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WarGames (11/11) Movie CLIP - The Only Winning Move (1983) HD

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WarGames movie clips: http://j.mp/1bGFr39
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Joshua learns the results of Global Thermonuclear War and decides to play a nice game of Chess.

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.

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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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So sad. No one wanted to play chess with Joshua either:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw 

  "The only winning move is not to play."
War Games (1983)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw

⬐ jacquesm
I don't think that the context of that fragment really applies here.
⬐ samwillis
It was more your phrasing reminded me of that quote. Agreed it’s not really relevant, other than as yet more distraction.
I'm sure that is a thing, but my friends are not that exciting. We are just privacy lunatics and old fuddy duddies that study the behavior of corporations, governments and others. We postulate what countermeasures could be enacted to minimize the sprawling intrusive nature of the internet into our lives. We always seem to reach the same conclusion as Joshua. "The only winning move is not to play" [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw

⬐ rglullis
Ok, now I am wondering how you reconcile what you are saying with the fact that we are discussing in a forum that is maintained by venture capitalists who are not-so-indirectly shaping the minds and financing all these companies that are very focused on intrude even further on our lives.
⬐ LinuxBender
I don't get a reply link for rglullis so will reply here.

I am the crazy bold one of the group and the canary in the coal mine. You won't see any of my friends interacting on this or any other social site. I on the other hand email and make phone calls to everyone at every level of government, C-levels in corporations, investors, military leaders, scientists, influencers, etc...

⬐ rglullis
Interesting. Follow-up question: how do you know that? What makes you so sure that you are the only one that is breaking out of the circle?
> I hadn't thought of boycotting much of popular online space as being counter-cultural. It's an interesting thought.

The only winning move is not to play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw

The moral of the story is that when you beat Wall Street at their own game, they will change the rules on you so they win anyway

https://youtu.be/MpmGXeAtWUw?t=90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
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