The hell? Thats not a 360!
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I remember in 40-Year Old Virgin, Seth Rogen and somebody else were playing on the...PS2 I think? Whatever, it was Mortal Kombat Deception, and they actually show you Sub-Zero's fatality where he rips off your head and chucks it at you. Most unfortunately, Seth Rogen is mashing buttons frantically AS THE FATALITY TAKES PLACE, as if he had control over the outcome. That just annoyed me a lot, as I had been playing a lot of that game around the time I watched that movie.
Plus that movie isn't exactly friendly towards video games and nerdiness anyway.
Plus that movie isn't exactly friendly towards video games and nerdiness anyway.
On 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan makes several references to playing Halo, and he's actually got an Xbox 360 controller in his hands. Other than that, every time I see a videogame in a show or movie, it's usually not the right one.
Tracy Jordan is not a 'typical gangster' kind of guy. I don't know what gangsters you have met, but if they were all like Tracy Jordan the world would be an infinitely better place. And 'Dotcom' and 'Grizz' (this entourage) aren't 'thug' they're into eCommerce.Dkozza said:
I'm not really bothered by the portrayal of video games on television. Some people just don't feel like learning that kind of stuff. We'd be imposing our values. Its like how I don't really give a shit when they show D&D on television and portray it as 30 year-olds in their parents' basement. I know its not like that, so who really cares that much?
You say its a friend?, it sounds like an urban legend I've heard many times in many guises, be it graphics cards or turbo's for cars with normally aspirated engines, always a friend that works at the place it happened.Raven28256 said:
Has anyone seen the movie "Grandma's Boy"? They actually do pretty well by video games (since the plot of the movie is kind of about them... that and smoking weed). They mostly use old-school Xboxes, I think, which were prevalent at the time that the movie was made, I believe. And they make a ton of references to games like Tomb Raider and stuff. It's a pretty funny movie.
Although in Shaun of the Dead they did add in "player two has entered the game" voices for TS2, though that was for comedic effect and thus is forgiven =PDok Zombie said:
Also for people talking about it's silly when people are playing old consoles. Why shouldn't they be? They're allowed nostalgia right? =P I pop out my N64 from time to time.
I know, I've heard similar such urban legends, but this one actually happened. The reason why similar urban legends start is because...Well...You'd be surprised how ignorant people really can be about technology. Being a guy who also worked at an electronics store for a time, I can say with certainty that Average Jill/Joe + Technology = moments that are hilarious in their stupidity, though I never encountered anything on that level myself. On more than one occasion I had people ask me how you play CDs on an MP3 player, or why a 360 game wouldn't play on an Xbox because "it shouldn't matter since they are both Xboxes" or "how do I watch DVDs on a GameCube?"ColdStorage said:
Of course I can't prove it happened because it was a word of mouth thing, but whatever. I personally believe it did, because the friend isn't the type to make stuff up for laughs. Neither am I, for that matter.
It's really lame when that happens, but it's because the companies would have to pay royalties to the company that created the console. So movies like Live Free and Die Hard or Disturbia have real 360's, and lame ass commercials have a Dreamcast with PS2 controllers.
Ah the DreamS2...my favorite console.
Ah the DreamS2...my favorite console.
I remember watching an old episode of Eureka, a show about a town of geniuses, and some super-smart teenager got stuck in his house for being "bad". He was only allowed to have "level 2 tech", whatever that means, and complained that, quote, "I'm lucky to have this X-Box. It's only a 360!", unquote.
I've seen it before...it was called Virtu-fighters or something like that. the "advanced gaming system" that transported one of the main carachters into the game was a gamecube with black tape over it.
I don't like it when all they do is button mash and yell stuff out like, "PWNED!!!" and "I made him blow up!! haha!!". Can't they at least pretend that they're playing an actual game? Perfect example is the show "The Big Bang Theory". They're playing Halo 3, button mashing and saying that one of their heads got blown off. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN EVER!!!
It can be pretty sweet, though, when they just make games up and stuff - like in one episode of South Park, the kids had an Okama Gamesphere and they were playing some ultra-violent fighting game on it that actually looked pretty cool. Oh and don't forget Heroin Hero, lol!
There's an episode of Angel where Spike has had his hands cut off by a mentally disturbed woman in a previous episode and is keeping his hands and fingers exercised to recuperate by playing videogames. The machine he's using is clearly an original Xbox, yet he makes a direct reference to Donkey Kong while playing.
"You made the biggest mistake of your life, and I'm gonna make you pay. Oh, yeah. Feel my wrath, gorilla throwin' barrels."
--- game makes losing sound ---
"Bloody hell."
In a subsequent episode, he invites Illyria and Drogyn, two people who have never encountered videogames before, to play Crash Bandicoot. Again, on an original Xbox.
Drogyn: "It is a test, a task of some sort. You must collect those crystals. ... And the fruit."
Illyria: "Why?"
Drogyn: "Old One... You have no right to walk this Earth. Your time is past. You belong to the Well."
Illyria: "Truly. I wish now I had never been brought out of it."
Drogyn: "Do you?"
Illyria: "I don't know. I play this game... it's pointless and annoys me... and yet, I'm compelled to play on."
Oh, and I was watching an episode of True Blood the other night where Bill, main vampire character, was playing a Wii golf game, possibly one of the Tiger Woods titles, I couldn't tell, and ended up having a discussion with another character about their top scores on it despite the fact that neither of them identified the title of the game as anything more specific than; "You were playing Wii. What's your game?" --- "Golf."
"You made the biggest mistake of your life, and I'm gonna make you pay. Oh, yeah. Feel my wrath, gorilla throwin' barrels."
--- game makes losing sound ---
"Bloody hell."
In a subsequent episode, he invites Illyria and Drogyn, two people who have never encountered videogames before, to play Crash Bandicoot. Again, on an original Xbox.
Drogyn: "It is a test, a task of some sort. You must collect those crystals. ... And the fruit."
Illyria: "Why?"
Drogyn: "Old One... You have no right to walk this Earth. Your time is past. You belong to the Well."
Illyria: "Truly. I wish now I had never been brought out of it."
Drogyn: "Do you?"
Illyria: "I don't know. I play this game... it's pointless and annoys me... and yet, I'm compelled to play on."
Oh, and I was watching an episode of True Blood the other night where Bill, main vampire character, was playing a Wii golf game, possibly one of the Tiger Woods titles, I couldn't tell, and ended up having a discussion with another character about their top scores on it despite the fact that neither of them identified the title of the game as anything more specific than; "You were playing Wii. What's your game?" --- "Golf."