash the computer?
Also, "zero" is a string. It should have been "0"

[Akira]

That's some serious overclocking!

[FStorm]

And this folks is why machines should never ever been in complete control of military and weapons of mass destruction

[billygowhoop]

It's kinda interesting that they got the idea of AI playing with itself to learn. Nowadays, there are lots of AI projects where a computer will play itself in a game like Chess or Go billions of times over to learn the optimal strategies.

[thefrecklepuny]

A real shame Skynet was so unwilling to learn. But then again its objectives were altogether different to WOPR's.

[AdrianJayeOnline]

everytime I see WOPR I think of burger King

[ryanreed]

The adolescent boy asks a grown man, "Is there anyway to make it play with itself?"

"...Uh, Give the computer a peep hole into the girls locker room..."

[SaaSaToEsp]

"C'mon, learn goddammit!", such desperation in his voice.

[Domo]

I miss the 80s/90s, it was a time of hope, change, and progress. Now everyone is hopeless. We live in a nihilistic dystopia.

[fredriikforkbeard]

“Joshua, start slowly for added drama”

[power]

0:52 Looks at random flashing lights, pretends to notice something important ! 🤣
0:54 Turns the corner too fast, hit the machine, which shakes in all its length

[yaywhewclips]

excellent part of the movie, where the woman states the number of code characters, very suspenseful.