What? That movie isn't accurate? Are you saying Mazes and Monsters ISN'T a "pretty far out game"?boots said:
Hollywood's worst at portraying games/gamers.
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this entire video covers a lot of them my personal favorite is the second one, it really boggles the mind how writers think this is what games are actually like, whats even worse is to think that through writing, proofing,setting up the scene, and acting it out not a SINGLE PERSON stood up and said this is completely wrong and unbelievably stupid
The original Mike Teavee was a jerk whose imagination had been sapped by television. Burton's version switches TV with videogames. Basically, if you play videogames, you're a spoiled brat with anger management issues. And of course, every game is a violent shooter where you scream DIEDIEDIE at the screen.
This really baffles me, from a marketing point of view. Not just the portrayal of gamers, but of "nerdy guys" in general. Often socially awkward, often with very weird habits and hobbies, often unhappily in love with the hot girl, and so on. And you often get that in movies that are clearly (also) targeted at the very same audience. I mean, it makes me really wonder why writers think it is a clever idea to ridicule their target audience (in this kind of movies).
I agree whole heartedly with this albeit you've described the exact TV show I was going to cite in this reply.CloudAtlas said:
Big Bang Theory, while having it's funny and quippy moments tends to lean too far on the "he's a nerd trying to get a pretty girl" factor and it's made the show unbearable to watch. I've heard that it's gotten better but I still hold some resentment towards it.
It's almost like the writers think they're still in the early days of video games, when gaming wasn't so big and had lots of stigma surrounding it.CloudAtlas said:
Hollywood never really portrayed gamers well, but the movie Gamer is probably the worst offender, as everyone pointed out. Oh well, I guess it's kind of like Metal/Rock music, which was the center of stereotyped/mockery for a while, then they moved on.
Johnny Novgorod said:The original Mike Teavee was a jerk whose imagination had been sapped by television. Burton's version switches TV with videogames. Basically, if you play videogames, you're a spoiled brat with anger management issues. And of course, every game is a violent shooter where you scream DIEDIEDIE at the screen.
I did watch a group of high school kids put on a musical version of this and while it was done much better than that they forgot to update everybody else so we have Mike here with a Wii while Charlie is apparently so damn poor it time warped him to the 1930's.
OT:Life's "portrayal" must be seen to be believe.
I think there is no reason for Earth to exist anymore. If that is an actual movie, that some may actually take seriously, let's join the rest of the universe in non-living.Brad Calkins said:
Kevin Spacey in House of Cards.. the screen of him playing cod isnt being controlled by him (hes spinning the analogs everywhere and his guy isnt moving xD).
Oh come on - it's not that scary, no need for such an extreme reaction. Still, the console running Windows - I'd understand if you lose few nights of sleep.boots said:
It...is an actual movie. I'm really sorry you had to learn it this way...or learn it at all but that's the harsh truth. The reactions about it I've seen range from "boring" to "it sucks".King Aragorn said:
Ok I've seen that episode and I think they may have misused the term "high score" there and instead were intending to imply it was a player-ranking system which DO exist in many MMOs.canadamus_prime said:
Yes I'm justifying because I'm a fanboy, I laughed at that scene. That and when McGee said a gamer lounge had a "3D PS2 on a 60" plasma". Sad too, NCIS usually averts the usual bad gaming tropes.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Stay Alive yet.
"How do I get the Hyper-Blaster in Silent Hill 4?"
I've got another one, I can't remember the show, I think it was one of the CIS's, but portrayed this pair of gamers as really fat slobs who ended up having to have their kid taken away because they were neglecting it to play games.
Seriously? They made an arrow to the knee joke on NCIS and i haven't seen it? xDOrange12345 said:
I love NCIS but i always shuddern when they do something Pc related, i mean i'm mostly a gamer and have practically no clue about programming/hacking, but i'm 500% sure, what they talk in the series is mostly bollocks. Arrow to the knee.. <.<
Anthony on the other hand gets his movie references right.. i wonder why.