WarGames
- PG
- Year:
- 1983
- 114 min
- 6,574 Views
Replacement team's here, sir.
Right.
Come on through.
20 minutes and we were gonna
start looking for you.
Yeah. It's really something out there.
- You look a mess, sir.
- Yeah?
Your turn next, Ginsburg.
OK. I'll see you in 24.
See you tomorrow.
What was that you were you saying?
You used to hear her chant
all night long. Om mahneypod me om.
- Om mahneypod me om.
- Over the plants?
She'd cup her hands over those seeds
and chant by the hour.
She grew the most beautiful
wandoos you ever saw, man.
Primo stuff. Resin city.
Stand clear.
The commander's been worried
about you. The roads must be a bear.
- What roads?
- Visibility.
Visibility? Bullshit. You guys haven't
been on time for the last six months.
- I wrote you guys up in the logbook.
- Yeah. You're a prince, Bevan.
Good night, gentlemen!
So, that was like sinsemilia, right?
Sinsemilla. This grass made
Thai stick taste like oregano.
Lay you out flat, man.
- Got a red light, sir.
- What on?
Number eight. Warhead alarm.
Give it a thump with your finger.
Alarm reset.
Skybird, this is Dropkick with
a Red dash Alpha message in two parts.
Break. Break. Red dash Alpha.
- Stand by to copy message.
- Standing by.
Romeo OscarNovember Charlie
Tango Tango Lima Alpha.
Authentication:
220040 DeltaLima.
I have a valid message.
Stand by to authenticate.
I agree with authentication also, sir.
- Holy sh*t!
Target selection: complete.
Time on target sequence: complete.
- Yield selection: complete.
- All right. Let's do it. Insert launch key.
- Stand by.
- Launch key inserted.
- Roger.
On my mark... rotate launch key to Set.
Three... two... one...
- Mark.
- Tminus 50.
Roger. At Set.
- Sir?
- Tminus 40.
- Enable missiles.
- Number one enabled. Two enabled.
- Three enabled.
- Get somebody on the goddamn phone.
Seven... eight...
Nine...
Ten. All missiles enabled.
- Get me Wing Command Post. Direct line.
- That's not the correct procedure.
- Try SAC Headquarters on the HF.
- That's not the procedure.
I want somebody on the goddamn phone
before I kill 20 million people.
T minus 20.
I got nothin' here! They might
have been knocked out already.
Right.
On my mark,
rotate launch keys to Launch.
Roger. Ready to go to Launch.
- Fourteen...
- Thirteen... twelve...
Eleven...
Seven... six...
- Five...
- Sir, we have a launch order.
- Three... two...
- Put your hand on the key, sir.
One... Launch!
- Sir, we are at launch! Turn your key!
- I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Turn your key, sir!
They're cleared. Go ahead and open it up.
- Hello. I'm Pat Healy.
- I'm Lyle Watson. This is Arthur Cabot.
I'm Pat Healy, Dr McKittrick's assistant.
I've got some passes for you here.
We had scheduled a meeting
pending your arrival.
If you have any questions,
feel free to ask me.
I'd be happy to fill you in
if there's any way I can.
They're here.
Good.
Let's go.
Cabot and Watson came alone.
No senators. No congressmen.
I wish they'd brought a few senators.
I'd like to tell 'em what's going on here.
John, please! Don't start that right away.
I had them on the phone
and they're calmed down.
Well, are we positive that these men had
no way of knowing this was only a test?
Lyle, for God's sakes! How many times
- It doesn't make any difference.
They all believed it was the real deal.
Look, we gotta be on a plane
in less than an hour.
I have to explain to the president
why 22% of his missile commanders
failed to launch their missiles. What
am I supposed to say? 22% isn't so bad?
The president knows that I am fully
responsible for the men in my command.
I've ordered a re-evaluation of
our psychological screening procedure.
Wait a minute. Excuse me, General.
We can't ask these men
to go back to the president
with a lot of headshrinker horseshit!
You can't screen out human response!
Those men know what it means to turn
the keys, and some are just not up to it!
Now, it's as simple as that!
the men out of the loop.
- Mr McKittrick, you're out of line, sir.
- Why am I out of line?
Excuse me!
I'm sorry. I don't understand.
Take them out of the loop?
Gentlemen! We've had men in these silos
since before any of you
For myself, I sleep pretty well at night
knowing those boys are down there.
General, we know they're fine men,
but in a nuclear war we can't afford
to have missiles
because those men refuse to turn
the keys when the computers tell 'em to!
You mean when
The president will probably follow
the computer war plan. That's a fact!
will have some input.
- You're damn tootin'.
- Well, hell...
In a surprise attack, there's no time.
23 minutes from warning to impact.
- Six minutes if it's sub-launched.
- Six minutes.
for the president to make a decision.
Once he makes the decision,
the computer should take over.
Now, sir, I know that you've got
I'd like to show you something.
These computers give instant access
to the state of the world.
Troop movements, Soviet
missile tests, weather patterns.
It all flows into this room,
and then into the WOPR computer.
- WOPR? What is that?
- War Operation Plan Response.
This is Mr Richter.
Paul, would you like to tell
these gentlemen about the WOPR?
Well, the WOPR spends all its time
24 hours a day, 365 days a year,
it plays an endless series of war games
using all available information
on the state of the world.
World War Ill, as a game,
time and time again.
to our responses
to their responses, and so on.
Estimates damage. Counts the dead.
Then it looks for ways
to improve its score...
The point is that the key decisions
been made by the WOPR.
So all this trillion-dollar hardware
is really at the mercy
of those men with the little brass keys?
That's exactly right. Whose only problem
is that they're human beings.
But in 30 days we could put in electronic
relays. Get the men out of the loop.
Gentlemen...
I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of
microchips further than I could throw it.
I don't know if you wanna trust the safety
of our country to some... silicon diode...
Nobody is talking about entrusting
the safety of the nation
to a machine, for God's sake!
We'll keep control,
but here at the top where it belongs.
All right, gentlemen.
I think I'm going to recommend
McKittrick's idea to the president.
And I'll get back to you on this.
You won't regret this.
OK. You had fries and a Coke, right?
Damn!
- Hi, David!
- Hi, Howie!
- How's it going?
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