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Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Tei — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:37:34 PDT

So, we hare walking backward?
the old movie has more hacking than this.

Tei

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Since85 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:28:46 PDT

Just ask her to play Tic-Tac-Toe. Worked for Brodericks.

Also, Laura Harris passed up the Dead Like Me DVD movie for this? Oy.

Since85

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

aleph null — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:20:46 PDT

It seems the only winning move is not to watch. I'll probably see this anyway.

aleph null

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

se7a7n7 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:05:59 PDT

@Garrison Dean: Wow!!! I thought that had to be BS.

I'll try to remember that if I ever travel back in time.

se7a7n7

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:50:57 PDT

@se7a7n7: Back in high school, before cell phones (ugh I'm gettin old) we never paid for pay phones. Allyou had to do was take a paperclip and stick one end in the center of the bottom reciever and then touch it to the metal on the booth... boom, free call. If you look now that center dot is always covered up.

@goldfarb: yup pterodactyl and all.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:49:23 PDT

@CMG (humpity hump day!): I thought you threw snowballs at Jimmy Johnson? For which I salute you.

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:48:34 PDT

@Rus McLaughlin: You realize it's live action, right? The cartoon is the AI's Avatar, but the movie it self is played by real people. Not that it makes the movie any better.

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

CMG — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:48:03 PDT

@DeepFriar: hey now, we threw snowballs at Santa.

CMG

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

goldfarb — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:48:03 PDT

@Garrison Dean: nice...two better ideas in seconds...
and how about for the first idea - he becomes like the guy in the first movie, Dr. Falken...

goldfarb

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:47:11 PDT

@Jeff-Minor: I'm guessing, based on the trailer, that this movie is logic-free. But it's a hacker movie, so that's par for the course.

Charlie Jane Anders

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

BullfightsOnAcid — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:46:24 PDT

Joshua called me...and told me this movie sucks.

BullfightsOnAcid

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Jeff-Minor — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:43:20 PDT

Is there any logic used at all? Do the people in charge of this Game AI/defence system have experiece with computers beyond the 80's? This should go straight to the Sci-fi chanel.

Jeff-Minor

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Rus — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:42:23 PDT

Because if they really wanted a 25-years-later sequel to War Games to be taken seriously, anime was seriously the way to go.

Rus

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

se7a7n7 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:40:03 PDT

I'm sure I'm not the only one who after seeing War Games tried to unscrew the receiver of a payphone so that I could touch a soda pull tab between it and the lock on the phone. The movie show Matty B doing that to get a free phone call.

However, you can't unscrew the receive and even if you could, there's no way it would actually work. Good luck even finding a pay phone these days.

Maybe it's a job for Mythbusters?

se7a7n7

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ggodo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:36:09 PDT

@Garrison Dean: Either of those would be mega epic, cartoon wopper wannabe=bad.

ggodo

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DeepFriar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:16 PDT

and starts planning to nuke Philadelphia
As one of my fellow Deadspinners would say - serves you right for booing Santa Claus

DeepFriar

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly -- And We're Still Bored

Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:20:09 PDT

Jesus, would it have been too hard to just see what happened Broderick's character. Bill Gates? Steve Jobs type? He gets brought back in by the government to have his enormous corporation do something for the government that goes haywire and hijacked by corrupt politicians looking to spy on Americans and he has to pull it back.

Or he is a burn out, peaked at 16, lives at home still hacking, eschewing the world and in anger starts a worm that slowly destroys the internet and works its way to the defense system and the new breed has to stop it.

This sounds like bullshit.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:12:49 PDT

Wow, it makes hacking into Iron Mountain with a 2400 baud modem by guessing the password seem realistic by comparison.