Stuff obviously influenced by video games

like, for instance, the British Gas adverts where the people live on little Mario Galaxy planets. S/D, c or d, etc

i saw a trailer for this movie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Rounds_%28film%29 - in new york over the summer, and with the timed 'missions' the protagonist had to undertake to save his girlfriend, it seemed very much liuke watching a friend play a videogame in front of you.

lol most shitty action movies of the last 10-15 years amirite?

Bourne trilogy heavily influenced by first person shooters.
The presentation of sports on TV - particularly motorsports.

nrq will clown me for this, but i thought the cinematography of Elephant (the GvS version) was based on tomb raider, etc. (y'know, lol video games + columbine).

(although i suppose as you get a real feel for the geography of the school as the film goes on, it's does takes things a bit further than the original. it almost feels like a really well-designed team fortress level.)

this great mountain goats + kaki king song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnbYyTlz1Tw

How is the Bourne trilogy influenced by FPSes? I can see certain sequences in the third one, but that seems like a controversial opinion to me, especially considering how little actual shooting is in the movies. Practically none of the action is about zooming around capping people. It's all close combat and grappling. And to this day video games can't make that fun.

there's a specific shot in the third one where he jumps through that window that feels straight out of tomb raider to me.

That's what I was referring to. But it's hard to say whether it's specifically influenced by video games or whether over the shoulder and close up is just a fun way to shoot action.

are there any pre-1996 (i.e. tomb raider) examples of this in films?

http://books.google.com/books?id=z8LibpVNIZ4C&pg=PA60&dq=%22over-the-shoulder%22+%22video+games%22+%22Third-person+shooter%22&ei=7AnRSfbXDI_EM6jrnJkI#v=onepage&q=&f=false

this guy is apparently unaware of the original elephant, but he makes a couple more connections to video games

Horton, you mean? Or Babar?

Besides the obnoxious language that guy points some interesting things out.

my life has been influenced by brave fencer musashi

xp, http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1363883214517046901&ei=PZDUStTdJ4ig2ALblbCmCg&q=elephant+alan+clark&hl=en#

in the movie war of the worlds, at the end, where a soldier launches a rocket into a tripod and it falls through a building. the whole thing looked suspiciously half life 2 to me.

Children of Men

Ste I think that may be the other way around, but it's hard to call.

jaymc otm, children of men is sooo video gamey.

what game is children of men like? I can see where a movie and a game might do similar things in trying to capture similar situations, but is there anything game-exclusive that children of men does?

S/D: when Games stress you out

also the driving level, and the perspectives/beats during the long fighting in the streets sequence reminded me of any number of modern shooters.

what I mean is, for example, Ratatouille and Perfume both had similar problems (representing taste/smell prodigies in a movie) and they solved it in very similar ways (they both have scenes where the savants very quickly reproduce some masterpiece creation in front of a skeptic's eyes, and they represent people being blown away by the taste/scent as a kind of visual sense memory flashback), and it is hard to see one and not be reminded of the other, but at the same time, it'd be weird to draw the conclusion that one directly influenced the other, unless there was some signature scene that was copied from one to the other (like for example the animated squiggly lines in Ratatouille to represent taste that probably came from some old music cartoons I forget the name of)

So is there a smoking gun kind of scene in Children of Men that reveals its videogame poaching? Like maybe a scene where you see life/status bar or something? Something odd enough where its independent use might be suspect.

Like maybe a scene where you see life/status bar or something?

are you serious?

I swear I've seen life/status bars in other movies!

I think there's a life/status bar in Yi-Yi.

lol most shitty action movies of the last 10-15 years amirite?

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pretty much this otm but especially re: "crank," i think there's some kind of "life meter" thing in that movie

It's mostly in the intro and credits, I think.

Can't wait for the Scott Pilgrim movie, btw. That's probably going to be the most extreme example, considering how the comic was.

Oh, and there is an on-screen kill count in Hot Shots: Part Deux.

that stuff is so blatant i wasn't even thinking about it, and is unlikely to show up in a non-wacky movie like children of men.

and i get that movies may be influenced by games that were trying to emulate movies, but CoM still had a video gamey feel to me (maybe it was the pacing of trying to get to different safe locations, via different vehicles?).

(xpost) "MOST VIOLENT MOVIE EVER!"

If you die in the game you die in real life.

children of men did have that "one long chase scene" feel to it that, e.g. half life has.

south park

lol I am heavily flashing on "The Beach" here

o_O

lol

The Beach the book had pretty heavy ambitions to incorporate videogames IIRC-- Super Mario gameboy to be specific. It's an open question whether or not the book did a good job but it's pretty clear the movie did some sucking the bag at it

Pro sports onscreen chyron

Children of Men

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first thing i thought of when i saw thread title. the way it's just clive owen going places with stuff blowing up around him in a "scripted" half-life-y way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E34-4XQvWFE

xp as been pointed out i see.

also; pop artist Final Fantasy

'the way it's just clive owen going places with stuff blowing up around him in a "scripted" half-life-y way'

there's a clive owen must save a baby movie that reminds me of a video game, but it's not children of men...

the way it's just clive owen going places with stuff blowing up around him in a "scripted" half-life-y way

maybe that's it, the coordination for all of those long action takes makes it look more like a video game setpiece.

more stuff: chiptune bands, tons of other electronic music

No, whether or not HL2 directly influenced Children of Men, they're of a piece, I think. I'm pretty sure HL2 was the first piece of visual art that depicts a fascist dystopia as a civilzation where after a certain point nothing's developed but the government buildings and infrastructure and everything else is left to crumble. That's the idea you get from reading 1984, also, but not from any movie version. Between the aesthetic and the very VG-like action of the last act of CoM I think it's reasonable to put the things together.

world war ii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Psls1ngwM

there's a clive owen must save a baby movie that reminds me of a video game, but it's not children of men...

basically the entire third act of District 9

very disappointed that movie did not show clive owen piloting an experimental fighter against a pulsating paul giamatti minotaur.

guys i love children of men tbh

tho i suppose it's not a total dig on the film to say that parts of it remind you of a video game

I think it speaks to a greater tendency to view all warfare through the lens of video games, which might be of no greater concern than viewing warfare through lens of cinema, except the military has gotten much more sophisticated in using video games as training/recruiting tools than they ever got through laughable propaganda movies, though the number of air force recruits directly inspired by Top Gun is disturbing...

TBH it's kind of amazing how little we can think of! Like, this has been a major medium in terms of time-spent and sales etc for years and years, yet it influences basically nothing outside itself?

there have been lots of shitty sci-fi books and movies influenced by video games, largely about "virtual worlds" etc.

I'd actually say every action movie released in the past 15 years has been heavily influenced by videogames, along with most animated kids' movies.

I think one thing that we might not be focusing on much is how much video games have influenced technology in general. So much of information architecture and design has been influenced by games, and I think a big part of that is that games have such a captive, attentive audience compared to your average computer application. So cars, phones, touch-screen layouts, etc., etc. ... anywhere that interactivity is an element of technology, which is of course one of the major themes of modern times.

Or ... would the internet have caught on as much as it has, as quickly, if not for MUDs and other games that gave people a reason to interact online for long stretches of time?

from joystiq:
'The eighteen-year-old soldier was a high school dropout who failed to qualify for the original position in the armed forces he'd applied for. It was suggested he try his hand at drone piloting, and according to Singer, "because of playing on video games, he was already good at it." So good, in fact, that he was brought back from Iraq to become an instructor at a training academy.'

influencing modern warfare is pretty big!

there's a clive owen must save a baby movie that reminds me of a video game, but it's not children of men...

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:26 PM (Yesterday)

this would be shoot 'em up, right?

I think one thing that we might not be focusing on much is how much video games have influenced technology in general

once you go down the technology route, you've got the competing drivers of games and porn that are going to be on the cutting edge of information technology

And therefore, the Citizen Kane of the modern age is unquestionably "Date Ariane".

"this would be shoot 'em up, right?"
yep. this movie had some amazingly inappropriate stances on gun-control.

gun control? how about carrot control

okay i guess it's based on some children's book, but there is some Shadow of the Colossus/Ico to "Where the Wild Things Are" no?

Oh man. I just remembered Reign Over Me, this maudlin drama about Adam Sandler as a 9/11 widower. They had am element of this where he was basically traumatized so in response he kept just replaying Shadow of the Colossus over and over again. (And yes, it was very explicit and included in the plot!) I actually think this was a really good idea buried in a boring film.

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