Hollywood’s Struggle To Understand Computers
With the recent re-release and new DVD edition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Wargames, we decided to take another look at the movie after all these years. And after pressing play, our first thought was, What’s up with that computer, homie?
Poor Matthew Broderick was hacking into national defense mainframes with a pizza box and a rotary phone. Hollywood has always loved computers—the problem is that no one making movies seems to know what they can actually do (neither do we, apparently, seeing as how we can’t seem to stop the site from fucking crashing—our profound gratitude for your patience). So of course we put our Ebert caps on and rounded up some of the most mindboggling Technology x Hollywood collabos…
A few years ago, 
