10 Horrendously Inaccurate Depictions Of Technology In Movies

4. Video Games - Brainscan

To be fair, this cheesy Cronenberg-esque B-movie thriller has no pretensions at all to technological accuracy, but it's the message the film promotes that really seems ignorant and out of date now. Edward Furlong plays the young protagonist, who is bored with every video game thrown his way, but is lured in by one that promises to terrify and challenge him beyond anything he has ever experienced. It turns out that the game hypnotises Furlong, causing him to kill someone, and the rest of the "game" is about him trying to cover his tracks. It turns out in the end, of course, that this was all just part of the game, and he hadn't killed anyone, but the film's assertion that games have this power over players seems woefully outdated now, especially with the more au fait stature of video games in today's society. Do games make us kill people? Can they have a power over us and influence us to do things? Brainscan may not engage with these questions in a serious manner at all, but the film seems cringe-inducing off-base in retrospect.