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Movie-Sounds.org › Sci-Fi Movie Quotes › WarGames (1983)

Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.

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futilitygamepicking your battleswasting time

7 seconds sound clip from the WarGames (1983) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:23:00 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- My fault?

- The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make.

- Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.

- What's that?

- Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

- What kind of lesson is that?

- Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?

- Yeah. Of course.

- But you don't anymore.

- No. Why?

- Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.

- Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.

- But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war... that there can be acceptable losses.

- So you gave up? Decided to play dead?

- For security reasons, they graciously arranged my death.

- Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?

[...]

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Come on. Learn, goddamn it!
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WarGames (1983) Sound Clip

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Actors: Matthew Broderick (David Lightman), Dabney Coleman (John McKittrick), John Wood (Stephen Falken and Joshua/WOPR), Ally Sheedy (Jennifer Mack), Barry Corbin (General Jack Beringer)

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