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The Top 7... stupidest videogame scenes in movies

Hate the way Hollywood portrays your favorite hobby? Our clips will make your blood boil

Words: Mikel Reparaz, GamesRadar US

4. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

The film: Jackie Chan comes to New York to visit his uncle, but then has to spend all his vacation time doling out charity face-kicks to needy thugs who tool around the Bronx in dune buggies and day-glo tank tops. Along the way, he befriends a little wheelchair-bound kid who's saddled with a really neglectful but hot older sister.

The game: None, actually, unless you count Sega's Game Gear handheld as a "game."

The scene: A stiffly acted confrontation between the film's main romantic interest and his skanky big sister.

Why it's stupid: When people complain about the way videogames are shown in movies, this is exactly what they're talking about: blank stare, madly waggling thumbs and atonal bloops and bleeps that haven't been used as game audio since 1976. But then, this kid is so desperately poor that his fondest wish is to someday get a new wheelchair cushion, so a few random bleeps are probably all he could afford. He obviously didn't have the money for a game, seeing as the Game Gear's cartridge slot is conspicuously empty. So he sits there by himself, listening to a looping tape of electronic feedback that he found in a Goodwill bin for five cents and using the power of imagination to pretend he's playing a game. This may be the single saddest thing we've ever witnessed. Jackie Chan, you're the king of the bastards.


 
5 Comments
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Gingerbread  - 1 year 1 month ago 
FIRST!!!
haha omg the wizard what a marketing sploof!
RebornKusabi  - 9 months 19 days ago 
SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ballplayer27  - 7 months 23 days ago 
Wow, House of the Dead was terrible. But... that was possibly the coolest presentation of a shotgun kill I have ever seen.
neon6  - 5 months 20 days ago 
Surf Ninjas: One of the worst movies ever.
Joysticks: Disgusting.
Inside Man: Dumb.
Rumble in the Bronx: Touching.
The Wizard: It speaks for itself.
The House of the Dead: UWE BOLL IS EVIL.
Toys: Why Robin Williams? Why?
Vader999  - 1 month 1 day ago 
In reaty, when I was about 12 and I was playing my Gameboy at one corner of the house of my mother's friend, everyone was praising my mother and saying "Oh look how quiet behaved he is playing his cute little gameboy there....." these movie directors only see the negative side of games, not the positive, which is more often the one that really matters more........
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