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War Games (1983) - 10 corrections

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Genres: Drama, Thriller

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Entry At the end after the "missiles" hit the air force bases and they find it was all a bluff, they cannot stand down the missiles because they are locked out of the WOPR. When the general tells McKittrick to "just unplug the damn thing", he says they cannot because the silos would interpret the shutdown as a destruction of NORAD and they would carry out their last commands which would be to launch. When they play Tic_tac_toe and tell Joshua to play himself, he hits the code to launch (not that this would work, since the code would not be found one digit at a time, either it's correct or not), then blows up a stack of circuits due to overload. Based on what Mckittrick said earlier, the silos would have launched the missiles. [It would make sense if all power to WOPR had been shut down due to the overload. However, since WOPR comes back and "talks" to them, it is obvious that it is still in control even with the blown circuits. Since it is still in control, it can countermand the order to launch.]
Corrected by Zwn Annwn
Entry Look at the launch code on the WOPR computer and make a note of it. Now look at the launch code at the end of the film - they don't match (someone set the cogs wrong on the WOPR). [McKittrick says at an earlier point in the film that he can "change those codes in less than an hour" in case someone working with David has stolen the codes and plans to use them. We must assume that he has done this.]
Entry No wonder "Joshua" cannot launch the missiles - it's got the wrong code. Inside the WOPR, the code to launch the missiles reads "JPE 1704 TKS" - when the actual code which displays later on the big screen in the war room is "CPE 1704 TKS". [McKittrick says at an earlier point in the film that he can "change those codes in less than an hour" so that anyone who may have stolen the codes can't use them. We must assume that he has done this.]
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Entry Brodericks character first gets to class, his teacher is discussing the answer to question 2, when Broderick sits down, the teacher then asks Ally Sheedy's character the answer to question 4, bad editing has missed out a question. [Not necessarily. Teachers do not always review every question on a quiz. Question 3 may have been unimportant, or something everyone got right, so there was no need to review it.]
Entry As David and Jennifer sneak up the stairs to his room while his unaware dad is watching the news in the next room, listen carefully to the news anchor. The newsman says, "There has been an explosion in a prophylactic recycling plant." Obviously nobody recycles condoms, so this is probably an adlibbed joke by the fake news voice talent that stayed in the final cut. [Prophylactics are also rubber gloves, NOT exclusively condoms. There can be rubber glove recycling plants.]
Entry At the beginning, the missile silo launch officers are changing shifts. Both of the officers going off duty exit the control room before either of the two relieving officers enter, thus leaving the watch stations completely unmanned for ten seconds or more, not very likely for a strategic nuclear military facility. [Though it's probably not officially a permissible procedure, it doesn´t mean there can't be a little "off-the-record" behavior. These experienced men know fully well that they are the only ones down there as always.]
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Entry In the film, the DEFCON scale is treated with 1 being war-status and 5 being absolute peace. In real life, it's the other way round with 5 being war and 1 being absolute peace. [This is completely wrong. The movie had it right, this poster has it backwards. Googling DEFCON will give many results showing this.]
Entry Towards the end of the movie, when they are trying to get into NORAD, they crash their jeep into the fence and the jeep falls over. The next scene shows them running away from the jeep, and it's parked normally. [The jeep that is parked normally is not the jeep they were driving. It was already parked on the inside of the fence before the crash. They crashed their jeep on the outside of the fence. As they run inside the gate and past the normal jeep, the crashed jeep can still be seen laying on its side on the outside of the fence.]
Entry In the scene where Matthew Broderick is brought in by the F.B.I. for questioning, they mention he had reservations for two to Paris. However, when he put the reservation into Pan Am's system, it was done under the name "Mack, Jennifer K." [They traced his recent calls after he hacked into W.O.P.R. and found the reservation. That's why Dabney Coleman said "Who were you going to Paris with?" as they had nothing on Jennifer.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot Time
Entry At the end of the film when Prof. Falken is typing responses to Joshua you hear Joshua's voice.  Speakers weren't hooked into the computer.  Where is the voice supposed to becoming from? [The computer is hooked up to the building's PA system. Just because there are no speakers wired into the computer itself doesn't mean that it can't send sounds through the network connection.]

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