WarGames
Taste attributes: actionadventuredramascience fictionthrillerrobots/ai/spacemafia/gangsterhistoricalespionagefastunsavouryheavyimaginaryintricatelinearbig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questcomplex relationshipdeep rivalryfighting evilrescue/escape/jeopardysolving the riddle/not as it seemsunderdog triumphs
"Is it a game, or is it real?"
Boxlist takeA sweeping, otherworldly sci-fi film: intricate and serious. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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What lines up
- Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
- Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
- Setting / scale: Big / varied, where this profile leans small / confined
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Synopsis
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Cast
Details
- Genre
- Action
- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Sherwood Productions
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.
