WarGames was one of several politically poignant films of the era, attempting to underscore the futility of nuclear war and also introducing some of the earliest nods to artificial intelligence, hacker culture, and its role in global threats.
In 1983, the United States and Soviet Union were still locked in the throes of the Cold War, where the world was living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war. But things get out of hand when Peter, Samir, and Michael’s scheme to bilk Initech out of thousands of dollars backfires leaving them all fearing for their futures. In the middle of a hypnotherapy session to get him out of his funk, the doctor keels over and dies, leaving Peter stuck in a permanent state of blissful don’t-give-a-shit-ness, that he brings with him to the office with joyful audacity - he even finds the courage to ask out the cute waitress at the nearby restaurant (Jennifer Aniston) he’s had a crush on.
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Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a disgruntled software programmer at the vapid and grey-cubicled company Initech, where he works and commiserates with his work friends Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton (no relation). Okay, so we know that Apple TV’s Severance has taken the office space to a whole weirder level, but more than 20 years ago Mike Judge ( Beavis and Butthead, Silicon Valley, Idiocracy) nailed the drudgery of office culture right on the malfunctioning printer with this classic workplace comedy. Leaning heavily on Cash, we bear witness to everything from Dewey’s traumatic childhood to his multiple, simultaneous marriages (one to the June Carter-esque Darlene, played by Jenna Fischer), drug addictions, and his pop, rock, psychedelic, folk, and disco music phases, all sprinkled with some of the best musical parodies on film. Reilly), whose life story is a perfect satirical mashup of the highest highs and darkest lows of tortured singers such as Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, and Jim Morrison, as often depicted in their respective movies about their lives. Taking aim at the barn door that is the music biopic, writers Jake Kasdan ( Freaks and Geeks, The Grinder) and Judd Apatow bring to life Alabama’s troubled troubadour, Dewey Cox (John C. While we highly recommend first watching James Mangold’s brilliant Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line for some valuable context, fear not, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story more than stands on its own.
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