WarGames (1983)

I decided to watch this as kind of a companion piece to Ready Player One. I had seen parts of this film before, some multiple times, but had never watched the whole movie through. WarGames is of course the movie where a young Matthew Broderick almost causes World War III when he hacks into what he at first thinks is a video game but is actually a government computer and starts playing a thermonuclear war simulation. A likable flick, it hold up pretty well despite being very dated technologically, Broderick's bedroom computer set up is both quaint and pretty sweet. Also featuring Ally Sheedy at the start of the Ally Sheedy cycle. ***