Holds up Surprisingly well

I agree...for me, it's being able to remember using computers like these and wondering if something like this could really happen (when the movie came out). Of course, in today's world of 128-bit encryption, we know all too well how intent some hackers are on ruining the lives of everyone around them. Today I wonder if they, like Broderick's character, really think they are just playing a game.

"Obviously the technology side of things dates the movie" Its supposed to take place in the 80's. Thats the technology they had. Now i could understand your point If they made a movie in 1983 about 2012 and they were way off with their guesses about Today's technology. I guess you never watch any classic Movies. Do you think anyone will notice if we redo the movie and keep the 1983 setting, but let them have computers with a few minor upgrades? Let's not get carried away and get him Windows 7, that would be too obvious. How about at least Windows 98 second edition? Think anyone would notice??

Of course it holds up well.
I really can't understand people who complain about or can't enjoy movies from a - at least to some degree - bygone era. But on the other hand, most of them can enjoy movies *about* a bygone era. Nobody complains that a movie about the civil war "doesn't hold up well" or doesn't "pass the test of time", just because for some weird reason the people don't drive cars, have no computers and dress too old-fashioned.
I really don't get it. After the cold war ended, so many people said "aw, now I can't watch those cold war movies anymore". Gah!

Any movie holds up well when it's well written, acted, and directed. The technology may be dated, but many of the themes are timeless. And the Cold War may be over, but we all know the danger of nuclear weapons.

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.