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Didn’t they think of cutting power to the computer?

don't let computers control the nukes, huge mistake

The star of this clip is the pointer

Press the LOCK OUT changes button to turn it off.

So the world is about to end but they had enough time to get visitor ID's.

We need more generals like him.

R.I.P. Mr. McKittrick. Dabney Coleman was an incredible actor and diverse. Comedy, drama it didn't matter.

RIP Dabney Coleman. He was so awesome in this movie!!! 😢🙏💔

RIP dabney coleman.

My favorite scene from this movie. R.I.P Dabney Coleman.

They cut scenes out of this segment. Smh.

Don’t trust AI……..

Came here to rewatch this scene after spotting the General at the 6666 Ranch in Yellowstone

Didn't I read that the lady who plays the assistant died shortly after the film was made just before the premier.

That guy's pride is obviously way more important that avoiding accidental launches(!)

Just like the drone that kill the operator and the controller tower to achieve the target....

WOPR is Skynet's grand pappy

This move was epitome of writing and acting.

I hope McKittrick got shitcanned after this whole caper.

"God damn it, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!"

No wonder Ally Sheedy's character became such a basket case after this incident.

( BCAEAFAH)

Ally Sheedy was so cute back in the day.

the funny thing is the general could have responded to McKittrick with something like _"See these stars on my shoulder? That means I'm a duly appointed representative of the US government and you're just a civilian contractor on a military base, so actually, YEAH, you DO have to take that."_

I love it when the lady says it will hit the launch code in '5.3 minutes'

“Joshua what are you doing?” Chilling.

"I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir -- a man of your education." God bless Barry Corbin.

Nice mouse dude

Barry Corbin, the Stephen Root of the 80s.

Funniest line ever.The General steals every scene he is in..

“Your new defense system sucks” LOL

As a general policy, all US nukes are FAIL-SAFE as opposed to FAIL-DEADLY, or in other words if every single criterion is not met, missiles won't launch so pulling plug would shut everything down. There are even safe guards like if you took a nuke from a bomber, even with all the right codes you couldn't make it arm/detonate in a terrorist attack because the missile knows what "it feels like" to deploy from a bomber (altitude, velocity, etc), if those conditions aren't met then it won't work.

irl, if it was a true emergency I suppose they could order their bombers to hit the silos. (they're in the middle of nowhere plus we still have subs)

One of the funniest things this movie would influence was the creation of a Digimon Movie, Our War Game, while it doesn't have the moral lesson, the breakneck pace, intensity and danger of a missile launch is done just as well.

At the top of this clip, after the disaster-supposedly-averted moment, you know something's still up because Falken is the only one not celebrating. He knows there is likely more to come.

Its getting the launch codes!

Watching Better Call Saul, season 5, ep 5, thinking I know that voice of the crusty old homeowner. And there he is!

Mr. Corbin had some of the best lines in this movie

Whopper... ENT

The mouse cursor on screen angers me.

My wife watching One Tree Hill: Oh, thats coach Whitey Me: He would piss on a spark plug if it would do any good My wife: ???

No impact sir just delayed

Everybody gansta until WOPR locks you out of the missile deactivation controls

I'd piss on a sparkplug,,,,

33 people were called a pig eyed sack of shit by McKittrick

For such problems, just get the power switch off

2:30 Yeah, pal, you may or may not have killed the planet. Least the good General can do is rub your nose in it.

launch code is 10 alphanumerics.. thats over 3 quadrillion possible combinations. Attempting random ones at what looks like 5 per second, ... that could take over a million years. Stand down red alert

This movie had everyone on the edge of their seats. You had to experience the 70s and 80s to feel it the way this movie's producers intended.

Nobody would tie the entire nuclear arsenal into a single, untested computer AI system controlled solely by said system without any additional layers of redundancy, human or otherwise, in the chain of command. That's a fairly large plothole this movie never addresses.