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m is desJLght. Animator Ralph
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i tend' American Pop“) created this
said,itiitj-made animated version
thosepf jf j.r.r. Tolkien’s classic tril-
the UniiAy,about like in the mythical
■die Earth. Rated PG.
j] ; Poltergeist:
riday and Saturday. Steven
fcberg did a wonderful job
■capturing and recreating
■those things that scared
"C^Mwhen you were a child,
and “S Rated PG.
The Sword and the
Sorcerer:
Double feature with “The
Beastmaster.” A pair of light
hearted cinematic dwarfs ab
out swords and mythical
swashbucklers. Both rated R.
Chained Heat:
Linda Blair stars in this sleazy
sexploitation film about the
inmates in an all-women pris
on. Rated R.
Rocky Horror Picture
Show:
Midnight. The original cult
film is still here. The music is
great; the plot is campy at its
finest; and the audience is
usually rowdy. Rated R.
Manor East
veillance and attack helicopter
in this fast-paced adventure.
The question is: will the good
guys get the copter or will the
bad guys get it? Also stars
Candy Clark, Malcom
McDowell and Warren Oates.
Directed by John Badham.
Rated R.
Tbe Way We Were: Return of the Jedi:
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(bra Streisand star in this
lie love story about a con-
fative writer and his liber-
political activist wife.
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ntanddi# [sday. Sean Connery stars
'tie of his best perform-
ts as the man with a license
d Tuesdj ill, James Bond. Full of all
Grab your tub of popcorn and
your raisinettes: this is one of
the best Saturday matinee
movies ever made. Although
“Jedi” is not as good as “Star
Wars” because of its lack of
novelty and its massive pre
release publicity, it compen-
states with special effects,
bizarre aliens and a fast pace.
Rated PG.
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his humorous look at to-
s high school students. A
above the usual high
ol movies, but riot a big
Rated R.
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athless:
ard Gere and and French
[comer Valerie Kaprisky
in this well-done remake
teJean-Luc Godard 1959
|or classic. Rated R.
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Man From Snowy
River:
See this one before it leaves.
Even if you don’t like West
erns or the usual “boy grows
to manhood” stories, this is
still an entertaining movie.
Rated PG.
The Toy:
Richard Pryor and Jackie
Gleason star in this mediocre
movie, released last Christ
mas, about a millionaire who
buys his son a unique toy
(Pryor). Rated PG.
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Blue Thunder:
Roy Scheider stars as a police
helicopter pilot assigned to
test an ultra-sophisticated sur-
Flashdance:
Being hailed as the next
“Saturday Night Fever,” this
movie has lots of flash, lots of
hot music, lots of hot dancing,
but not much plot. Sort of like
MTV on the silver screen.
Jennifer Beals stars as the wel
der-by-day, dancer-by-night.
Rated R.
Savannah Smiles:
Something about a young girl
who makes a lot of people
happy. Rated PG.
Schulman Six
WarGames:
Matthew Broderick stars as a
teenage computer whiz who
stumbles into the Pentagon’s
defense computer and almost
starts World War III in this
clever, high-tech film. Dire
ctor John Badham (“Blue
Thunder") wonderfully plays
on our fears of technology
and nuclear war. See review
this page. Rated PG.
Octopussy:
The usual James Bond stuff.
Roger Moore (not the real
thing) stars as 007 and Maud
Adams has the title (Can you
believe it?) role. From the pre
views, this movie looks like it
will be the typical Roger
Moore Bond film, nothing
more, nothing less. Rated PG.
Trading Places:
Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Mur
phy star in this update of the
old “Prince and the Pauper”
story. Aykroyd stars as a weal
thy, preppy commodity brok
er and Murphy stars as a street
hustler who gets to trade
places with Aykroyd on a bet.
Initial reviews of this movie
have said that it is one of the
funniest of the summer sea
son. Directed by John Landis.
Rated PG.
Psycho II:
Anthony Perkins returns as
Hitchcock’s classic schizo,
Norman Bates. Twenty-two
years later he returns to Bates
Motel. Norman is not happy
when he finds that the old
Bates Motel has been turned
into an “adult motel.” Also
stars Vera Miles. Rated R.
The Man With Two
Brains:
A Steve Martin/Carl Reiner
collaboration about a surgeon
who falls in love with Kathleen
Turner’s (“Body Heat“) body,
but has another brain in mind,
a disembodied one with whom
he talks telepathically. I ha
ven’t seen it, but I’ve been told
that it’s almost as bad as the
last Martin/Reiner bomb,
“Dead Men Don’t Wear
Plaid.” Rated R.
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‘WarGames’ hits target
by Gary Barker
Battalion Staff
When I first saw the ads for
“WarGames,” I thought it was
just another summer movie ab
out teenagers and video games
— a guaranteed hit for the mak
ers, but not much more.
But I was wrong. “War-
Games” is not just another
video-games-and-teenagers
film. Instead it’s a wonderful,
high-tech adventure film that
cleverly plays on our knowledge
— and sometimes fear — of
computers and nuclear
weapons.
The premise of “WarGames”
is relatively simple. Matthew
Broderick plays a computer-
wise high school student: he
changes his biology grade with
his home computer (sounds
similar to an event that hap
pened in Aggiedom about a year
ago) and hunts for new compu
ter games by perusing the phone
lines.
One day he inadvertantly taps
into a U.S. defense department
system — called WOPR (pro
nounced ‘whopper’) for War
Operations Plan Response —
that is programmed to plqy war
games. What David (Broderick)
doesn’t know is that the compu
ter was given the power to
launch nuclear missiles after a
defense department study
showed that us mere humans
aren’t reliable enough to push
the button when and if the time
comes.
Gulp.
David tries to terminate the
game, but the computer does
not cooperate. Once the game is
going, there is no stopping.
Gulp.
David is nabbed by the feds
and taken to NORAD (the
North American Air Defense
headquarters buried deep in the
side of a Colorado mountain),
where he is interrogated by Pen
tagon heavies who think he is a
subversive (pronounced
‘commie’).
Gulp.
Complicating all these events
is the computer’s maker, the
classic mad scientist with a death
wish who refuses to help
NORAD in their plight. He
mumbles something about man
kind going the way of the di
nosaurs.
All these events come
together in the main command
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room of NORAD. Director John
Badham (whose most recent
work is “Blue Thunder") creates
breath-stopping suspense as the
NORAD crew watches the in
coming Soviet missiles on the big
screen and waits to find out: are
they live or are they WOPR?
The principal players —
Broderick and Ally Sheedy, who
plays David’s girlfriend — help
make the suspense as good as it
is. Both are believable, warm,
sometimes shy, sometimes
troublemakers — not the typical
rip-off-their-clothes-at-the-
first-chance teenagers por
trayed in many of today’s teen
movies.
Complementing Broderick
and Sheedy is Dabney Coleman
as the Pentagon heavy in charge
of computer operations at
NORAD. The other characters
are equally well-played.
The main, and only, stinker in
the cast is a tobacco-chewing
four-star general who runs
NORAD and rattles off lines
like: “I’d piss on a spark plug if I
thought it would do any good.”
His character was a little too
much like the hawkish generals
who wanted to bomb Vietnam
back to the Stone Age: not exact
ly a likely candidate to head the
nation’s nuclear defense sys
tems.
Although some of the plot
twists and computer details
stretch the imagination, and the
limits of computers, the movie
remains plausible. It also re
mains paranoid. The movie is
full of the current nuclear para
noia and screenwriters Lawr
ence Lasker and Walter F.
Parkes brilliantly play on our
fears.
The movie’s final lesson on
the futility of war is childishly
simple and perhaps oversimpli
fied, but it is still refreshing to
see in a summer movie about
video games and teenagers.
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