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Fark.com3. The Wizard (1989)
The film: Fred Savage and his deeply traumatized, mostly mute little brother - who's also a videogame savant - run away from home and hitchhike their way to California with a girl named Haley, all in the name of winning a Nintendo championship. Whether Nintendo financed the film from the start or just swooped in as its biggest sponsor, the movie's remembered more for being a 100-minute commercial for the company's games (and Super Mario Bros. 3 in particular) than for anything else.
The games: Rad Racer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES.
The scenes: Lucas, the asshole-rival kid who lives by himself in the desert, decides to show off to the main characters by whipping out a Power Glove to play Rad Racer. Then Beau Bridges excitedly plays Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a hotel room and pisses off Christian Slater.
Why it's stupid: When the legendary Power Glove first appeared for the NES, everyone wanted one until they actually tried it. To say it didn't work is an understatement - watch this scene, and you'll notice that there seems to be little relation between Lucas' movements and what goes on in the game. That's proof positive that yes, he's actually playing it with the Power Glove. But his sad performance isn't enough to stop him from fixing the heroes with a steely gaze and uttering eight immortal words: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." Hey, if you're going to suck, you might as well do it with style.
We tacked on the second scene just because it features Beau Bridges in stereotypical movie videogame mode: his thumbs flail randomly, his jaw goes slack and he jabbers excitedly about stuff that nobody cares about - not even him. Even in a movie about videogames financed by Nintendo, they just had to slip this in there somewhere.
