TV/films that look like cutscenes from cheap 90s FMV games

[George White]

Watching the 1989 Granada play Countdown to War - which looks like cutscenes from a Command and Conquer-type game.  https://ok.ru/video/1872668658303 McKellen as Hitler kept reminding me of Tim Curry's space Communist speech in Red Alert 3.

Ever had a similar experience?

The Michael Caine Stalin/John Lithgow FDR/DJ Bob Hoskins Churchill miniseries When Lions Roared is another.

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[buttgammon]

[George White]

I'm imagining him animated pixilated by loads of live action photos stop-motioned, a la the Titanic -Adventure out of Time.

[Mister Six]

His mum a few years back even more so, as I noted at the time:



And quite a lot of this bit of Zack Snyder's Justice League, especially the horsey parts:

[George White]

Christ, that Queen bit is pure point-and-click frame.

[George White]

The early 90s BBC globe has something of the Myst about it. https://youtu.be/PMcHm3NNEdA?t=78

[willbo]

I remember Air Force One and XXX 2 being mocked for bad CGI at the time.

[George White]

Watched 1982's Inside the Third Reich, which thanks to its use of Introvision, looks like a FMV Wolfenstein game.

[George White]

Dinotopia (2002) looks like the Dune FMV games if they impregnated Myst.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Wild Palms is basically a sega cd game

[George White]

SEE ALSO Cold Lazarus.

[George White]

The reconstruction in C4/CBC ww2 docudrama The Valour and the Horror -

[George White]

Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Dead Head (1986)

[Sebastian Cobb]

Was genuinely quite interested in the new ITV Windrush drama Three Little Birds, hoping it could almost hold a candle to Small Axe or something. I was a bit dazed when I started watching it and knew it was in my interests to come back to it in a sharper mood as the shitey CGI boat scenes in the first minute really threw me.

[George White]

I know people compared Branagh's Death on the Nile to such a game but the 2004 ITV version with Sir David Suchet and James Fox has very PS1/PC game opening graphics https://ok.ru/video/257078463114

Just watched an incredibly FMV-esque film on Prime - Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective (1990) with Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Gabriel Knight 2's Nicholas Worth and Clu Gulager.

[George White]

Mentioned Countdown to War before, but...
Michael Aldridge's floating head as Chamberlain.


Alex Norton's Northern Stalin better than Caine.

Churchill and the Generals goes even weirder.


Even has a Dad's Army cartoon map.

[Glebe]

"Making love to a woman is very much like servicing a car...

[George White]

Late 80s titles to News at Ten, like something out of Titanic-Adventure out of Time.

[Mister Six]

I know it's all horribly tragic, but The Day Today has totally compromised my ability to take those headlines seriously.