A masterclass in creating movie tension, thankyou John Badham!
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@kyawthu7552 жыл бұрын
An AI controlled weapons defense system? What's next, a dinosaur theme park?
@Holdit662 жыл бұрын
Why not? What could possibly go wrong?
@TheCatBilbo2 жыл бұрын
I've always fancied autonomous robot Police Officers...we should definitely try those - very safe. I want free entry to the Dino park, by the way.
@Scripticus2 жыл бұрын
Nah, that would be too unbelievable...
@samsunguser31482 жыл бұрын
Sentient robots next (totally not a bad idea)
@TheCatBilbo2 жыл бұрын
@@samsunguser3148 Yes, sounds totally sensible. Humans are great at designing these things; then eventually, they can design themselves! Wow, sentient cars...toasters...
@johncanaparius32332 жыл бұрын
They took their sweet time to confirm they were fine after impact.
@rikk3192 жыл бұрын
That's the "drama" part of fiction. Without it, the film is less impactful. You can always watch a documentary if you don't like it.
@pegasusted25042 жыл бұрын
Well they had 12 different steps in the chain of command to actually get the fact they weren't dead to be verified before they could say "yeah, still here". Military chains may make things safer etc but damn it sure adds a lot of wasted time between needs and actions.
@plasticicon2-freewheelingg8532 жыл бұрын
Acoustic coupler lag. Lol
@leadsolo27512 жыл бұрын
The Suspense was what moviegoers paid for
@plasticicon2-freewheelingg8532 жыл бұрын
@Rideable Sun lol dude. Your possible last 15 seconds on Earth. Might as well go out doing something you love hahah
@ravenhull2 жыл бұрын
One of the best things about this movie is that there really wasn’t a ‘villain’ outside the general scenario. Joshua is a child, who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its actions. The folks at NORAD were working off of incomplete information, and reacting in line with what they do know. If anything, it’s the information gaps that are the antagonists for our hero’s, all of them, have to work though.
@Alamandorious2 жыл бұрын
There were a lot more situations of a similar vein to this than we were ever told.
@medexamtoolscom2 жыл бұрын
What I thought was most magical about this movie is just that the AI is so powerful. It is far, far more powerful than anything that exists today. The AI is able to so convincingly do so much, and everyone is utterly deceived by it, and helpless against it. It is just this entity that can decide our future arbitrarily for us, all because it doesn't know or care about any difference between its simulation and reality.
@stijnvandamme762 жыл бұрын
read the book, command control by eric schlosser for what really happened with close calls in the cold war
@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe46812 жыл бұрын
The thing is, everything in war happens with incomplete information, in no situation is full information available to anyone anywhere.
@erictaylor54622 жыл бұрын
The very scary thing is, about the time this movie came out a Soviet spy sat, sent to watch for missile launches from the US mistook the sun reflecting off of lakes in the American Midwest. It sent information that the US was launching a massive strike. Even worse, this happened not long after a Soviet fighter plane shot down a Korean 747 killing many Americans, including a US Senator. Regan had been on TV talking about the "Evil Empire" and Soviet-American relations were extremely high. Even the Soviet general in charge of launching the missiles felt launching a strike at this time made no sense. Even though he was ordered to launch his missiles at once, he refused that order and did not launch. It was only when those "missiles" failed to arrive at their targets did the Soviets realize they were false signals. So, if you were alive in 1983, your life was saved by a brave Soviet officer who refused to follow orders. Keep in mind, in the Soviet Union, such an act would not only end your career, it could lead to not only your own arrest and execution, but possibly your family's as well. And should your family survive, the children of traitors never had a good career for themselves. So he was taking a huge risk in disobeying his orders. Of course you could argue that if he had carried out his orders, his family would surly be killed.
@ewanday50152 жыл бұрын
That time Ferris Buehler saved humanity from total annihilation, he's a real righteous dude.
@elfhighmage82402 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten he was in this movie.
@wozza77able2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@benhurley73662 жыл бұрын
except when he killed those irish people
@kevsecker31822 жыл бұрын
This is why he needed a day off.
@medexamtoolscom2 жыл бұрын
Matthew Broderick wasn't so righteous when he was killing 2 people by crashing his car headlong into theirs because he was driving on the wrong side of the road, and then got out of all responsibility for it because he was a famous celebrity.
@Zorn2710 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it been faster to call Canada and be like "Not to alarm you but do you see any rockets in the sky?"
@Something88303 жыл бұрын
Well Canada is apart of NORAD so they would be seeing the same thing.
@robynharris71792 жыл бұрын
I don’t know, those Canadians are pretty shifty. They may be trying to sneak a couple of warheads across the border disguised as mooses.
@michaelbull14272 жыл бұрын
Excuse me! No, we are Not!
@norm20962 жыл бұрын
@@robynharris7179 Actually, we use real goose s**t. The stuff eats through anything :)
@quillmaurer65632 жыл бұрын
@@norm2096 Yep, for that reason I often refer to those as "Royal Canadian Air Force Brantus-class Heavy Bombers." For their intensive carpet-bombing campaigns on any grassy area, especially my former university's campus. Though they're actually multi-role if you piss them off or get too close to their babies they become ground-attack.
@theduke75392 жыл бұрын
This is far more accurate than I'd like it to be. There are SEVERAL recorded incidents of identical situations from both sides. Where a computer glitch told the operators that the other side had launched nukes and the controller sat there waiting for either confirmation of launch from another party or confirmation of a detonation. And for nearly half a century, the order stood. Stand by.
@thehandlesticks662 жыл бұрын
When it comes down to it, despite all the propaganda we don't want to believe humanity is capable of such senseless universal destruction.
@thebigchecka2 жыл бұрын
In 1983, an exercise called 'Able Archer' very nearly brought the events depicted in this film to fruition. The Soviets intercepted transmissions not meant to be heard of Nato forces gathering missle systems on the border of Germany and such, not knowing it was actually an exercise in case the Soviets amassed their forces on the East. Unaware they could be heard, the Soviets then actually did amass their own missile systems on their border and pointed them toward the West. The whole thing was called off when someone called their bluff. Go find out and read up on it...scary stuff. In '83, no less! A year after this film!
@christosvoskresye2 жыл бұрын
I think it is a miracle that we have not blown each other up. I mean that literally.
@medexamtoolscom2 жыл бұрын
I don't think it was even a computer glitch, it was actual human observations. Like there was some space probe that was launched, which the russians thought was a missile launch, and a bunch of russian generals came to Boris Yeltsin with, telling him he needed to counterattack, and he told them to wait, and it turned out to be nothing just like he thought. But you can't blame that on computers.
@venividi85232 жыл бұрын
@@thebigchecka Actually it was the *same* year as this film, four months after this movie came out no less.
@djfritz20012 жыл бұрын
I still remember the sound of her voice... 'Impact...' In the theater that bass drone as each weapon struck was a LOT louder :)
@Kalenz12342 жыл бұрын
Dunno about your setup but the bass is very loud on my system ;)
@fastacker211 ай бұрын
I wondered at the time, Did their simulation software actually include the sound effects of the bombs exploding? :)
@robertcooper68538 күн бұрын
She was kinda hot….
@TheRobsterUK2 жыл бұрын
The scary thing is how many times we've actually come this close to all-out war due to errors and misjudgments...
@Vara913912 жыл бұрын
sources and proof please?
@xGoodOldSmurfehx2 жыл бұрын
all out war? you mean complete fucking nuclear annihilation more like
@xGoodOldSmurfehx2 жыл бұрын
@@Vara91391 check history boi at least two separate occasions the US and the USSR were literal seconds from launching nuclear missiles at each other one of them is the cuban nuclear crisis and by far the closest we have ever come to not being born the world owes its existence and you and me owe our lives to several people, one of them is an absolutely beautiful soviet gentleman by the name of Vassili Arkhipov who prevented Russia from nuking the US by mistake via a nuclear submarine
@madlarkin82 жыл бұрын
@@Vara91391 I wrote my doctoral thesis on Able Archer 83. That is likely the closest we have come since the cuban missile crisis, which was one cross word away from a nuclear strike.
@miszkurka20002 жыл бұрын
And UFO sometimes.
@rickitynick44632 жыл бұрын
Airman Dougherty earned his wings that day... as well as a new pair of underpants.
@richardvernon3172 жыл бұрын
and the guy who should have been on the phone was sacked!!!
@CrustyWhiteBread2 жыл бұрын
@@richardvernon317 IKR??? Derfak was an Airman taking that call??
@simunator2 жыл бұрын
ez epr bullet iyam
@gobdeep2 жыл бұрын
That poor airman!
@toddkes58902 жыл бұрын
@@CrustyWhiteBread Airman had the confidence of the officer in charge that nothing serious was going to happen. Then while the officer is in the bathroom the airman gets a certain phone call
@et5048211 ай бұрын
Her voice has stayed in my head for 40 years
@FirstNameLastname-nv2kg7 ай бұрын
3...2...1...Impact 💥
@nicksterjАй бұрын
I think they ripped her off for the reactor explosion countdown in "Descent." 🎮
@starwarsrebel20062 жыл бұрын
Damn I feel old. I remember watching this in the theatre in 1983. I was 16 years old. Now I'm 54.
@Rep00072 жыл бұрын
At least there wasn't a nuclear war, right?
@JC-qb1ir2 жыл бұрын
Back when Michael Jackson was still considered a young kid.
@RtB6810 ай бұрын
Same! Fellow child of 1968. ❤
@user-jt5vm3mi1wАй бұрын
ok
@PlayerFalcon416 күн бұрын
Blythely leaving the cinema late one summer evening with friends & not knowing that 3 months before was the Able Archer scare (think Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids).
@the1tigglet2 жыл бұрын
We've had several false alarms, one of which activated and sent out to every cell phone tv and computer a warning about a missle inbound to Hawaii just a couple of years ago!
@johnnyguitar66392 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Someone got wind of the IRS was coming for them,and pushed the wrong button
@jurgenronaaz46952 жыл бұрын
GOD I remember that, that was a real scare
@DreamWriterDKS2 жыл бұрын
I was here on Oahu when it did. Longest 30 minutes of my civilian life. My Navy buddy and I were trying to figure out where the impact would be, which military facility would be the higher target, so drive TO. We didn't want to survive the impact. If they hit a specific area, Hawaii's lifeline would be cut, and if the ships stopped there'd only be enough supplies for the islands for a week. Airport would be gone as well, so no leaving. We knew after 15 minutes it wasn't going to happen just because of the knowledge we had, still doesn't mean we weren't terrified. People shoved their kids into storm drains that go directly into the ocean, running off the beaches and causing car accidents because they weren't obeying traffic laws. It was a mess, few days after we were still walking with "did that really fucking happen" face. Still not convinced it wasn't a legit attempt.
@Fletchman13132 жыл бұрын
We later took a drive that day, and we passed by what used to be Ward Warehouse which was in the process of being demolished. My daughter chimes from the backseat "Is that where the missile hit?"
@DreamWriterDKS2 жыл бұрын
@@Fletchman1313 Awww, that's cute. Did you tell her, "Nope, just extremely greedy people destroying what's awesome about Kakaako."
@kevinwarren39982 жыл бұрын
I loved this movie. Even had a BBS called "The WOPR" in the 1980s. I've had a career in defense and I have used "... after careful consideration I've come to the conclusion your new defense system sucks" more times than I can count.
@turbochad692 жыл бұрын
Lol
@ericsmith83732 жыл бұрын
My favorite line from the general was, "Awww. I was hoping for something better than that from you sir. A man of your education."
@turbochad692 жыл бұрын
@N Fels lmao, good point/example lol.
@lawnmowermanTX2 жыл бұрын
Whuts a BBS? Was this ancient internet days? 🤓🤓🤓🤓
@kevinwarren39982 жыл бұрын
@@lawnmowermanTX the date is mentioned in the post. 🤡
@wilson24552 жыл бұрын
this movie was made way before its time. Also the guy with his thumb over the 'blow Earth up' launch button would never have opened the fail safe cover until the order was given.
@turbochad692 жыл бұрын
I dunno man. Some people are just like that.
@numeristatech2 жыл бұрын
Achooo-oh shi-
@armynurseboy2 жыл бұрын
Missiles aren't launched centrally anyways. ICBMs are launched by the two man team inside the silo command center.
@kelaarin2 жыл бұрын
@@armynurseboy Then you didn't watch the film. The entire premise of the movie was to replace the silo crews (who refused to fire during simulations) with a computer relay so NORAD could fire them centrally.
@mazurekgrafika20322 жыл бұрын
You can`t launch a nuclear missile by pressing button lol
@Jay-vc8qk Жыл бұрын
Ally’s facial expression when the bombs are hitting - horror , fright , and sadness is spot on - tremendous acting .
@GameAholicsVideo11 ай бұрын
Never noticed that before -- rewatched just looking at her face. She really sells the tension, fear, and then relief.
@johnmccnj11 ай бұрын
Yeah, that's always stuck with me, too. Everyone else is stone-faced, but you can tell that she's watching what she believes is the destruction of her country.
@mikeymcmikeface559911 ай бұрын
She was a great actress.
@nineteenfortyeight67623 ай бұрын
I thought everyone was amazing except the dude playing Falkan. He seems jazzed about all the wrong things. I get that he's a nut, but a traumatized nut, not an amoral one. 🤔
@weeardguyАй бұрын
@@johnmccnj Same thing with the man opening comms again after the first few detonations have or should have taken place. His posture right before he starts speaking just shouts 'please don't let this be for real' before he starts 'This is Crystal Palace are you still on?' So many people in this movie were excellent actors and Falken was just the right guy to find. A bit goofy, excentric to say the least. Liked that system-administrator guy as well, frantically running down the stairs shouting 'it's a simulation!' because that most likely is very close to reality how bad computer malfunctions were handled in that era by those people.
@DrKlud2 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile , Stanislav Petrov , and Vasily Arkhipov , saved the real World. Never forget those Names.
@jrow842 жыл бұрын
Eh, 3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible
@MistressGlowWorm2 жыл бұрын
Cooler than the other side of the pillow.
@HopeisAnger11 ай бұрын
I will never say a good word about any Communist. But I will never say a bad word about those men. Best I can do.
@Frankie5Angels15011 ай бұрын
Yes, as always, the Russians are the real heroes…. 😆😂🤣
@ronniecoleman234211 ай бұрын
1983 right? The Soviets thought we launched during the NATO exercise and almost launched in response. Bad year, but I remember the TV movie The Day After came out and scared alot of people.
@kissmy_butt13023 жыл бұрын
General: Recall the bombers and stand down the missiles. W.O.P.R.: I am about to ruin this man's whole career.
@Alpha-Trion72 жыл бұрын
DONCHA THINK I WULDOV TRIED DAT??
@FectacularSpail2 жыл бұрын
JOSHUA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
@Davechow122 жыл бұрын
“I’m sorry Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t let you do that.”
@barrettross3772 Жыл бұрын
Just unplug the goddamn thing, Jesus Christ.
@cameron1205872 жыл бұрын
Apparently, President Raegan loved this movie and asked NORAD to review their safety procedures with this movie in mind.
@potatopotato67042 жыл бұрын
The dude lifted off the cover for missile launch during the last 30 seconds, right? Imagine during the celebration, some random guy bumps into it
@wordman36242 жыл бұрын
Oops, sorry I started a nuclear war. My bad 🤷
@therealtampadude91752 жыл бұрын
AAAAACHOOOOO! OOOPS! My bad!
@ColleenTRaney2 жыл бұрын
Whomever you are, these words were my exact thoughts about the random celebration. Exact.
@Alpha-Trion72 жыл бұрын
Someone did bump him, during one of the outtakes. But the movie wasn't supposed to end like that. :P my lips are moving *sonovabich*
@ericsmith83732 жыл бұрын
Stephen Erkel grows up and gets a job at Norad. "Did I do that?"
@velveetaslingshot2 жыл бұрын
This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid. I saw it in the theaters and couldnt sleep for a week afterwards. Every jet trail in the sky was a nuclear launch. And since we lived super close to Macdill AFB, there would be dozens of trails in the sky when they were on alert. All I could ever think of was the big board at Norad and all the missiles in the sky.
@primitivex52212 жыл бұрын
I felt the same way .. This movie and the Day After . It compelled me to learn more about nuclear war and the chances of survival.
@jdsmith54210 ай бұрын
I grew up in the missile fields of North Dakota. I always expected that that would be how it ended. I'm amazed we've made it this far. But the threat has not gone away.
@alexiotardes91792 жыл бұрын
Lady's voice for countdown is wonderful 😍
@karenamy211711 ай бұрын
Here for this! Totally agree.
@nicks787353 ай бұрын
Looks like girlfriend from "Thriller"(Michael Jackson) video.
@wreckage-vs5jv2 жыл бұрын
super cool infrasounds who ever audio fx designer came up with this idea is genius
@jeremygrigsby74562 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by infrasounds?
@simeon242 жыл бұрын
@@jeremygrigsby7456 really deep bass on the threshold of hearing,
@ReddwarfIV2 жыл бұрын
@@jeremygrigsby7456 The "brrrrr" noise on impact.
@benjaminsmith33642 жыл бұрын
Whilst I am not 100% sure, I think the sound is associated with plotting so much white instantly to screen, that sort of hum is why, back in the day, you bought a soundblaster card!
@SirCraigius2 жыл бұрын
0:23: I love the way he starts like a structured military communication, then he pauses and is like "to hell with it, we might all be about to die, so here it is in plain English"
@ericsmith83732 жыл бұрын
I love some of the names for the scenarios. My favorite is "Sudan Surprise". Sounds like an African dessert.
@gt4666master2 жыл бұрын
Play Defcon for PC. It's a trip how they transferred this situation into a game with no real war imagery. It's an amazing, yet powerfully depressing look at the (nuclear) human condition
@larsanderson30722 жыл бұрын
Like the Sahara? Oh. my mistake. You said "dessert". (LOL)
@jrow842 жыл бұрын
Sudan Surprise sounds like something we need to add to Urban Dictionary. I checked to see if it was already there and now I am severely shaken after reading about the Strawberry Sundae Surprise
@medexamtoolscom2 жыл бұрын
Actually, it reminds me of in UHF when there's the supply closet, and the bad guy opens the closet door, and the martial arts teacher and some of his students are behind the door waiting for him and they yell "supplies!" and then kick his ass.
@AshleyPomeroy2 жыл бұрын
I always wondered if they got the names from some old declassified training manual, or something. They're silly, but just plausible enough to sound like actual war scenarios.
@taylorahern37552 жыл бұрын
To think that only a mere 65 years earlier most people in America & in Western Society were still living in a late 19th Century climate, ethos & society that lingered & brooded about most corners of the land, culturally, psychologically & technologically, while not a few people back in 1983 remembered life in the 1890s. Amazing! All the vast, incredible & mind boggling changes that were wrought & which quantum leaped into existence between 1918 & 1983, from the horse & buggy, embryonic radio transmissions on a local level & no electricity still being pervasive to people taking rocket trips to the moon, personal computers, computer operated cars, unmanned probes landing on Mars & super hi tech satellite readouts on big screens featured above. Just amazing! What momentous & stupendous technological transcendence took place between that 65 year interval. Quantum leap after quantum leap. Unreal!
@jamesmyszka49302 жыл бұрын
Detach souls! Attach woke divisiveness! We are so very much worse off. A generation who was taught "close enough is good enough" and that the world owes them. We are slaves to the things we were told would end the problems that keep getting worse. 😓
@m2heavyindustries3782 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmyszka4930 Boomers arguing to boomers, whats new?
@Suisfonia2 жыл бұрын
@@m2heavyindustries378 Ok, and what makes them a Boomer?
@Jimmyknapp22 жыл бұрын
I honestly wonder if the Roswell event had anything to do with it
@taylorahern37552 жыл бұрын
@@Jimmyknapp2 It wouldn't surprise me if it did👽👽😜😊👍
@BruceWayne-mb4hk2 жыл бұрын
Who could act like a professional in a situation like that? The lady announcing “20 seconds to impact” was stone cold.
@gargouenzene2 жыл бұрын
You said it, she's professionnal. In jobs like hers, people must be stone cold.
@andrewbevan46622 жыл бұрын
Same with the radio chatter during the Challenger explosion, always kept calm
@robertwilson2142 жыл бұрын
Dabney acting in shock was good
@chuckscott-cy7iq Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Personally, if I were David I would have invited Jennifer to a backroom. I wouldn't want to die a virgin or watch my own destruction on a monitor.
@mayorjimmy2 жыл бұрын
i remember watching this movie as a kid at Loring AFB. boy that was a trip.
@Recoil8162 жыл бұрын
Tinker AFB for me... long time ago.
@christopherwood84252 жыл бұрын
I was born at Loring AFB. Thought it was cool when I saw this in the theatre as a kid!
@Mikey3002 жыл бұрын
@@christopherwood8425 when it came to “counterforce” targets, Loring had to be near the very top of the Soviet lists (right after Fylingdales, Thule, and Clear).
@opusmax12 жыл бұрын
@@Mikey300 Rumor was that Loring and it’s nearby airspace would have been targeted by a minimum of six, possibly as many as ten SLBM warheads in the 250 kt range. Essentially, everything within 30 miles of the base would vanish
@Mikey3002 жыл бұрын
@@opusmax1 Ivan must have really been afraid of the 42nd Bomb Wing (with good reason as Loring was supposed to be the domestic SAC base closest to Moscow). 😊
@Anthyrion2 жыл бұрын
And now imagine hearing a single and loud "Oops!" from the Officer, who had his finger over the launch button, because somebody accidentally bumped into him and his finger went forward :D
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
have you played Defcon? I mean global thermal nuclear war yet if not I seriously recommend you try it out it's a whole lot of fun
@michaelairton3723 Жыл бұрын
Some great acting in this movie, particularly in this scene. Jennifer's reaction at 1:58 sums up the palpable relief of the moment.
@GameAholicsVideo11 ай бұрын
It's the possibility that they could be wrong -- and that there really are missiles flying!
@haroldgeorge44122 жыл бұрын
“Mr Mckittridge, after careful consideration I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system - sucks!”
@cryhavoc382 жыл бұрын
who else remembers seeing this in the theaters at the time. This was an intense moment when seeing it for the first time.
@danielcarroll33582 жыл бұрын
I still have my IMSAI, Joshua's computer. 64k of memory, a dual 8" floppy drive and a battery backed up 1 MB solid state drive consisting of dynamic RAM. If the power went out for more than three hours it all went into the bit bucket. But you could play Space Invaders, even with a 2 MHz CPU. Those were the days.
@Rep00072 жыл бұрын
Yeah and the depressing thing is that even those primitive early systems were fast and responsive compared to today's "cloud" applications... despite gigahertz and terabytes of power and storage today, the computer experience is DOG slow compared to the 80s.
@drmayeda193011 ай бұрын
@@Rep0007 The problem is the cloud storage uses a slow system to transfer the data. If the data was stored on your computer, it should be faster. You would need a fast CPU chip, enough RAM and a big drive to store it. It's all those copper phone lines that telephone companies are using. Good idea wrong area code. Microsoft misjudged the infrastructure, Win 10 and 11 are a pain because of a new feature that doesn't clean the hardware properly.
@mho...2 жыл бұрын
this movie was such a mindblower back then! great times!
@christopherbrewer93682 жыл бұрын
A great movie from the Cold War era...powerful impact....it means more to me now as an Adult than it did back then as a Teen.
@raven4k99811 ай бұрын
shame that now days if Russia sent nukes the state they would miss all military targets due to modern Russian incompetence and just hit empty parking lots and fields and the like
@thesmirkingwolf2 жыл бұрын
Barry Corbin is such a great actor.
@derpanzermacher90942 жыл бұрын
Damn I thought that was him. He looks way younger (this movie is a few years older than me). He also played the good General Carville in Westwood's Red Alert 1 (expansion) and Red Alert 2, he fits military roles really well.
@caras20042 жыл бұрын
Red Dawn, The Day After, Wargames Some of the scariest movies of all times
@karlzaunbrecher8241Ай бұрын
"Failsafe" should be on that list. Everything that happened in that movie was entirely plausible
@michaeljohnson11573 ай бұрын
❤ ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT MOVIES 🎥 EVER CREATED...IN OUR GLORIOUS AMERICA 🇺🇸 Period___
@limbodog2 жыл бұрын
I remember having nuclear nightmares about this sort of thing. The 80s were weird.
@ColleenTRaney2 жыл бұрын
1981 full court propaganda.
@LoPhatKao2 жыл бұрын
every day was an existential crisis growing up in a target zone, knowing you'd be vaporized or burnt so bad that you'd wish you had been fun times rather be back in the 80s than here in the 20s ;(
@ShenMerrick2 жыл бұрын
@@ColleenTRaney "Full court propaganda"....sounds a lot like today.
@kanaric2 жыл бұрын
@@ShenMerrick nixon, reagan, bush, and trump's behind the scene guys are all the same people. Same with the people who run right-wing media.
@ShenMerrick2 жыл бұрын
@@kanaric What would you call "right wing media"?
@michaelhyde90702 жыл бұрын
I saw this in 84 at boy's breagade camp happy day's. Lol. Wen he goes No impact we're alive and well I shouts out Praise God with my fist in the air. Still makes me emotional after all these years. But here we are again talking about nuclear war as if nothing has been learned. Sad. But still a amazing film.
@59plexi2 жыл бұрын
i loved this movie...i got a commodore vic-20 in 1982, and this came out in 83....it was like hell yeah!!!!! I was only 12, didnt know jack about computers, (nothings changed lol) but you knew the world was advancing with the computer stuff....miss those simple days....😕
@adamwatkins11502 жыл бұрын
You have me beat. I got a C-64 in March 1985 and was connected at 300 baud to Quantum Link the summer of 1986.
@stevepirie8130 Жыл бұрын
Old cassettes loading time 20-30 min just to play a game
@drmayeda193011 ай бұрын
I had a Vic 20 also. Got it to go RJE to the local university but we had the wrong type of telephone, so we had to hunt for the right one. I had a problem with invisible characters that made it difficult to work from home.
@clay320511 ай бұрын
Airman Dougherty experienced maximum pucker time on THAT morning.
@johnmccnj10 ай бұрын
He would have created that much suction, they would have had to order a new seat cover.
@bobbyricigliano2799Ай бұрын
The female Airman vocalizing the countdown stole this scene. That "Impact" line was perfect.
@nucflashevent2 жыл бұрын
Now to be clear, my following statement is related specifically to the worlds *these movies exist in*, not some social commentary about our own world (though you could certainly draw parallels, etc.) Speaking of the fictional universes like those in "The Day After..." and "WarGames". Whenever I watch movies like that (or read books for that matter) I always imagine I'm looking into a parallel universe, something very familiar but often just a little different. Imagine for humans civilization to have come as far as it had up to that point...tens of thousands of years to reach the Industrial Revolution and utterly transforming the planet in just a little over two centuries after...fighting two World Wars and the advancements in Law and World Order that brought (such as the U.N.) for it all to have been wiped away less than 40 years later in a cataclysmic nuclear exchange that surely would have left the vast majority of the world in utter ruins. Were I some alien race visiting in the future and discerned the history of the planet, I would think a very sad commentary indeed.
@blackhawks81H2 жыл бұрын
Or maybe there would be no aliens... Nuclear is a universal constant.. Any civilization out there with reasonably advanced tech would eventually discover the ability to make insanely powerful weapons by "messing with atoms". And certainly before they developed any technology to travel the stars.. Since one is far easier than the other, just due to the sheer size of the universe and distances involved. Then maybe once the cat is out of the bag on nukes, it's only just a matter of time before civilizations end up using them, whether on purpose or on accident. And maybe that's why we've never detected any "aliens" no matter how hard we try. Maybe the fate of every somewhat advanced civilization is to blow themselves up before reaching the stars.. Just because one is so much easier than the other.
@nucflashevent2 жыл бұрын
@@blackhawks81H And if my mother had balls she'd be my father 😜 Yes, I'm aware of the Fermi Paradox, the point of my comment wasn't whether or not aliens exist, just that if this scenario ever occured, aliens would be the only possible intelligence that could ever learn what we were because there wouldn't be any of us left to say anything.
@Schimml0rd2 жыл бұрын
@@blackhawks81H im not sure humankind even needs nukes to kill itself :D
@piggypiggypig17462 жыл бұрын
@@nucflashevent What we were would clearly be evident by our absence.
@fourthhorseman45312 жыл бұрын
I loved Barry Corbin's General Beringer. Reminded me a little bit of real life General Curtis "Bombs Away" LeMay.
@chrisbullard59012 жыл бұрын
The way he’s written and portrayed, both as a firm believer in deterrence, and as someone hopeful he never has to carry out his orders, is spot on. The Russians have historically been bullies, and deterrence was the only thing that kept them in-line. Hopefully, though, we’ll start developing the technology to intercept ICBMs with over 98% accuracy, and one day be able to retrofit all the Minutemen IIIs into a truly defensive system.
@hughmungus9132 жыл бұрын
And in the excitement of that moment, old Harry stumbles forward and hits the launch button.
@TheHD8032 жыл бұрын
Haha “gee sorry guys”
@Userfriendly19772 жыл бұрын
The soviets actually experienced something very similar for real. A computer misinterpreted sunrays as missile trails and alerted their missile command. Luckily their commander didn't have the guts to send retaliatory missiles the other way.
@CommanderZoom2 жыл бұрын
That, and he figured that if the Americans were going to launch a first strike they weren't going to do it with a mere handful of missiles.
@tiadaid11 ай бұрын
You missed out the most important part - it happened in the same year of this movie's release...
@triandfit111 ай бұрын
And the Soviets punished him for not following protocol.
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
and then figured out that by not shooting he didn't look like a moron one of Russia's brighter moves in military history🤣
@eizol5682 жыл бұрын
You worry about global warming, we worried about global extinction ☢️
@Yurixyz2 жыл бұрын
The bad thing is that both the USSR and the US have indeed had similar problems with their automated defense systems but luckily there was always a human being who ultimately had to push the button who ultimately had doubts about the reality of such attacks.
@veramae40982 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident Yes. Russian alarms were in error, Russian officer did not follow procedure ... and therefore stopped WW 3.
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
yeah good things neither have had the missiles fired by accident by some rouge computer program that would be seriously embarrassing yeah the reason the us or Russia got nuked to hell and gone was our bad we thought we were under attack and fired off our missiles starting the real world war 3
@kriss3d2 жыл бұрын
Best part is. This isn't even far from how close it actually was. The Cuban missile crisis was this close to be lit. Literally.
@Elthenar2 жыл бұрын
Yes and no. The tensions were as high as could be but no one actually thought a missile was in the air, or else there would have been a full nuclear war. A more accurate comparison 1983 false alarm. The Soviet air defense detected inbound American missiles but was able to guess that it was a false alarm. Turns out it was sunlight reflecting off some clouds that their satellites detected.
@tardismechanic23192 жыл бұрын
This movie is a masterpiece
@feth77476 ай бұрын
This one, back to the future and E.T, what a films, such a nostalgia, no times like the eighties, films, music, wear...
@majorlagg93212 жыл бұрын
Actually, Crystal Palace would be one of the first to know if the strike was real. Several missiles would be targeted at Cheyenne Mountain.
@willycanuck2 жыл бұрын
and it really happened on the Soviet side...R.I.P. Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, the World is forever in your debt.
@RaphaelAnthony2 жыл бұрын
Describe WarGames as simply as possible: “Why so serious?”
@jeromeperlinski10622 жыл бұрын
trop proche d un jeu avec des acteurs humains et leur réflex à la con. navré, présentation correcte, j aime et un sentiment correct.
@terrencetrussell76252 жыл бұрын
This was a great movie for all the reasons stated. Likewise, “Failsafe” was also a great movie. Truly, both exemplify the reality of Joshua’s very mature conclusion: “The only way to win, is NOT to play”. When will those who seek power learn?
@fcfcfcwearesolar11 ай бұрын
Never, as long as currency exists.
@RayoAtra2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 80's There were 150 of these in underground silos sprinkled around the countryside and backroads within 100 miles of our house.
@Dante-ki4ol12 күн бұрын
Great film, great cast, especially the computer.
@jeffreytan29482 жыл бұрын
When there was no internet, no world wide web and you connect your computer to another computer directly via dial up modem
@BELCAN572 жыл бұрын
The look on Falken's face is perfect.
@g2macs2 жыл бұрын
This has actually happened, several times NORAD almost fired due to false information.
@pearsondavenport32422 жыл бұрын
"Permission to change my underwear, Sir?"
@michaelhyde90702 жыл бұрын
Like most I grew up with these films. War games the day after, threads, when the wind blows.
@NoahSpurrier2 жыл бұрын
This was a good movie.
@neilgodfrey26692 жыл бұрын
Guy with moustache looks like the hotel owner from ghostbusters who refuses to pay them after they trash the hotel
@davidsloat10162 жыл бұрын
It is.
@user-mb1sy9uz6z6 ай бұрын
Always proud to see s Sistah in a position of leadership!!! Impact❤
@dmac7128Ай бұрын
An irony behind this scene is that it runs directly contrary to the stated doctrine of the US nuclear deterrent, launch on warning. We would not wait out an attack before launching our missiles. Considering the incident in 1979 from which this movie draws inspiration, its a wonder how we haven't destroyed ourselves in a nuclear fire.
@rickneal49672 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The black lady was the DJ from The Warriors. Lookin gooooood babies....
@warvamp22 жыл бұрын
Its funny she is not credited for this movie even if she had a few shots in the movie
@leftcoaster672 жыл бұрын
@@warvamp2 Crappy agent?
@warvamp22 жыл бұрын
@@leftcoaster67 maybe
@nicholasxavier58922 жыл бұрын
The sad part is how easily the destruction of the entire world could be
@nointegritydotorg2 жыл бұрын
The scary part is that it has almost happened...a few times.
@PuppetierMaster2 жыл бұрын
@@nointegritydotorg Worst of all some old Soviet loonies are mad it never came to be
@yuriyurson64832 жыл бұрын
It almost happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
@shannonquinn86878 ай бұрын
Ally was a tremendous actress. Perfectly captured the emotions someone should have in this situation. Young actresses today are incredibly lame.
@mjrmrz59323 жыл бұрын
1:40 Everyone walking around during a nuclear holocaust
@MVR3263 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking the same when I first saw this movie. It's an eerie image, the silhouetted people with that giant screen behind them
@sam08g162 жыл бұрын
They were rushing to the toilet to change underpants
@davidtaylor800211 ай бұрын
"I'd piss on a spark plug, if I thought it would help." - Gen. Berringer.
@sinkingdutchman72275 ай бұрын
It's nice they have an officer with a perfect announcer voice to read the countdown. It's almost like she was cast for that task only.
@cheeseandonions9558 Жыл бұрын
To me, this is the best "nuclear war wake-up call" movie ever made
@jdplus310 ай бұрын
“Morning after” scared the crap out of me a lot worse
@kennethrice34502 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else’s hair stand on end during this whole scene? Especially when the impacts happen? Good Grief!😳
@horseradish4046Ай бұрын
Alternate Ending: the Soviets, having learned about the multiple false alarms from earlier, decide to take advantage of the confusion and actually launch a full-scale attack knowing that there will probably be no retaliation due to hesitancy.
@pulle88Ай бұрын
would not happen today though......... both the UK and france would nuke russia if they attacked the US
@TheAngelOfDeath012 жыл бұрын
Most hair-rising moment in the history of film making.
@mrnotnomisАй бұрын
I need the "Impact" actor's voice as a ringtone. Let's see how bad I can increase people's blood pressure around me when I get a text.
@charleschuckfinley3304 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if the General said "Ok, Lunch time" and the guy heard "Launch time" - hahahahaha
@stephenhunt27012 жыл бұрын
He nearly pressed the launch button by accident! For the love of God! Keep your finger away from the button!
@edwardwilliams6514 Жыл бұрын
The dude with him thumb on that button... one sneeze and it's lights out - for real.
@darrellapple89802 жыл бұрын
The senior controller at Loring saw the shit hitting the fan and ran home to grab his family and run for it lol.
@leftcoaster672 жыл бұрын
30 seconds to impact? He wouldn't even have gotten out of the door.
@manofsheerawsomness2 жыл бұрын
If you like this google the Russian officer who stopped WW3. This really happened on the other side of the iron curtain. The fact we aren't all playing Fallout 4 IRL right now is a miracle because men like him chose to wait.
@craiglarge592511 ай бұрын
Gotta love1983.. That Russian officer was a LTC who had to authentic the detection of 11 United States ICBMs' that were in their flight to Soviet territory and confirm the threat.Lucky for planet earth he made the right judgment call in that it was a false alert.
@triandfit111 ай бұрын
@@craiglarge5925 and he was screwed over for doing it too.
@tsukikage39412 жыл бұрын
"Alright we're safe!" *Slaps desk and accidentally hits the Launch button*
@bocagoodtimes14602 жыл бұрын
Such innocent times....now our enemies have viruses and hypersonic missiles!
@jrow842 жыл бұрын
We have the virus, too, comrade. OUR virus
@schutzemk28112 жыл бұрын
realized that jennifer (Ally Sheedy) is in "The breakfast club" and the YingYang Killer in Psych.
@h.a.988010 ай бұрын
Now, if this was the Ferrari F1 pit crew, it'd go somewhat different. General Berringer: "This is Crystal Palace, are you still on? Anyone there?" Pit Crew: "Stand by, we're checking."
@SKF3582 жыл бұрын
Really well done graphics and for that year.
@GrahamKSmith2 жыл бұрын
Not graphics at all. Each video display was back-screen projected film. Apparently it took ages to resync all the projectors for a retake!
@chrisst89222 жыл бұрын
I think it won an award that year.
@miked172 Жыл бұрын
I love how they thought this was the end, but they didn't realize the computer was about to counterattack with real missiles. The celebration that they were still alive was cut short when they realized a real live counterattack was about to take place.
@Scopper812 жыл бұрын
This is a great scene because the actors really sell that they BELIEVED that nukes were on the way and then 100% stress relief when the attack is fake.
@darkone6662 жыл бұрын
Crystal palace - are you still there? Aston villa - yes, were still here.
@treloarw2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I would have told that guy with his finger over the launch button to flip the cover closed and “walk away from it” before celebrating or even just cracking a hint of a smile. 😬 Just my 2 cents
@SirHenryMaximo2 жыл бұрын
0:16 That actor played General Carville in the Red Alert games! Guess it fits.
@kossttamojaan2 жыл бұрын
"Joshua, what are you doing?"
@leftcoaster672 жыл бұрын
But Dad, we can win!
@juziotrompka2 жыл бұрын
I love these movies under the Pentagon umbrella.
@michaeljohnson11573 ай бұрын
Note the Tears in ALLEY SHEEDYS Eyes
@brt-jn7kg2 жыл бұрын
In real life the guy holding his thumb over the launch button would probably have sneezed pushed the button
@michwashington2 жыл бұрын
THE WOPR (bacon lettuce 🥬 and tomato 🍅 and cheese 🧀 ) 😂
@tomj44062 жыл бұрын
1:40 The impact circles are the size of entire Western states, lmbo. Legit all of Nevada shown blotted out by 1 nuke..i dont think so. However!! One of the best movies & best scenes, ever!
@garwynrosser8907Ай бұрын
The horrifying moment you realise that nobody has been watching the Russians this whole time.