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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

1. Toys (1992)

The film: A surreal horrorshow in which ludicrous man-child Robin Williams has to stop his evil-general uncle from weaponizing a terrifyingly whimsical toy factory.

The game: A rapid-fire stream of swooping aerial shots combined with explosions, big holographic guns and lurid kill markers. Actually, we kind of wish this had been the Toys cash-in licensed game, because frankly it looks awesome.

The scene: Leslie Zevo (Williams) sneaks into his uncle's "restricted" wing of the factory to discover that he's training children to be killers using (gasp!) videogames. Only they're literally killing people, as the "games" are really just remote-control consoles for heavily armed combat drones. We've also tacked on another typical "characters go nuts staring at videogames" scene, this time with Williams and crew screaming and leaning in unison while wearing virtual-reality helmets.

Why it's stupid: This is some seriously ham-fisted anti-game demagoguery right here. Like Inside Man, the scene's real target is probably something else - in this case, the way the military-industrial complex co-opts playtime with war toys, which also seems to be central to the film's clumsy message - but it's not doing gaming any favors, either. From the glazed stares to the animal snarls to the casual attitude toward human targets being worth 1,000 points, this scene is meticulously engineered to feed parents' fears that videogames turn children into soulless monsters. And then there's the creepy way Williams waddles around pretending to be a kid. It's enough to make your skin crawl.

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5 Comments
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Gingerbread  - 1 year 1 month ago 
FIRST!!!
haha omg the wizard what a marketing sploof!
RebornKusabi  - 9 months 20 days ago 
SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ballplayer27  - 7 months 24 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 21 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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