Mr. DeMille! I'm ready for my close-up!

[MiAmigo]

Has the Amiga ever actually been featured in a movie? Not as the FX engine, but as a star? I know, a few years ago, there was an intermindable, and unbearable period where you couldn't go to the show without see a gratuitous close-up of an Apple/MAC machine. It felt like the only place they were actually being used was the movies. But, I don't recall ever seeing an Amiga in a movie. Did it ever happen?

[MiAmigo]

X-ray wrote:
I can remember one movie (not the title though) where an audio ransom tape was sent to the police, making various demands. The hostage taker had typed his demands into a computer and got it to 'say' the text, and recorded that audio output to tape. Going by memory, this is the ensuing conversation between the police lab technician and the detective in charge of the case:

Detective: "Is this some kind of voice scrambler?"
Tech: "It's definitely computer-generated, it's not the guy's voice."
Detective: "Can you trace the computer? What computer is this?"
Tech: "Could be an Apple or an Amiga, there's no way to trace it."

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That's the only time I remember the Amiga being mentioned by name. It bugs me that I can't remember the film name or any of the actors.

That's funny. I remember way back 'in the day', I used to use my Amiga's voice synthesis for the outgoing message on my tape-based answering machine. Everybody thought it was so cool, probably because it sounded so 'artificial' and robot-like. And, no one ever figured out just how I got this 'computer' to say my name, or give out my message! I had one of those Panasonic anwering machines, which you could actually set up to call you when you got a message (very convenient, back in those days). Anyway, one night, I was at work, and it called. My boss anwered the phone, and he really freaked out! The voice on the other end really scared him good! We laughed about it for a long time. (He was a 'no-tech' person).  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[MiAmigo]

Calen wrote:

Has the Amiga ever actually been featured in a movie? Not as the FX engine, but as a star?

Only times i recall seeing Amigas in a film are just little second glimpses here and there, blink and you miss it kinda thing.
Of course yeah.. it's been used heavily in alot of films and Tv shows in the late 80's early 90's for effects/behind the scenes..

This may shed some light on things, err kinda.
movies

To quote Darth Vader, "Impressive. Most impressive." I know I saw at least 70% of the films listed, and I had no idea that the Amiga had appeared in any of them, much less done the special effects. (Although I was aware of the fact that it had been used for such jobs). Still, the list of FX films is quite impressive, even by today's standards. This Amazing Machine was able to churn out some pretty sophisticated CG, with specs at a tiny percentage of what PCs today use. I'll have to go and rent some 'old movies' one day, to have another look at those graphics, and, also, to try and spot some of the Amiga's cameos. For some reason, this all makes me damn proud!  :-D