Commodore in the Movies or TV

DG · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

Here is a PET in a music video.
Trans X - Living on video

pocketmego · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:56 am Post subject:

Where was it in Existenz?

-Ray

Lagerfeldt wrote:

1. War Games
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Hackers/Hackers 2 (Takedown)
4. Swordfish
5. The Lone Gunmen TV Series (X-Files spin off)
6. Prime Risk
7. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
8. Colossus: The Forbin Project
9. The Demon Seed
10. Jurassic Park
11. eXistenZ
12. Weird Science
13. 23 (a German film)
14. Real Genius
15. Smart Money
16. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
17. Charlie's Angels
18. The Score
19. Mission: Impossible
20. X-files series (lots of hacking here...)
21. Office Space
22. Fled
23. Looker
24. Cryptographic Seduction (a porn movie)

Can we close the thread now, please Rolling Eyes

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technoid · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:07 am Post subject:

This isn't the best example either, but there's a C64 (unplugged prop) in the nurse's office in the American sitcom "Empty Nest", popular in the early 1990's. I used to watch this sitcom on and off, so I spotted the computer back then and you didn't see it only once, but on any episode that needed them on that stage. Personally I think it was a Vic-20, as I recall it was way too white to be a C64, but then again it's been over a decade since I've seen an episode of it.

www.dienstagstreff.de already mentions this and here's their crappy screen capture. You can barely make out the F keys, I think. Note how the TV monitor is turned on and on some fuzzy channel... oh wait, that's the crappy screen capture again. Razz

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Jurbo · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:43 am Post subject:

Never thought I'd get to post in this topic, but now it happened:

In Three Colours: Red, at about 1 hour 9 minutes, a guy climbs the facade of a house. He looks in through the windows, and there is an older model C64 in one of the rooms. Surprised

Wally · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

Was watching Foxtel (pay TV) tonight and in an ad break the c64 was mentioned. There are a bunch of 80's movies on at the moment. The words were similar to "remember when we stopped playing Atari and started playing the c64".
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gklinger · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:

pocketmego wrote:

Where was it in Existenz?

It wasn't. Just like there wasn't a C= in most of the movies he listed.

I did across some Commodore computers in a weird place recently. The TV show "Cops". I was watching a rerun from the 80's and the police had arrested someone and in the trunk of their car was a bunch of 64s and 1541s etc. Luckily they had the name of a school engraved on them so the police were confident they would be returned. I had a good laugh when the cop pulled out a 1541 and started talking about how valuable it must be.
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Hend · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

gklinger wrote:

I had a good laugh when the cop pulled out a 1541 and started talking about how valuable it must be.

Did he have an E-Bay-esque premonition? Razz

gorkur · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

Hend wrote:

gklinger wrote:

I had a good laugh when the cop pulled out a 1541 and started talking about how valuable it must be.

Did he have an E-Bay-esque premonition? Razz

Perhaps the cop is a member here Shocked

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Doomed · Newbie Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 25

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Another C64 appearance is in Red Dwarf season one - the keyboard Lister uses to delete Agatha Christie from Holly's memory is a breadbin. Oh, and the super computer used by Archangel in "Airwolf" had a familiar keyboard too... =-)

See, I'm glad I looked this thread up. =)

Also in Red Dwarf season one, when Lister is watching the soap opera in 'Confidence and Paranoia' he has a breadbox in front of him.

Since I'm still watching the ep, Agatha Christie may very well play a roll Wink

(I've only seen random eps of RD before so I downloaded all of the bloody thing and I'm going SEQ coast to coast =P)

Oh, there we go, Holly wants Agatha Christie novels wiped from his memory. CURSES. Razz

Robbo · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

A C64 turned up on Soccer AM the other week (a footy show on Satellite TV in the UK) when they did a sketch pretending to be in a board meeting in the '80s and it was on the desk they were seated around (Calvin Harris was a guest on the orange sofa so I guess it was in relation to that.)

Not a movie I know but still caught my attention. Laughing

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judland · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject:

The mad scientist in the Canadian movie "Strange Brew" used a Pet in his laboratory.

Also, I do recall seeing a PET as part of the set-dressing for the british show, IT Crowd. It's sitting on a filing cabinet next to the door to Jen's office.
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eslapion · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:13 am Post subject:

Lagerfeldt wrote:

8. Colossus: The Forbin Project

Man, the forbin project was made in 1970!! There were no Commodore computers at that time that I know of. The first PET came out in 1976 or 1977 AFAIK!

gklinger · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:53 am Post subject:

eslapion wrote:

Lagerfeldt wrote:

8. Colossus: The Forbin Project

Man, the forbin project was made in 1970!! There were no Commodore computers at that time that I know of. The first PET came out in 1976 or 1977 AFAIK!

Hold your horses. Where did Lagerfeldt say there were Commodore computers in Colossus: The Forbin Project? WallacetheBruce asked for a list of films that feature "a hack" and I think everything on Lagerfeldt's list qualifies. You didn't read the whole thread before freaking out, did you? Tsk tsk. Speaking of Colossus, would you believe I watched it last night? It's pretty cool.
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eslapion · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:33 am Post subject:

gklinger wrote:

You didn't read the whole thread before freaking out, did you? Tsk tsk. Speaking of Colossus, would you believe I watched it last night? It's pretty cool.

I went by the thread's title...

Northlander · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

So yeah, I was sitting at home watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 one day -- with the movie Time Chasers, to be specific -- when suddenly, my eyes fell upon....

Wait... that computer to the left there. Can it be?

Oh my word, it IS! Wow, I didn't know the C64 had the power to send people through time (connected to the right hardware, of course.)

Now that's some seriously smoking graphics for the ol' Commie.

technoid · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:30 am Post subject:

Northlander wrote:

Oh my word, it IS! Wow, I didn't know the C64 had the power to send people through time (connected to the right hardware, of course.)

I hope they weren't using the C64's jiffy clock to calculate the exact time they were sending them to.
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Retroplay · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

Bailsofdoom wrote:

If someone remembers or has the film on hand to check, could they confirm what he's playing and on what? Very Happy

Cheers.

Happy Hamster wrote:

The game he´s playing is Zaxxon, but i dunno if it´s the c64 version.

Have no idea what computer that is.

technoid · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

That doesn't look like the C64 version of Zaxxon and that computer looks like a CoCo (which I've only played in the store).
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Retroplay · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject:

technoid wrote:

That doesn't look like the C64 version of Zaxxon and that computer looks like a CoCo (which I've only played in the store).

I think we have a winner
http://www.old-computers.com/m...1&c=91

R64 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

yeah - no 64 in existenz - Lagerfeldt just copied a list of movie hacking references from the Register website

There's a Vic-20 in episode 7 (& 8 I think) of "Flight of the Conchords", which is a current show on HBO

donni · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

Another commodore spotted Smile

A SX-64 on the television sitcom "ALF"

Skip forward or wait 1 min.

Link

d0c · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject:

@Northlander

thanks for the tip, Time Chasers from 1994 looks interesting....

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0145529/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763500/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Chasers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWO70LsQX0

i am gonna look for the torrent Smile

eslapion · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:

Retroplay wrote:

Have no idea what computer that is.

Yes, I know... I am more than a year too late but...

Its a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) II.
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tone007 · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:04 am Post subject:

Looks like a CoCo I to me (got one in the garage I've been meaning to toss.)

I think the CoCo IIs were white and had a usable keyboard.
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Luzur · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:24 am Post subject:

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Another commodore spotted Smile
A SX-64 on the television sitcom "ALF"

and what i think is an old IBM computer.
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