Games and Lazy Movie Directors
When I was all young and spry and stuff, I used to spend a lot of time on message boards. These days though, I exclusively hang out on the forums of Mr Jeremy Parish whenever I need to procrastinate.
The “Talking Time” forums are home to a number of interesting game-related conversations. A recent one: Why are movie /television directors so gosh darn lazy about their depictions of video game enjoyment? All too often someone will be playing a Playstation with an Atari controller, or mashing furiously at buttons for a game that doesn’t require button mashing (one poster recalled a commercial wherein Santa Claus was pounding buttons furiously while summoning Titan in Final Fantasy VII).
The answer’s pretty obvious: Nobody wants to dance the Copyright Tango, because it is a deadly dance. The other option, which pimps games and systems gratuitously, doesn’t seem much better.
At the very least, it makes for some fun memories, even if many of those memories are disgraceful. We all ate up “The Wizard,” even for atrocious lines like “You scored 50,000 on (the first screen of) Double Dragon (which is bloody impossible)?”
Do you recall any instances wherein an actor was playing a recognisable game, but doing it completely wrong just for the sake of some background movement? It’s kind of thrilling and irritating at the same time, isn’t it?
One forum member posted an episode of Doug, which is kind of based around Generic System Syndrome (Super Pretendo!):
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