There has never been a teen movie as frightening as War Games. And, the movie, about the time Matthew Broderick almost caused World War 3, is as relevant as ever.
Here are 8 of the funniest and scariest moments of this lighthearted teen comedy about Thermal Nuclear War. (I have a feeling we might start seeing a lot more of the types of movies in the near future.)
#8
FACT: Being really good at video games can lead to WWIII
#7
FACT: Computers looked like this once a long long time ago
#6
FACT: The “Your Wife” joke never goes out of style.
#5
FACT: Everyone drank TAB in the 80s.
LITTLE KNOWN FACT: The tab button on your computer was actually named after the drink.
#4
FACT: Every kid in the 80s was all about global thermonuclear war.
#3
FACT: THIS IS NOT GOOD.
#2
FACT: Joshua the computer learns the most important lesson of all . . .
#1
FACT: Saving the world does indeed deserve a nice pat on the head.
(Shouldn’t he be arrested and spend the rest of life in jail? – He almost killed us all!)
