The hell? Thats not a 360!

[Fenring]

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

That show did it right. I lol'd at the killing Lara Croft thing. I miss it.

 

[The Wooster]

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.

Precisely. Inaccurate car sounds annoy me even more than improper use of technology.

A teensy bit obsessive there. I hate the way everyone who gets shot and falls off something in a movie sounds the same.

Yes I know what that scream is called.

 

[captain awesome 12]

On Chuck one time they were playing Halo 3 on the screen, but the sounds coming from the television were from Gears of War.

 

[xitel]

I can remember two main culprits of this. One was in the sneak peak of Patrick Swayze's new show The Beast, in which six people are holding controllers while the screen shows 4 people playing Halo 2, and when they all put the controllers down THE GAME KEEPS PLAYING ITSELF.

The second culprit was Grandma's Boy, a movie that hurt me all the way through.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Aye, whenever cartoons try to show a videogame, it ends up being an NES with and Atari controller stuck to it like a conjoined twin, not to mention the fake computery noises. I know they don't have the time to display an entire menu or intro, but at least put some class to it! If you cannot draw a cutscene, don't show the TV and make some epic explosion sounds and people screaming.

 

[minoes]

Does anyone knows, why the characters in Malcolm in the Middle played Genesis games, despite the show being set in 2000?

 

[Valiance]

Yeah I hate stuff like this.

It makes me rage. Anyone seen the DOOM movie? And the handheld thing that the guy is playing in the barracks?

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Movies/Doom.htm

There's some pictures of it.

It made me rage so much because you're supposed to hold it vertical, and one side is for one player and the other is for the other player, and my brother and I would play 2-player on it all the time. I don't know what the hell they were thinking.

 

[ViviFFIX]

Worst I've seen in in CAD animated series (which is built around gaming) where Ethan is "playing" DOA but it's really just theatre mode playing in the background!

 

[Crrato]

I can remember on Lost, someone was playing Half Life and the person behind him said "Crowbar that Zombie!"
Can't remember if he was just mashing buttons though.

 

[ViviFFIX]

Does anyone knows, why the characters in Malcolm in the Middle played Genesis games, despite the show being set in 2000?

This is because the family was poor and couldn't afford a decent console.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

I remember watching Hitman and it showed two kids who were actually playing Hitman on an xbox.

 

[minoes]

Does anyone knows, why the characters in Malcolm in the Middle played Genesis games, despite the show being set in 2000?

This is because the family was poor and couldn't afford a decent console.

Ok, that makes sense.

 

[Raxous]

I remember in Shawn of the dead, they were playing time-splitters 2 on the PS2, which works. But the whole "PLAYER TWO HAS ENTERED" thing threw me off xD.

 

[shadowdark]

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.

Also, in Disturbia, he's supposed to be playing XBL, but if you look closely you can see he is in single player...

 

[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.

Also, in Disturbia, he's supposed to be playing XBL, but if you look closely you can see he is in single player...

I wouldn't know, I've never really been a fan of the GR series of games. Like wise, I think in Live Free or Die Hard Kevin smith has an XBL headset on, but he pauses the game and it's single player. Or the title screen. I don't remember, i can't really watch that movie.

 

[Fronken]

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.

In Live Free or Die Hard there was a 360 and he was playing the original Gears of War

Uhm, whats wrong with that?, the original Gears of War was released on the Xbox 360, so that is actually correct.

 

[Archereus]

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.

i have some thing worst. I was talking with a friend and i am the techno geek of my group. So my friend says his mother took the keyboard and soaked it in a bath tub for 10 minutes to clean it out. Magicaly it doesnt work and more. I am still laughing about it today

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

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.

Also, in Disturbia, he's supposed to be playing XBL, but if you look closely you can see he is in single player...

True, but I give them credit for at least getting the right game matched up with the right sound effects, right controller, and right system.