The hell? Thats not a 360!

[ward.]

Have you ever watched a movie where they were playing a video game. They say it?s an advanced consol and its not. I remember on a few occasions some one using a dream cast and was calling it an Xbox, doesn?t that make you mad? And would you guys have any examples of this, or new movies with video games but all of the consoles are ancient.

Closest I can think of is in that show, umm big bang theory or something where one of the nerds says halo knights is the best of the series.

Same show (different episode) they also mixed up the spell order for age on conan.

Dammit, I think my power level just went up after writing this post.

I prefer this (characters playing real videogames with the wrong controller/system) one hundred times more than characters playing some knocked out crap videogame that some production staff member threw together to save money and everyone in the film/tv show is acting like it's good.

I have no examples because I have stricken them from memory.

"Daemon something" from grandmas boy, funny as hell but oh so poor name dropping.

 

[Wargamer]

Ward, your mention of Big Bang Theory reminds me of something else...

Why is it we have TV characters who can recite every line ever uttered by Captain Kirk, have memorised every edition of Dungeons and Dragons, yet can't tell the difference between Guildwars and World of Warcraft? Fine, make the Jocks sound like utter retards by spouting gibberish, but if you're going to sit there with a "lol gaems r dum!" mindset, how about actually making the 'Geek' spout fact now and again?

As I said before; TV sport fans don't confuse Liverpool and Man City, so why do TV Gamers confuse Master Chief with Sonic the Hedgehog?

 

[Sketchy]

The Big Bang Theory is a fairly meh show, but when it uses games, they don't pull crap like this. One guy was playing Mario 64 on an emulator on his laptop - mentioning how badly it compared to the real thing - and I was pleased to hear the actual pause sound whenever he stopped playing to talk. I think they might've been guilty of over-acting with the controllers, but at least they got a few basic things right.

Tho', getting pissed off about badly referenced games in TV is somewhat puerile, isn't it?

I like the Big Bang Theory. I remember one episode where they have Halo night, and they have four players, four control, and the screen is 4 split-screen (amazing!). They actually know what they're talking about with video games. And its overall nerdiness just makes me laugh every time I watch it.

 

[Cpt. Red]

One thing I remember from some show was that they were playing a game on the xbox 360 but the graphics looked a little better then DOOM 2...

 

[DigitalSushi]

Have you ever watched a movie where they were playing a video game. They say it?s an advanced consol and its not. I remember on a few occasions some one using a dream cast and was calling it an Xbox, doesn?t that make you mad? And would you guys have any examples of this, or new movies with video games but all of the consoles are ancient.

So true. Its almost an insult- but I suppose the general public doesn't notice or care. Its bad directing IMO.

be we gamers catch that sort of thing right away, and maybe you might not all get agrevated by it but i surely do, they can get amazing cars, amazing actors and all of that in the movie, but they only settle on a dream cast, how nice

they get alot wrong, quite often the sound of the car you hear on a movie isn't the sonic signature associated with the engine, like they use V12 whine alot, when its a V10 gurgle they should use.

Same goes with frogs, the rebbit noise in movies regardless of location only comes from one type of frog in Cali I believe.

As for your comment on "they only settle on a dream cast", I'm going to have to ask you to step outside!

 

[electric discordian]

Its no more annoying to me than them getting Norse history wrong, people in Chainmail leaping around like their wearing a Gstring made of clouds or indeed the remake of the Wickerman in its entirety!

Computer games things dont bother me that much as Im a medieval combat nerd thats my particular vice.

Oh and on a final note, they have finally got it right they have put Jason Vorhees in the original Friday the 13th! Hurrah!

Its not going to suck badly in the least, its got a murderer in a hockey mask. And more good news Adam Sandler is staring in a remake of Re-Animator as Dr Herbert West and Jack Black is playing Cthulu in a remake of the Call of Cthulu directed by Ewe Boll!

 

[DirkGently]

Forget the movie, but there was some movie where two little kids sat down to play an XBox...while holding a PS2 controller...that had clicking buttons. I wept. One of the rarely noticed things the movie "Disturbia" did right, by the way. And possibly the beginning of Live Free or Die Hard, but I could be wrong there.

Yeah, except for the when the guide pops up and it's all ACCESS DENIED. And while Live Free or Die Hard does correctly show Kevin Smith playing Gears of War, it can fuck right off for all the bullshit technobabel they made up. People have been complaining about the ridiculous stupid displays of computers and technology in movies since, well, since they started showing people trying to use computers in movies and television.

 

[fedpayne]

This is why I love the series 30 Rock. One of the main characters is always playing Halo 3 multi player with his 'thug' homie crew guys (hes a stereotypical gangster kind of guy). I love it because one: They are actually playing the game not random mashing, 2) they use proper terms such as "Damn you stuck me" etc. and 3: they actually play well.

"That?s baloney! How did that grenade not kill him? He was right next to it -- Oh, now I?m dead?! Liz, this controller is defective!"
-Slutbanger

 

[Omnidum]

I think it's annoying. It bugs my immersion in the movies/series.

Strange thing I found whilst poking around the TVTropes link someone here provided. [http://kotaku.com/349423/jack-thompson-defends-mass-effect]

 

[brabz]

Anyone remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced? That was awesome.

...Heads Up!

 

[Donbett1974]

i've noticed a few
2 people were 'playing' a wii yet on the screen you could see the menu where you could select which channel (news channel, forecast ect)
someone was playing a GBA without a cartridge being in the GBA
on Lost, the kid was playing a GBA and said he needed new batteries even though the batteries in the GBA are fixed in and just need to be charged.

The portalables with no cartridge bugs me to no end come on can't you see theirs no game in the hand held system.

 

[Dok Zombie]

Anyone remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced? That was awesome.

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright say on the DVD commentery how much they hate "bad Playstation acting".

I vaguely remember Charlies Angels having a scene where two kids are playing FFVIII multi-player...

(I only remember this because Drew Barrymore knocks on the window naked.)

 

[AntiAntagonist]

I was saddened to see Dr. House play Metroid on GBA with not only bleeps and bloops but also misrepresent the crouch animation as death.

/kvetch

 

[Neesa]

I guess many of these gaming companies don't like product placement like Coke or Pepsi. I don't see anyone picking up a Pepsi and saying that this is some awesome tasting grape Kool-Aid.

 

[the jellyman]

I hate to say this, but is it really important? I mean, only people who are really fanatical about games will care. It's not really bad directing. I mean, if it's a good film, the fact that there's the wrong sort of games console in it won't change anything.

 

[Wolfwind]

Furthermore, I still get annoyed by this when I watch Rumble In The Bronx.

Jackie Chan gives the disabled kid a Sega GameGear, but with no games.

The super annoying disabled kid then proceeds to play the shit out of it, accompanied by the "beeps and bloops" and ecstatic facial expressions, but with no fucking game in the cartridge slot!
The back of the GameGear is facing the camera and you can see that it blatantly doesn't have a game in it, yet the noises and the kid's face suggest he's playing the best game that never was.

It annoys me so much that, later on in the film when some hulking mercenary/mafia type guy picks the kid up out of his wheelchair, slaps him around and throws him across the room, I think:

"Ha, that's what you get for pretending (badly) to enjoy a inactive Gamegear, jerk!"

Hahaha, yeah, I remember that. I thought the same thing when I saw it, like, way to play NOTHING kid.

This whole topic just reminds me of that movie "The Wizard" (if anybody watches AVGN, they know where I'm going with this).

That movie was ABOUT video games, and they still managed to get shit wrong. I just love that whole scene where the older kid sees that the little kid got "50,000" points on double dragon, after the kid played for like one minute. Those are some mad skills, kid. Mad skills indeed....

Hmmmm... so I guess what we've learned is that in movies, kids + videogames = the impossible.

 

[klc0100]

One thing that made me smile in Hitman was a scene in which Agent 47 sees some kids playing Hitman contracts. That's how games should be put into a film.

 

[Raven28256]

Or they're enjoying a rousing game of the 360 dashboard.

...Don't insult the Dashboard...I fucking LOVE that game.

But, in a similar situation, ever seen some of those commercials were it shows someone working on a computer that has its screensaver on? They were pretty common a few years back, when tech knowledge was even worse among the average person as it is now...Which is scary, upon reflection, since over half the people I come across know jack crap about computers.

Though, until you have a friend who was cussed out because his store wouldn't give a refund to a guy who cut a video card in half because it wouldn't fit into his computer...THEN we can talk real techno-idiocy. But alas, now I'm rambling off topic.

What in god's name did he cut the card in half with?

Basically, a guy went into the store to buy a new graphics card. Then, he calls them with a problem. My friend was working the phones that day. The guy said "I bought the wrong graphics card earlier today. It won't work with my computer." My friend said "Fine, if you bring it back we can do a refund." Sounds easy enough, right? Well...About 50 minutes later...

"YOU PEOPLE OWE ME A GRAPHICS CARD AND A NEW LAPTOP!!!"

"...Huh? Sir, we are not responsible for any damage done to your--"

"Yes you are! I bought a graphics card today that wouldn't fit in my laptop!* I didn't feel like going back to the store so I cut some parts off with a power saw I use for carpentry. Then, I put it in the computer and NEITHER works! You people owe me a new laptop and graphics card!

"...Sir, we can't do that. By...cutting your graphics card in half...you voided your warranty. Had you just brought it back we could have done a refund, but we can't give refunds after a product has been...modified...in such a way.** We also aren't responsible for any damages done when you are upgrading or changing out computer parts."

"...Then you people should TELL customers that cutting something in half voids the warranty! Since you don't properly state this I'm within my right to sue you people out of business! I'm not shopping there anymore and I'm calling my lawyer!"

"Good luck, sir. Have a nice day."

*He wanted to upgrade his laptop...But bought a desktop PC graphics card.
**My friend was crying because she was trying so hard to hold back the amount of laughter that puts people into comas.

Yes, apparently a carpenter went to upgrade his computer and thought "Hey! I bet I could cut some pieces off to make it fit like I do in carpentry! It makes SO MUCH SENSE!"

Sorry...But computers aren't like that. Needless to say, they never were called by a lawyer.