{"id":2755,"date":"2019-01-03T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shatthemovies.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2024-09-08T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T00:43:01","slug":"wargames-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/wargames-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"WarGames (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>WarGames Quote: &#8220;Goddammit, I&#8217;d piss on a spark plug if I thought it&#8217;d do any good!&#8221; &#8211; General Beringer<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/8117732\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/preload\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/d83508\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WarGames&#8221; changed the way &#8217;80s kids looked at video games, computers, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. But in the age of smartphones and wireless Internet, does this 1983 geek-gasm still hold up?<\/p>\n<p>The original Shat The Movies threesome teams up on this episode to discuss Matthew Broderick&#8217;s charm, a hotter Ally Sheedy, the difference between code names and acronyms, and drug use among Missile Command personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Lyons gives a history lesson on the 1980 Titan missile disaster, and Roger Roeper goes full Q Anon with his theory that the WOPR supercomputer really was the mind of a sadistic son who felt neglected by his creator.<\/p>\n<p>Big D reveals that he might have forgotten he grew up rich, and we debut our new segment: Shat on Workplace Safety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plot Summary: &#8220;WarGames&#8221;<\/strong> High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation&#8217;s nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union. Once the clueless hacker comes to his senses, Lightman, with help from his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy), must find a way to alert the authorities to stop the onset of World War III.<br \/>\n[text-blocks id=&#8221;1995&#8243; slug=&#8221;movie-bottom&#8221;]<br \/>\n<strong>Subscribe Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Android: <a title=\"Android\" href=\"\/android\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/android<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Apple\/iTunes: <a href=\"\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/apple<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Help Support the Podcast<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Contact Us: <a href=\"\/contact\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/contact<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Commission Movie: <a href=\"\/support\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/support<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support with Paypal: <a href=\"\/paypal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/paypal<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support With Venmo: <a href=\"\/venmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/venmo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop Merchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Theme Song &#8211; Die Hard by Guyz Nite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guyznite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guyznite<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation&#8217;s nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union. Once the clueless hacker comes to his senses, Lightman, with help from his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy), must find a way to alert the authorities to stop the onset of World War III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20623,1],"tags":[4491,6105,7082,289,14620,13581,7062,7073,13607,279,77,10859,25,7060,13597,7070,7065,791,7072,7084,7076,207,7080,6269,7077,7078,14287,14621,6780,7087,293,7067,13606,2662,7079,7081,7066,7089,7071,7074,7061,7063,7064,7083,10808,3423,6103,2837,7075,13596,267,2715,14622,14623,5594,10166,169,13595,26261,12793,14340,6469,10815,26678,7769,753,7088,7085,7069,13605,27502,283,14619,2663,7090,7068,7086,26430],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","category-all","tag-4491","tag-6105","tag-alan-blumenfeld","tag-ally-sheedy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-aurora","tag-barry-corbin","tag-billy-ray-sharkey","tag-bonnie-turner","tag-cold-war","tag-comedy","tag-computer","tag-computers","tag-dabney-coleman","tag-dana-carvey","tag-david-clover","tag-dennis-lipscomb","tag-drew-snyder","tag-duncan-wilmore","tag-eddie-deezen","tag-erik-stern","tag-fbi","tag-frankie-hill","tag-friendship","tag-gary-bisig","tag-gary-sexton","tag-government","tag-hacker","tag-hackers","tag-harold-schneider","tag-illinois","tag-irving-metzman","tag-j-peter-robinson","tag-james-tolkan","tag-jason-bernard","tag-jesse-d-goins","tag-joe-dorsey","tag-john-badham","tag-john-garber","tag-john-spencer","tag-john-wood","tag-juanin-clay","tag-kent-williams","tag-len-lawson","tag-lorne-michaels","tag-matthew-broderick","tag-maury-chaykin","tag-michael-ensign","tag-michael-madsen","tag-mike-myers","tag-military","tag-music","tag-norad","tag-nuclear-threat","tag-nuclear-war","tag-oscar-nominees","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-penelope-spheeris","tag-pg","tag-pg-13","tag-prosecution","tag-richard-hashimoto","tag-rob-lowe","tag-rock-music","tag-russia","tag-science-fiction","tag-sherwood-productions","tag-stack-pierce","tag-susan-davis","tag-theo-van-de-sande","tag-thriller","tag-united-artists","tag-video-game","tag-war","tag-william-a-fraker","tag-william-bogert","tag-william-h-macy","tag-youth-rebellion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WarGames (1983) - The 80s &amp; 90s Best Movies Podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;WarGames&quot; High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. 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