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( source ) According to my doctor friends I should have been well a long time ago if I didn't go out when I was about to be healed.  Since I'm still under the weather, I tried my best to get useful.  Now, I am watching WAR GAMES. I was still in High School when I watched this the first time when geeky looking Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy were still so very young like me.  It was a box office hit.  When I watched it the first time, I was so impressed, but right now, a lot of things that happening in the movie look so goofy.  I think everything looked like Atari blips that time.  With the technology nowadays, everything just look like child's play.  Maybe that's why David and Jennifer thought they were just playing when they almost caused a war.  The film has lots of goofs that we notice today, of course, but even so, being shown 32 years ago, this was considered to be very hi-tech(the geeks noticed it then, but normal viewers like us we...

4/L DC1 SM Aura Premier McKinley Pkwy Taguig (02) 815 2872 sm-aura.com Peter Bradshaw, of  The Guardian , said it was " visually stunning and deeply disturbing " Jon Espino from TheYoungFolks.com praises the film, giving it 9 out of 10 stars and saying that it is "... easily one of the most visually haunting films of 2014 ." He says  Scarlett Johansson  gives a "powerful performance" but that "her entire performance would be diminished without the enthralling imagery to underscore it."  Daniel Rutledge's REVIEW UNDER THE SKIN(UTS) is a movie I appreciated after analyzing certain scenes and reading about the book.  There are things that were a bit confusing if one is not aware of Michel Faber's  novel .  I also read the spoilers  because I've seen the movie anyway .   I usually do not need to do that because I "get it" almost immediately, but this was different.  I missed a few scenes when I had to...