What’s weird about video games is there isn’t a library of stock prop games. It doesn’t take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I’m sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized “games” that can actually be controlled and played but don’t have failure states so actors can actually “play” them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself. It would also ensure no rights issues come up with game studios about showing the footage.

Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don’t match the motions at all.

The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.

Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catawampus.

Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.

It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

It’s a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.